The word “landing stage” is of French origin; it can be literally translated as “one who unloads.” These days, these structures are increasingly being used for other purposes. In some foreign countries, residential buildings are even built in landing stages. (since the tax on watercraft is almost everywhere significantly lower than the tax on real estate).
Kyiv. This landing stage even appears in modern literature - we are talking about the science fiction novel “Time of Inversions” by Vladimir Vasiliev (from the “Watches” universe)
Nizhny Novgorod, pier on the Oka River opposite the Grebnevskie Sands island
photo: Tatiana Serbul
Old pier in Kostroma. Recently renovated.
Verkhniy Uslon, Tatarstan
photo: Polina Ivanyushkina
Romodanovsky pier in Nizhny Novgorod
Pridneprovsky beach, Ukraine.
“In a quiet Volga backwater, we found a huge abandoned landing stage, similar to a mansion from the late 19th century, as well as an incomprehensible sunken thing that blocked one of the swampy channels. And another landing stage, smaller, which has grown into a steep slope. Marksovsky district of the Saratov region"
photo: Sergey Vilkov
Pripyat, 2015
Moscow
Kyiv, Rybalsky Island. Photo: Artyom Zubenko
Nizhnekamenka, Novosibirsk region.
Khimki
photo: Bogdan Petrenko
Landing stage in Volgograd, on Denezhny Island. It was a popular place for relaxation and photo sessions. It burned down in the summer of 2013.
Landing stage in Naberezhnye Chelny. Eyewitness testimony: “The landing stage hosted concerts of various punk rock bands from the Russian Federation and abroad. The team “100 ONCES” from the USA was supposed to perform, but they had a hard, full of fucking day ahead of them from drowning to fire. Leaving the burning building, one of the participants the team put it clearly: “f***ing Russia! That's the story"
River station of Cherepovets
Pavlovo-on-Oka, Nizhny Novgorod region. Photo: Sergey Udalov
Oka, Kaluga region
Moscow region, Mytishchi district
An emergency sinking landing stage on Bolshaya Nevka, near the Zenit Arena under construction. According to a court order, it was supposed to be demolished, but as of the fall of 2016 it still existed
Sunken landing stage on Mukhavets. Brest, Belarus
