This route introduces the difficult fate of Syzran's religious buildings. Before the revolution the town had 22 churches, two monasteries, and a theological school. Five old churches have survived to this day, forming a kind of Triangle of Faith. Learn more with Susanin's route.
Tourist Center
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Spasskaya Tower of the Syzran Kremlin
🕵️ Urban legend · 🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Kozlovsky Monument
🗿 Monument
Memorial Complex
🗿 Sculptures
Church of the Nativity of Christ
🕍 Place of worship
Syzranka River
🔭 Viewpoint
View of the Krymza. Kremlin Embankment
🔭 Viewpoint
Panorama of the Zakrymza Side
🔭 Viewpoint
Kazan Cathedral
🕍 Place of worship
Cannons at the Local History Museum
🏛️ Museum · 🕵️ Urban legend
Bridge over the Krymza
🌉 Bridge
Elijah Church
🕍 Place of worship
Old Pharmacy Building
🕵️ Urban legend
Monastery Embankment from Above
🔭 Viewpoint · 🚶♂️ Waterfront
Ascension Monastery
🕍 Place of worship
Church of the Ascension
🕍 Place of worship
Feodorovskaya Church
🕍 Place of worship
Monastery Embankment from Below
🚶♂️ Waterfront
Point 2
🕵️ Urban legend • 🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site
The Spasskaya Tower is 21 meters (69 feet) tall including its belfry. In 1995 nine bells made by the Ust-Kamensk plant were hung in the tower; the heaviest weighs 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds). The tower has the status of a monument of federal significance.
The Spasskaya Tower is the oldest historical and architectural monument in Syzran, dating from the 17th century. Originally the tower had two tiers. In 1755, when the fortress town lost its military role, the tower became four-tiered: two tiers with a tent roof were added on top of its cube-shaped body, and inside the second fighting tier a gate church dedicated to the Savior Not Made by Hands was set up.
Fitting a church into the tower radically changed its massing and appearance. Pilasters appeared at the corners of the tower. The embrasures were greatly widened, turned into windows, and decorated with relief surrounds of paired colonnettes. The tiers were accentuated with gorodki cornices (with a stepped, crenellated pattern). The tower was given the look typical of the towers of Russian fortresses and monasteries of the preceding 17th century, and so it has remained to this day. Today it is the only 17th-century fortification in the Samara Region.
Of enormous interest is the still undiscovered entrance to the tower's cellar, where a chapel was found sometime between 1850 and 1855. According to legend, an underground passage led from it to the Ascension Monastery.
Point on route “Orthodox Syzran, or the Triangle of Faith”
Point 2
🕵️ Urban legend • 🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site
The Spasskaya Tower is 21 meters (69 feet) tall including its belfry. In 1995 nine bells made by the Ust-Kamensk plant were hung in the tower; the heaviest weighs 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds). The tower has the status of a monument of federal significance.
The Spasskaya Tower is the oldest historical and architectural monument in Syzran, dating from the 17th century. Originally the tower had two tiers. In 1755, when the fortress town lost its military role, the tower became four-tiered: two tiers with a tent roof were added on top of its cube-shaped body, and inside the second fighting tier a gate church dedicated to the Savior Not Made by Hands was set up.
Fitting a church into the tower radically changed its massing and appearance. Pilasters appeared at the corners of the tower. The embrasures were greatly widened, turned into windows, and decorated with relief surrounds of paired colonnettes. The tiers were accentuated with gorodki cornices (with a stepped, crenellated pattern). The tower was given the look typical of the towers of Russian fortresses and monasteries of the preceding 17th century, and so it has remained to this day. Today it is the only 17th-century fortification in the Samara Region.
Of enormous interest is the still undiscovered entrance to the tower's cellar, where a chapel was found sometime between 1850 and 1855. According to legend, an underground passage led from it to the Ascension Monastery.
18 points
5 km
4 hours
