Tver of course has the other side too. Most of the malls seem to be half-deserted. This one is right in front of the train station - it even has McDonalds! But it clearly had better days. I am not sure if pandemic is to blame or it is general stagnation in smaller cities.

Children playgrounds look just like I remember them - covered in wild grass. In Moscow and Saint-Petersburg the most of them are paved with rubber or gravel and structures are made of soulless bright plastic.

Like many other smaller cities Tver got rid of the tram system because "trams got in the way of cars". Of course it backfired and now they are planning to restore it. For a few years there is no success.

Marriage Hall. It shares the building with apartment block which is kind of telling newlyweds what kind of future awaits them here.

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This is Tver. I went there on the last day of long May holidays just to see how it was there. Here is view of Volga river which splits the city in two parts.

For some strange reason some of views reminded me of Vienna - although these two cities have very very little in common in every imaginable aspect.

The city was mostly quiet and empty, the center looking very pristine.

Again reminding me of some European cities I visited in the past.

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