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“The Golden Ring” is a tourist route including 4 ________

Russian towns located 50-200 km from Moscow. The towns are called

“open-air museums” and feature unique

monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th –18th

centuries, comprising fortresses, monasteries and convents, cathedrals and

churches. These towns are among the most picturesque in the country and

prominently feature Russia’s onion domes. The term “Golden Ring” has no

historical background. It appeared only in the middle of the 20th

century when a famous Soviet photographer chose the most interesting towns

around Moscow and later described his journey. 5 __________,

each town of the Golden Ring played an important role in medieval Russia and

preserves a lot of architectural monuments of those times. Actually there is no official list

of cities that 6 ________

the Golden Ring, with the exception of the eight principal cities of Yaroslavl,

Kostroma, Ivanovo, Suzdal,

Vladimir, Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl Zalessky,

and Rostov Veliky. Apart

from this, the cities of Palekh,

Plyos, Shuya, Gorokhovets,

Gus-Khrustalny, Murom, Yuriev-Polsky, Rybinsk, Tutaev, Uglich,

Kasimov (from 2015), and

Kaluga (from 2016) are also considered to be part of the Ring. Yaroslavl is

located on the Volga River some 150 miles northeast of Moscow. It was 7 ___________

in the early 11th century by Yaroslav

the Wise – one of the greatest rulers of medieval Russia. By the 13th century

the settlement already had stone churches within monasteries, which was

unusual during a time when most buildings were made of logs. The city center is

small enough to visit all the main attractions on foot. And don’t forget to

enjoy the bird’s eye view of ancient Yaroslavl!

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