Photo: architectural monuments, museums and exhibitions, other places, Varyazhskaya Street, Staraya Ladoga
Photo: architectural monuments, museums and exhibitions, other places, Varyazhskaya Street, Staraya Ladoga
Photo: architectural monuments, museums and exhibitions, other places, Varyazhskaya Street, Staraya Ladoga
Photo: architectural monuments, museums and exhibitions, other places, Varyazhskaya Street, Staraya Ladoga
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Varyazhskaya Street in Staraya Ladoga: the Road from Which Rus Began

Architectural Monuments • Museums and Exhibitions • Other places
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Varyazhskaya Street in Staraya Ladoga may seem outwardly unremarkable. However, exactly along it people settled in the IX! This is evidenced by the findings of archaeologists who conducted excavations here. The first written references to the street date back to the 1500th year.

The modern appearance of Varyazhskaya Street was acquired at the end of the 18th century when stone merchant houses were built here. Today the museum «Archaeology of Ladoga VIII-XIII centuries» was opened in one of these houses — an old two-story mansion of merchant P.V. Kalyazin. When walking along the oldest street in the village, one should also pay attention at the monument to the first Russian princes Rurik and Oleg, and at a small chapel built in 1913 on the site of a church of the 12th century.

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Address
Varyazhskaya ulica
Staraya Ladoga
GPS coordinates
59.9989494, 32.2963699
Opening Hours
Now - open
Mon-Sun 00:00-24:00
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