Location: Ivanovo Oblast Map
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Ivanovo is a historic medieval town that makes part of the Golden Ring of Russia. It is the largest city and capital of Ivanovo Oblast. On the turn of 20th century Ivanovo became an important site for textile production. Numerous factories invited thousands of women here. Thus Ivanovo got an official name of "city of brides".
Ivanovo is a relatively young city, founded in 1871. From the beginning of the 20th century it became an important center of the textile industry. One of the centers of the revolutionary movement, the "City of the First Council", is the center of a large Industrial region, which included the territories of modern Vladimir and Yaroslavl regions. At the end of the 20th century, the city fell into decay, including in connection with the decline of textile production. Now it's just a beautiful, original city in its own way.
There are many architectural monuments in Ivanovo. 14
of them have the federal category of protection.
In the
1920s-1930s, Ivanovo-Voznesensk experienced its heyday, due to the
city's reputation as a revolutionary and proletarian city, and in terms
of the number of architectural monuments of those years, it is now
second only to Moscow in the Central Federal District. The architecture
of the avant-garde (including constructivism) is widely represented
here, which includes about 50 buildings: the Ship House, the Horseshoe
House, the House of the Collective, the Ivselbank building, the railway
station, etc. Among the avant-garde architects who built here were
leading architects of the country, and Ivanovo-Voznesensk architects. In
Ivanovo-Voznesensk, for the first time, a new type of building appeared
- a factory-kitchen (factory-kitchen No. 1 on Krutitskaya Street). Most
of the avant-garde monuments are in a deplorable state and require
repair. Under the threat of demolition is the administrative building of
the OGPU. A major monument of urban art is the First Workers'
Settlement, which realized the concept of a garden city. Another
monument of this period is the complex of buildings of the
Ivanovo-Voznesensky Polytechnic Institute, built in the style of "red
dorica".
The most ancient buildings of Ivanovo: the
Shchudrovskaya tent of the late 17th century and the wooden Assumption
Church of the late 17th - early 18th centuries, almost completely lost
as a result of a fire in 2015. The historical center of the city is
interesting for the former houses and estates of Ivanovo manufacturers
and merchants of the 2nd half of the 18th - early 20th centuries: the
estates of I. N. and S. N. Polushins, the estates of E. I. Grachev,
Zubkov, Fokin, Burylin, Marakushev, A Düringer, mansions of A. I.
Garelin, N. M. Gandurin, L. M. Gandurin, N. T. Shchapov and others.
Industrial architecture is also of interest. In the city, several
pre-revolutionary textile factories have been preserved almost intact.
The Dzerzhinsky and Krasnaya Talka factories built in the 1920s are also
of interest. They implemented a number of innovations in industrial
architecture.
Almost all the old churches of Ivanovo were
destroyed under the Soviet rule. The Kazan (1787, rebuilt in 1810),
Ilyinskaya (1841) and Vladimirskaya (1904) churches, the Transfiguration
Cathedral (1893) and the Vvedensky Church (1907) have survived to this
day.
There are a large number of historical and
revolutionary monuments in the city: a monument to the fighters of the
1905 revolution on Revolution Square, the Krasnaya Talka memorial
complex on the Talka River, monuments to communist revolutionaries.
In 2012, at the initiative of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the
Square of the 40th Anniversary of Victory, despite the protests of
residents, a monument was demolished in honor of the victory of the
Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. On the site of the memorial in
the same year, a sculpture of St. George was opened.
Until 2010,
Ivanovo had the status of a historical settlement, but by order of the
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation dated July 29, 2010 No.
418/339, the city was deprived of this status.
Old Ivanovo
1 Shchudrovskaya tent, 10 Augusta street, 36a. The
oldest building in the city.
2 Revolution Square. In addition to
the unintelligible revolutionary memorial, it is worth seeing a very
specific quote from Lenin at the end of the House of Soviets (which
in itself is a monument of constructivism) and the Gandurins'
estate, one of the best examples of Ivanovo classicism (ul. 10
Augusta, 31-33).
