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5 unusual facts about Kotorosl River


Church of St. Nicholas in Tropino

The Church of St. Nicholas in Tropino (Николо-Тропинская церковь) is a ruined 17th-century church on the right bank of the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl.

Church of St. Nicholas Pensky

The Church of St. Nicholas "Pensky" ("Nicholas-on-the-Stumps") is a smaller (winter) church of Fyodorovsky parish on the right bank of the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl, in the district formerly known as Tolchkovo.

Fyodorovskaya Church

The Fyodorovskaya Church (Фёдоровская церковь) is a penticupolar parish Russian Orthodox church built by ordinary parishioners on the right bank of the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl between 1682 and 1687.

Lavr Proskuryakov

Proskuryakov was responsible for many bridges constructed along the Trans-Siberian Railway, including the one crossing the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl (1896), another spanning the Yenisey near Krasnoyarsk (1898) and the Khabarovsk Bridge across the Amur River (1916).

Patriarch Nikon

Nikon survived the tsar (with whom something of the old intimacy was resumed in 1671) five years and was allowed to return to Moscow, expiring on his way there, after crossing the Kotorosl River in Tropino on 17 August 1681.



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