From 1924, it was the home of Vasily Degtyarev (1880–1949), a native of Tula, an outstanding designer of automatic firearms, a Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, a Doctor of Engineering Sciences, a Hero of Socialist Labour, and a four times laureate of the State Prize.

The History, Architecture and Art Museum in Yuriev-Polsky is one of the best known provincial museums of Russia's Golden Ring. Located in the territory of the Michael the Archangel Monastery, the museum includes the displays that are dedicated to the history of the city, P.I. Bagration, a famous war chief, and the old Russian painting art.

The pearl of the Kirzhach land is the Holy Annunciation Monastery. It was founded in 1358 by St. Sergius of Radonezh. It is located in the historical center of Kirzhach. The monastery's ensemble has the status of a cultural heritage site of federal significance.

The exhibition "Marina Tsvetaeva's Alexander Summer" recreates the poetic space surrounding the Tsvetaeva sisters during their stay in Alexandrov. With the help of unique exhibits and a recreated interior of the rooms, visitors can plunge into the atmosphere of that historical time, find out how Anastasia lived with her family, how Marina wrote poems, most of which made up a cycle of poems dedicated to Akhmatova in the collection "Versts". This period was truly fruitful in Tsvetaeva's work, and literary critics called it "Marina Tsvetaeva's summer in Alexandrov."

The village of Kideksha, the medieval residence of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky of Suzdal, is located 4 kilometers east of Suzdal. Here, a church dedicated to the first Russian saints, Boris and Gleb, has been preserved. Built in 1152, this church is the oldest stone structure in the Russian North-East and laid the foundation for the magnificent white-stone architecture of Vladimir-Suzdal.