Yaroslavl facts for kids

Yaroslavl
Quick facts for kidsYaroslavl (English); Ярославль (Russian)
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Coat of arms	Flag
Administrative status (as of December 2011)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Yaroslavl Oblast
Administratively subordinated to	city of oblast significance of Yaroslavl
Municipal status (as of December 2011)
Urban okrug	Yaroslavl Urban Okrug
Mayor	Yevgeny Urlashov Vladimir Sleptsov (acting)
Representative body	Yaroslavl City Duma
Statistics
Area	205.80 km2 (79.46 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census,; preliminary)	591,486 inhabitants
- Rank in 2010	23rd
Population (2015 est.)	603,961 inhabitants
Density	2,874/km2 (7,444/sq mi)
Time zone	MSK (UTC+04:00)
Founded	1010
Postal code(s)	150000—150066
Dialing code(s)	+7 4852
	Official website
	Yaroslavl on WikiCommons

Yaroslavl is a Russian city on the Volga River. It was founded in 1010. It is one of the largest cities in Russia. The city's centre is a World Heritage Site. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities northeast of Moscow.

Images for kids

A completely frozen Volga River in Yaroslavl (winter 2006)
Alexey Bogolyubov. A Crucession in Yaroslavl, painted in 1863
Yaroslavl used to be known as the city of many churches
Minin and Pozharsky, whilst on their way to relieve Moscow, made Yaroslavl their base and thus de facto capital of Russia for two months in 1612
Yaroslavl's Volkov Square as it would have appeared before the reconstruction of the Volkov Theater in the early 1900s
The living quarters and work place for employees of Yaroslavl's first major industrial enterprise, the city's textiles plant
Volga-Promenade with decorative Pavilion. A postcard from 1915.
Nicholas II in Yaroslavl for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.
Yaroslavl's Ascension Church, which was badly damaged during the Yaroslavl uprising
Red Square with its Lenin monument in Soviet-era Yaroslavl. Major building and infrastructure projects, as well as party slogans, such as that in this photo – 'Communism grows ever stronger upon the earth', were very characteristic of the urban development communism brought to the city
A Russian postage stamp celebrating the millennium of Yaroslavl
First municipal coat of arms from 1778
Yevgeny Urlashov, former Mayor of Yaroslavl
St. John the Baptist Church, dating from the 1680s, is the acme of traditional Russian architecture
The 17th-century churches of Yaroslavl are renowned for their magisterial proportions and elaborate frescoes
The Assumption Cathedral, built in stone in the early 1210s, was rebuilt in its current form in 2010
Many Orthodox shrines and monasteries lie along the banks of the Volga.
Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl
The belfry tower of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery
Epiphany Church
Church of Elijah the Prophet
Komsomolskaya Street constitutes the southwestern section of Yaroslavl's ring-boulevard
The rebuilt Dormition Cathedral
Yaroslavl's renowned Volkov Theater
President Dmitry Medvedev converses with Turkish president Abdullah Gül at the 2011 Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum
The main building of Yaroslavl's 'Demidov' State University
Yaroslavl Glavny, the city's main station, is a major stop for numerous passenger trains traveling between Moscow and the other regions of Russia each day.
Yaroslavl River Port (1985), an example of late Soviet modernism
A modernised tram in service in Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players on the ice in 2009