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Submerged Vesyegonsk town
08-OCT-2005 Mike Malinin

Submerged Vesyegonsk town

The place where old Russian town Vesyegonsk has been located. The town was submerged by largest hand made Rybinsk sea in 1939. All the inhabitants were forced to move, and had to rebuild their houses on a fields. So the new Vesyegonsk exists on a map not far from old one. Now the old place becomes visible sometimes when the sea level decreases.


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M 19-Dec-2008 15:58
I was there and made a film about all that horror.
Einar Johannessen 11-Jan-2006 09:39
A fascinating story!