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Winter, sviyazhsk Kazan republic of Tatarstan #108653628
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The construction of Sviyazhsk was part of the plan of Ivan the Terrible to conquer the Kazan Khanate. Russian troops did not have the opportunity to take a powerful Kazan without a well-built bridgehead in their own rear, so a wooden fortress was built in the upper Volga with walls, churches, houses, ...