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| City in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia | WIKI |
| City in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia | WIKI |
| Yaroslavl xd0xafxd1x80xd0xbexd1x81xd0xbbxd0xb0xd0xb2xd0xbbxd1x8cCity[1]Clockwise, from top right: St. Alexander Nevsky's Chapel, St. John the Baptist's Church, Strelka Park from Volga Embankment, Znamenskaya Tower, Volkov Theater, St. Elijah the Prophet's Church FlagCoat of armsLocation of Yaroslavl YaroslavlLocation of YaroslavlShow map of Yaroslavl OblastYaroslavlYaroslavl (European Russia)Show map of European RussiaYaroslavlYaroslavl (Europe)Show map of EuropeCoordinates: 57xc2xb037xe2x80xb2N 39xc2xb051xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf57.617xc2xb0N 39.850xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 57.617; 39.850Coordinates: 57xc2xb037xe2x80xb2N 39xc2xb051xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf57.617xc2xb0N 39.850xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 57.617; 39.850CountryRussiaFederal subjectYaroslavl Oblast[1]Founded1010[2]Governmentxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0BodyYaroslavl City Duma[3]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Mayor[3]Vladimir Volkov (acting)Area[4]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Total205.80xc2xa0km2 (79.46xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)Elevation100xc2xa0m (300xc2xa0ft)Populationxc2xa0(2010xc2xa0Census)[5]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Total591,486xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Estimatexc2xa0(2018)[6]608,722 (+2.9%)xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Rank23rd in 2010xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Density2,900/km2 (7,400/sqxc2xa0mi)Administrative statusxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Subordinated tocity of oblast significance of Yaroslavl[1]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Capital ofYaroslavl Oblast[1], Yaroslavsky District[1]Municipal statusxc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Urban okrugYaroslavl Urban Okrug[7]xc2xa0xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Capital ofYaroslavl Urban Okrug[7], Yaroslavsky Municipal DistrictTime zoneUTC+3 (MSKxc2xa0[8])Postal code(s)[9]150000xe2x80x94150066Dialing code(s)+7xc2xa04852[10]OKTMO ID78701000001Websitecity-yaroslavl.ru | WIKI |
| Yaroslavl (Russian: xd0xafxd1x80xd0xbexd1x81xd0xbbxc3xa1xd0xb2xd0xbbxd1x8c, IPA:xc2xa0[jxc9xaarxc9x90xcbx88sxc9xabavlxcaxb2]) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located 250 kilometers (160xc2xa0mi) northeast of Moscow. | WIKI |
| The historic part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl rivers. | WIKI |
| In 2020, the city had a population of 608,353. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Location 1.2 Climate 2 History 2.1 Early Yaroslavl 2.2 Foundation of the city 2.3 16th century and the Time of Troubles 2.4 Trading post and government center 2.5 20th century and millennium 3 Symbols 4 Politics 5 Economics 6 Administrative and municipal status 6.1 City divisions 7 Travel and culture 7.1 Architecture 7.1.1 Old town 7.2 Theater and cinema 7.3 Global Policy Forum 8 Education 9 Transportation 9.1 Automotive transport 9.2 Railway 9.3 Air transport 9.4 Water transport 9.5 Public transportation 10 Sports 11 Notable people 12 Twin towns xe2x80x93 sister cities 13 References 13.1 Notes 13.2 Sources 14 Further reading 15 External links | WIKI |
| The city lies in the eastern portion of Yaroslavl Oblast. | WIKI |
| The city's entire urban area covers around 205 square kilometers (79xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)[citation needed] and includes a number of territories south of the Kotorosl and on the left bank of the Volga. | WIKI |
| It is a large transport node, and a great number of important national and regional roads, railways, and waterways pass through the city. | WIKI |
| In the 17th century, it was Russia's second-largest city, and for a time (during the Polish occupation of Moscow in 1612), the country's de facto capital. | WIKI |
| Because of the city's importance, several major railways and later highways were constructed to intersect here. | WIKI |
| The oldest settlement in the city is to be found on the left bank of the Volga River in front of the Strelka (a small cape at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl); this dates from the 5thxe2x80x933rd millennium BCE. | WIKI |
| [19] Upstream of the Volga River, just outside the boundaries of the modern city, archaeologists have studied a large necropolis with a predominance of ordinary graves of the Finno-Ugric-type. | WIKI |
| Foundation of the city[edit] | WIKI |
| The name of the city is traditionally linked to that of its founder: Yaroslav. | WIKI |
