A brief history of the county capital VyazmaMapJuly 11, 2007 This is what the centre looked like many centuries ago:  Centuries passed.  Life ran its course. 
Indicative donations for: Napoleon came, the menfolk gave him a good hiding. 
1812 They used to build beautiful homes back then. 
Residential building There are people out there who not only install insulated window units in old houses, they don’t even bother to take the film off the plastic. But Vyazma’s endured worse.  Then the Bolshevik revolution occurred.  Important people started coming to the city.  On the 6th of June 1919 M. I. Kalinin delivered a speech to workers in the Vyazma town gardens The Germans came. The menfolk gave them a good hiding too. The sculptor Vuchetich put up a monument to Lieutenant General Yefremov, who shot himself, but did not surrender (people’s perceptions were different back then, so the finger didn’t seem so cartoonish).  The war ended and things started looking up.  Groceries The first traffic light poles they installed in the 1950s are still there.  In the 1970s future cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya flew this airplane around here somewhere.  Then calm descended.  In the 1980s the dancing started.  Discotheque The dancing continued in the 1990s.  Then the new millennium began. The house of culture received a delivery of honey from the Altay region. 
Town Palace of Culture Now, many centuries thereafter, this is what the city centre looks like: |
