Bike tour Dubna-Kimry. 80 km in two days

This trip is a continuation of cycling in the Kimrsky district of the Tver region. Participants of the campaign: me and Pavel Lyakhov (a classmate at art school). The plans were to visit 2 abandoned churches, the dam in Dubna and explore other local attractions.


On Friday evening, we collected equipment, prepared bicycles for the trip. During the inspection of the yellow AUTHORa, it turned out that his fork had died - the spring had failed. Pavel did not lose his head and stretched the fork to the highest position and wrapped the moving part with a rope - as a result, a good semi-rigid shock absorber turned out.
Considering that I am going on such an adventure for the first time, several alternative routes have been developed.
We started on the train arriving in Dubna at 10:20. From the train station we drove along the city towards the dam.
On the way we passed a bakery, from it there was an appetizing aroma of freshly baked bread, unfortunately the bakery shop did not work on weekends. Food and delicious bread were bought in a tent with a remarkable sign "for friends. inexpensive pleasures and food."
We stopped at the monument to the IL-2 armored attack aircraft. Judging by the information on the memorial plaque, in the village of Ivankovo during the war there was a factory where these aircraft were made.
The canal was crossed through a tunnel with a majestic inscription "Glory to labor". The ceiling of the tunnel is in a terrible condition, I thought a couple of times that it would be nice to take a bike helmet, but everything worked out.
At the entrance to the dam, a giant head of the leader of the peoples appeared from behind the Christmas trees. A picturesque cypress alley leads to Lenin - everything resembles a southern resort in spirit. The monument is made of granite, looks majestic. It's probably even more beautiful from the water. From the bottom, Ilyich's face somehow resembled the face of Peter the Great (from a certain angle).
A few photos on the embankment would pass for photos from the Black Sea coast.
Having had a snack at the foot of the monument to Vladimir Ilyich, we headed to the Ivankovskaya hydroelectric dam, built in 1937. The spectacle is indescribably majestic, a powerful stream flowing from the dam can be traced far along the river. There are a lot of fishermen - both before the dam and after it, it's not surprising - in such a sea, you can catch something for any reason.

We inspect the dam and drive on.
After turning in the direction of old Dubna, there is a barrier with a ban on cars entering the sanitary zone of the reservoir - we pass it and go further along the dam towards the forest. A little further there is an abandoned booth, in which, apparently, there used to be a checkpoint. We drive along the reservoir for about an hour, admiring the "sea" landscapes. Boats, the Sea, An empty beach, A Town on stilts.
Along the dam there is a fairly tolerable gravel road to the forest itself, in the forest it turns into a moderately muddy one with large puddles, along which you can still ride a bike.
After the end of the bulk droga, we go out onto the trail running parallel to the main road torn apart by jeeps. We drove along the trail until we ran into a large puddle formed by the overflow of one of the forest streams.

