Population of Tver: dynamics, ethnic composition, employment

Tver is one of the largest cities in the country, an important industrial, scientific and cultural center, whose history began in the 12th century.

People who are going for permanent residence in Tver in 2021 should study not only the labor market, but also climatic and weather conditions, the development of infrastructure, and the transport system.

We need to find out how things are going with the real estate market, places of leisure, hospitals, supermarkets and the criminal situation in Tver.

Geographical location

The city is located between two megacities of Russia - Moscow and St. Petersburg. A railway and a highway pass through these three large settlements.

Location of Tver on the map of Russia

Tver should be looked for on the map of the country near the northern part of the Tver ridge, which runs along the border of the Upper Volga lowland.

The Volga flows through the city, which is the decoration of the central part of Tver. The waterway promotes the development of shipping and a port built to receive large cargoes.

Climate and weather in Tver

This city is located in the temperate continental zone, which determines the weather. In particular, in winter it is cold and frosty, but minus temperatures are moderate. In February, the thermometer may show minus 7–100C.

In summer it is not hot, humid, in July the air warms up to +19 (this is the hottest month of the year). Heat is not typical for the summer period, nor are extreme frosts.

Due to humidity, frost or heat will be poorly tolerated by heart patients and asthmatics.

It is important for people who leave other cities for Tver to know the state of the environment in the region and the city.

Due to traffic jams, a large number of cars, the work of industrial enterprises, and the use of chemicals in agriculture, Tver found itself in a zone of environmental crisis. In winter, you can observe how the surface of the snow quickly becomes dark due to the poor state of the atmosphere.

We advise you to watch the video for those who are planning to move to Tver for permanent residence.

Pollution also affected water bodies. The rivers: Volga, Tmaka and Tverda suffer from emissions from industrial enterprises.

The Moscow region, located next to Tver, also has a negative impact on the environment. Wind and clouds bring many harmful elements to the region, polluting ground and surface waters, the atmosphere, vegetation and soil.

Infrastructure Features

There are hundreds of kindergartens and secondary schools in Tver.

Specialized education can be obtained in the following places:

• vocational schools;
• colleges;
• technical schools;
• state universities;
• branches of Russian and international universities.

Education can be obtained in more than 100 specialties. For high-quality training of professionals and workers, the city administration creates conditions for creative, administrative and scientific activities.

If you are planning to study in Europe or other countries, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the ranking of the quality of education in countries around the world.

Tver State University. Photo Vodomer / commons.wikimedia.org

The city's infrastructure organically includes the transport system and roads, with which there are certain problems in Tver. The road surface is being updated, but this is not enough. After all, there are broken sidewalks, potholes, and lack of asphalt everywhere.

It can be difficult to get to suburban villages, since there are no normal roads or transport. Traffic jams have become a common occurrence on city roads, which is especially noticeable during rush hours.

The transport system is represented by railways, buses, cars, and public transport, which transports citizens and tourists.

The number of cars in Tver is constantly growing, which complicates the situation on highways. The city has long been known as a major transport hub of the Russian Federation, from where it is easy to get to neighboring settlements.

You can get around the city by buses, trolleybuses, trams, which are gradually being replaced by commercial buses and minibuses.

You can buy food and other goods, the prices of which in Tver are lower than in the capital region, in shopping centers and complexes such as Metro, Pyaterochka and Magnit.

Retail trade enterprises are also open, for example, Auchan and Lenta hypermarkets.

In many areas of the city there are supermarkets and shops open almost 24 hours a day. Such retail establishments are opening next to residential complexes, neighborhoods, and cottage communities so that residents can quickly purchase everything they need for their home.

Tver supermarkets compete with markets. The largest of them is the Tver Central Market, where you can buy vegetables and fruits, sausages, spices, tea, coffee, sausages, etc.

Watch the video: review of prices in Tver stores.

What to see in winter with children

Travelers with children who come to Tver in winter have the opportunity to create a route that alternates being in the fresh air and entertaining areas located under the roof.

There is no need to make a special trip to the Tver City Garden , because it is located near the Mikhail Yaroslavich embankment. Unfortunately, during the cold season, the park's attractions do not operate, but there is a large wooden slide, decorated with spruce balls and garlands, as well as bright LED figures for spectacular evening photos. Every year in December, Father Frost's Post Office Opening Day takes place in the garden, and a special box appears for letters with New Year's wishes. The festival organizes master classes, competitions with prizes and other activities for the whole family. At the end of February - beginning of March, Maslenitsa is celebrated here.

City garden Photo: © Marina Dvoryashina

Victory Park also has a slide and tubing rentals, an outdoor skating rink and ice tracks. Ice is poured in the neighboring Tmaka Park , at the Tver Hippodrome and on Glory Square , in front of the Lisa Chaikina Museum . Skate rental will be available for guests: as a rule, it is available at every skating rink.

After walking around, choose indoor areas where both children and adults can have fun. The Children's Museum Center will entertainingly highlight the history of Tver, show a peasant hut, and ancient outfits. He also conducts folk festivals and master classes on crafts.

