9 Sights in Ryazan, Russia (with Map and Images)

Saint George, also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier in the Roman army. Saint George was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origin and member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints and megalomartyrs in Christianity, and he has been especially venerated as a military saint since the Crusades. He is respected by Christians, Druze, as well as some Muslims as a martyr of monotheistic faith.

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The Ryazan Kremlin, the oldest part of the city of Ryazan, is a historical and architectural museum. It is one of the oldest museums in Russia. Located on the top of a steep hill, it is surrounded by rivers and a dry moat. This monument of architecture and nature reserve of federal importance is included in the State Register of Especially Valuable Objects of the People of the Russian Federation. The management of this museum is the responsibility of the Federal State Institution of Culture "Ryazan Kremlin"

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Alexey Fedorovich Utkin - Soviet and Russian scientist, designer of missile systems, designed the starting complex and rolling stock for the combat railway missile system. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1989), Professor (1993), Academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky (1994), St. Petersburg Engineering Academy (1994). Honored Worker of Science and Technology (1995), Leninsky laureate (1976), state (1980) USSR Prizes.

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Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev, a Russian general, became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dressed in a white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White General". During a campaign in Khiva, his Turkmen opponents called him goz ganly or "Bloody Eyes".

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The Christmas Sobor of the Ryazan Kremlin (previously, Assumption Cathedral) is the Orthodox Cathedral of the city of Ryazan. Along with the Assumption Cathedral is one of the two main temples of the Ryazan Metropolis. It is the first stone building on the territory of the Ryazan Kremlin, and one of the most ancients of the buildings of the Ryazan region preserved to this day.

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Arkhangelsk Sobor is an Orthodox church on the territory of the Ryazan Kremlin, one of the oldest surviving buildings in ryazan Oblast. Built at the turn of the XV-XVI centuries. An example of early Moscow architecture. It served as the house church of the great Ryazan princes, later - from the end of the 15th century - the burial place of the Ryazan bishops.

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Solotchinsky Christmas of the Virgin Monastery is the monastery of the Ryazan diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet district of the city of Ryazan, the largest monument to the architecture of Naryshkinsky Baroque on the Ryazan land. Located in the resort area of Solotcha on the banks of the river of the same name.

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Evpaty Kolovrat is a Russian bogatyr described in The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan. According to the tale he died while fighting the vastly superior army of the Mongol ruler Batu Khan, trying to avenge the destruction of Ryazan a few weeks earlier.

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The Assumption Cathedral of the Ryazan Kremlin was built in 1693-1699 by the architect from the serfs Yakov Grigoryevich Bukhvostov. The stylized image of the cathedral is one of the symbols of Ryazan.

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