Since the 18th century Rybinsk has been an important stop on the route from the Volga region to the Baltic. Over its history it earned the title of “Russia's barge hauler capital,” the country's highest government bodies consulted the brokers of its exchange, and the town is also the birthplace of founders of Hollywood. Take a walk and discover the fascinating stories of this corner of “deep Russia”!
Rybinsk Railway Station
🚂 Railway station
Artists' House
🏟️ Architectural landmark
Polish Catholic Church of the Holy Jesus
🕍 Place of worship
Fire Watchtower
⚙️ Industrial site
Rybinsk Embankment
🚶♂️ Waterfront
Chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
🕍 Place of worship
Old Grain Exchange
🕵️ Urban legend
New Grain Exchange (Museum-Reserve)
🕵️ Urban legend
Red Square
⛲ Square
Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior
🕍 Place of worship
The Nobels and the Nobel Movement
🏛️ Museum · 🌿 Public garden or park
Sigson Family House
🏟️ Architectural landmark
Point 1
🚂 Railway station
The railroad came to Rybinsk in 1870, when a wooden station was built, and it had a major impact on the town's growth as an important trade and transshipment point. The old wooden building burned down in 1903 in yet another town fire. In 1905 a new brick building went up to a design by S. I. Minash in the Art Nouveau style popular at the time.
For a long time Rybinsk remained the most important water transshipment point on the way from the Lower Volga north to St. Petersburg. With the opening in 1870 of the railroad linking Rybinsk to the Nikolaevskaya line between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and later to the Latvian town of Windau (now Ventspils), Rybinsk further cemented its status as a major trading center on the route from the Baltic to the Volga lands.
From the moment it opened in 1905, the Rybinsk station became the center of the town's social life. Besides its direct purpose of receiving and dispatching goods and passengers, its restaurant hosted banquets, the station building held balls, concerts, and soirées, and a public garden was laid out on the station square. You could say the station thus lived up to the original meaning of the Russian word vokzal: “a place of public amusement.”
In Soviet times some of the station's interiors were lost, but in our day the building has been restored from surviving photographs.
Point on route “Merchant Rybinsk”
Point 1
🚂 Railway station
The railroad came to Rybinsk in 1870, when a wooden station was built, and it had a major impact on the town's growth as an important trade and transshipment point. The old wooden building burned down in 1903 in yet another town fire. In 1905 a new brick building went up to a design by S. I. Minash in the Art Nouveau style popular at the time.
For a long time Rybinsk remained the most important water transshipment point on the way from the Lower Volga north to St. Petersburg. With the opening in 1870 of the railroad linking Rybinsk to the Nikolaevskaya line between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and later to the Latvian town of Windau (now Ventspils), Rybinsk further cemented its status as a major trading center on the route from the Baltic to the Volga lands.
From the moment it opened in 1905, the Rybinsk station became the center of the town's social life. Besides its direct purpose of receiving and dispatching goods and passengers, its restaurant hosted banquets, the station building held balls, concerts, and soirées, and a public garden was laid out on the station square. You could say the station thus lived up to the original meaning of the Russian word vokzal: “a place of public amusement.”
In Soviet times some of the station's interiors were lost, but in our day the building has been restored from surviving photographs.
12 points
4 km
3 hours
