Elets dream trip!

WHY ELETS?
Elets is my hometown, but this doesn’t prevent me from considering it the best place to travel!
It is worth coming once - and you will no longer be able to be indifferent to it! Еspecially if I am your guide (ง ื▿ ื)ว
the atmosphere of an ancient city;
delicious bread;
You will find:
beautiful nature;
lots of amazing things!

Elets is located in the Lipetsk region.
Since 2007 - "City of Military Glory".
The area of ​​the city is 34 km²
Population: 1,447.76 people / km²
“A small Russian town, the same age as Tula, in many ways naive, simple-minded and promiscuous. You can talk a lot about Yelets, but it's better to see it once!”
“Everything in Yelets apparently has its own rule.”
“Ancient, mighty Yelets!
Taste for the glory story!
After all, he is part of a great power,
The old man and the boy knows that!”

Interesting Facts:
All streets in Elets have Soviet and pre-Soviet names
Due to the constant attacks of the Tatars in Elets, many geographic names related to this appeared. For example, the Women's Market (now the market is the most ordinary, but before it was traded in women) or Luchok (metal hedgehog against cavalry).
The first elevator and railway school in Russia appeared here.

4. Еlets lace is a very well-known product in its field, which has received recognition even at exhibitions in Paris.
5. During the Great Patriotic War, Еlets could become a separate republic.
6. Such famous people as the writer I. A. Bunin, the composer T. N. Khrennikov, N. N. Zhukov lived in Еlets.

7. There used to be a Catholic church 4in Еlets.
8. In the city, in addition to several churches, there are 13 temples and two monasteries.
9. The pride and sorrow of Yelets: a bridge of tombstones.

Worth a visit

Vorgol Rocks
Vorgol Rocks - part of the Galichya Gora nature reserve - an amazing corner of nature. You can find plants from the times of dinosaurs, petrified mollusks, old coins and household items, as well as a huge number of caves and related legends.

Memorial sign in honor of the 850th anniversary of the founding of the city of Yelets

Elets Town Museum of Local Lore

Eletsky Znamensky Convent

I. A. Bunin Literary and Memorial Museum

Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos

Antonovsky Apples Festival (end of September)

The festival of military-historical reconstruction “Rusborg" (early spring and mid-summer)