| Yaroslav the Wise stands over the body of the bear which he, according to legend, killed before founding the city | WIKI |
| At that time, they were located well beyond the city limits, but the city later grew to encompass these institutions. | WIKI |
| During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Yaroslavl was a city largely built from wood, as a result of which it often found itself plagued by disastrous fires, which in some cases almost destroyed the entire city, a good example of which would be that which took place just before the transfer of power in the city to Vsevolod on 1221. | WIKI |
| Another constant source of danger for the city and for the many Russian princes of the time came from the East and the many foreign invaders, usually from the Mongol Horde. | WIKI |
| From this point onwards the history of the city and its lands became completely inseparable from that of Moscow and eventually Russia. | WIKI |
| Even in the 16th century Yaroslavl continued to suffer from large scale fires and the damage they did to the city's developing economy and infrastructure. | WIKI |
| As a result, the age old tradition of building in wood was abandoned and a new city built of stone began to appear; unfortunately this meant that very little of the Yaroslavl of the Middle Ages remained unchanged. | WIKI |
| Resultantly the monastery's cathedral was built up in 1506xe2x80x931516, a building which remains, to this day, the oldest unchanged building in the city. | WIKI |
| New building works were also made affordable by a large upswing in Yaroslavl's economic fortunes which the city experienced in the middle part of the 16th century. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| Like most Russian cities of the time, Yaroslavl was devastated by famine and became a potential target city for Polish-Lithuanian troops acting in their capacity as 'interventionists' in the troubled Russian state. | WIKI |
| However, the majority of the city's citizens had withdrawn into the center of the city and found refuge behind the protective earthen wall, thus denying the Poles entry without a fight. | WIKI |
| The ensuing siege of Yaroslavl lasted until 22 May, but despite constant attempts to take the city, the Poles had to return to Moscow having not fulfilled their duty to bring Yaroslavl under direct control of their command. | WIKI |
| The northern trade route through the city ran to the port of Arkhangelsk in Russia's far north, whilst other Eastern trade lines ran East over the Urals to Siberia. | WIKI |
| In fact, in the 17th century a number of early industrial concerns were set up in the city, including a number of leather-working shops, in which around 700 people eventually came to work. | WIKI |
| As a result of the prosperity enjoyed by the city, Yaroslavl saw a huge expansion in the size of its population over the course of the 17th century, and by the end of this century, the town had a population of around 15,000 people,[27] making it the second largest city of the Russian Tsardom after Moscow. | WIKI |
| This period was also particularly important for the urban development of the city, because during the 17th century a multitude of stone-walled churches were built in the city; today these churches still form a major part of the old town's city center. | WIKI |
| Work on most of these churches was begun with funds gifted to the city by rich local merchants, and thus they had a large say in what form the buildings would eventually take. | WIKI |
| The living quarters and work place for employees of Yaroslavl's first major industrial enterprise, the city's textiles plant | WIKI |
| In 1658, Yaroslavl endured a disastrous fire which destroyed most of the city's few remaining wooden buildings, including the ancient Kremlin. | WIKI |
| [28] From this point onwards the city began to develop in the same way as it has done up to this very day, as a city built almost exclusively out of brick and mortar. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| In the 1770s, as a result of the city's economic development and ever rising population, the city became a major provincial center, thus in the course of the Russian Empire's administrative reforms under Catherine the Great Yaroslavl, in 1777, became the center of its own governorate, and in 1778 received its own grant of arms. | WIKI |
| In 1796, the city finally became the seat of one of the Empire's new governorates. | WIKI |
| This led to another wave of building works in the city, the results of which are still visible in the city today. | WIKI |
| With the Ilyinskaya Square and Church of Elijah the Prophet at its center, the new plan called for the development of a network of long boulevards and streets which would be bordered by large classical style buildings and numerous city parks. | WIKI |
| A prominent example of this later development is the former House of Charity (built in 1786), which is now one of the buildings of the city's 'Demidov' State University. | WIKI |
