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YAROSLAVL
, a See also:town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Volga, at its confluence with the Kotorost, 174 M. by See also:rail N.E. of See also:Moscow
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Pop. about 70,000
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Yaroslavl is an archiepiscopal see
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The Uspenskiy See also:cathedral was begun in 1215 and rebuilt in 1646–48; the churches of the Preobrazhenskiy monastery, St See also: |
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