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• The Vineyard Cup Joins the Classic Yacht Challenge Series 2024!
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• March 27, 2024

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Exciting news – the Classic Yacht Owner's Association (CYOA) has announced the addition of the Vineyard Cup to its prestigious Classic Yacht Challenge Series (CYCS) calendar for 2024. Set to take place from July 12th to 14th in Vineyard Haven and hosted by Martha's Vineyard Shipyard, this event fills a gap in the CYCS calendar and adds another opportunity for teams to qualify for the series.

Under the leadership of Race Chair Andrew Nutton, the Vineyard Cup has embraced the CRF Mk II rating rule since 2021, resulting in a surge in participation each year. With pursuit start races ranging from 5 to 21 nautical miles, teams are challenged by engaging navigation-style courses that test their skills and strategy on the water. The festivities extend beyond the racecourse, with evening socials held at the Sail MV boathouse and Martha's Vineyard Shipyard, fostering camaraderie and community spirit among sailors.

The Vineyard Cup has been seeing an increase in participation among the classics with 18 gracing the waters of Vineyard Haven in 2023, including notable vessels like Wendy Schmidt’s Santana, Ben Sperry's NY32, Gentian , and Nat Benjamin's Schooner, Charlotte . Courses send the teams around the buoys in Vineyard Sound.

Not only does the Vineyard Cup offer thrilling racing opportunities, but it also serves a noble cause. Hosted by Sail Martha's Vineyard, the event aims to raise funds for the community sailing center, supporting initiatives that introduce people of all ages to the joys of sailing.

Timmy Dittrich, Chair of the CYOA Board, emphasized the significance of adding the Vineyard Cup to the CYCS calendar, filling a mid-July gap and offering another opportunity for regional boats to earn a Division award. Fitting between the NYYC Annual Regatta in June and the Shipyard Classic in Boothbay, Maine in July, the Vineyard Cup brings the total CYCS events to 14.

The Notice of Series for the CYCS 2024 is now available on the CYOA website , explain the scoring process among the three regions from June to October. Registration for many events is already open, with more opportunities to sign up coming in the following weeks. Be sure to mark your calendars and save the dates for these exciting events.

For more information and to view the Notice of Series, visit classicyachts.org/cycs/ . Don't miss out on the thrill of classic yacht racing and the camaraderie of the sailing community – we'll see you on the water!

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Tuesday, june 8th 2021.

Classic yacht racing has always been strong in Maine due to the state’s many world-class boatbuilders, yacht designers and the state’s gorgeous sailing waters. And this summer the competition will be fierce, as racing ramps up after last summer’s truncated season. 

Also, in addition to a new race in Boothbay, there will be a new trophy for boats that compete in at least three classic yacht regattas. The Newport, RI-based Classic Yacht Owners Association has established Maine as its own District in a newly formed competition called the Classic Yachts Challenge Series. To win the Maine District Series, competitors need to race in three races in Maine in two separate Maine events. A goal of the District Championship Series is to give boats that can’t travel between districts the chance to be recognized. To qualify for the Overall Series Championship, an additional two races must be completed with one being in either the Massachusetts or NY/RI/CT districts. The Overall Championship series unites 13 prestigious classic yacht regattas from Long Island Sound to Eggemoggin Reach, Maine.

Maine’s classic racing season will start with the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Regatta and Shipyard Cup Classics Challenge, July 24 and 25; followed by the Camden Classics Cup, July 29-31; the Castine Classic Yacht Race, August 5; and the Camden to Brooklin Feeder race on August 6. The Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, now in its 36 th  year and the regatta that started it all in Maine wraps up the Maine series on August 7. These are destination regattas. Every town puts out the welcome mat for these sailors and their crews.

The Maine District Champion and Overall Champion will be announced in the fall in Newport, RI at the CYOA awards ceremony. For more information of the Classic Yachts Challenge Series – https://www.classicyachts.org/series/

The membership-driven, nonprofit Classic Yacht Owners Association was established in 2015 to encourage fellowship amongst owners within the classic yacht community. One of the organization’s goals is to help shape the future of the sport by influencing and cultivating long-term regional cooperation amongst those who are dedicated to owning, maintaining, and racing sailing vessels. CYOA also works to promote classic yacht ownership with the objective of attracting new members and creating new funding opportunities to support future classic yacht events. 

About Boothbay Harbor YC Regatta and Shipyard Cup Classics Challenge

47th Annual Running of the BHYC Regatta has expanded to include several divisions of Classic Yachts under the Shipyard Cup banner. Presented by Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club in conjunction with the marine community and support from key sponsors, Hodgdon Yachts, Bristol Marine’s Shipyard at Boothbay Harbor and many others, the weekend will offer competitive racing and the beauty of sail on Booth Bay.   https://www.bhyc.net/racing-and-regattas

About the Camden Classics Cup 

Presented by Lyman-Morse, the 2021 edition will be the 5 th  Camden Classics Cup and features 2 days of racing and post-race parties, a one-day Youth Regatta and a Parade of Sail through Camden’s inner harbor. The Camden Classics Cup is followed by Camden Classics Week featuring a variety of maritime-related events and destination racing to Castine, Brooklin and the outer islands. LifeFlight of Maine is the beneficiary of the event.  www.camdenclassicscup.com

About the Castine Classic Yacht Race

On Thursday, August 5th, in the twenty-second annual edition of the Castine Classic Yacht Race, a fleet of classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts will set sail on a 19.6nm course from Castine to Camden—kicking off three days of racing culminating in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. For more information and to register for the race, please see  www.castineclasssic.com .