| In 1803 the 'School of Higher Sciences' was opened, this was the city's first educational institute and is recognized as the forerunner to the city's current state university. | WIKI |
| In 1812 the first permanent bridge (built near the Transfiguration Monastery) over the Kotorosl was finished, and by 1820 the city's Volga embankment was stabilized and turned into a large shaded promenade. | WIKI |
| Also, other major classicist building works were started, among which was the Governor's House (1821xe2x80x931823) (today location of the city's gallery). | WIKI |
| In 1873 the city gained a municipal waterworks and by 1900 an electrified tramway. | WIKI |
| However, the effects of the 1917 October Revolution were wide-reaching, and after the Russian Civil War of 1917xe2x80x931920 the city's economy suffered rather drastically; this led to a significant contraction of the city's population. | WIKI |
| The rebels managed to secure a number of large parts of the city, however, this led only to an assault by the Red Army which saw the city surrounded, cut off from supplies and bombarded day and night with artillery and air forces. | WIKI |
| The rebellion was eventually put down, and ended with official figures putting the number of deaths among the city's residents at about 600, in addition to which around 2,000 of the city's buildings were either destroyed or badly damaged. | WIKI |
| Milestones for this period include the opening of the city's first municipal power plant in 1926, the beginning of Synthetic rubber mass production in factory SK-1, the reestablishment of domestic production facilities for the production of automobile and aircraft tires in the 1928-founded Yaroslavl Tyre Factory, and the opening of the rubber-asbestos combined works in 1933. | WIKI |
| During the years of World War II, Yaroslavl managed to escape the prospect of a German occupation of the city, since the Wehrmacht did not manage to break through the Soviet defense lines surrounding Moscow. | WIKI |
| However, due to its location as a large transportation hub, and since the 1913-built railway bridge over the Volga in Yaroslavl was the only point at which to cross the river, the city became a major target for air raids during 1942xe2x80x931943. | WIKI |
| During the one of the heaviest of all these raids on 11 June 1943 over 120 of the city's inhabitants were killed, whilst another 150 or so were badly injured. | WIKI |
| [32] Most of the city's industry, including the automobile, tyre and textile plants, were converted, during the war, to produce armament and equipment for the Soviet Red Army. | WIKI |
| Major building and infrastructure projects, as well as party slogans, such as that in this photo xe2x80x93 'Communism grows ever stronger upon the earth', were very characteristic of the urban development communism brought to the city | WIKI |
| In the second half of the century, the industrialization and development of the city took the foremost position in Yaroslavl's history. | WIKI |
| In 1961, an oil refinery was opened and from the 1960s a large number of residential districts began to spring up all over the city, including, for the first time in the city's history, on the left bank of the Volga, where development had traditionally not taken place. | WIKI |
| In 1968 the city's population finally rose, for the first time, to over half a million inhabitants; it has been growing, almost constantly, ever since. | WIKI |
| In July 2005 Yaroslavl's historic city center was inscribed onto the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. | WIKI |
| Under the conditions of the preparations for the city's 1000th anniversary, the municipal authorities invested a great deal of money into the development of the city's road and rail infrastructure, much of the funds for which were granted by the federal government in Moscow. | WIKI |
| On Septemberxc2xa07, 2011, most of the members of the city's KHL (ice hockey) team, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, perished in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash on takeoff from Yaroslavl's Tunoshna Airport. | WIKI |
| Yaroslavl's founder's monument and coat of arms are depicted on the front of the 1000 rouble note.Whilst the city's St. John the Baptist Church is on the reverse. | WIKI |
| Both of these items are intrinsically linked with the legend surrounding the foundation of the city; the bear and halberd. | WIKI |
| After the abolition of the Tsarist municipal and provincial symbols by the newly installed Soviet administration in Yaroslavl, the city received no new official symbols, and thus the situation remained until the end of the twentieth century. | WIKI |
| The third and current version of the city's coat of arms was adopted on Augustxc2xa023, 1995 by the municipal council. | WIKI |
