I love a telephoto lens for the ability to see how sunlight flows through distant objects.
From afar, we usually see how the sun hid behind the church. And with a telephoto lens, a different world opens up.
It seems to me that Veliky Ustyug is more successfully located in terms of photographing sunsets and sunrises than Vologda.
In Veliky Ustyug, heavenly bodies can be combined with almost any church (and there are a lot of them).
In Vologda, no matter how much I tried, nothing really worked out for me.
Only St. Sophia Cathedral can be more or less somehow beaten with the sun.