Презентация Ярославль на английском языке

Yaroslavl is located on the Volga River, in 282 km to the northeast from Moscow.

Population of 613,3 thousand people (2001).

The coat of arms of Yaroslavl was accepted on August 23, 1995, on the basis of the historical coat of arms of 1778.

On a silver board the black bear holding on the left shoulder by the left forepaw a gold pole-axe. Over a board Monomakh's cap.

The flag of Yaroslavl was accepted

May 22, 1996.

On a blue panel – a municipal coat of arms

The history of Yaroslavl begins with the basis in 1010 – fortress on the Shooter – a place of confluence of Volga and Kotorosli. And there was it so …

Prince Yaroslav the Wise

At the beginning of the 11th century soldiers

Rostov prince Yaroslav

Wise (become later

the prince Kiev) took

settlement storm. Backwoods also burned the main thing

pagan sanctuary. According to the legend, the prince a heavy fighting axe cut a sacred bear and ordered to cut down on the unapproachable cape over Volga the wooden fortress called on his name – Yaroslavl.

These events are displayed on a municipal coat of arms.

Yaroslavl – the ancient Volga city, widely

known for the remarkable monuments

architecture, treasury of the Old Russian

arts.

John Zlatousta's church

Mikhail Arkhangela's church

Церковь Дмитрия Солунского

Колокольня

«Ярославская свеча»

Church

John Predtechi

Church

Ilya Proroka

The Spaso-Preobrazhensky

monastery

The building of present theater in Yaroslavl is constructed in 1911. The Yaroslavl drama theater bears Feodor Volkov's name, the monument to the founder of the first Russian theater is placed into the square before theater.

Industry: mechanical engineering, chemical and petrochemical, oil processing, easy, food, building materials.

Five higher education institutions (including the university, is open in 1969), military colleges, 86 comprehensive schools and 24 sport schools, three theaters.

In Yaroslavl — circus, philharmonic hall, the historical and architectural memorial estate, the Art museum, a museum of Fighting glory, a house museum of the Belarusian poet M.A.Bogdanovich.

TV and "Yaroslavy's" radio company.

Yaroslavl is one of the most interesting tourist centers of "Golden Ring" of Russia.

In Yaroslavl studied and I worked first-ever

female astronaut Hero of the Soviet Union

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova .

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