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Lukh

 

Lukh is a former provincial town in the Ivanovo oblast, demoted to a village status in 1925. The main attraction is the temple complex of the 17th-18th centuries.

 

Two former cloth halls, first is still used as a shop, the latter as the cultural center.

 

Reconstruction of wooden fortifications on the site of the old fortress. Perhaps they looked like this in the Middle Ages. Or maybe not.

 

Some argue that the name Lukh comes from the word "Luk" ("onion" in Russian). This is nonsense, of course, but now locals hold onion festivals from time to time.

 

Lenin's monument.

 

Various houses.

 

The owners of this house, built during the New Economic Policy in 1925, tried to expand the windows without destroying the carved wooden architraves (nalichnicks).

 

The Nikolo-Tikhonov Lukhsky Monastery. It is quite photogenic.

 

Right outside the monastery is a small shop with the frightening "outdoor art" near the entrance. For some reason it reminded me the story of Anatoly Moskvin, a historian from Nizhny Novgorod, who had a deep interest in cemeteries and occult and was a popular tour guide. He was arrested in 2011 after the bodies of dozen mummified girls excavated from cemeteries were discovered in his house, decorated in colorful clothes. Just like on this "playground". When arrested Moskvin claimed that he wanted to resurrect the girls using some kind of black magic. In 2012 he was sentenced to compulsory treatment for schizophrenia.

Where to stay (as of May 2022): better go to Ivanovo.

Where to eat: as above.

What to buy: onions, if you're an onion lover and happen to be at the annual onion festival. Otherwise, nothing.

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