3 Düringer's Estate , st. Maria Ryabinina, 33.
Modern. Across the road is no less interesting Sokolov's house
(Maria Ryabinina St., 28).
4 Shop Kurazhev brothers, prosp.
Lenina, 5. Geometric Art Nouveau. Another example of this genre is
right around the corner - Koshelev's store (Red Army Street, 4).
5 Fokin Manufactory, Sovetskaya st. 30-32. The most preserved
industrial ensemble of the second half of the 19th century, and not
the beginning of the 20th.
6 Crossroads of architectural styles,
the corner of Sovetskaya and Maria Ryabinina. Three wonderful
red-brick houses built in different, but well-harmonized genres,
from modern to constructivism. The Shchapovs' mansion (Sovetskaya
45) is made in the style of late eclecticism, mixed with rational
modernity. It was built in 1909 by the architect P.A. Zarutsky, and
in 1934 according to the design of A.A. Brechalov, another floor was
built on with the repetition of the finial and the previous
decorative elements. The trading school (Sovetskaya 43) appeared
either at the end of the 19th century, or in 1904 (architect S.V.
Napalkov). The building went down in history by the fact that in
1905-1908 D.A. Furmanov. The dormitory of the cotton technical
school (Sovetskaya 42) was built in 1930 according to the project of
the architect S.K. Beetle and is distinguished by the accentuated
angular volume characteristic of constructivism.
7 Sheremetevsky
prospect. Several blocks of "undiluted" constructivism - from the
building of the hotel "Central" (house 1) to the hostels of the
Polytechnic University (house 37).
Along the Uvod river
8
Kazan Church. Nearby is the patrimonial office of Sheremetev 9 - a
mansion in the style of classicism and a couple of partly preserved
factory buildings.
10 Fokin Manufactory (bobbin and reel
factory), Podgornaya st. 12. Good view from the other side of the
river.
11 Polushkin House, Ave. Lenina, 40. Brick Gothic in the
British spirit.
12 Bolshaya Ivanovskaya Manufactory, ave. Lenin,
19-21.
13 New Ivanovskaya Manufactory, st. Zhideleva, 1. Loft.
Voznesensky Posad
In the same area, the luxurious mansions of
the Buturlins, given over to museums.
14 Houses of the Regional
Council of National Economy, st. Kalinina, 5-7.
15 Horseshoe
house, st. Gromoboy, 13.
16 House-ship , ave. Lenina, 43.
17 Bird House, Ave. Lenin, 53.
18 Second Working Village,
between st. Furmanov and Oktyabrskaya.
19 Vvedensky Monastery,
Sheremetevsky Ave. 88.
Outskirts
20 Memorial "Red Talka".
21 First Workers' Village. Half-timbered houses of the mid-1920s.
22 Zubkov's estate, Rabfakovskaya st. 6. Corner of Ivanovo
classicism.
23 Spinning building of the factory. Dzerzhinsky,
st. Timiryazeva, 1. The largest in the city, and even in general, an
industrial building in the style of constructivism.
24 Kuvaev
Hospital, st. Ermaka, 52. A well-preserved complex of buildings in
the brick style.
Museums
1 Museum of Ivanovo chintz, st.
Baturina, 11/42. ☎ 32-7405. 11:00–17:00 except Mon. 120 rub. Cotton
shawls with a map of the railways of the Russian Empire and comic
rules for cleaning guns.
2 Museum of Industry and Art. Burylina,
st. Baturin, 6/40. ✉ ☎ 32-71-45. 11:00–17:00 except Mon; on Thu the
museum is open in the afternoon: 14:30–20:30. 120 rub.
3 Ivanovo
Regional Art Museum, prosp. Lenina, 33. ☎ 32-65-04. 11:00–18:00
except Tue. 150 rub.
