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Highlights include Assumption Cathedral, Church of St Nicholas Nadein, Church of the Epiphany, Church of the Nativity of Christ, Church of the Prophet Elijah and Soviet Square, Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery.

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  1. Assumption Cathedral: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    Returns the route to the princely center and to the remains that were taken away and returned to this site.

  2. Church of St Nicholas Nadein: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    It will place side by side the first stone parish church of the posad and the reckoning that later caught up with its patron.

  3. Church of the Epiphany: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    Connects a merchant’s wealth with a vow, whose material trace became an entire church.

  4. Church of the Nativity of Christ: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    It traces how several weeks with one icon determined the side chapel and frescoes of the future church.

  5. Church of the Prophet Elijah and Soviet Square: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    It will show how a private church came to stand at the center of an administrative square and survived an attempt to clear the space around it.

  6. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    It will show why the monastery protected not only the monastic community, but also the southern approach to the city.

  7. Strelka: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    It compares a later legend about the beginning of Yaroslavl with what archaeologists were able to find.

  8. Volzhskaya Tower and the Embankment: story on the “Merchants' Churches and the Volga Riverbank of Yaroslavl” route

    Explains the shift from defending the city gates to reinforcing the high riverbank.