About the Camden Yacht Club Classic Yacht Feeder Race

Now in its 34 th  year, this feeder race to Brooklin, Me, is the second race of the Wooden Boat Series will be held Friday, August 6, 2021.   https://camdenyachtclub.org/cruising-racing/wooden-boat-series/

About the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

The Eggemoggin Reach Regatta is co-hosted by  Brooklin Boatyard  and  Rockport Marine. . The Regatta's 15-mile course has remained the same over the years and only once was the race cancelled due to fog. The ERR is held every year on the first Saturday of August, and is open to any wooden boat 25’ LOD or longer. http://erregatta.com/

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Bill Lynn joins Classic Yacht Owners’ Association

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Newport, RI (January 22, 2018) – The Directors of the Classic Yacht Owners’ Association have appointed Bill Lynn as the Association’s new Managing Director. The Classic Yacht Owners’ Association was formed in 2015 to encourage fellowship amongst those who are dedicated to owning, maintaining, and racing both classic yachts and newer yachts designed and built in the spirit of the classics. As MD, Lynn will oversee day-to-day operations of the association.

Bill also serves as President and Executive Director of the Herreshoff Marine Museum, a role he embraced as a lifelong sailor after a long and successful marketing career. Following the departure of Clark Poston, founding Managing Director of CYOA and the architect of its success over the past two years, the association’s board feels that this unique combination makes Lynn the right choice to take the Association into the next phase of growth.

“Our success over the past two years is entirely due to Clark’s hard work and dedication,” said CYOA Chairman Chuck Townsend. “Bill will have some big shoes to fill, but we’re thrilled he’s agreed to join us, and we’re confident he’ll steer us in the right direction.”

Lynn joins CYOA at an important time. In 2016, the organization’s Technical Committee took on the challenge of updating the Classic Rating Formula rule, and CRF MkII was introduced and implemented for the 2017 racing season. He’ll need to build on this success by continuing to find ways to deliver value to classic yacht owners.

“I’m really looking forward to taking on the challenge of building CYOA into a vibrant community of classic yachting enthusiasts,” Lynn commented. “I love the boats, I know many of the owners and sailors and for the past three years, through my role at the Herreshoff Marine Museum, I’ve been deeply immersed in the world of classic yachting. This should be fun!”

The membership-driven, nonprofit Classic Yacht Owners Association was established in 2015 to encourage fellowship amongst owners within the classic yacht racing community. The organization’s goal is to help shape the future of the sport by influencing and cultivating long-term regional cooperation amongst those who are dedicated to owning, maintaining, and racing sailing vessels. It also works to promote and educate classic yacht owners in the United States with the objective of attracting new members and creating new funding opportunities to support future classic yacht events. Website: www.classicyachtownersassociation.org

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Photo: Looking West down B Street in the Historic District, Moscow. The Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Photographed by User:Davidlharlan (own work), 2012, [cc-3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons, accessed March, 2023.

Original nomination [1]

The Fort Russell Historic District consists of 116 structures in nine square blocks, and fractions of twelve contiguous blocks, in the hilly northwest section of Moscow, Idaho. The district is almost totally residential in use. Only three buildings near the perimeter stand as exceptions: a school and two church buildings, one still used for worship and the other in service as a Senior Citizen's Club. These uses reflect the ambience of the neighborhood and its environs; it is an old residential area, its southeast corner within a few blocks of Main Street, ringed with service institutions: three more school buildings, four more churches, a Carnegie Library, the Post Office and Courthouse, and a city park are within a few blocks of the district. There are no commercial intrusions within it.

The district is strongly homogeneous not only in use but in style, scale, and, as it were, texture. The houses are predominantly from the late Victorian to early twentieth century periods. Fine examples of Queen Anne , Eastlake , Gothic Revival , Colonial Revival , Classic Box and Bungalow appear. In most of these styles, examples occur on both the "mansion" and the cottage scale. Not unexpectedly, this is especially true of the Bungalow style. The pattern prevalent in many turn-of-the century neighborhoods—whereby large homes are built on the corners of blocks, which later fill in with more modest dwellingss—holds true for the Fort Russell neighborhood. But while structures in the district range from small to grand, none exceed two- and-a-half stories, and most are one or two. Finally, the homogeneous streetscapes of residential, structures built largely from 1880 to 1920 and in related styles and scales are knit together by the texture of building material—mostly frame and brick&m dash;and by the texture of the rows of mature deciduous trees which distinguish the neighborhood and contribute much to its character.

The significance of the Fort Russell neighborhood District is both architectural and historic. It is manifestly significant for the rich display of early residential architecture it provides in a town of under 20,000 residents. It is significant as well for the historical connections between the houses and many of the people who built the town: the early entrepreneurs and professionals whose commodious homes expressed their positions of leadership in the community, and the more anonymous citizens whose neat cottages and bungalows grew up between the big houses—indeed, were sometimes built by the owners of them—a generation or two later.

The architectural interest of the district is immediately apparent to the eye. As specified in Section Seven, a neighborhood larger than the area which could reasonably be nominated as an historic district is generally continuous with it, and contains individual structures of substantial significance. It is noteworthy that five National Register properties the Cornwall house, the McConnell mansion, the Carnegie Library, the Methodist church and the Federal Building are located in the less architecturally cohesive but still handsome blocks to the south and west of the district. Moscow's Main Street, which contains a high percentage of early buildings, is only a few blocks further west. Thus perhaps a fifth of the area of this small city a town devoted primarily to servicing the wheatlands round about and the University of Idaho on the west side of town turns out to be of unusual architectural calibre. The Fort Russell district is the most architecturally cohesive core of this generally rewarding area.

