The Yaroslavl region is a well-known tourist destination in Russia. Yaroslavl, Uglich, Pereslavl-ZalesskyRostov and Myshkin are the region's landmarks, well-known and sought-after by tourists. "Yaroslavl Seaside" is such a It can't boast of popularity yet, but the rapid pace of its development allows us to talk about the excellent prospects of this project.
On the right bank of the Rybinsk Reservoir, the world's largest reservoir, 280 km from Moscow and 40 km from Rybinsk, stands the Koprino Bay Park Hotel. It is the first property built as part of the Yaroslavl Coastal Development Project, the largest investment project in the Yaroslavl Region, developed by the Agranta Group of Companies.
The Koprino Bay Hotel is nestled in a pine forest: the surrounding pines are straight and towering, also known as ship pines. The air is saturated with healing phytoncides and practically sterile, and the sandy beach is so perfectly located that vacationers can bask in the sun all day. Accommodation is offered in cottages of various designs with 2-3 bedrooms, each with a fireplace and a fully equipped kitchen, cabins on the landing stage overlooking the Rybinsk Reservoir, and rooms in a small hotel. Guests can enjoy three restaurants and a Wellness Center, which features a 25-meter indoor pool, a mini-pool for children, four types of saunas, a cross-shaped outdoor jacuzzi, and a gym. There's also a children's club, "Smile," where children are entertained by animators. The rental shop offers everything necessary for a relaxing holiday, including board games, balls, fishing gear, roller skates, bicycles, ATVs, and jet skis. The hotel's partners offer motorboat rentals. Beyond the hotel gates lies a pine forest, traversed by an 8-kilometer circular paved path. Hotel guests enjoy rollerblading and cycling here, while older guests stroll—some leisurely, others with walking poles.
However, the hotel only has one sports court—for beach volleyball. This situation will be rectified on June 26th. On that day, a sports area with tennis courts, basketball, beach soccer, and volleyball courts will open, and the Yaroslavl Region Beach Soccer Championship will be held.
According to Dmitry Rodionov, head of the Yaroslavskoye Vzmorye project, demand for stays at the hotel is extremely high during the peak summer season. From mid-June to August 30, there are virtually no vacancies. Most guests are residents of the Yaroslavl region—around 501,000—while the rest are from Moscow and other regions. The number of returning guests over the past five years has reached 601,000. Rodionov believes this demonstrates that tourists enjoy their vacations here.
"As for our plans, in addition to building new cottages and a budget hotel with 120 rooms, we're considering offering our guests spa services. But we're not quite sure yet which direction to choose," said Dmitry Fedorovich.
The Yaroslavskoye Vzmorye project is more than just the Koprino Bay Park Hotel. According to Rodionov, the project territory extends over 100 square kilometers and is designed for comprehensive development. Rostourism, the Federal Agency for Tourism, assisted in the development of the territory by allocating funds for infrastructure construction under the Federal Target Program "Development of Domestic and Inbound Tourism in Russia." "With public funding, we connected all our tourist sites to gas, built a sewer system and treatment facilities, and constructed a pier capable of accommodating up to four vessels of various sizes simultaneously," says the director of the Yaroslavskoye Vzmorye project. "This is the first pier built on the Volga in the last 25 years." Using their own funds, the entrepreneurs built a yacht club and a floating fueling station, the only one on the Rybinsk Reservoir. According to Rodionov, more than half of the yacht club's clients are Muscovites, who are gradually beginning to permanently moor their yachts there.
Agranta's partners are helping develop the territory. One of them is designing and building a golf course. The first phase, the Golf Academy, will open this summer.
Another partner built an aeroclub on the allocated land, complete with a landing pad for private helicopters.
The village of Tygydym
The village of Tygydym is the main attraction of the Yaroslavl Seaside project. It is located next to the Koprino Bay Park Hotel. Tygydym is not a real village, but an ethnographic complex conceived and built by former Muscovites Alexander and Olesya Mazaletsky-Degtyarev. Their 19-year-old son, Vitaly, is assisting them. The Yaroslavl Seaside project management acted as a partner, donating the land and providing all necessary support.
The story of their move from the city to the village is remarkable. Alexander and Olesya lived in Moscow; he worked as a criminal defense attorney, and she handled arbitration courts. Over the years, their work had become exhausting, and they longed for a change. "The Russian hinterland and village life had long attracted us, and we decided to move to the village—not just any village, but one we would build ourselves," says Alexander. They sold their Moscow apartment and car, and in 2014, they began building their authentic village in Poshekhonye, Yaroslavl Oblast, with the money. However, they were deceived by the local administration. They had to find a new location for the project. According to Alexander, they were lucky—the management of Yaroslavskoye Vzmorye offered them the opportunity to move to Koprino and provided them with land. They dismantled everything they had built in Poshekhonye and moved it here in August 2017.
Tygydym is a village-museum. Olesya came up with the name. Tygydym imitates the sound of a galloping horse's hooves. This is how the Tygydym horse was born, and from it came the name of the village.
There are only a few houses and barns left. A small shop sells souvenirs made by the Mazaletsky-Degtyarev family. Nearby is a house called a "retiradnik," which is what they used to call a toilet in Russia. According to Olesya, a museum of outhouses will soon open in the "retiradnik."
The Mazaletsky-Degtyarev family will live in a house with a turret—a replica of an old gingerbread tavern—and in the adjacent hut, they've set up a peasant kitchen museum. In less than two years, Alexander and Olesya also managed to build a small chapel dedicated to Peter and Fevronia and a barn, which houses a carpentry museum. They also installed a lathe, which they commissioned and manufactured at a factory based on old blueprints. There are also stalls and a laundry room—a small pond where people used to wash clothes in the Russian countryside.
The village's calling card is a Tygydym horse named Pasha. He's a handsome black Hanoverian. According to Olesya, he's already 18 years old and used to compete in eventing. He's accompanied by a young mare named Malika. Together, they stroll through the meadow, delighting guests who come to admire the village of Tygydym.
The Mazaletsky-Degtyarevs want to recreate, as much as possible, everything that a 19th-century Russian village lived in in the village of Tygydym. They travel through the villages, documenting old traditions and forgotten village recipes, learning lost crafts from elders, and collecting various household utensils. They earn money by giving tours and workshops, as well as by selling souvenirs. The majority of their visitors are tourists from boats. Last year, Alexander and Olesya hosted around 6,000 guests.
Source: trn-news.ru