Ah, Elabuga
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Millennial history. Rich history. The mysterious tower of the Elabuga bloody settlement is a witness to the events of the Middle Ages.
The homeland of Shishkin, the city in which Marina Tsvetaeva spent her last years. The unique museum of district medicine named after Academician V.M. Bekhterev, who was born in the Yelabuga district, as well as the only museum-estate of cavalryman-girl Nadezhda Durova in Russia.
The lives of many famous people are connected with Elabuga. It is in Elabuga that the future Marshal Govorov comes to study. Elabuga is the birthplace of the writer, artist, traveler Nikolai Pinegin, who later created the Arctic Museum in St. Petersburg. In Yelabuga, the famous translator Mikhail Lozinsky completed the translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy into Russian. And opera singer Sergei Lemeshev came to be treated in Elabuga. And during the war, Viktor Ambartsumyan, astrophysicist, mathematician Vladimir Smirnov, physicist Vladimir Fok worked in the evacuated laboratories of Leningrad and Voronezh state universities in Yelabuga.
And we will pass through the small streets of merchant Elabuga not only enjoy the rich history of this city, but also feel the atmosphere of one of the important centers of the Great Silk Road.