Additional nomination [2]

Like Moscow's downtown, the Fort Russell neighborhood began developing during the last few decades of the nineteenth century, with the earliest dwelling dating to 1875 according to City of Moscow GIS property data. A total of 59 of the 243 total sites, nearly one full quarter (24%) within the district's expanded boundaries date prior to 1900, with construction and commerce slowing nationally during the mid-to-late 1890s as a result of the national financial crash that hit in 1893. Once construction began again, around the turn of the century, the neighborhood experienced a major boom with approximately 13% dating to the single decade between 1900 and 1910 at which time Moscow was growing rapidly as a regional commercial center. Approximately 18% of the buildings within the expanded district were then built between 1911 and 1920 as the city continued to grow steadily, another 14% between 1921 and 1930, and finally 20% going up between 1931 and 1940 indicating that residential growth continued at a higher rate than commercial growth during the Great Depression years of the 1930s during which only three commercial structures were built in the downtown district. The remaining 11% is made up of 26 post-1940 dwellings scattered throughout the neighborhood.

The Fort Russell Neighborhood Historic District represents a "rich display of early residential architecture ... significant as well for the historical connections between the houses and many of the people who built the town." It is associated with events, including community planning and development, education, entertainment and recreation, and religion. The District is an embodiment of the architecture and landscape architecture during the period of significance. The neighborhood retains a strong historical character and continues to represent its period as an intact historic district within the city of Moscow. Notwithstanding the presence of some modern buildings the district today retains integrity of location, design, setting, feeling, and association, and though some changes have been made over time to individual dwellings, overall integrity of workmanship and materials is present.

The expanded period of significance for the district begins in 1875, the earliest recorded construction date for any resources within the district boundaries, and extends through to 1940. The district exists as an early residential neighborhood with strong ties to the city's earliest pioneers and businessmen who were responsible for settling, establishing and growing the city and its economy. Post-1940 buildings are scattered in relatively small numbers within the proposed boundaries (accounting for just 11% of buildings within the expanded boundaries). Though modern construction begins to represent a different character moving beyond the period of significance, the presence of these buildings does not detract from the district's strong character and identity as a significant neighborhood reflecting Moscow's early growth.

In the area of architecture, the Fort Russell neighborhood is significant for its residential, educational, and religious buildings and its overall built character, which correspond to the first several decades of the city's growth and development. Both the high-style architecture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, including Victorian styles such as Queen Anne, as well as the more modest, accessible architecture of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Bungalows and English Cottage or Tudor Revivals, are found within the Fort Russell neighborhood. Though the architecture within the district varies resulting in an eclectic collection of buildings, the architectural forms and styles within the neighborhood are directly representative of national architectural trends for each decade during the period of significance, as well as representing the economic, social, and demographic patterns of city of Moscow itself.

The Fort Russell neighborhood's significance in the area of community planning and development is similar to what has been outlined for architecture, following both national and local trends related to economics and community development. The various additions within the district were platted during the city's earliest days, being laid out generally in a grid pattern with spacious lots intended to serve as an escape from the city's bustling town center. Over time, many of the lots were subdivided and filled in with smaller, more modest dwellings on smaller lots during the 1920s and 1930s accommodating the city's growing middle-class population while continuing to support the entrepreneurs that helped build it up originally. The planning and development evident within the Fort Russell neighborhood is also reflective of its central location, containing not only residential development but also schools, churches, and a major city park, all woven in to accommodate the needs of this diverse neighborhood as well as the needs of the city's general population who could access this area easily since it lies within walking distance to the city center.

Entertainment and recreation, and landscape architecture are related themes within the Fort Russell neighborhood, being represented by the planning and development throughout the neighborhood as well as by East City Park, which is situated in the southeast corner of the expanded district boundaries. This park was laid out in its original location and form during the city's earliest days—being reflected on the earliest city maps and Sanborn maps. The presence of the park reflects early intentions at providing recreation and embracing formal landscape architecture, by positioning the park within a reasonable distance of the city center so that it was accessible, yet removing it far enough from the central business district to ensure a relaxing, enjoyable environment within the park. Parks established around the turn of the twentieth century were intended to provide a rural- or countryside-style escape for city dwellers who were often unable to interact with the natural environment in any other way. Landscape architecture is additionally present within the neighborhood through the generally consistent grid pattern, setbacks, tree-lined properties, and landscaped residential yards found throughout.

In the areas of education and religion, the Fort Russell neighborhood is significant for containing a number of these buildings. The expanded district boundaries contain two schools, John Russell Elementary built in 1928 replacing an older school on the same site, and the old Moscow High School, built in 1912, as well as a 1906 Carnegie Library. Several churches are also found within the expanded boundaries, including Methodist, Catholic, Unitarian, Episcopal churches dating between 1900 and 1930; one contemporary church is also found within the district. The presence of a variety of educational and religious buildings further represent the fact that it was clearly intended to support not only the economically and socially diverse population living within the neighborhood, but also those who had easy access to the neighborhood due to its central location and its proximity to the city center. That these buildings were welcomed into this neighborhood also reflected the early importance of education and religion within the city's social structure.

• Adapted from: Patricia Wright, Architectural Historian, Idaho State Historical Society, Fort Russell Neighborhood Historic District, mp,ination document, 1980, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.
• Adapted from: Annie Doyon, MHP; Kathryn Burk-Hise, MSHP; Kathryne M. Joseph, MSHP, A. D. Preservation, Fort Russell Neighborhood Historic District (Boundary Increase), no,imation document, 2015, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.

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  Moscow’s central district of Khamovniki is situated directly south-west of the centre and south of the Arbat District  within a curve of the River Moskva. Its is considered a rather elite district of Moscow. Its main streets are Ulitsa Volkhonka which branches off into Ulitsa Preschistenka and Ulitsa Ostozhenka. After the Garden Ring, which is made up here by Zubovsky Bulvar and Krimsky Bridge, the two streets become Ulitsa Bolshaya Pirogovskaya and Komsomolsky Prospekt respectively. The very tip of Khamovniki is located beyond the Third Ring Road and is occupied by the Luzhniki Olympic Complex.  The district is served by Kropotkinskaya to Vorobyovy Gory metro stations on the red line.