Excursion to the Children's Museum Center Photo: © Tver State United Museum, official Vkontakte page

You definitely won’t get bored at the Museum of Entertaining Sciences “Experiment Land” . In the form of a show, acoustic, electrical, light, water and other experiments will be shown here, demonstrating the processes of physics and chemistry. In some, visitors will be able to participate in person and, for example, catch lightning in their hands. Please note that the museum occupies the Vaganov mansion - an example of urban architecture of the late 18th century. Its facades are lavishly decorated with carvings and stucco; the four atlases under the openwork balcony are especially noticeable.

Another chance to combine leisure time and exploring the city is to go to the Zvezda cinema on the embankment. It is distinguished by symmetrical hexagonal facades on the sides, topped with rotundas on top. The unusual building from 1937 is a monument to post-constructivism. There are always exciting performances in the repertoires of the Youth Theater , Puppet Theater and Circus . For the New Year, magical New Year's fairy tales are certainly staged. In addition, for the entertainment of the younger generation there are game rooms, quest rooms, and virtual reality clubs. According to modern traditions, some of them will definitely be found in shopping centers, like Rubin and Rio.

For even more options of what to do in this city, see a separate tip:

Where to go with a child in Tver

Cinema "Zvezda" Photo: © Larisa Kiseleva

Housing and communal services tariffs

Utilities in Tver increased in 2021 and increased again in 2021. On the website of the Government of the Tver Region you can see the current prices for electricity, water, gas and other types of utilities.

On websites, Tver residents constantly complain about the work of housing and communal services employees. After all, residents of houses often have to deal with non-functioning sewage systems and untimely garbage collection.

Many people complain about high tariffs and the services provided. City residents believe that prices do not correspond to the quality of communal services.

In 2021, the cost of housing and communal services was:

• electricity – 4.27 rubles/kW;
• water supply - 21.95 rubles;
• water disposal - 22.72 rubles;
• gas – 8,342 rubles/1 m3 (for water heaters and cooking);
• gas – 5,475 rub./1 m3 (heating);
• waste disposal – 96.5 rub. from one person who is registered in a house or apartment.

Not all companies that serve apartment buildings and the private sector have increased heating and gas tariffs. They achieved this through city subsidies allocated for utilities.

Residents in populated areas of the region (cities, towns, villages)

Work and salaries in Tver

According to data published by Tverstat on the official website, the economic development of the city is stable and promising.

The city budget shows growth and consistency. This allows you to fight unemployment (check out the unemployment rate in Russia at the link), creating new jobs and paying social benefits, including pensions, scholarships, and wages on time at state-owned enterprises.

The city mayor's office uses part of the money provided under social programs to increase payments. However, pensions and salaries in Tver remain low.

The main industrial sectors of Tver are mechanical engineering, food production and printing.

The concentration of factories is observed in the Proletarsky district, where the following factories operate:

• "Tverenergokabel";
• "Rhythm";
• Carriage-building plant.

Work in the printing industry is offered by the Pareto-Print industrial complex and a company that produces children's literature.

Other enterprises offer vacancies in Tver:

• bread factory "Bread" and;
• "Flour Mill", which produces flour and pasta;
• United Bottling Group (production of alcoholic and non-alcoholic products).

Large employers are Russian Post (you can find out about the salaries of postal workers from the article on our website), shopping and shopping and entertainment centers, hypermarkets, markets, international logistics centers, including OTTO and OZON.

Percentage of popular industries by number of vacancies in Tver

The salary level in Tver depends on the field of activity, type of employment, type of company, and qualifications. The average salary in the city and region is 37 thousand rubles.

Average salary in Tver

You can open your own business in the city, but here you will have to withstand fierce competition from Moscow entrepreneurs.

And it’s not just a matter of correctly registering a company with the tax office. We need to find a niche that is not occupied by anyone, offering unique products and goods and not skimping on advertising.

Read on our website: cost of living in Russian cities.

Attractions

Monuments, museums, galleries, temples - the main attractions of Tver do not depend on the time of year. They are quite densely located within the boundaries of the center, both inside and outside the buildings, and this is especially valuable in winter.

Afanasy Nikitin embankment Photo: © Larisa Kiseleva

Imperial Palace – Picture Gallery

The Imperial Travel Palace on the banks of the Volga in the city center is undoubtedly the main attraction of Tver; every tourist aspires to it. It fully justifies the concept of an ancient palace in Russia; it is a large mansion with features of classicism and baroque architecture. The travel palace was erected in 1778 on the instructions of Catherine II for rest on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. But its history consisted not only of the visits of the great empress.

Since the end of the 19th century. A collection of art was collected in the palace, and a public “museum” was opened. Nowadays, the Tver Art Gallery , open to the public after the complete restoration of the palace in 2012-2017. In the corridors and main halls there are collections of ancient Russian art, exhibitions of Russian and foreign paintings, graphics, and sculpture from the period of the 14th - 20th centuries.