| The coloring and form of the arms are taken from those of 1856; however, the sprig of oak and ribbon of St.xc2xa0Andrew were removed and have not yet been reintroduced to the symbols of the city. | WIKI |
| It is a simple design which simply depicts the coat of arms of the city (1995 version), which must take up at least one third of the flag's entire size, upon a light blue background. | WIKI |
| The mayoralty[38] plays the role of the executive in the city's municipal administration. | WIKI |
| The mayor is elected by the city's electorate for four years in a direct election. | WIKI |
| The Municipal Council[42] of the city makes up the administration's legislative branch, thus effectively making it a city 'parliament' or city duma. | WIKI |
| The municipal council is made up of 36 elected members, who represent a certain district of the city for a four-year term. | WIKI |
| In the regular meetings of the municipal council, problems facing the city are discussed, and annually the city's budget is drawn up. | WIKI |
| Each of the city's six districts has its own district administration, all of which are ultimately part of the city's administration. | WIKI |
| City divisions[edit] | WIKI |
| Yaroslavl is divided into six city districts. | WIKI |
| The center is the economic and political hub of the city. | WIKI |
| It is also the oldest district in the city and where it was first settled. | WIKI |
| The center contains the majority of landmarks and attractions in the city, including the Volkov Theater, the Church of Elijah the Prophet, the football stadium, and the Volga embankment and the monastery, which is often mistakenly called the kremlin. | WIKI |
| Across the Kotorosl lie Frunzensky and Krasnoperekopsky City Districts, which are divided by Moskovsky Avenue. | WIKI |
| Frunzensky City District is divided into three microdistricts: Suzdalka, Dyadkovo, and Lipovaya Gora. | WIKI |
| Krasnoperekopsky City District is one of the oldest parts in Yaroslavl. | WIKI |
| Krasnoperekopsky City District is divided into two microdistricts, one of which is Neftestroy, an up-and-coming region, named for its proximity to Yaroslavl's oil refinery. | WIKI |
| On the other side of the railway tracks that run through Krasnopereposky City District lies the Perekop proper. | WIKI |
| Further north on the Western bank lies Dzerzhinsky City District, named after "Iron" Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, the Soviet secret police. | WIKI |
| Dzerzhinsky City District's core microdistrict is Bragino, named after a small village that was eventually consumed by Yaroslavl's post-war expansion. | WIKI |
| Bragino is the largest area in Yaroslavl in terms of population, but like Frunzensky City District, it is largely a residential area, mostly consisting of middle- to lower-middle income families. | WIKI |
| On the other bank of the Volga lies Zavolzhsky City District. | WIKI |
| This city district was Yaroslavl's quietest and most-rural area, but now it is one of the most dynamic parts of the city with expansive new buildings with big hypermarkets, such as "Globus" and "Real". | WIKI |
| Yaroslavl is situated on the north-eastern side of this 'ring' and is the largest city in its chain. | WIKI |
| Whilst the city is best known for its architectural merits, it also has a relatively large repertoire of cultural attractions. | WIKI |
| This has helped make the city recognizable as a monument to the architectural development and style of the Russian Tsardom. | WIKI |
| The center of the city, which covers an area of around 600 hectares has around 140 individual federally-protected architectural monuments. | WIKI |
| Despite all this, there are a number of buildings of architectural merit which are located outside of the city center. | WIKI |
| The most well-known building in the city is the 'Spaso-Preobrazhensky' ('Transfiguration of the Savior') Cathedral of the Spassky (St Savior) Monastery[45] (russ. | WIKI |
| This monastery was founded in the 12th century and thus it, and its cathedral, are the oldest buildings in the city. | WIKI |
| The Transfiguration Cathedral itself, built in 1516, is the oldest detached building standing in the city, (xd0xa1xd0xbfxd0xb0xd1x81xd0xbe-xd0x9fxd1x80xd0xb5xd0xbexd0xb1xd1x80xd0xb0xd0xb6xd0xb5xd0xbdxd1x81xd0xbaxd0xb8xd0xb9 xd1x81xd0xbexd0xb1xd0xbexd1x80). | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| It was largely thanks to the impregnability of the monastery that, during the time of the Troubles, the Russian peasants' army was able to defend the city and then go on to liberate Moscow from its Polish-Lithuanian occupiers. | WIKI |
| However, the church has a separate clock-tower which was built in accordance with the sacral-architectural style of Muscovy in the years 1684xe2x80x931693; this all goes to make the church one of the most noticeable examples of 17th-century architecture in the city. | WIKI |