While we were thinking how to swim past it along the path, like a hallucination, a strange person ran right through this puddle. Based on observations of the runner, the puddle was at least knee-deep. While I was fooling around with the construction of the bridge, Nikita took off his boots and ran across the puddle barefoot.  Further to Lartsevo, the road with varying success was replaced by more or less drivable sections and long mud baths, then the road was bypassed by the forest, pushing through the bushes. As a result, around 14:00 we scraped to the Lartsevo field. Knead the dirt! We went to the village by azimuth through the field, since it was not possible to walk along the broken road. The central street in the village of Lartsevo was a solid mud bath on which bulls and cows sluggishly moved with their hooves.
From Lartsevo we drove a little to the east on a good gravel-sand road. In the place where the exit to the forest road to Gorychkino is indicated on the map, there is a sign "There is no road. Private property", we still drove in and automatically received instructions from the nervously screaming owners on how to get to the road (I imagine how often they have to repeat "Have you read the sign? - private property! The road is daaaalshee!!!!, have you heard? the road is further, I said!!!!!). We left the estate and indeed, after driving 50 meters, we found a road with a well-trodden path running parallel to it, which eventually led us to the road we needed to Gorychkino. It is quite possible that the owners of the estate, having fucked up to fend off those who wanted to drive, made a detour themselves.
The road to Gorychkino is quite passable - sandy soils and puddles have already gone there, of course, but there were also enough areas where it was possible to accelerate.
From Gorychkino along the gravel-sand road we went down to the log bridge over the Kimrka, where before Korenkovo we turned to Azarovo.
The roads here are already capital-gravel-sand bulk. Azarovo has almost disappeared - a couple of dilapidated houses are living out their lives. There are still traces of life in the fields - hay rolls turn black on a green background of grass.
We got from Azarovo to Dymovo already at dusk. Bridge over the stream
Dymov, although present on the maps, in fact does not exist. But there was a concrete bridge over the stream, reminiscent of its former greatness. We turned off the gravel onto the dirt road towards the forest. The dotted line of the old road to the Arkhangelsk district is plotted on the map, we hoped to find it and follow it to the church. We drove along the field road to the forest, the road ran into the forest. According to the branching tracks of cars, it was clear that people were trying to find the entrance to the forest, but many, judging by the turning tracks, did not break further. Pavel and I left the bikes on the light and went in different directions from the road to look for a continuation of the road in the forest. As a result, going deeper into the forest, Pavel found a road that someone had already cleared of windbreak in places. Dusk was gathering and we, having sunk not far into the forest, stopped for the night.
As soon as the fire was lit and the tent was set up, it began to rain a little. The Auchan tent-house covered with a piece of polyethylene and a poncho raincoat completely withstood the tests. I also checked my new sleeping bag for 10 degrees of heat in this campaign - it is quite warm in clothes - given its minimum size and weight of 700 g - I think it is quite suitable for the autumn and summer period.
While we were sitting by the fire, curious frogs crawled up to us. The forest is quiet, birds are not heard, only the rustle of creeping frogs is heard - gloomy as in horror movies. We went to bed around 10 p.m., woke up at 8 a.m., got ready and went out around 10 a.m. The silence of the forest was announced a couple of times by the chirping of birds, but they soon disappeared as unexpectedly as they appeared. The road indicated by the dotted line on the map is now quite well cleared to a certain place, then there is an unpaved windfall, after which we went to the old cemetery, behind the gnarled trees through the twisted crosses the ruins of the abandoned church of the Archangel Michael could be seen.
A short summary of the history of the temple from the website http://hram-tver.narod.ru/kimryrn/arhangelskiykimry.html "Fifteen kilometers west of the Kimr, away from roads and villages, the Church of the Archangel Michael stands alone in the middle of the forest. Once upon a time there was a churchyard here (and according to some sources - a village) Arkhangelsk, which is in the Kurovichi of Kashinsky, and then - Korchevsky county. It is known that the wooden church that stood here since ancient times burned down on July 2, 1757, and the parishioners were allowed to build a new one on the same place, also wooden - in the name of Archangel Michael with a chapel of Dimitri, Metropolitan of Rostov, the Wonderworker. The church was consecrated in 1759, repaired in 1773, in 1800, and by the 1820s began to fall into disrepair.
   Instead, the parishioners decided to build a stone church on their own capital with the use of a purse church amount. The holy letter was given with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Jonah on March 22, 1826.
   The church was built for thirteen years according to the plan and facade approved by the provincial architect, at a distance of 4 fathoms from the former wooden church.
   From the inventory of the Archangel Church it is known that its length with the altar and the chapel was 51 yards, width - 20, height - 30; "neck with a cross - 6 yards in height." The church was consecrated by the dean of the village of Kimry, Archpriest Vasily Ioannov: the main altar - in the name of Archangel Michael in 1839, and the warm chapel (on the right side) in the name of the Vladimir Mother of God - in 1840.
   The fact that there was once a stone bell tower at the church is now reported to us by preserved archival documents: it was erected with the care of parishioners in 1839, consisted of two tiers, "had a height of 33 yards." There is information that at the end of the 1840s, a new spire and cross were installed on the bell tower, replacing the previous ones, torn down and broken by the storm.
   The land under the church and the wooden fence was about one thousand two hundred square fathoms. In the early 1850s, a stone fence was built, which currently does not even resemble anything.
   According to the data of 1910, a priest, a deacon and a psalmist served at the church. The parish also had a stone chapel built in the village of Baranovskaya in 1897 by merchant Nikita Timofeev Rakhmanov in memory of Emperor Alexander II. In general, the parish consisted of more than two and a half thousand people - residents of the villages: Dymovo, Zolotylovo, Ivankovo, Frolovskoye, Yurkino, Azarovo, Stroevo, Gorychkino, Baranovskaya, Borodino, Lartsevo, Kokorevo, Ignatovo."
Someone has already worked here.
The last graves dated back to the 60s of the twentieth century, the oldest ones are made of limestone with a solstice and ancient ornaments without crosses. We examined the ruins and went along the primer to Zolotylovo. Between the trees, the ruins of a temple, a monstrous tree in an abandoned cemetery, an Ancient grave, Black Metal appeared! We drove around Zolotylovo from the eastern side and drove to the moraviyka, from where we headed towards Ivankovo. Here the roads are on the "5 plus" - they have accelerated to glory. Chamomile deficiency. Ivankovo has also disappeared from the face of the earth, only the characteristic atmosphere and vegetation specific to abandoned places weakly betray that this area was once a village.
From Zolotylovo to Ivankovo we drive along a good embankment road. From Ivankovo through the forest there is a primer to Kozhukhovo: we reached the forest on horseback, in the forest we had to dismount and drag the bike through a puddle leaning on it, walking through bushes and bumps along the banks of the road. The shores, yes, I did not make a reservation - it was the shores, since the road was a real river, it's good that it is not mixed in mud, probably not many people dare to drive along it by car. Up to the ears! Shit! Where the devil breaks his leg, the Airborne will find the way! We left the forest for the field and, at a quite tolerable pace for this time of year, we danced to the bridge over the Osanovsky Stream flowing from Lake Usad. After crossing the bridge, we drove to the village of Kozhukhovo. From Kozhukhovo on a gravel-sand road we got to the Ilyinsky highway. After Kozhukhovo, we passed a sand pit and funny piles of sand overgrown with bright greenery (they looked very positive against the background of gloomy fallen trees).