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Ivan Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

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Immediately behind Archangel Michael's Church among the Clinics are the clinics themselves - the Ivan Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, which was founded in 1758 as the medical faculty of the Moscow State University. Running all along the University's premises are several statues of leading Russian doctors: gynaecologist Vladimir Snegirev, paediatrician Nil Filatov (on the corner of Skver Devichievo Polya), field-surgeon Nikolai Pirogov and physiologist Ivan Sechenov;… Read more »

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In a court yard off Ulitsa Malaya Pirogovskaya, which runs parallel below Ulitsa Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, is the former home and workshop of the artist Pavel Korin, which in 1968 was turned into the Pavel Korin House-Museum. The museum displays the work of the artist who is most known for his unfinished giant painting called 'Farewell to Rus' depicting the last service of Patriarch Tikhon in the Dormition Cathedral in the Kremlin. The museum is run as a branch of the State Tretyakov… Read more »

Pogodin's Izba

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On the street above the State Medical University is one of the lesser-known architectural highlights of the Devichye Pole area: the wooden house known as Pogodin's Izba (an izba being a small Russian wooden house). The house was built in the Russian national style, including the ornate decorations known as wooden lace, in the mid-19th century and given to the prominent historian Mikhail Pogodin. During the Second World War the house was damaged by a bomb and only restored in the… Read more »

St Dmitri of Priluki's Church in Devichye Pole

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Also located on the premises of the State Medical University, although open to the public, is St Dmitri of Priluki's Church in Devichye Pole. The small church was built between 1880 and 1903 in the Byzantine revival style with a large squat central dome on a rotunda. The church was closed during the Soviet era and it was eventually given over for the university to use. The building was subsequently used by the organ transplant pioneer Vladimir Demikhov, who is most known for his… Read more »

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Archangel Michael's Church among the Clinics

• 2 Ulitsa Yelanskogo

The Archangel Michael's Church was built between 1894 and 1897 in the Neoclassical style. The church is known as 'Archangel Michael among the Clinics' due to its location in the Devichye Pole's medical district and it became the resident church for all clinics in the area. In 1922 the church was looted and in 1931 it was closed and had its domes removed. It was eventually returned to the Orthodox Church in 1992 and re-consecrated after being renovated in 1997. ►sights by… Read more »

Exaltation of the Cross Church in Chisty Vrazhek

• 8 1-y Truzhenikov Pereulok
• Park Kultury, Smolenskaya

Slightly north of Skver Devichievo Polya is the Exaltation of the Cross Church in Chisty Vrazhek. The church was built between 1701 and 1708 replacing an earlier wooden version. In 1798 a small central dome on an octagonal tower was added and an octagonal bell tower was built on between 1846 and 1852. Finally between 1894 and 1895 three large apses were built onto the back of the church. In 1931 the church was closed and converted for accommodation. It was returned to the Orthodox… Read more »

Lev Tolstoy Estate-Museum in Khamovniki

• 21 Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo
• Park Kultury
• http://tolstoymuseum.ru/museums/museum_branchs/khamovniki/
• 10:00 - 18:00. Closed Mondays and the last Friday of the month.

Located on Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo (Lev Tolstoy Street) is a department of the Lev Tolstoy State Museum which is located in the early 19th-century estate which Tolstoy bought in 1882. After buying the house Tolstoy spent each winter here until 1901 (the summers he spent at his estate at Yasnaya Polyana) and he wrote over 100 stories at the estate. In 1920 the estate was made into a museum. Inside the estate's interior has been restored as to how it would have looked when Tolstoy lived… Read more »

Lev Tolstoy Monument

• Skver Devichievo Polya

Standing at the front of the small triangular-shaped park of Skver Devichievo Polya (Devichye Pole Gardens) is a statue of Lev Tolstoy. The monument was unveiled in 1972 and depicts the great author carved into large blocks of stone sat down cross-legged. Tolstoy is forever connected with the Khamovniki district of Moscow as he lived nearby in his city estate from 1882 and 1901. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki District Read more »

Museum of Moscow

• 2 Zubovsky Bulvar
• http://www.mosmuseum.ru/
• 10:00 - 20:00 (Thursdays: 11:00 - 21:00). Closed on Mondays and last Friday of the month.

The Museum of Moscow was founded in 1896 and in 2008 it became the main museum of the Museum of Moscow Museum Association, which incorporates five other museums in the city. In 2011 the main department of the museum moved to its present day location in three large buildings which were formerly used as an arsenal.  Here there is a permanent display on the history of Moscow from prehistoric times right up to the modern day.  Also included are lots of interesting old photographs of… Read more »

St Nicholas' Church in Khamovniki

• 2 Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo
• http://nikolakhamovniki.ru

The St Nicholas' Church in Khamovniki was built between 1679 and 1682 although there has been a church at this location since at least 1625. In form the church comprises a standard cube structure attached to a small bell tower via a closed vestibule, but it is its style which makes it stand out. The church is an example of the Uzorochye style with elaborately decorated kokoshniks at the base of the domes and colourful details around the windows and on the bell tower. The church… Read more »

Around Sportivnaya Metro

Luzhniki Olympic Complex

• Luzhnetskaya Naberezhnaya
• Sportivnaya

Located in the bend of the River Moskva in the Khamovniki district of Moscow is the Luzniki Olympic Complex. The name Luzniki derives from the Russian word for meadows - luga. The complex's history goes back to 1956, when the area was developed with the construction of the Central Lenin Stadium (renamed the Grand Sports Arena in 1992 although usually just referred to as Luzhniki Stadium), the Small Sports Arena, the Palace of Sport and an Olympic swimming pool. The complex was used… Read more »

Novodevichy Convent

• 1 Novodevichy Proezd

One of Moscow's most beautiful sights is the Novodevichy Convent which was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004. Novodevichy Convent, whose name translates as New Maiden Convent, was founded in 1524 on the orders of Grand Prince Vasili III of Moscow to celebrate Russia's recapture of Smolensk in 1514. The convent is dedicated to the Our Lady of Smolensk Icon. It was built as a fortified convent on the River Moskva. Later the convent served as a place of retirement or… Read more »