4 Museum of the First Council, st.
Sovetskaya, 27. ☎ 30-89-11. 11:00–17:00 except Mon. 60 rub.
5
House-Museum of B.I. Prorokova, st. Prorokova, 15. ☎ 32-94-53.
11:00–18:00 except Tue. 30 rub.
6 House-Museum of A.I. Morozov,
st. Bagaeva, 57. ☎ 30-15-91. 11:00–18:00 except Tue. 30 rub.
7
House-Museum of the Bubnov family, st. III International, 45/43. ☎
32-76-18. 11:00–17:00 except Mon. 60 rub.
8
Museum
of Military Transport Aviation, Severny airfield. ☎ +7
(4932) 37-99-82. Mon–Fri 10:00–17:00, by appointment only.
Entertainment
9 Ferris wheel, embankment in the area of
Ave. Lenin. Great view of the old manufactories. Aug 2018 edit
10 Palace of Arts , pl. Pushkina, 2. A large building of the Soviet
era, in which all Ivanovo theaters are located - drama, music and
puppet.
11 Philharmonic , st. Red Army, 8.
12 Zoo, st.
Leningradskaya, 2a. 10:00–18:00 except Mon and Tue, from May to
September 15 10:00–20:00 seven days a week. 150 rub.
13 Circus,
Lenina Avenue, 42 (bus No. 1, No. 7 or minibus No. 136 to the stop
"Pushkin Square"). ☎ +7 (4932) 41-60-13 (cashier), +7 (4932)
92-90-34. cash desk - 10:00 - 19:00.
Churches
Church of Saint Elijah (Ильинская Церковь)
The Andrei Tarkovsky Zerkalo International Film
Festival is a film festival that has been held annually since 2007 at
the end of May. This unique film festival is held in several stages. The
grand opening is held on the square near the theater complex, along with
the "red carpet" where you can see many domestic movie stars. Further,
in the following days, films are simultaneously shown in all city
cinemas according to festival film programs. Then the jury and invited
movie stars, famous film directors sail down the Volga to the city of
Yuryevets, to the Andrei Tarkovsky Museum. Summing up the results of the
film festival is held in Ivanovo.
The annual all-Russian festival of
children's puppet theaters "Ant" is held on the basis of the Theater
Complex in Ivanovo.
Interregional rock festival "Antifabrika", the
purpose of which is "an alternative to the dominance of low-quality,
phonogram performance on the Russian stage" and the popularization of
rock music among young people.
Regional festival-competition of rock
music "Rock-February". It has been held annually since 1994. The oldest
and largest of the currently existing rock music festivals in Ivanovo.
It has cultural significance for the life of the region. The event
gathers participants of the Ivanovo festival projects "Rock Smile",
"School Rock", "Copper Pipes". The organization of the festival had
educational value in many respects - to give young people the
opportunity to develop creatively, to promote a healthy lifestyle. It is
held with the support of the Committee for Youth Policy, Physical
Culture and Sports of the Administration of the city of Ivanovo.
Arkady Severny International Music Festival "Black Rose"
The
military-patriotic holiday "Open Sky" is an annual military-patriotic
holiday. Held in August at the Severny airfield. It includes a
demonstration of military equipment, demonstration performances by
paratroopers, concerts of famous Russian rock bands, various contests
and attractions.
City Day is an annual celebration dedicated to the
day of receiving city status. The date of the celebration is “floating”
- in different years at different times (at the end of May, in June,
August).
Ivanovo in works of art
Andrey Mironov - "Well, why
are we not a couple" (1981)
Trio "Meridian" - "Song of Ivanov" (1986)
Boris Grebenshchikov - "Weaver" (2006)
National Project - "Ivanovsky
Blues"
Disco Crash - "Malinki"
Seryoga - "Ivanovo"
Dune - "City
of Ivanov" (music: A. Barykin, lyrics: A. Slavorosov)
Ivanovo Choir
of Textile Workers - "Song of Ivanovo" (S. Okhomush - A. Kryuchkovsky)
"Moscow-Ivanovo" - a poem by E. A. Evtushenko
“How the Father was
Killed” - a story by D. A. Furmanov
"Talka" - a story by D. A.
