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One of towns in Tver region, '''Vyshny Volocheck''', is called Russian [[Venice]]. The oldest waterway from Varangians to Greeks has come through it since olden times. Numerous sites of primitive man residing discovered along the banks of its lakes and rivers, are evidences of late Stone Age´s settlements here.</p>

'''Vyshny-Volochek''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: ''Вышний Волочёк'') is a town in the [[Tver Oblast]] of [[Russia]], with a popularion of around 60,000.

It is around 75 north-west of [[Tver]] itself, and is in the valley of the [[Tvertsa]] and [[Tsna]]. In [[1702]] a canal, ordered by [[Peter the Great]], was constructed linking these two rivers and hence linking the [[Baltic Sea]] and the [[Volga]]. It later became a textiles town.

One of towns in Tver region, '''Vyshny Volocheck'''Volochyok, is called Russian [[Venice]]. The oldest waterway from Varangians to Greeks has come through it since olden times. Numerous sites of primitive man residing discovered along the banks of its lakes and rivers, are evidences of late Stone Age´s settlements here.</p>

<p>Rivers, canals, lakes and artificial reservour are the main distinctive marks of our town whose embankments´ full length stretches out for 20 miles. Our canals and sluice-gate have presented themselves as the first, artificially made in Russia hydrotechnical structure of that kind, set up by Dutch masters in 1703. All Vyshnevolotskaya water system makes up more than 878,75 miles of waterway from Rybinsk (Yaroslavl´ region) to St. Petersburg.</p>

<p>On the 28-th of May 1770 Katherine the Second had signed up an imperial order for Senate which established to Vyshny Volocheck the official status and privilege of being a town. Stone locks and dams were erected instead of wooden ones. Tveretsky and Tsninsky canals, built by Syerdyukov in 1722, had been strengthened with huge granitic slabs. In 1802 Obvodny canal was dug out.</p>

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"Burlaks on the Volga".

There is a stone bridge ,made of huge granite slabs in the town near the Twelfth-day cathedral having two white bell towers. The bridge bears marks of thick hemp ropes on its wall under it as if there were some kind of reminiscence written in stone of that hard time. The cathedral is surrounded with the circle of canals dug up by hand three centuries ago. You wouldn't even think of your being on the isle while visiting the active church there.

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