| They were laid out in 1820xe2x80x931821 as new boulevards to run around the historic city center and were built on terrain previously occupied by a number of earthen and wooden fortifications which dated from the 16th century. | WIKI |
| This was, in general, not considered to be a great loss, as the requirement for such earth-works in order to maintain defensive readiness had long since been surpassed by other methods of securing a city by the point of their removal. | WIKI |
| The two municipal watchtowers which have been retained (the Vassily tower and Volga tower) were both positioned on the city's outer defensive walls which afforded them clear views of oncoming enemy forces. | WIKI |
| Within the old defensive limits of the city one can find many other examples of classicism, one important example of which would be the municipal trade rows 'Gostiny Dvor' (xd0x93xd0xbexd1x81xd1x82xd0xb8xd0xbdxd1x8bxd0xb9 xd0xb4xd0xb2xd0xbexd1x80) xe2x80x93 these were built in 1813xe2x80x931818, not long after the clearing of the land upon which they now stand. | WIKI |
| At the end of Komsomolskaya Boulevard, upon which the trade rows are located, one finds themselves at 'Volkov Square' (xd0xbfxd0xbbxd0xbexd1x89xd0xb0xd0xb4xd1x8c xd0x92xd0xbexd0xbbxd0xbaxd0xbexd0xb2xd0xb0); where the ring-boulevard makes a slight deviation to the north-eat and carries on towards 'Red Square' (xd0x9axd1x80xd0xb0xd1x81xd0xbdxd0xb0xd1x8f xd0xbfxd0xbbxd0xbexd1x89xd0xb0xd0xb4xd1x8c) and the city's Volga embankment. | WIKI |
| There are a number of buildings of historical interest on Red Square, one of which is the three-story building on the square's north side which once housed Yaroslavl's 'aristocrat's meeting house' (xd0x94xd0xb2xd0xbexd1x80xd1x8fxd0xbdxd1x81xd0xbaxd0xbexd0xb5 xd1x81xd0xbexd0xb1xd1x80xd0xb0xd0xbdxd0xb8xd0xb5), and is now the main building for the city's 'Demidov' State University. | WIKI |
| Furthermore, the square is also the location where the city's main fire department can be found; this is contained within a jugendstil building, built in 1911, and which has a large look-out tower, which even until the 1970s was actively used by the city's fire brigade. | WIKI |
| To the east of the boulevard, within the borders of the former defensive earthworks, the architecturally-rich 'nucleus' of the old city is to be found; an area criss-crossed by many narrow, small streets, in the middle of which one of Yaroslavl's most well-recognized architectural monuments is to be found. | WIKI |
| This is the Church of Elijah the Prophet (xd0xa6xd0xb5xd1x80xd0xbaxd0xbexd0xb2xd1x8c xd0x98xd0xbbxd0xb8xd0xb8 xd0x9fxd1x80xd0xbexd1x80xd0xbexd0xbaxd0xb0), which, in the same way as the Epiphany Church, is a very prominent example of the way in which the city developed in the 17th century. | WIKI |
| The square, upon which the church, with its clock tower and neighboring chapel are situated, was in the early 19th century, according to the city's urban plan, to be the central square of Yaroslavl and the place upon which markets and national holidays would take place. | WIKI |
| In general the streets of the city center are characterized by the noticeable mix of classical and sacral architecture. | WIKI |
| There are a number of major public and commercial buildings of architectural merit in the center of the city, among which are the 1785 'Governmental offices' building' (xd0x97xd0xb4xd0xb0xd0xbdxd0xb8xd0xb5 xd0xbfxd1x80xd0xb8xd1x81xd1x83xd1x82xd1x81xd1x82xd0xb2xd0xb5xd0xbdxd0xbdxd1x8bxd1x85 xd0xbcxd0xb5xd1x81xd1x82) and the Vakromeyev House, which today houses the Yaroslavl Seminary for young priests. | WIKI |
| The southern part of the city center, around the area where the Kotorosl and Volga intersect, is an area abundant in green park-like spaces. | WIKI |
| The city has many Russian Orthodox churches, one Russian Old Believers church, one Baptist church, one Lutheran church, one Armenian Apostolic church, one mosque and one synagogue. | WIKI |
| Yaroslavl has three theaters, the most famous of which is the 'Volkov Theater',[46] an institution which since 1911 has been housed in a large neoclassical building in the city's old town. | WIKI |
| In addition to these theaters, the city also has a philharmonic[50] (founded 1937) and a permanent circus[51] (founded 1963). | WIKI |
| There are around ten movie theaters in the city, the oldest of which 'Rodina' was built during the Soviet era in 1959. | WIKI |
| The city also has a number of large, modern multiplex cinemas, including those of the Russian cinema chains Cinema-Star and Kinomax. | WIKI |
| Uncommon for a provincial Russian city, Yaroslavl has a large municipal Planetarium[53] This was founded in 1948 and was situated, for a long time, in an old church. | WIKI |
