34 Facts About Yaroslavl

Today, Yaroslavl is an important industrial center.

Apparently, this "proto-Yaroslavl" was a major center for the Volga trade route.

The first recorded event of Yaroslavl occurred as a result of famine; it was recorded as the Rostov Uprising of 1071.

In 1293 and 1322 there were further disastrous attacks on Yaroslavl launched by the Golden Horde, and in 1278 and 1364 the Plague struck.

On many an occasion Yaroslavl had to be completely rebuilt, both in terms of residential buildings which no longer exist, to those larger more permanent structures which remain to this day, such as the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and 1314 Monastery of Maria of Tolga, which is located on the left bank of the Volga.

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In 1463 the Principality of Yaroslavl was finally absorbed into the Grand-duchy of Moscow, with the area it once covered becoming an oblast within the new structure of the Muscovite state.

The main reason for this largely unexpected improvement in Yaroslavl's fortunes came largely from the city's position on the Volga which allowed trade to be brought from and to Moscow via the river, linking the new Russian capital with the port of Archangelsk darstellte.

Resultantly Yaroslavl became an important place for the conduct of international trade and a number of shipping berths and warehouses grew up around the city for the use of merchants, especially those from England and Germany.

However, despite having promised to pay a higher rate of taxes and dues to the Polish occupiers, Yaroslavl was on numerous occasions plundered by the forces of the pretender Dmitry.

Yet even when Lisowski successfully managed to get behind this wall, he found that the citizens of Yaroslavl had retreated into their ancient wooden Kremlin and the two stone-built monasteries.

In 1658, Yaroslavl endured a disastrous fire that destroyed most of the city's few remaining wooden buildings, including the ancient Kremlin.

At the beginning of the 18th century Yaroslavl finally began to transform itself from a trading post into a major industrial town; this largely came about because with the foundation by Peter the Great of Saint Petersburg in 1703, the importance of Arkhangelsk as a port on the Northern Ocean was drastically decreased, and the amount of trade being channeled through the city for export fell accordingly.

Luckily, the wealth which Yaroslavl had amassed over its many years as an important trading post allowed it to invest great amounts of money into the development of the city's new industrial base, and thus make the city very attractive to new investors.

Right up until the beginning of the First World War Yaroslavl remained a large industrial town with a well-developed municipal infrastructure.

Economy of Yaroslavl took part in the early Soviet Union's program of accelerated industrialization.

Yaroslavl was at the time home to a camp for military prisoners of war 'Camp No 276' for German soldiers imprisoned for taking part in hostilities against the Soviet Union.

Also in August 2008, the newly built Yaroslavl Zoo was opened; this was then expanded further in 2010.

In 2009, Yaroslavl became a meeting place for global policy debates within the International Conference 'The Modern State and Global Security'.

The conference in Yaroslavl gathered the most authoritative representatives of political science, business community as well as the representatives of the governments of a number of different states.

In 2010, Russian officials gathered together with international authorities in Yaroslavl to discuss the challenges facing the modern state at the Global Policy Forum for 'The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency'.

In 2011 Yaroslavl will bring together participants from all over the world to discuss the 2011 agenda: 'The modern state in the age of social diversity'.

Yaroslavl currently has a coat of arms and a flag which are both made up of two heraldic symbols.

Yaroslavl serves as the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it serves as the administrative center of Yaroslavsky District, even though it is not a part of it.

Yaroslavl is one of the eight cities of Russia's Golden Ring, a group of touristic, historic towns around Moscow.

Yaroslavl is situated on the north-eastern side of this 'ring' and is the largest city in its chain.

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Typical for a Russian monastery of the Middle Ages, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery in Yaroslavl was built to be not a place of worship, but to be a citadel and kremlin in case, in times of war, there was a need for such a facility.

The monastery has long had a place in the history of Yaroslavl and continues, albeit nowadays as a museum, to play a role in the life of the city.

Yaroslavl is the site of the Volkov Theater, the oldest theater in Russia, and the Demidovsky Pillar.

Apart from the Volkov Theater, there are a number of other theatres in Yaroslavl, including the State Puppet Theater, a children's and youth theater, and the Yaroslavl Chamber Theater.

Uncommon for a provincial Russian city, Yaroslavl has a large municipal Planetarium This was founded in 1948 and was situated, for a long time, in an old church.

In recent years Yaroslavl has become well known for the high-level political discourse it has hosted under the auspices of the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum.

Yaroslavl was chosen to host the event due to its thousand-year history of being a meeting point for people of all cultures, a significant trading post, and its former status as Russia's second-largest city, within which a great number of foreign embassies were situated.

Yaroslavl is situated at the crossing point of a number of major automotive, rail, and riverboat routes.

FC Shinnik Yaroslavl is an association football club based in Yaroslavl.