Yaropolets is a small village of about a thousand people near Volokolamsk. Over the 888 years of its existence it has passed from princes to tsars, and from them to emperors and counts.
Monument to V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya
🗿 Monument
Church of St. John the Baptist
🕍 Place of worship
Monument to A. S. Pushkin
🗿 Monument
Goncharov Estate
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 🌿 Public garden or park · 📜 Historic site
Abandoned Church of Our Lady of Kazan
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site · 🕍 Place of worship
Chernyshev Estate
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Obelisk in Honor of Catherine II
🗿 Monument
Red Pond
🌿 Public garden or park
Yaropolets Dam
⚙️ Industrial site
The Station's First Turbine
🗿 Sculptures
Lenin Yaropolets Hydroelectric Station
⚙️ Industrial site · 🌿 Public garden or park · 📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Point 1
🗿 Monument
Every town in Russia has a monument to Lenin, sometimes two. But there are only four monuments in the country showing him together with Nadezhda Krupskaya, and one of them is here, in the village of Yaropolets. In 1920 Lenin and Krupskaya came to Yaropolets to help the villagers set up a hydroelectric power station. To mark the visit, a photo was taken with local residents, and it became the basis for the sculpture.
The monument consists of two busts on two columns, with Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya both wearing hats. Because of the resemblance, locals have nicknamed the monument “Chupa Chups”, after the lollipops.
Point on route “The Russian Versailles”
Point 1
🗿 Monument
Every town in Russia has a monument to Lenin, sometimes two. But there are only four monuments in the country showing him together with Nadezhda Krupskaya, and one of them is here, in the village of Yaropolets. In 1920 Lenin and Krupskaya came to Yaropolets to help the villagers set up a hydroelectric power station. To mark the visit, a photo was taken with local residents, and it became the basis for the sculpture.
The monument consists of two busts on two columns, with Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya both wearing hats. Because of the resemblance, locals have nicknamed the monument “Chupa Chups”, after the lollipops.
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