Zapadnaya Dvina, town in Russia
Zapadnaya Dvina is a small town in the Tver Region of western Russia, situated on the right bank of the river that shares its name. The built area is mostly low-rise, with modest housing and a few commercial streets running parallel to the riverbank.
The town grew up around a station built in 1900 on the Moscow-Riga railway line. It was heavily damaged during the German occupation in World War II and rebuilt from the ground up after 1945.
The town shares its name with the river that runs alongside it, and the waterfront path is where locals tend to gather in the evenings. The Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker, finished in the early 2000s, stands out as the most prominent building in the town center.
The town has a railway station on the Moscow-Riga line, which makes it easy to reach by train from either direction. For those arriving by road, it sits just south of the main westbound highway and is straightforward to find.
The town park contains an outdoor chessboard with oversized pieces that anyone can move and play with. It has been there since 1952, making it one of the longest-running public chess installations of its kind in a Russian town of this size.
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