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Yuryevets posad of XVI-XVII centuries was near the mountain, on the bank of the Volga.
The fate of Yuryevets was common with cities and villages of long-suffering Ponizovskaya land all all Russia.
Yuryevets warriors were on Kulikovo field in 1380 in regiments of their prince Vladimir Gorodetsky- Serpukhovskoy, Dmitry Donskoy's cousin and associate.
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The historical and art museum of Yuryevets was opened on December 28, 1999 in a building constructed in 1903 by a merchant - mayor A.L.Flyagin.
This hall comprises material about religious history of the town Icons from Yuryevets temples, articles of church plate, old printed books and photo of churches are collected here.
But Yuryevets inhabitants remember pioneer and komsomol organizations, demonstratings and meetings in honour of 1 May. They are the history of our country.
yuryevets.ivanovo.ru /en/m3-1.html   (241 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Isaac Levitan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In Levitan's last works there was appeared greatness and dramatic nature of image of eternal life of the nature, an original result of Levitan’s art searches became the unfinished picture "Lake.
In the summer of 1890 Levitan went to Yuryevets (Юрьевец) and among numerous landscapes and etudes he wrote "The View of Krivooserski monastery".
So the plan of one of his best pictures "The silent monastery" was born, where the image of a silent monastery and planked bridges through the river, connected it with world around, expressed deep reflections of the artist about life.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Isaac-Levitan   (810 words)

  
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Inhabitants of Ivanovo are industrious and skilful people keeping and multiplying gumption and skill of their ancestors.
Wide-world known are works of the brilliant Palekh and Kholuy, beauties of Plyos and Yuryevets.
Wide open for guests are the Volga's spaces and temples of "The Golden Ring of Russia", museums and theatres, hotels and sanatoria.
www.tourizm.ivanovo.ru /en/M0   (160 words)

  
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They were crushed to death, in a pile of discarded newspapers.
Yuryevets, Russia—Four Russians died when the ice cracked as they tried to drive across the frozen Volga River.
The only man to survive the incident said the group thought they might have better luck fishing for perch on the other bank of the river.
www.goodbyemag.com /mar97/darwin.html   (1490 words)

  
 THE VOICE OF RUSSIA [Glimpses of Russia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The 775th birthday of the town of Yuryevets- on - the Volga
One of the most beautiful cities on the Volga river - Yuryevets-on-the Volga - is marking its 775th birthday this year.
The town was a starting point for soldiers of the 16th century Cossack chief Yermak sent by Ivan the Terrible to conquer Siberia.
www.vor.ru /outside/cities22_eng.html   (475 words)

  
 Rainbow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Both Kadyj and Makarjev can be reached hitch-hiking along the motorway R-98: Kostroma - Sudislavl - Kadyj - Makaryev.
From Yuryevets on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 11.15 there are helicopter flights across Volga to the village Nezhitino (the helicopter landing area is located near the bus stop "Airport", the ticket is 25 rub.), further - from the village following the mark signs into the west direction...
Please take with you things helping to enjoy living and creation activity in the forest.
www.welcomehome.org /rainbow/events/ru2001/index-eng.html   (330 words)

  
 NZ Embassy - Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
When he was young, and ever before he had graduated from the Academy of Practical Expertise, he was sent by his father to run the Yuryevets Flax Spinning Manufactory.
In the early 1910s, following the merger of the Yuryevets Factory and the Volga Manufactory, N.I.Mindovsky being an experienced industrialist, became director of the management board.
Ivan Alexandrovich Mindovsky’s daughter Iraida married her father’s cousin Pyotr Galaktionovich Mindovsky, founder of “The Joint Stock Partnership Volga Manufactory of Paper and Flax Goods Run by P.Mindovsky and I.Bakakin”, and thus, not only was she firmly tied to the family business but she also did not need to change her surname on marriage.
www.nzembassy.msk.ru /embassy_building/owner_eng.htm   (1182 words)

  
 ArtRoots.com - For the Love of Fine Art
In December 1870 Savrasov and his wife travelled to the Volga and stayed in Yaroslavl, near Kostroma, in Nizhny Novgorod and in Yuryevets.
The painting *Pechersky Monastery near Nizhny Novgorod* (1871, N. Stale Art Museum) is one of Savrasov's largest works and the first of his well-known Volga landscapes.
New paintings followed on each other's heels *The Volga by Yuryevets* (1871, where abouts unknown).
artroots.com /ra/bio/savrasov/alexejsavrasovbio.htm   (1555 words)

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