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Rybinsk City Info
Rybinsk, with population exceding 250,000, is the second largest city of the Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna rivers. The town's most conspicuous landmark, the Neoclassical Saviour-Transfuguration Cathedral, was constructed on the Volga riverside from 1838 until 1851. It was built to a design that the President of the Imperial Academy of Arts, Avraam Melnikov, had prepared for Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St Petersburg. After Melnikov lost the contest for the best project of St Isaac's Cathedral to Auguste de Montferrand, he sold his grandiose design to the municipal authorities of Rybinsk.