Coats of arms of Volga cities
I. One of the most simple and the clearest method to look how our memory of the city is desighned is to study coats of arms. We selected 44 the most important cities and analysed their emblems - if they have or not something connected to Volga. Most of them yes:
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II.
But what is very immportant for us is that some of the biggect cities do not have connected their emblems with Volga but they tried to promoute river cruises. Here some examples:
Nizhny Novgorod - the biggest city of Volga region, former leader of river tourism.
Kazan, the second largest city on Volga with big potencial of increasing river tourism.
Samara, the third largest city with more than one million polulation
Ulyanovsk, 600 000 population, and birthplace of V. Lenin
Yaroslavl', one of the oldest and very cultural city with big tourism potention. Part of the "Golder Ring"
Tver, a city with big history but bad infrastructure. Not a part of "Golden Ring".
Uglich, a small city, a part of Yaroslavl' tour programms
Syzran, not so big industrial city near with Samara.
Myshkin is a very small city (6000) which constructed it's own history based by mascot (mouse). It is a great example how to create something almost from nothing.
III. Which conclusions could we made?
1) Change of coat of arm could be an evidence of demand to change an atmosphere or future direction.
This is Zhigulevsk example
Thisi is Dubna
That's why i thing and offer to redesigh some emblemt to add a river meaning, of course, we local aspects and identities.
2) The best opportunities to make a synergetics have a Yarosravl as a city which connects to two famous touristic tours - Golden Ring and Volga River that's why improving the emblem of Yaroslavl' seems the most important thing for increasing Volga potential by these methods.