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The capital city of Ivanovo oblast.
Ivanovo city is located in central part of European Russia, administrative center of Ivanovo oblast. The city is also known as “the city of brides”, “the land of printed cotton”, “Russian Manchester”, “Red Manchester”. Ivanovo is called Russian textile industry capital for hundreds of years.
Ivanovo city has the population of about 406,500 (2009) on the land area of 105 sq. km.
Ivanovo city phone code - +7-4932. Postal codes - 153000-153052.
There is an airport in the city - Ivanovo Yuzhny (Southern) Airport. There is also Ivanovo Severny (Northern) airport - one of the largest Russian military air base. Ivanovo city is included in the “Golden Ring of Russia” cities list. Main industries of Ivanovo are machine building, textile, sewing and food.
Ivanovo was founded by merging two settlements in 1871. First one was Ivanovo village (flax-processing center), second one - Voznesensky Posad (industrial center). The new town received name Ivanovo-Voznesensk.
At the beginning of 20th century the town was competing with Lodz town (that time also the part of Russian Empire) for the title of European main textile production center. Being the city with numerous factories Ivanovo city was the place of high revolutionary activity and in May 1905 probably the first Soviet in history was created there (Ivanovo Soviet).
In 1918 the city received the status of guberniya (region) administrative center. In 1932 the city received its current name - Ivanovo. Today the idea of returning city its original name “Ivanovo-Voznesensk” is becoming more and more popular.
Ivanovo city is famous first of all by the monuments of constructivism epoch (the 30s of 20th century): house-the-ship, house-the-horseshoe and the like. There are a lot of historical and revolutionary monuments in the city which make it rather specific.
The historical center of Ivanovo is interesting by its former merchants’ houses of 19th and early 20th centuries. The industrial architecture of 19th century is rather interesting (several textile plants of that period remained almost unchanged).
Among the other places of interest worth mentioning is Shudrovskaya palatka constructed in 17th century and St.-Vedensky convent, the main part of which was built in early 20th century.
Ivanovo unlike its neighbors (Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Kostroma) developed first of all as an industrial center, that’s why there are a lot of plants on the territory of the city. At present trade and service industries are rapidly developed. There are also opportunities for tourism development.
Ivanovo city was traditionally considered the center of Russian textile industry. The first textile plants came into being in 17th century. Nowadays the number of textile plants considerably reduced, but there are a lot of sewing plants. Food industry is being developed. There are a lot of various trade and entertainment centers in the city.
Cultural and entertainment events of Ivanovo city:
Ivanovo city street
Ivanovo city scenery
Ivanovo city view
Ivanovo city square view
Ivanovo Russia city architecture
Ivanovo city fountain
Ivanovo Russia city theater
Ivanovo city medical university
Ivanovo Russia city church
Ivanovo city cathedral
The origin of well known in Russia phrase that Ivanovo is the "city of brides" is the following. In one of the Soviet movies famous Russian artist Andrey Mironov was singing a song where this phrase was mentioned in the general translation like "I will go to Ivanovo and Ivanovo is the city of brides".
The reason is that Ivanovo city is historically the center of Russian textile industry, so there are numerous textile enterprises with the majority of workforce presented by young women.
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