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YAROSLAVL , a See also: town of See also: Russia, capital of the See also: government of the same name, on the right See also: bank of the Volga, at its confluence with the Kotorost, 174 M. by See also: rail N.E. of 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: John's and Voskreseniye date from the 15th and 17th centuries
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Yaroslavl has a
See also: lyceum, founded (1803) by a wealthy member of the See also: Demidov See also: family
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The manufactories include See also: cotton-mills, See also: flour-mills, See also: tobacco and See also: linen factories
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The town was founded in 1026–36
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It became the chief town of a principality in 1218 and remained so until 1471, when it See also: fell under the dominion of Moscow
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