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5 unusual facts about Yaroslavl Oblast


Danilovsky

Danilovsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Yaroslavl Oblast

Nikolay Nekrasov

Young Nekrasov grew up on his father's ancestral estate, Greshnevo, Yaroslavl province, near the Volga River.

Pesochny

Pesochnoye Urban Settlement, a former municipal formation in Rybinsky Municipal District of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia demoted in status to that of a rural settlement in January 2012

Yaroslavl Oblast

Yaroslavl Oblast was created on March 11, 1936, it included most of the former Yaroslavl Governorate added with a big part of the foremer Kostroma Governorate, along with the City of Kostroma itself, and Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Vladimir Governorate.

In 1719 after a new administrative reform territories of the modern oblast were separated between the Yaroslavl and Uglich Provinces of the Saint Petersburg Governorate and Pereslavl and Kostroma Provinces of the Moscow Governorate.


Adrian of Poshekhonye

Venerable Adrian of Poshekhonye (died 1550) was a Russian Orthodox monk and iconographer, who was the founder and first igumen (abbot) of the Dormition monastery in Poshekhonye, north Yaroslavl region.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

The son of a landowner by a serf woman, Morozov was born in the village of Borok in the Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia.

Patriots of Russia

Until 2011, the party had fractions in regional parliaments: the Kaliningrad region, Yaroslavl region, Republic of Dagestan, in the city of Kemerovo.


see also

Pereyaslavl

Pereslavl-Zalessky - a town in the Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia (was Pereyaslavl until the 15th century)

Staroselye

Staroselye Airport, an airport near Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia