Yuryevets (russian: Ю́рьевец) is a

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and the

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Yuryevetsky District Yuryevetsky District (russian: Ю́рьевецкий райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.Law #145-OZ It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district ...

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, located at the

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of the

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and the

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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 Khan. ...

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yuryevets serves as the

, 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

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.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 Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greates ...

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