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Who don't know the Volga River? Who didn't see its expanse and width, wealth and greatness, as the very Russian soul… Boundless expanse of the Volga is hard to imagine without sailing ships. During the last years sailing sport became very popular in Ulyanovsk; number of yachtsmen is growing bigger. Sportsmen from many cities of the Volga region take part in the traditional regatta, which is annually held by the local yacht-club. Many of them admire an excellent water area of Ulyanovsk and think about transferring here the capital of yacht sport.
On the bank of the Volga are situated beaches, along which is stretched out a stone embankment. People come here to relax, entertain, sit in quite or admire the sunset. And in summer months for all who wish the motor ship "Moscovsky-20" makes a one-hour sail along the bank. A fascinating journey on the ship along the great river will take you a great pleasure and strike you with amazing landscapes and sunsets. Water sporting holidays are annually held in the area of the river port, yacht-club and the city beach.
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The Volga river | Bridges
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Right-bank and Left-bank parts of the city are connected with the bridge across the Volga, which originally was constructed in 1912-1916. After 40 years, in 1953-1958 piers of the bridge were widened and raised a little. On them was arranged an automobile bridge, which as against riveted railroad bridge was made with welded connections. Extension of Ulyanovsk bridge over the Volga River is 2.2 km. Carrying capacity of the bridge is only 30 thousand cars a day. The bridge across the Volga is an object of the Federal importance.
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Building of the bridge across the Volga in Ulyanovsk was started in 1986. Since 1995 till the April 1998 building of the bridge in Ulyanovsk was stopped, because of the discontinuance of financing from the federal budget. In 1998 it was decided to recommence building and determine the Administration of the Ulyanovsk region as its government requester.
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After building in 1899 of a branch line to Simbirsk, appeared a problem of building a bridge across the Volga, especially when from Melekess to Chasovnya village (the suburb of the Zavolzhsky district of Simbirsk) was built a railway. People had to unload freights from cars and then take them across the Volga, in winter on ice, and in summer by barges to the next station and loading to cars.
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