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The Church of the Ascension of the Lord is a parish four-pier, five-domed church typical of the Yaroslavl school, with enclosed galleries, erected at the initiative and expense of the parishioners in 1677-82. It stands a little east of the Ascension barracks, on Yaroslavl's main street - formerly Vlasyevskaya, now Svobody - a few steps from Truda Square. The parish ensemble also includes the heated Sretenskaya Church (1689-91, rebuilt at the end of the 18th century) - a monument of religious architecture unique for Yaroslavl in the Elizabethan Baroque style.The circumstances of the parish's emergence are described in the 17th-century "Tale of the Construction of the Wooden Church of the Ascension." It recounts that under Ivan the Terrible the city prospered from northern trade with the English and Dutch, who "living here in freedom and in harmony with ours, built many warehouses and barns." The foreigners appealed to the Archbishop of Rostov with a petition for permission to build a kirk in the Earthen City.

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The memorial house museum of M. Bogdanovich, whose full official name is the Center of Belarusian Culture. The Maxim Bogdanovich Museum is a literary museum in Yaroslavl, created in the memorial house of the classic of Belarusian literature M. A. Bogdanovich, where the Bogdanovich family lived from 1912 to 1914. Today it is the only literary-profile museum within the city.The museum opened in December 1992. The museum's initial task was to acquaint city residents with the creative legacy of the Belarusian poet, who lived in Yaroslavl for eight of his not quite twenty-six years. The first visitors to the museum were Belarusians who, by force of fate, found themselves on Yaroslavl land. They began to assemble at the museum a library of works by Belarusian authors, including ones in the Belarusian language, a video library and a sound library, and brought exhibits for the ethnographic household collection.

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The Nikitsky parish in the settlement of the same name on the western outskirts of medieval Yaroslavl arose no later than the 15th century. A settlement with this name is first mentioned in a charter of Vasily III from 1511. The parish had two not particularly spacious churches with side chapels dedicated to Nikita the Martyr (the only case of such a double dedication in the city). It is located near the intersection of Pobedy Street and Saltykov-Shchedrin Street.An unassuming single-domed brick church was built through the efforts of the clerk Afanasy Kholmov. It was consecrated in 1647 in the name of Michael the Archangel (the main altar), but continued to be called after the side chapel in honor of Nikita the Martyr. The parishioners of the church were not wealthy, as a result of which the church still stood unpainted even under Catherine II. However, the very modesty of the parish was its distinctive feature. For example, the church's iconostasis was painted directly on the smooth altar wall, which set it apart from all the churches of Yaroslavl and its surroundings.

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The opening of the unique V. Tereshkova Cultural and Educational Center was timed to coincide with the 1000th anniversary of Yaroslavl. People nicknamed this complex the Planetarium. However, this is not just a planetarium, because throughout all of Russia it is hard to find a more technologically advanced facility that allows its visitors to study space and everything connected with it.

Projections of the starry sky and other images with a 3D effect are displayed on a large 12-meter dome, and 3D glasses are not needed to view them. You are completely immersed in the boundless ocean of the living Universe with its planets, stars and galaxies.

A real observatory, equipped with a mirror-lens telescope with 600x magnification, makes it possible to observe the stars in the evening and at night. The power of the telescope is enough to see even sunspots!

In the Museum of the History of Cosmonautics you can look into the past and relive all the stages of the development of this science, from the first satellites to modern spacecraft. Here you can even become the pilot of a spaceship for a while. This joy is available in the 5D attraction "Shuttle."

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Nikoly Mokrogo Church, built in Yaroslavl in 1665-1672, is rightfully considered one of the most beautiful religious buildings in the city despite the fact that it is a typical posad church. During its construction, the architects tried to embody the best features of the architectural ensemble from Korovnitskaya Sloboda and the Church of Elijah the Prophet. Combining the two into one did not work, but the result was a church unique in its elegance, built with the financial support of local merchants Luzin and Lemin and townspeople Vymorov and Tarabaev.

The unusual name of the church arose because the area here was damp and marshy. At least that is one of the most plausible versions.

In the 1670s-1680s the church was decorated with rich paintings, the authorship of which, alas, is not known for certain. At the same time, elegant tiled platbands and clustered columns appeared.

Immediately after the completion of the church, a side chapel of Metropolitan Alexius of Moscow appeared in the tented annex. A little later, a side chapel of the Great Martyr Barbara arose on the opposite side.

In architectural terms, Nikoly Mokrogo Church is an unheated four-pier church without a basement. A one-story gallery encircles the structure on three sides.

In 1992 the church was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church and, finally, after more than 60 years of neglect, was restored.

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Park of the 1000th Anniversary of Yaroslavl is a park in the Kirovsky District of Yaroslavl, located on the Kotorosl embankment on the territory of the Nikolo-Mokrinsky parish. The construction of the park was included in the jubilee preparation program. The authors of the park project are Vasily Grebenshchikov, a member of the Union of Architects of the Russian Federation, and architect Nikolay Kudryashov. Construction of the Park of the 1000th Anniversary of Yaroslavl on the bank of the Kotorosl, on the site of the former hippodrome, began in 2009. The park was financed with funds from the city budget, as well as by outside investors. On September 14, 2009, the first trees appeared in the park, and Valentina Tereshkova and Boris Gryzlov took part in the planting. The park opened on September 9, 2010, a day before the start of the anniversary celebrations. On the park grounds there is a gift to the city from Zurab Tsereteli, a sculpture of the city's symbol - a bear.