| However, in April 2011, after two years of construction, the city's new 'Valentina Tereshkova' planetarium (named after the first female cosmonaut) was opened to the public. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| The award of this forum to the city coincided with the city's millennium celebrations and thus it is commonly viewed by residents to have been a gift from the Russian president to the city which has helped raise the city's global profile. | WIKI |
| Later Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin also arrived in the city to pay his condolences. | WIKI |
| Amongst the non-state funded institutions for further education in the city is the International Academy for Business and New Technologies (MUBiNT), and also a number of branches from Moscow-based universities. | WIKI |
| By the end of 2008 Yaroslavl had around 187 pre-school teaching and care groups registered within the city, within these there were around 22,700 places which were oversubscribed and thus filled by around 26,000 pre-school aged children. | WIKI |
| At the beginning of the 2008xe2x80x939 academic year the city had around 100 daytime general educational groups for children within which around 48,100 infants were registered. | WIKI |
| The M8 (Moscowxe2x80x93Yaroslavlxe2x80x93Vologdaxe2x80x93Arkhangelsk) links the city to Moscow and also onwards to the north in the direction of Arkhangelsk. | WIKI |
| In the last few years the authorities of Yaroslavl have been acting on the initiative to build a bypass around the city. | WIKI |
| For this reason the center of the city is now largely free of freight transporters and other larger vehicles transiting through the city. | WIKI |
| 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. | WIKI |
| Interurban and regional bus services depart from and arrive at the city's main bus terminal. | WIKI |
| Northern Railway headquarters are located on the city's Volga Embankment. | WIKI |
| The city is connected to Moscow by a fast electric train service (sitting places only) named 'Express'. | WIKI |
| [63] The river port caters not only for larger river cruise ships which stop off in the city as part of their journey up/down the Volga, but also to a number of regular services which link Yaroslavl with Breytovo, Tolga, Konstantinovo, Bakarevo, and Novye Chentsy. | WIKI |
| The city has a network of public transportation, including buses, trolley-buses and tram lines. | WIKI |
| As of 2011[update], this system is made up of four routes which run through various parts of the city. | WIKI |
| [65] Starting in 2004 the number of routes run by trams throughout the city has been steadily reduced, and whilst in 2006 trams could be found in both the historic city center and the Krasnoperekopsky District, the routes serving these areas have now disappeared altogether. | WIKI |
| The city's urban transport network also runs a fleet of trolleybuses which run along nine different routes, and have done since the year 1949. | WIKI |
| Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is the city's ice hockey team, which was the champion of Russia in 1996xe2x80x931997, 2001xe2x80x932002, and 2002xe2x80x932003 seasons. | WIKI |
| [66] As tribute to the team, the city co-hosted the 2012 Canadaxe2x80x93Russia Challenge with Halifax, Nova Scotia. | WIKI |
| Solutions developed and implemented in Yaroslavl ensured preservation of the historical environment and spatial integrity in the central part of the city. | UNESCO |
| The Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl became a recognised model in the art of town planning during the Neoclassical Age, which has organically incorporated ancient elements of the cityxe2x80x99s historical structure. | UNESCO |
| The property consists of the historic centre of the city, the Slobody, forming roughly a half circle with radial streets from the centre. | UNESCO |
| The main merits of the town-planning structure and architectural face of Yaroslavl city centre are the rational approach to activation of artistic values of the past within the city system, and the subordination of further architectural constructions to them, using the contrast between picturesque ancient churches and distinctly regular, symmetrical, composed classical buildings of the later periods. | UNESCO |
| The most significant monuments of cultural heritage in the historical centre of the city are architectural complexes of central streets, squares and embankments. | UNESCO |
| The main management challenges that will warrant attention include the development of a methodology for assessment and exploration of the historical context of the city, and for the careful preservation of architectural and town-planning integrity. | UNESCO |
| Finally, the enforcement of regulations to ensure that the cityxe2x80x99s horizontal skyline is maintained, as well as the strict control of design quality, scales, materials and massing of projects of new buildings and constructions inside of the boundaries of the property and its buffer zone will also need to be adequately addressed. | UNESCO |