Novodevichye Cemetery

• 2 Novodevichy Proezd

Located next to Novodevichy Convent, although not accessible from it, is the famous Novodevichye Cemetery. The cemetery was first opened in 1898 but in the 1930s it increased in size and stature when the graves of famous Russians were moved here from monasteries which were closed by the Soviets. Nowadays its gravestones read as a who's who of Russian history, politics and culture. The attraction in visiting this cemetery is not just in the famous names, but also the beautiful,… Read more »

Within the Garden Ring: Around Ulitsa Ostozhenka

Intercession Old-Believers Church of the Ostozhenskaya Community

• 4 Turchaninov Pereulok
• http://www.ostogenka.ru/

On Turchaninov Pereulok off Ulitsa Ostozhenka is the Intercession Old-Believers Church of the Ostozhenskaya Community. The Ostozhenskaya Old-Believers Community was established in 1907 after Emperor Nicholas II's enactment of the law on religious tolerance. Construction of the Intercession Church began shortly afterwards and was completed in 1911. However it was closed by the Communists in 1932 and only returned to the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church in 1994. ►sights by… Read more »

Ivan Turgenev Museum

• 37/7 Ulitsa Ostozhenka
• http://www.pushkinmuseum.ru/?q=node/1
• 10:00 - 18:00 (Thursdays: 12:00 - 21:00). Closed Mondays, Tuesdays and the last Friday of the month.

The Ivan Turgenev Museum was opened in 2009 in the mansion where Turgenev's mother, Varvara Turgeneva, lived from 1840 to the 1850s and where the author was a frequent visitor. The museum has exhibitions which detail the life and the creative work of one of Russia's finest authors. The museum is run as a branch of the Aleksandr Pushkin State Museum.  There is free admission to the museum on the third Sunday of the month. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki District Read more »

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

• 16 Ulitsa Ostozhenka
• Kropotkinskaya, Park Kultury
• http://www.mamm-mdf.ru
• 12:00 - 21:00. Closed on Mondays.

The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, or MAMM as it is known, was created in 2003 as part of the reorganisation of the museum of the House of Photography where the MAMM is based. The aim of the museum is to introduce people to contemporary art and multimedia technologies and it displays various photography and multimedia exhibitions by Russian and foreign artists. In addition the museum also holds festivals, lectures, film screenings and master-classes.  There is free admission to the… Read more »

St Elijah the Prophet's Church on Obydensky Pereulok

• 6 2-y Obydensky Pereulok
• Kropotkinskaya
• http://www.hram-ostozhenka.ru/

St Elijah the Prophet's Church on Obydensky Pereulok, which is just off Ulitsa Ostozhenka, is often simply referred to as St Elijah Obydensky Church. The word Obydensky comes from the old-Russian for 'one day' as the first church to St Elijah was built here out of wood in one day in 1592. The current church dates from the turn of the 18th century and was built in the Petrine baroque style with a small dome on an 'octagon-on-cube' structure and a square bell tower. The church was… Read more »

Zachatievsky Convent

• 2-y Zachatievsky Pereulok

The Zachatievsky Convent was founded in 1584 and dedicated to the Conception ('zachatie') of St Anne. However previous to this there was another convent located here which was founded by St Alexius (Aleksey), Metropolitan of Moscow, in 1360 but destroyed by fire in 1547. Shortly after the Zachatievsky Convent was founded it was subjected to the destruction of the Times of Troubles. Major construction work took place at the convent in the late 17th, mid-18th and early 19th century… Read more »

Within the Garden Ring: Around Ulitsa Prechistka

'Burganov House' Moscow State Museum

• 15/9 Bolshaya Afanasievsky Pereulok
• http://www.burganov.ru
• 11:00 - 19:00

The 'Burganov House' Moscow State Museum was founded in 2001 by the sculptor Aleksandr Burganov, whose work can also be found decorating the streets of Moscow. The museum's main exhibits are located in the open-air courtyard outside and can be visited for free. There are also some halls inside, one entitled the Small Louvre and another Pegasus House, both displaying more work of the sculptor. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki District Read more »

Aleksandr Pushkin State Museum

• 12/2 Ulitsa Prechistenka
• http://www.pushkinmuseum.ru
• 10:00 - 18:00 (Thursdays: 12:00 - 21:00). Closed on Mondays and the last Friday of the month.

Not to be confused with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, the Aleksandr Pushkin State Museum is dedicated to Russia's favourite poet and the age during which he lived. The museum was opened in 1957 in its current location in the 19th century Khruschyov-Seleznev Estate. In addition to the temporary exhibition hall and the conference hall, the museum has two permanent expositions dedicated: 'Pushkin and his Epoch' and 'Pushkin's Fairy Tales', which is aimed at children. There is… Read more »

Anna Golubkina Workshop-Museum

• 12 Bolshoy Lyovshinsky Pereulok
• Kropotkinskaya, Smolenskaya
• 12:00 - 19:00 (weekends: 10:00 - 17:00). Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and the last Friday of the month.