Furmanov
G. Serebryakov's poem "I am the son of Ivanovo weavers."
In movie:
Duel - feature film, 1944, short film Soyuzdetfilm,
dir. V. Legoshin
Lonely people are provided with a hostel - film,
1983, short film Mosfilm, dir. S. Samosonov
By plane
Ivanovo-Yuzhny Airport, Ivanovsky District,
Lezhnevskoye Highway, 3. ✉ ☎ +7 (4932) 93-22-33. The opportunity is
there, but the price is quite high. The cost is about 5000 rubles.
Only from St. Petersburg, during the season of Simferopol, Anapa and
Sochi, flights from Moscow are canceled with the appointment of
Lastochka. When buying in 10 days 2500 - from St. Petersburg. The
city can be reached by trolleybus.
By train
Railway
station (Ivanovo-gorod), Vokzalnaya square, 3. ☎ +7 (800) 775-00-00.
You can get from Moscow either by a night train from the Yaroslavsky
railway station via Alexandrov (on the way about seven hours) or by
the high-speed train "Lastochka" from the Kursk railway station via
Vladimir (four times a day - early in the morning, afternoon, late
evening and at night, on the way 3 h 40 minutes). You can also get
to Vladimir by high-speed train "Sapsan" or "Swallow" (1 hour 45
minutes), and then by taxi or bus to Ivanovo. The bus goes 1.5-2
hours, they go every hour until 18:00. The bus station in Vladimir
is located across the street from the railway station.
There
are also trains coming from St. Petersburg. Suburban railway
communication - with the cities of Yaroslavl and Kovrov. Trains from
St. Petersburg depart from Moskovsky railway station, there is a 45
branded Ivanovsky train, departs every day at 17.40, tickets for a
reserved seat, depending on the season, cost around 1500 rubles, a
compartment around 3000. There is also another train 337 leaves at
18.20 , it has cheaper tickets, a reserved seat in the region of
1000 rubles, there are even seats, about 500 rubles! Both trains run
for 16 hours and arrive the next day, respectively, at 9.40 and
10.40 am. It is better to buy tickets in advance if you are
traveling during the season (holidays, summer vacations), if all the
tickets are sold out, then as a rule, tickets to Yaroslavl usually
remain, these trains arrive in Yaroslavl in the morning at about 6
o'clock, there you can already get to the bus station and get to
Ivanovo , a few hours on the road.
From the railway station,
you can go further by bus in the direction of Furmanov, Plyos,
Privolzhsk, the ticket office is located in the station building.
You need to go to other areas of the region from the bus station,
which can be reached by trolleybuses No. 2 and No. 3.
By bus
Buses from Moscow depart from the Shchelkovsky railway station.
Bus station, Lezhnevskaya st., 152. ☎ +7 (4932) 23-41-54. A
large transport hub, from where buses run in all directions of the
region. There are buses to long-distance destinations, including the
exotic Novorossiysk.
Buses, trolley buses, route taxis. The fare in the city is 19-21 rubles. Trams ran until 2008. It was decided to remove them due to a number of negative factors. There is a large bus station, located at ul. Lezhnevskaya, d. 152, a lot of buses follow him from all directions in the region, there are buses to distant directions, there is even a bus to Novorossiysk. The bus to Moscow is very popular.
SEC "Silver City"
SEC "Topol"
SEC "Euroland"
SEC "Ash"
Three major textile centers are also present:
"Textile-Profi
Ivanovo"
"Rio"
"Textile Max" (located outside the city)
Sovetskaya Hotel, 64 Lenina ul., ☎ +7 932 37-25-47. Located near
the centre.
Tourist Hotel, 9 Naberezhnaya ul., ☎ +7 932 37-64-36.