Read more: Imperial Travel Palace

Imperial Palace in Tver Photo: © Sergey Vasilets

Victory Obelisk and WWII Memorial

The Obelisk of Victory is the main place of memory of the events of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, located on the square at the confluence of the Tmaka River with the Volga. The obelisk is a tall faceted column with a fire bowl on top. The fire in the bowl of the column is lit several times a year on holidays. The base of the monument is decorated with eight bas-reliefs on a military theme.

The eternal flame is located behind the column, and across the left bridge further is a memorial in the form of a colonnade “They will not return from the war.” It was installed in memory of those killed in the wars of recent decades. On the other side, where the right bridge leads, there is a small temple of Mikhail Tverskoy . It was erected in honor of Mikhail Yaroslavich, a prince who lived at the turn of the 13th-14th centuries, who defended the city from the encroachments of the Moscow principality and the Horde and after his death was canonized as a saint. There are still many places dedicated to him in Tver.

Read more: Victory Obelisk and WWII Memorial in Tver

Other monuments of Tver

Walking around Tver, you will probably come across city monuments - places of memory of historical dates and great people known throughout Russia or only to Tver residents. In addition, the monuments have long become recognizable symbols of the city. They do not depend on the season, weather or time of day.

A guest walking along the main streets of the city will certainly encounter monuments to A.S. Pushkin and V.I. Lenin . The first one stands not only on the embankment, but also near the Tverskoy Drama Theater. A monument to the fabulist I. A. Krylov , who spent his childhood years in Tver, was erected in the park opposite the Victory Obelisk. Monument to M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin , who was in 1860-1862. Vice-Governor, located on Tverskaya Square near the circus. There is also a Family Monument , opened on the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.

Monument to A. S. Pushkin on the Mikhail Yaroslavich embankment Photo: © Marina Dvoryashina

The Monument to the Poets of the Sixties (1960s) is unusual You will find it at the House of Poetry of A.D. Dementiev, and the monument to Andrei Dmitrievich is on the Stepan Razin embankment.

A significant part of the memorial sculptures honor the merits of difficult professions. The monument to submarine sailors on the Afanasy Nikitin embankment depicts two sailors on the wheelhouse of a submarine. The monument to the liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster , including thousands of Tveryaks, appears in the form of a man covering the wall with the atom with his body.

a monument to G. K. Zhukov , a memorial “Smolensk mass grave” , and a monument to the tank crew of Stepan Gorobets were created .

Monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich on the square of the same name Photo: © Marina Dvoryashina

Goat Museum

The most unusual museum in the city is the Goat Museum. In the old days, Tver was famous for shoes made of goat skins. The museum displays more than five thousand exhibits - goats from small to large. They are collected from all over the world, made of ceramics, wood, fabric and other materials. There are not only figurines here: dishes, toys, books, postcards. The collection appeared not so long ago; its creator is Vladimir Lavrenov.

Read more: Goat Museum

Exhibits of the Goat Museum Photo: © Larisa Kiseleva

Museum of Tver Life

Learn the history of the city at the end of the 19th century. will allow you to visit the Tver State United Museum , or rather its branch - the Museum of Tver Life. It occupies several nearby buildings. In the house of the Arefiev merchants, guests get acquainted with skillful embroidery and sewing, samples of folk costumes. In a city estate - with the style of a city merchant's house: various rooms, furniture, utensils. A separate exhibition highlights the variety of Russian samovars, an important attribute of tea parties. You can join the pleasant process on interactive excursions with a visit to the tea house and gingerbread bakery.

Read more: Museum of Tver Life

Museum of Tver Life Photo: © Official website of the Tver State United Museum

In addition to these museums, the city has the Mikhail Krug Museum , the Iskra Museum of Photography , the Plyushkin Museum with a collection of Soviet relics and others. More details:

Museums of Tver

Observation deck

Every guest of the city has access to an observation deck on the roof of the Tver business center - the Panorama hotel. The building is located at the intersection of Sovetskaya and Vagzhanova streets - in the city center not far from the banks of the Volga. The open-air area has full visibility in all directions. It offers views of the Volga and the other bank, of Sovetskaya Street, of the unique three-ray system of streets in the center of Tver and of Meshchanskaya Sloboda, a site of low-rise buildings where examples of ancient wooden architecture are still preserved.

Read more: observation deck “Tver in the palm of your hand”

Tver from above the Tver Business Center Photo: © Marina Dvoryashina

White Trinity Cathedral

The White Trinity is an active Orthodox cathedral in Zatmachye, an area across the Tmaka River, west of the center of Tver. This is the oldest building in the city made of stone, erected in 1564. Since its inception, the temple has grown with side chapels, domes, and a bell tower, but in general it is close to the traditions of the 16th century. The iconostasis dates back to the 17th century, the paintings were made even later. The relics of Macarius Kalyazinsky are kept inside. The cathedral is one of the few in the country that worked during the years of Soviet power.

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White Trinity Cathedral Photo: © Marina Dvoryashina

If you are planning a trip for one day, the route to the sights is suggested on the page:

What to see in Tver in 1 day