Anna Golubkina was one of Russia’s most famous female sculptors. Her most famous work is the bas relief entitled 'The Wave' on the facade of the Moscow Art Academic Theatre (MKhAT) and she has other work on display at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery. This museum to her was opened in 1934, upon the initiative of her elder sister, in the workshop where Golubkina spend many years. Inside it includes a memorial room which has been retained as it was when Golubkina worked here. This museum… Read more »

Dormition Church on the Graves

• 2/2 Bolshoy Vlasievsky Pereulok

The Dormition Church on the Graves is located at the intersection of four streets and may have got it names due to it being surrounded by a graveyard, although other theories as to how it got its unusual name also exist. A Dormition Church has existed here since 1560 but the current version was built between 1791 and 1806. The church was designed by the French architect Nicolas Legrand and features a large central dome on a rotunda and two parallel bell towers over the tall church… Read more »

Fridtjof Nansen Monument

• 6c2 Bolshoy Lyovshinsky Pereulok

Standing next to the Moscow office of the Red Cross is a statue of Norwegian explorer, diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen. Nansen is especially remembered in Russia due to his role in firstly helping First World War POWs leave Russia in 1920 during the chaos of the Russian Civil War and then by raising funds to tackle the massive humanitarian disaster which was the Russian famine of 1921. In the process the Nansen Passport was created which was identity cards… Read more »

Friedrich Engels Monument

• Ploschad Prechistenskie Vorota

Standing in the centre of Ploschad Prechistenskie Vorota opposite to Kropotkinskaya metro station is a statue of Friedrich Engels - the German philosopher and translator who, along with Karl Marx, is one of the founders of Communism.  The monument was unveiled in 1976 and depicts the philosopher deep in thought with his arms crossed standing on a small pedestal.  In the 1990s there were calls to have the statue removed, but it was saved on the orders of the then-mayor Yuri Luzhkov… Read more »

Lev Tolstoy State Museum: Literary Museum

• 11/8 Ulitsa Prechistenka
• http://www.tolstoymuseum.ru
• 10:00 - 18:00 (Thursday: 12:00 - 20:00). Closed on Mondays and the last Friday of the month.

The Lev Tolstoy State Museum, which was founded in 1911, has several departments in Moscow dedicated to the giant of Russian literature. Located on Prechistenka is the Literary Museum which is located in the 19th century Lopukhin-Stanitsky Mansion. Inside the museum has displays and exhibits detailing the life and work of the author, including several themed halls.  In the garden there is also a statue of Lev Tolstoy. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki District Read more »

Russian Academy of Arts and Zurab Tsereteli Gallery

• 19 Ulitsa Prechistenka
• http://rah.ru/
• 12:00 - 20:00 (Friday: 12:00 - 22:00, Sunday 12:00 - 19:00). Closed on Mondays.

The Russian Academy of Arts has its headquarters on Ulitsa Prechistenka and it incorporates an art gallery which, apart from some ancient Roman and Greek statues, is dedicated to the work of the academy's current president - the controversial artist Zurab Tsereteli.  The work of Tsereteli includes statues of well-known figures from Russian politics, Russian culture. and various tsars.  Highlights include Vladimir Putin in his judo robe, former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov as a… Read more »

St Blaise's Church in Old Konyushennaya Sloboda

• 20 Gagarinsky Pereulok

The current version of St Blaise's Church in Old Konyushennaya Sloboda was first mentioned in 1644 although it is known that an older version stood here since at least 1625. The simple church comprises a single-domed structure attached to a small bell tower via a closed vestibule. During Napoleon's invasion the church was damaged to such an extent that it was re-consecrated after restoration work in 1815. In 1939 the church was closed and it fell into disrepair. It was restored in… Read more »

Vasili Surikov Monument

• 30 Ulitsa Prechistenka

Standing in a small square opposite to the building of the Russian Academy of Artists is a statue of the artist Vasili Surikov. Surikov worked in the 19th century and is most famous for his paintings depicting historical scenes such as 'Morning of the Streltsy's Execution', 'The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak' and 'Boyarynya Morozova'. The bronze monument was unveiled in 2003 and depicts Surikov standing next to his easel. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki District … Read more »

Within the Garden Ring: Around Ulitsa Volkhonka

Aleksandr Shilov Gallery

• 5 Ulitsa Znamenka
• Borovitskaya, Kropotkinskaya
• http://www.amshilov.ru/
• 11:00 - 19:00 (Thursday: 11:00 - 21:00). Closed on Mondays.

The Aleksandr Shilov Gallery is solely dedicated to the work of the portrait painter Aleksandr Shilov, who has painted prominent figures from Russian politics and culture as well as religious figures and war veterans.  Although Shilov is undoubtedly popular among the ruling elite (and the staircase of the gallery proves this by being filled with photos of the artist posing with presidents, patriarchs, politicians and musicians), his work has been criticised by experts due to the… Read more »

Christ the Saviour Eparchial Cathedral

• 15 Ulitsa Volkhonka
• http://xxc.ru

The Christ the Saviour Cathedral is Russia's most important cathedral and its largest, having been designed to accommodate 10,000 people. The current version is actually the cathedral's second incarnation. Construction of the original version was started in 1839 under the project of the famous architect Konstantin Ton and the cathedral was consecrated 1883. However this version was famously demolished on the orders of Stalin in 1931. Afterwards there were plans to build an enormous… Read more »

Emperor Alexander II Monument

• 15 Ulitsa Volkhonka (in the park outside Christ the Saviour Cathedral)

Located in the park next to the Christ the Saviour Cathedral is a monument to Emperor Alexander II. The monument was unveiled in 2005. The pedestal reads "Abolished Serfdom in 1861 and freed millions of peasants from many centuries of slavery. Carried out military and legal reforms. Introduced a system of local self-government, city dumas and zemstvo boards. Ended the long Caucasian War. Freed Slavic people from the Ottoman Yoke. Died on 1 (13) March 1881 as a result of a terrorist… Read more »

Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art

• 14 Ulitsa Volkhonka
• http://www.newpaintart.ru
• 11:00 - 19:00 (Thursdays: 11:00 -19:00). Closed on Mondays.

