Yuryevets (russian: Ю́рьевец) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of Yuryevetsky District in Ivanovo Oblast,

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, located at the confluence of the

Unzha The Unzha (russian: Унжа) is a river in the Vologda Oblast and Kostroma Oblast in Russia, a tributary of the Volga. It is long, and its basin covers .

and 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 catchme ...

s. Population:

History

It was founded in 1225 by Yury II as Yuryev-Povolzhsky ("Yury's town on the Volga"). In 1237, the town was destroyed by the army of

Batu Khan Batu Khan ( – 1255),, ''Bat haan'', tt-Cyrl, Бату хан; ; russian: хан Баты́й was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a constituent of the Mongol Empire. Batu was a son of Jochi, thus a grandson of Genghis Kh ...

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yuryevets serves as the

of Yuryevetsky District, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #145-OZ 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.Law #27-OZ As a municipal division, the

of Yuryevets is incorporated within Yuryevetsky Municipal District as Yuryevetskoye Urban Settlement.Law #54-OZ

Notable people

The natives of Yuryevets include the

Vesnin brothers The Vesnin brothers: Leonid Vesnin (1880–1933), Victor Vesnin (1882–1950) and Alexander Vesnin (1883–1959) were the leaders of Constructivist architecture, the dominant architectural school of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. E ...

. Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky spent his childhood years there.

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External links

Unofficial website of Yuryevets
{{Use mdy dates, date=November 2013 Cities and towns in Ivanovo Oblast Yuryevetsky Uyezd