A well with a crane system was photographed in Mitino. It was not possible to refresh and quench thirst from this structure, since the well lid was cruelly closed with screws.
Along the Ilyinsky highway, we descended 800 meters south to the first branch to the east, where, before reaching Papino, we turn onto a country road, along which we reach the bridge in Otrubnevo.

Here is the second significant point of our journey - an abandoned church (PUHLIMO OTRUBNEVO - Nikolskaya CHURCH) - a temple larger than the temple in the Arkhangelsk district. They are even trying to hold services here, the roof has been repaired. There is a bell tower, but without a dome and bells. "The first news about him that has reached the present time is found in the Kashin scribe book of 1628-29: "The churchyard of Nikolskaya on the river on the Plump, and in it the church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the great limit of the martyr Poraskeva Drevyan Kletsky, and on church land in the courtyard of the priest Ivan Yeremeyev, in the courtyard of the sexton Vaska Samsonov, in the courtyard of the sexton Yurka Grigoriev."" You can read more about the temple on the website http://hram-tver.narod.ru/kimryrn/puhlimootrubnkimry.html

At the bridge over the Pukhlima River, I found a wonderful goat skull, just in the collection of Paul's skulls there was not enough goat! Examined the ruins of the temple. After visiting the temple, we went to the village of Otrubnevo, and from there along the primers to Shchavelevo. Moreover, the road on the general staff is shown as bulk - in fact, it turned out to be a swamp!

The road on the general staff is shown as a bulk - in fact, it turned out to be a swamp! At the Shchavelevo Trophy, part of the route ends - we get out of the last puddle on the road and rush with a breeze to the city of Kimry.
And again - swim! This road surprised Pavel - the asphalt part turned into an "island of safety", since two roadsides were made into carriageways. In Kimry, we visited a local park, photographed wooden and not only architecture. On the left side of the monument to Tupolev is a complex of ruins of once gorgeous stone buildings. The complex is fenced, but as it turned out as a result of a circular detour - only from three sides, so it was possible to see this complex closer. Then there are photos of several notable houses in the city of Kimry. Examples of Russian wooden Art Nouveau of the late 19th - early 20th century, preserved to this day. The final photo is a bridge across the Volga.
As a result, we drove about 80 km in two days, saw a lot of interesting things, mixed a lot of dirt, almost didn't get wet - in general, we had a good rest :-))))

Have a good trip!