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Hurry to Tver

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13 points4 km2.5 hours

This route introduces you to Tver's main sights, from cathedrals and monuments to a creative cluster and the embankments. Let's get going!

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Route author

Tver Tourist Information Center

Things to do

  • 📜 Learn the city's history
  • 🏛️🕰️ Compare the eras

Route points (13)

  1. Square of the Holy Blessed Prince Mikhail of Tver — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Square of the Holy Blessed Prince Mikhail of Tver

    ⛲ Square · 📜 Historic site

  2. Monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver

    🗿 Monument

  3. Andrei Dementyev Monument — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Andrei Dementyev Monument

    🗿 Monument

  4. Stepan Razin Embankment — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Stepan Razin Embankment

    🚶‍♂️ Waterfront · 📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark

  5. Dormition Cathedral — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Dormition Cathedral

    🕍 Place of worship · 📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark

  6. New Volga Bridge — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    New Volga Bridge

    🌉 Bridge · ⚙️ Industrial site

  7. House of the Voroshilov Marksmen — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    House of the Voroshilov Marksmen

    📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark

  8. Zvezda Cinema — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Zvezda Cinema

    🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site

  9. City Garden — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    City Garden

    🌿 Public garden or park · 📜 Historic site

  10. “Galley Tver” Art Piece — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    “Galley Tver” Art Piece

    🎨 Art installations

  11. “To A. S. Pushkin” Sculptural Composition — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    “To A. S. Pushkin” Sculptural Composition

    🗿 Sculptures

  12. Travel Palace — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Travel Palace

    🏰 Palace · 🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site

  13. Old Volga Bridge — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

    Old Volga Bridge

    🌉 Bridge · 📜 Historic site · 🕵️ Urban legend

New Volga Bridge in Tver

Point on route “Hurry to Tver”

New Volga Bridge — point on route “Hurry to Tver”

Point 6

New Volga Bridge

🌉 Bridge • ⚙️ Industrial site

Description

The New Volga Bridge is one of Tver's main traffic arteries. Small semicircular viewing platforms have been built on its piers, from which you can admire the city and the Volga.

Architecture

The Annunciation Bridge, later the Nikolaevsky Bridge and then the Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge, was built in St. Petersburg in 1850. It was one of the first permanent bridges across the Neva. In the 1930s it had to be reconstructed. The parts left over were not sent to be melted down but were handed over to the city of Kalinin to build the New Volga Bridge across the Volga (1953–1956). And so Tver gained yet another detail that recalls St. Petersburg.

Facts

There were plans to name the bridge after Mikhail Kalinin, as the letters MK on its cartouches attest. But in 1956 a decree was issued banning the naming of bridges after people, so officially it has remained nameless.

A Local Custom

In Tver there is a custom that newlyweds should drive across 7 bridges on their wedding trip. The New Volga Bridge is one of those seven.