Vyatskoe village

The ancient merchant village of Vyatskoye is included on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List and is a member of the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of Russia. Since 2020, the village has served as the headquarters of this association.
Vyatskoye is located 30 km from Yaroslavl and 300 km from Moscow. It's no coincidence that the village is called "Vyatskoye, a little corner of St. Petersburg." Work teams of Vyatskoye artisans built St. Petersburg from its earliest days. Vyatskoye peasants returned to their small homeland as merchants and manufacturers, incorporating the traditions of capital life into their homes. Thus, Vyatskoye acquired a vibrant architectural image, reminiscent of Russia's northern capital. This image has been preserved and carefully recreated today by the Vyatskoye Historical, Cultural, and Museum Complex. Its founder, Russian Federation State Prize laureate Oleg Zharov, has restored over 35 cultural heritage sites. This popular tourist complex includes 15 museums, three hotel buildings, and a multimedia restaurant. Vyatskoye regularly hosts plein air artist workshops, creative meetings with actors and musicians, and annual festivals attract several thousand tourists a day. Guests can also enjoy a bathhouse, a rope park, a Paradise Garden with gazebos and barbecues, a billiard room, a cinema and concert hall, two conference rooms, and a music salon, all equipped to successfully host various events and business meetings.

What to visit
The Vyatskoye Museum Complex offers:

• the only non-governmental museum of federal significance in Russia,
•  winner of the INTERMUZEI-2015 Grand Prix,
• member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the Union of Museums of Russia, and the Union of Private Museums and Collectors,
• 15 museums and several exhibition spaces, including the Museum of Russian Entrepreneurship; the Museum of Angels; Museum of the Trading Peasant Gorokhov; Black Bathhouse; Interactive Museum "Rooms of the Urlov Brothers Merchants"; Kitchen Machinery Museum; Polytechnic Museum "The Amazing World of Mechanisms and Machines"; Children's World Museum. Exhibition "New Year All Year Round"; Exhibition "The Circus Lights Up"; Museum of the Returned Relic; Museum "Viennese Furniture Store"; Museum "Pages of the History of Printing"; Museum "Sounds of Time"; Museum "Living Room of Time"; Park of Reconstruction of Fatyanovo Culture; Museum of Russian Amusements
• 4,367 square meters of museum space and 30,000 exhibits, 1,029 of which are in the Museum Fund of Russia,
• Interactive programs and master classes,
• Audio tours of the village in a retro car.

Events Calendar

• New Year's in Vyatskoye
• Christmas Concerts
• Maslenitsa
• Lyubov Kazarnovskaya's Salon Evenings
• Creative Evenings with Famous Theater and Film Actors
• International Academic Plein Air
• Annual Festival "Days of St. Petersburg in Vyatskoye"
• "May Day, May Day! Raise the Flags Higher!"
• "Province – the Soul of Russia" Festival
• Russian Wreath Day
• Annual Festival "Russian Style"
• "Days of N.A. Nekrasov in Vyatskoye" Festival, Summer Session
• Village Day
• Religious Procession in Honor of St. Irenarchus and the Opening of an Exhibition Dedicated to Old Believer Traditions
• Cucumber Day
• "Days of N.A. Nekrasov in Vyatskoye" Festival, Winter Session

Food
Famous pickled cucumbers from the village of Vyatskoye
The legendary history of the  cucumber began in the mid-19th century. Cucumbers were supplied to the imperial court and exported to Sweden and Switzerland. Their main advantage was their rich, white-lipped texture, making them particularly good for pickling. Today, Vyatka pickles are officially recognized as a unique gastronomic product. This status is enshrined in a certificate of exclusive right to the designation of origin and registered as a trademark. The presence of both documents allows us to speak of the Vyatka terroir. In other words, only cucumbers grown and pickled in the village of Vyatskoye in the Yaroslavl region can now officially be recognized as Vyatka pickles.
  Vyatskoye's pickles have earned this exclusive status thanks to the unique combination of the natural and climatic conditions of the area where they are grown, history, ancient cultivation techniques, and pickling recipes.
Multimedia Restaurant "Nekrasov" 
  One of the restaurant's undeniable advantages is its combination of history and modern technology. Guests are greeted by a holograph of a Vyatka peasant or the famous opera diva Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, now a local resident of the village. The menu features the best recipes of Russian and European cuisine, many dishes prepared according to ancient recipes, and a unique "Cucumber Menu" has been developed. Guests are offered lemonades, cucumber jam, cucumber pies and dumplings, and many other interesting dishes made from Vyatka cucumbers. "Nekrasovskaya Sloboda" — this section of the menu reflects the gastronomic preferences of the great Russian poet, whose life and work are associated with Vyatka, and others.

Where to stay
The hotel complex consists of three comfortable buildings, accommodating up to 100 people. Two buildings are architectural monuments from the 19th century, which have been given a new lease of life after restoration and complete renovation.
Each hotel room has a bathroom with a combined toilet, a shower, satellite TV, internet access, a telephone, and a hairdryer. Works by contemporary Russian artists are displayed in the rooms and hallways of the hotel. Sports equipment rentals and a billiards room are available.

Getting there
Vyatskoye is surrounded by an extensive network of roads connecting it with the regional capital, Yaroslavl, and the northeast of the Yaroslavl region. Regular public transportation links Vyatskoye with Yaroslavl. The Moscow-Kholmogory federal highway, which passes near the village, connects Moscow with Vyatskoye.
By car
From Yaroslavl, head northeast along the road to Lyubim. The village of Vyatskoye is 35 km from Yaroslavl.
By bus
You can get to Vyatskoye from the Zavolzhye bus station (Yaroslavl, Aviatorov Avenue, Building 149) by bus #123 and #130v. The current bus schedule is here.
By train
You can get to Vyatskoye by train via Yaroslavl, via the Yaroslavl-Glavny or Yaroslavl-Moskovsky train stations. From there, take a taxi or bus (via the Zavolzhye bus station, Yaroslavl, Aviatorov Avenue, Building 149, bus #123 and #130v).
By plane, you can arrive at:
- Yaroslavl Tunoshna Airport (code UUDL, 52 km by car),
- Levtsovo Airfield (code UUBX, 26 km by car).
Light helicopters can be flown to a landing pad within walking distance of the village's main attractions. To arrange your arrival, please call the complex administration in advance at 8 800 302 70 05.

Useful links and contacts

Vyatskoye Historical and Cultural Complex https://vk.com/vyatskoeselo
About the village museums: https://vk.com/muzei_vyatskoe
About life in Vyatskoye: https://vk.com/vyatskoe
Tourist Information Center: Vyatskoye village, Davydkovskaya Street, Bldg. 1