The intersection of Gogol street, Victory Avenue and St. Pervomayskaya

HistoryCherepovetsstarts with 1362. However, the status of the city he received only four centuries later. During its long history, Cherepovets has purchased a lot of wonderful people and excellent professionals in the field of culture, education and science. The city had opened many educational institutions, municipal public library, museums. Local history and cultural-educational work in the city was fought so vigorously and effectively that by the end of the NINETEENTH century, Cherepovets was nicknamed "the Athens of the North". Operates in Cherepovets city Museum Association, which is a complex of several museums – art, history, house Museum Vereshagina, Nature, children's, archaeology, and literary memorial estate of I. Severianin and historical-ethnographic Museum "Estate Gali". The most valuable specimens in Museum exhibitions – is a tempera painting of Ancient Russia, wooden polychrome sculptures, oil paintings, bronze fromRussiaand Western Europe, the creation of ivory and mother-of-pearl, embroidery, old books. The exhibition at the house of Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin – "the World. Family. War" presents the most famous paintings, and documents from the family archive of the artist. The city is known for its ancient architectural monuments. Among them it is necessary to allocate the resurrection Cathedral, where is placed the iconostasis of the XVII-XIX century. The bridge over the river Cherepovets – Sheksna, towering high in the sky, a white bell tower is another famous religious buildings – the Church of the Nativity. If you move to the North-West of the city – 70 km, near the road, is the monastery Filippo Irapskogo deserts, named after its founder, the Reverend Philip. On these lands, near the river Irapa, who gave Prince Philip, a Holy hermit and built a chapel and cell. And after the fame of the Monk flew around, and it started to come the monks in the chapel, the temple was built. Now on the territory of the desert is fully preserved chapel Reverend Phillip Irapskogo, where his relics rest, there are still two chapels of St. Nicholas and the icon of the mother of God "life-giving spring". The magnificent natural heritage of the Cherepovets region is a collection of 60 species of trees and shrubs in the old arboretum, which was founded in the NINETEENTH century.