The town of Plyos is located on the right bank of the Volga, where the river cuts the Rostov-Pleskaya moraine ridge, forming the so-called "Pleskie gates", 38 km from the Furmanov railway station, 71 km northeast of Ivanovo. It is one of the oldest cities on the Volga (to it already more than eight centuries), for the first time it was mentioned in the annals in a number of Russian cities burnt by Batu. The Plesk Museum-Reserve is included in the List of Historical and Cultural Objects of Federal Significance. There are more than 300 monuments of history, culture and nature.

Ples - also a climatic resort: local coniferous and deciduous forests and sandy Volga beaches are favorable for sanatorium treatment and recreation. Getting here is easy with the help of direct and transit buses from Kostroma and Ivanovo.

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How to get to Ples

Direct and transit buses from Moscow, Kostroma, Ivanovo and Privolzhsk. On the river from Yaroslavl in the summer time once a day. Many people prefer to travel by night train to Ivanovo, where you can get to Plyos by taxi or bus.

Phone numbers and other useful information

Area code 49339; information center: st. Kornilova, 10, tel. 4-36-62, from 8.00 to 20.00; bus station 4-33-50.

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Kitchen and restaurants

The highlight of the Plesk cuisine and concurrently the main souvenir is the famous smoked bream. You can buy a pair of fish with you on the embankment in a special kiosk (belonging to the network of restaurants of the Yacht Club, from 10 to 9 pm), or in the local, a special sign will certainly inform you that it sells a fragrant inhabitant of the Volga depths. The cost of such a souvenir is 300 rubles per 1 kg, on average one bream pulls 100-150 rubles.

In addition, in Plyos it is worth paying special attention to other fish dishes - sturgeon, kulebyaki with tie, carp and other river, albeit bony, but very tasty representatives of Mother Volga, which are cooked here simply amazingly.

The most expensive restaurant is the Yacht Club on the embankment, where the chef from the famous Moscow restaurant is currently supervising .The average bill for two with drinks will be 1500-2000 rubles .For this money you can try a high cuisine with the best tinctures in the whole city (390 rubles for 7 types of local tinctures) .Yacht Club also owns the Tea Estate of the Plessian Sobriety Society (further along the embankment) with magnificent chaunesses, pies and other sweets, Sofya Petrovna Kuvshinnikova's Coffee House (the door opposite, Sofya Petrovna herself is an associate of Levitan, an artist whose work can be seen in Isaac's house museum Ilyich), bar "Two anchors" .

It is worthwhile to take time and look into the restaurant "Taiga" at the hotel "Fortecia", which is located about 1, 5 km from the center of Ples along the embankment (if you look at the Volga, you need to go to the left). Here, in the marvelous interiors of bear skins, squirrels or marten, Old-Russian, merchant dishes are prepared, which are few where you can taste today. Price list is cheaper than in Yacht Club, the average bill for two is 1000-1200 rubles.

A separate mention deserves the restaurant "Dacha" and a coffeehouse upstairs, a restaurant at the guest house "Private Visit", "Tavern" on the Revolution Square. In Plyos there is even a restaurant with Italian cuisine, located right there on the waterfront.

Lebedev's speech in Plyos

Climate Plesa

Average monthly temperature, ° C
Jan Feb Mar Apr MayJun Jul Aug sen Oct but IDec
in the afternoon -9-7 -1+8 +17 +22 +24 +22 +15 +6 -1-7
at night-15-15-10-1+5 +10 +13 +11 +6 +0 -6 -12

Hotels and guest houses in Plesa

In Plyos find a hotel is not difficult, another thing is that on high dates (for holidays or holidays) there are hardly any places: this city is very popular with foreign and Russian tourists. The most budgetary places are in the Ples health resort and the actor's recreation center. The most expensive are luxurious, tastefully rebuilt dachas of the "Cathedral Suburban", which are part of the network of "Fortecia Rus". Inside there is a stove in tiles, landlord interiors, unique decor. The cost of one house starts from 12 thousand rubles per day.

More budgetary - in private guest houses: Volga-Volga, Private Visit, House on the Volga and others. However, even here, prepare to give about 3500 rubles per night.

Entertainment, excursions and sightseeing Plesa

Cathedral Mountain - the oldest part of the city, its height is 70 meters, it was here that Basil the Dark and founded the city in 1410, having built a wooden fortress that has not survived to this day. The Assumption Cathedral, which can be seen today on the Cathedral Hill, was erected on the site of an old wooden church, as usual, who died in the fire. In 1910, by the 500th anniversary of the city, a monument to Prince Vasily Dmitrievich, the founder of the city, was erected at the cathedral.

Another prominent church of the city - Voskresenskaya, crowned with five chapters, was built in 1817 in honor of the victory over Napoleon. The area in which it is located was once the Trade Suburb, so the shopping arcade of the middle of the 19th century was preserved around the church. In the vicinity of Torgovaya there was Troitskaya Sloboda, an ensemble consisting of the summer Troitskaya (1808) and the winter Vvedenskaya (1828) churches reminds of it.

One of the most famous inhabitants of Plyos is the artist Isaak Levitan, he was not a native of the city, however, having visited Plyos at the age of 27, he was so fascinated that he lived here for several years, constantly painting local landscapes. The Peter and Paul Mountains on the other side of the river from Sobornaya are now called - the mountain of Levitan. Standing on her earlier chapel of the 16th century, the artist depicted in his painting "Above Eternal Peace". In 1903, the chapel burnt down and now in its place is an old wooden Resurrection Church (1699), transported here from the village of Biryukovo.

Report on the Levitan Festival in Plyos in 2010

Museums of Ples

In the memorial house-museum of I. I. Levitan (4 Lunacharsky Street, from 9.00 to 18.00, mon, the last month of the month - it is closed), the conditions of the rooms in which the artist lived, exhibited his paintings and sketches. Admission is 60 rubles.

In the two-story merchant's stone house of the 19th century on the bank of the Volga River near the Cold Mountain ("The House under the Red Roof") is the Museum of Landscape (st .Lunacharsky 20; from 9 .00 to 18 .00; Mon, after .Fri of the month - closed) .Not far from the museum stands the Varvarinskaya church with a multi-tiered bell tower, built in 1821 .In the museum of folk decorative and applied art on the embankment, it is worth paying attention to the exhibition "Lacquer miniature of Palekh and Kholui" (st .Lunacharsky 6, from 9 .00 to 18 .00; Mon, after .Fri of the month - closed) .Here is also the Plesky State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, excursions 4-37-82, website .

Another interesting tourist site in Plyos is a park-museum in the open air, which is a candidate of historical sciences reconstructed according to archaeological excavations and simply carried away by his human deed P .N .Travkin's yard and the home of a local peasant of the 13th century .Entrance - 50-60 rubles .And the museum center "Russian House" nearby unites the museum-estate of the medieval family and the house of the 19th-century Moldovan mistress .Here, under the amazing songs and stories of the hostess, the taste of real peasant porridge and the astounding, made by own hands and preserved to this day everyday objects, one can learn more about the difficult but simple and bright life of the peasants of that time .Log 60 rubles .

Leisure

In winter and in summer - Ples is equally good for guests. In summer there is expanse on the Volga - the cleanest sandy beaches, fishing, walks through the forests. In winter - skiing from the high, typical for the Volga, the slopes of the river on sledges, mountain skiing (there is a comfortable paved trail with a ski lift), walks on plain skis.

Photo of Plesa (21)