Excursion to Elabuga

Landscape painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, cavalry maiden Nadezhda Durova, silver age poet Marina Tsvetaeva - these celebrities lived in Elabuga. An outstanding Russian psychiatrist and neurologist Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev was born in the Yelabuga district. Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Govorov lived and studied in this city. In 2007, Elabuga celebrated its 1000th anniversary. From the city destroyed in 1236 by the Mongols remained on the steep bank of the Kama tower and the remains of a nearby mosque. In 1780, the city received the status of a district city of the Vyatka province. There were more than 600 merchants and 12 millionaires per 10,000 inhabitants before the revolution. And the most famous in all of Russia merchants Stakheev with an annual turnover of 150 million rubles! The streets of the old city, museums dedicated to famous residents, the city of oil workers and the special economic zone of Alabuga, Shishkin ship groves, and all this you will see on an excursion to Elabuga.