I have already been to the city of Mtsensk several times, but each time in the summer, and without a camera. It is winter and the camera was with me. And with the weather very podfortilo. Sunny days are so rare in the winter Moscow
What is in the vicinity of the town of Mtsensk: pension ZIL, ski Park “Ice Age”, Turgenev manor, the holy source, beautiful nature, forests and rivers.
It all started with the fact that my friend decided to do downshifting and asked to transport it and things from Moscow to the city of Mtsensk. Of course, he has all sorts of real estate affairs there, and he only went for half a year, but the experience of living in a small town after the metropolis is interesting. He even promised to write a blog about his impressions. Let’s see what’s next will, run away or not.
Mtsensk is a small town with 50 thousand. population on the border of the Oryol region, 320 km from Moscow. Especially in the city itself to go, probably not worth it. Plain Province half of the private sector, half of the 3-4 floors, meet and taller at home. We just spent the night in a 9-storey skyscraper. I will not speak about the decoration of staircases, not aesthetically there.
City Mtsensk. Main square.
The roads in the yards are not cleaned, and sometimes without an SUV is not will pass.
The main street permeates the entire city and everything is located on it. main stores. All you need is all services. The best assortment in Magnet, the benefit of a few pieces. Caught my eye the number of Sberbank, almost every corner. And immediately and not would say that residents commit a large number of banking operations.
City Mtsensk. The main street.
Whenever I am outside the Moscow region, I buy ryazhenka. Very different. For some reason, we have it all in Moscow worthless, as, however, and other products.
Through the city passes the river Zusha. Its steep stone shores perfectly combined with the temples, standing nearby.
City Mtsensk. Rocky coast Zushi.
City Mtsensk. Bridge over Zushu.
10 km from the town of Mtsensk there is a font and the most beautiful source. St. Cooks. Where we swim safely, and poured water. Very refreshing! The font is open from 6 to 22. In the winter on weekdays, except for us, there was nobody there, strange, huh? In the summer there are more people, and Weekend even a small queue happens. Near the monastery lonely a monk who apparently built it all. Skit he has “modest” – a large log house surrounded by a massive high fence. Also something like a monk to go …
Turn to the source of St. Cooks.
Font.
Source of St. Cooks.
It is necessary to bathe, being divided on a floor. To the remark that this is mine wife, it was said that the source does not make exceptions for married couples, and can be offended and run out. In a strange monastery with do not go their own way, as they say, therefore these incomprehensible for us traditions we did not violate. Puzzling is that the mountain rivers in which we repeatedly washed our bodies, treated us with my wife favorably, and still flow, and do not think dry out.
Font inside. Steam is not from water, but from us.
The next item on our program was a boarding house. Zil Mtsensk, literally 5 km from the city. First impression, all extinct in this ZIL, as the plant itself probably. And indeed there was no one there but a couple of grandmothers administrators. But there is there are 10 hypothetical ski slopes, but the lifts work in weekends or holidays when 10 people are recruited for skating. Rental – alpine skiing (100-400r), boots (~ 250r), no snowboards. Lift 500r / day, if not rolled, and 350r / day, if with a rental. In principle, sane. But the rooms are 3000r lux, 2000r normal. Only a suite is not a suite, but the usual one is unusual, remind both student hostels. I do not understand why such prices exhibit, if people hardly go there. If you go, then without overnight stays and holidays.
Pension ZIL.
On the way to the boarding house ZIL.
Before entering the city of Mtsensk (from Moscow if you go) there is Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, where the manor Turgenev. But there we are did not go, traded to the museum Yasnaya Polyana, the estate of Tolstoy, that in the Tula region.
If you go to these places, it’s better in the summer, but with a tent, nature there is awesome: the countryside is hilly, the forests and rivers are beautiful, the Oka and Zusha. And on the way there is a cultural program, get into the estates.