Located in what was once the left-wing of the residence of the Princes Golitsyn is the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art's Gallery of 19th and 20th Century European and American Art, which opened its doors in 2006. The Museum has twenty-six rooms displaying work by various European and American masters including Caspar David Friedrich, Francisco de Goya, Claude Monet, Vasili Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rousseau and Marc Chagall among many others. The museum is run as a… Read more »

Ilia Glazunov Moscow State Art Gallery

• 13 Ulitsa Volkhonka
• http://www.glazunov.ru/

The Ilia Glazunov Moscow State Art Gallery was opened in 2004 to display the work of the artist Ilia Glazunov.  Glazunov is most known for his specific style and giant collages dedicated to various periods in Russian history.  These collages, including his masterpiece 'Eternal Russia', are on display here in a special hall.  Other paintings include his series dedicated to the Battle of Kulikovo Field, illustrations for classic Russian literature and poetry, and scenes from ancient… Read more »

Mikhail Sholokhov Monument

• Gogolevsky Bulvar

A few metres up Gogolevsky Bulvard is a wonderful monument to the author Mikhail Sholokhov, who is best known for his work 'And Quiet Flows the Don'. The monument was unveiled in 2007 and its centrepiece features a sculpture of the author sat in a boat which itself stands on a pedestal. However the best part of the sculpture is the waterfall feature behind it. The waterfall represents a river and just sticking out of the ground are the heads of many horses and one foal as if they… Read more »

Moscow Museum of Modern Art: Gogolevsky 10

• 10c1 Gogolevsky Bulvar
• http://www.mmoma.ru/
• 12:00 - 20:00 (Thursdays: 13:00 - 21:00). Closed on the third Monday of the month.

Immediately behind the Mikhail Sholokhov monument is an art gallery which is one of several galleries run by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art which was established in 1999. The museum is located in a late-18th century estate house which once belonged to the Tsurikov-Naryshkin family. Various art exhibitions are held here as well as conferences on various themes.  There is free admission to the gallery on the third Sunday of the month. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki… Read more »

Museum of Private Collections

• 10 Ulitsa Volkhonka
• http://artprivatecollections.ru

The Museum of Private Collections was established in 1994 and it has been located in its present location in a specially-renovated mansion since 2005. The museum contains two floors of artwork all of which has been donated by private collectors of art. The collections have not been broken up and are displayed at the museum intact. The museum is run as a department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. ►sights by districts  ►sights in Khamovniki District Read more »

Nicholas Roerich Museum

• 3/5 Maly Znamensky Pereulok
• http://www.icr.su
• 11:00 - 19:00. Closed on Mondays.

The Nicholas Roerich Museum is located in the Lopukhin city estate which now houses the International Centre of the Roerichs and was set up in 1989 upon the initiative of the famous artist's son Svetoslav. The museum displays work of art of both Nicholas Roerich and his son George de Roerich, but also includes information on the Roerich family, including Nicholas Roerich's travels and his role in setting up the Roerich Pact which gives international protection to artistic and… Read more »

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

• 12 Ulitsa Volkhonka
• http://www.arts-museum.ru
• 10:00 - 19:00. Closed on Mondays.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow and a must for art lovers. The initiative to open a museum of art in Moscow came from the professor Ivan Tsvetaev (father of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva) who managed to persuade millionaires to part with their cash in support. The museum eventually opened its doors in 1912 and was originally named after Emperor Alexander III. After the Revolution many works of art were transferred here from the Hermitage… Read more »

St Antipas' Church in Kolymazhny Courtyard

• 8 Kolymazhny Pereulok
• http://www.hramantipa.ru

St Antipas' Church in Kolymazhny Courtyard has a rather eclectic appearance as it has been added to several times over the centuries. There is some confusion as to when the original part dates from but most believe the 1560s. A legend exists that Malyuta Skuratov (Ivan the Terrible's henchman) was responsible for the addition of a side chapel to repent for his sins and some say he might even be buried here in his family's crypt. In the 18th century, side-chapels to St Nicholas and… Read more »

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How African Immigrants Have Revived a Remote Corner of Quebec

Hundreds of newcomers from Africa have filled a shortage of workers in Rouyn-Noranda, creating a new community in a remote mining town.

A view across Lake Osisko in the northern Quebec mining town of Rouyn-Noranda. Credit...

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By Norimitsu Onishi

Photographs by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin

Reporting from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec

• March 30, 2024

Not long ago, the handful of African immigrants in Rouyn-Noranda, a remote city in northern Quebec, all knew one another.

There was the Nigerian woman long married to a Québécois man. The odd researchers from Cameroon or the Ivory Coast. And, of course, the doyen, a Congolese chemist who first made a name for himself driving a Zamboni at hockey games.

Today, newcomers from Africa are everywhere — in the streets, supermarkets, factories, hotels, even at the church-basement boxing club.

A couple from Benin has taken over Chez Morasse, a city institution that introduced a greasy spoon favorite, poutine, to this region. And women from several corners of West and Central Africa were chatting at the city’s new African grocery store, Épicerie Interculturelle.

“Since last year, it’s like the gate of hell or the gate of heaven, something opened, and everybody just kept trooping in — I’ve never seen so many Africans in my life,” Folake Lawanson Savard, 51, the Nigerian whose husband is Québécois, said to loud laughter in the store.

Rouyn-Noranda’s transformation followed a surge of immigrants Canada has allowed in as temporary workers in recent years to address widespread labor shortages. Many have been able to eventually turn their temporary status into permanent residency, the final step before citizenship.

The influx of immigrants has also raised concerns, contributing to the nation’s housing crisis and straining public services in some areas, leading the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce plans to rein in their numbers.

The increase has created African communities in the unlikeliest places in the French-speaking province of Quebec. Some are working in logging in boreal forests. Others, after becoming permanent residents or citizens, are government workers in Indigenous towns accessible only by boat or small propeller planes.

While African immigrants have long lived in the province’s large cities, the newcomers are a recent phenomenon in rural areas.

