Kalyazin Bell Tower

The Kalyazin Bell Tower is a Neoclassical campanile rising to a top of 74.5 metres over the waters of the Uglich Reservoir at the Volga River contrary the antique metropolis of Kalyazin, in Tver Oblast, northwestern Russia. The steepled belfry became constructed in 1796—1800 as part of the Monastery of St. Nicholas, with a pentacupolar katholikon dating from 1694. Of its 12 bells, the most important weighed some 1038 poods 17,000kg. It changed into solid in 1895 to commemorate the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

When Joseph Stalin ordered the development of the Uglich Dam in 1939 to form the Uglich Reservoir, the old parts of Kalyazin, which includes several medieval structures, were submerged below the reservoir's waters. This protected the Saint Nicholas Monastery and Troitsky Makariev Monastery. The katholikon become dismantled, even as the campanile become left, a landmark towering above the water. The campanile became the principle vacation spot of traveler hobby in eastern Tver Oblast. The shape's islet turned into shored up underneath, and has a small pier for boats.