Plyos (russian: Плёс) is a

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Privolzhsky District Privolzhsky District is the name of several various districts in Russia. The name literally means "something near the Volga". Federal districts * Volga Federal District (''Privolzhsky federalny okrug''), a federal district Districts of the ...

Ivanovo Oblast Ivanovo Oblast (russian: Ива́новская о́бласть, ''Ivanovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (the ...

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, located on the right bank of the

Volga River The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catch ...

, northeast of

Ivanovo Ivanovo ( rus, Иваново, p=ɪˈvanəvə) is a city in Russia. It is the administrative center and largest city of Ivanovo Oblast, located northeast of Moscow and approximately from Yaroslavl, Vladimir and Kostroma. Ivanovo has a popu ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was founded in 12th century. Some years later the was founded. It was destroyed in 1238 by

Mongols The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member ...

. A border post of the

Grand Duchy of Moscow The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (russian: Великое княжество Московское, Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye; also known in English simply as Muscovy from the Lati ...

was founded in 1410 by Vasily I.''П. Н. Травкин.'' Плёсская крепость 1410 года
It was granted town status in 1925.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Plyos is subordinated to

. Prior to the adoption of the Law #145-OZ ''On the Administrative-Territorial Division of Ivanovo Oblast'' in December 2010, it used to be incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

.Law #27-OZ As a municipal division, the

of Plyos, together with twenty-three rural localities in Privolzhsky District, is incorporated within Privolzhsky Municipal District as Plyosskoye Urban Settlement.Law #48-OZ File:Plyos Sobor.jpg, Assumption Church File:Воскресенская деревянная церковь. 1699 г..JPG, Wooden Church of the Resurrection File:Vic Skumin.jpg, Cemetery of the Church of the Resurrection File:Plyos. Saint Barbara church P5251962 2425.jpg, Church of St. Barbara File:Plyos, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, 155555 - panoramio (14).jpg, Church of the Resurrection File:Volga river. Plyos. House-museum of Isaac Levitan P5251797 2350.jpg,

Isaac Levitan Isaac Ilyich Levitan (russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н; – ) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kibarty ...

Museum

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* * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Ivanovo Oblast Golden Ring of Russia Populated places on the Volga 1410 establishments in Europe 15th-century establishments in Russia Populated places established in the 1410s Nerekhtsky Uyezd