Driven by a graying population and declining birthrates, the labor shortage has drawn many from Francophone Africa to Quebec, including to Rouyn-Noranda, a mining city of 42,000 people about 90 minutes north of Montreal — by plane.

Across Canada, the number of temporary residents, a category that includes foreign workers but also foreign students and asylum seekers, has soared in recent years. It has doubled in the past two years alone to 2.7 million , out of Canada’s total population of 41 million .

Canada’s immigration policy has traditionally focused on attracting highly educated and skilled immigrants.

But many temporary foreign workers are now being hired by companies for less skilled jobs in manufacturing and the service industry, fueling debates about whether they will contribute as much to Canada’s economy as past immigrants did.

Rouyn-Noranda’s once tiny African population was made up of individuals who were hired for technical positions in the mining industry or as researchers at the local university .

“We had professors and engineers,” said Valentin Brin, the director of La Mosaïque , a private organization that helps new immigrants. “And then there was a shift.”

The shift occurred partly because of the city government’s decision in 2021 to increase efforts to help local companies recruit foreign workers, said Mariève Migneault, the director of the Local Development Center , the city’s economic development arm.

“Our companies were suffering from such a shortage of workers that it was slowing down Rouyn-Noranda’s economic development,” Ms. Migneault said.

For G5, a family-owned company that owns and operates hotels and restaurants in the city, the pool of local workers had been shrinking for years, said Tatiana Gabrysz, who oversees the company’s two hotels. Young people were more drawn to highly paid mining jobs.

Immigrants, most from Colombia, are soon expected to make up about 10 percent of the company’s 200-person work force, Ms. Gabrysz said, adding that they allowed the company to operate without constantly worrying about staff shortages.

“It’s changed my life,” Ms. Gabrysz said.

Precise numbers are difficult to find, but Africans are believed to make up the largest group of temporary foreign workers in the city. About 4,000 to 4,500 temporary foreign workers are now in the Rouyn-Noranda region, following a sharp increase since 2021, according to the Local Development Center.

When Aimé Pingi arrived in the region from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008, Africans were so few that they all were able to know one another.

“If you spotted one, you would exchange phone numbers right away and then call each other to meet up for coffee,” Mr. Pingi said. “It was like a family back then.”

With a background in chemistry, Mr. Pingi came to work at a mining company. But he also took on odd jobs, including operating a Zamboni at hockey games in a town north of Rouyn-Noranda, which drew a lot of attention and helped him meet people.

“People were curious, in a positive way,” he said. “They wanted to know what I was doing here, what brought me here.”

Mr. Pingi eventually married a local woman and even ran — unsuccessfully — for local office.

Today, temporary workers from Africa often arrive as part of a “family project,” said Mohamed Méité, a La Mosaïque member from the Ivory Coast, who is getting a doctorate in mining engineering in Rouyn-Noranda.

Supported by their extended families, they typically come to Quebec on two-year contracts with a single employer. If their visas allow, they can apply for permanent residency at the end of the contracts and sponsor their families to join them in Canada.

Because many temporary workers are initially tied to a single employer, they can sometimes endure abuses, including unwarranted firings and low wages, said Mr. Brin of La Mosaïque .

Even if working conditions are good, the isolation in remote places in Quebec and the separation from their families takes a heavy toll, some African immigrants said.

A Cameroonian, Metangmo Nji, 40, left her husband and children in 2022 to work as a cook at a fast-food chain in Rouyn-Noranda. Though her employer treated her and four other Cameroonian kitchen workers well, even providing lodging, Ms. Nji said being by herself led to “serious depression.”

“Leaving my family and kids behind, it’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever passed through,” she said.

Temporary workers, she said, have to be “psychologically strong” to cope with loneliness while looking forward to when they can gain residency and invite their families.

Still, things had gotten better, Ms. Nji said. With Rouyn-Noranda’s African population rising rapidly, an association for Cameroonians now had 52 members, up from 10 last year, she said. They meet once a month over Cameroonian dishes, like fufu with ndolé, a spinach stew.

The African community’s growing presence was perhaps felt most prominently when the city’s most famous poutine restaurant, Chez Morasse, passed two years ago into the hands of Carlos Sodji and Sylviane Senou, a young couple from Benin.

Poutine — the caloric combination of French fries layered with cheese curds and gravy — has become Quebec’s signature dish worldwide.

But it was introduced to the Rouyn-Noranda region in the 1970s, after the Morasse family discovered it in another part of Quebec, said Christian Morasse, the restaurant’s former owner. Generations grew up wolfing down poutine at Chez Morasse, cementing its place in the city’s history and culture.

When Mr. Morasse decided to retire in 2022, he considered several purchase offers. Setting aside offers from Québécois in favor of the couple from West Africa, Mr. Morasse said that Mr. Sodji had worked for him as a deliveryman and had the “soul of an entrepreneur.”

As a lifelong resident, Mr. Morasse said he also witnessed how African newcomers had revived his city.

“Because of the labor shortages, our supermarkets were almost closed on weekends, and our restaurants were closed two, three days a week, and in the evenings,” he said. “Now they’re open and it’s all African workers.”

Chez Morasse’s staff includes six cooks recently arrived from Benin and Togo.

To the surprise of Mr. Sodji and Ms. Senou, their purchase of Chez Morasse drew intense media attention. “ A new era begins at Chez Morasse ,” said Radio-Canada, the public broadcaster. The Globe and Mail described how “ immigrants from Benin saved a Quebec town’s storied poutinerie ,” and the newspaper Le Devoir simply said that “ the best poutine in the world is now béninois .”

“We didn’t expect such a reaction,” Ms. Senou said. “But we really didn’t have time to enjoy it or to even think about it. We were too busy working.”

Norimitsu Onishi is a foreign correspondent on the International desk, covering Canada from Montreal. He previously served as a correspondent in the Paris bureau, and as bureau chief for The Times in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. More about Norimitsu Onishi

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