Cheap
McMaster fast food chain (analogue of McDonald's),
Subway, McDonald's, Just Pizza, Maresto, Marciano. Cafe Japanese
cuisine "Sushnaya" on Victory Square, the average bill per serving
roll from 80 to 180 rubles (almost for nothing).
Average cost
Coffee houses: Pelegrino (average bill from 300-400 rubles), Kofebin
(200 rubles), Caffeine (150-200 rubles). Restaurants: "Pizza World",
"Marciano". One of the best restaurants in this price category is
Planet Sushi / Il Patio.
Aragvi, 1 K.Zor ul., ☎ +7 932 41-72-08. from 17:00. Georgian
cuisine.
Priboy, 117 F.Engels prospekt, ☎ +7 932 37-12-11.
Russian cuisine, dancing on Tu, We, Su in the evening.
Troyka,
102 Lenina ul., ☎ +7 932 30-03-16. from 17:00. Russian cuisine.
Cafe Pirogovaya Marusya, prosp. Lenin, 45 (building House of
Artists). The establishment specializes in pies, but it is a
full-fledged cafe where you can take, for example, soup and dine.
Good feedback.
Cutlet Burgers, Lenin Ave, 21. ☎ 8 (930)
347-42-40. 09: 00-23: 00. Delicious burgers in rolls own baking.
Expensive
Restaurants: "Regano", "Bakhchisarai",
"Shesh-Besh", "Yapo-ki-ko", "Yakitoriya", "Depot", "Soiree",
"Chaliapin"
Tet-A-Tet, 42 Lenina ul., ☎ +7 932 32-99-04. A bar.
Zaglyani, 62 Lenina ul., ☎ +7 932 41-77-83. Another bar.
As everywhere, be vigilant with personal belongings, especially at the station. The most "dangerous" areas of the city are Sorting, Rabochiy settlement, Sots.gorodok, the Central Market area.
There are many interesting or beautiful places in the Ivanovo region
- Ples and Kineshma on the Volga, Palekh, Shuya, Lezhnevo and many more
places.
House-Museum of the Tsvetaev family, p. Novo-Talitsy,
Tsvetaeva street, 63. ☎ +7 (4932) 31-51-51. Tue–Sun 11:00–17:00. 50 rub.
The house-museum of the Tsvetaev family was opened in the village of
Novo-Talitsy in 1995. It is housed in a log cabin where priest Vladimir
Vasilievich Tsvetaev, grandfather of Marina Tsvetaeva and father of Ivan
Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, the founder of the Pushkin Museum, settled in
1853.
Etymology
The first known written mention dates back to 1608: in the books of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Ivanovo appears as the village of Ivanovskoye. At the beginning of the 17th century and earlier, Ivanovo did not yet have a well-established name, there were also the names Ivanovo-Kokhomskoye, Ivanovo-Kokhomskoye and Ivanovo. By the middle of the 19th century, several textile settlements had formed on the site of the modern city, which in 1853 were merged into Voznesensky Posad. The name "Voznesensky" was given by the Church of the Ascension of the Lord. Near the settlement was the village of Ivanovo, where the textile industry also developed. In 1871, the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk was formed by merging the township and the village, which in 1932 was renamed Ivanovo.
Ivanovo arose at the Kokui stream, the right tributary of the Uvodi.
The historical core of Ivanovo is the modern Revolution Square. Based on
the results of archaeological excavations and historical evidence of the
development of the region, it can be concluded that, with a high degree
of probability, Ivanovo already existed in the 15th century. By 1579,
the foundation of the Intercession Monastery is dated, where the Palace
of Arts now stands. During the Time of Troubles, Ivanovo was attacked by
Polish invaders - in 1608-1609, a Polish-Cossack base camp was located
in the village. In 1638, the village passed into the possession of the
Shuisky princes to the Cherkassky princes.
In Ivanovo, already in
the 17th century, the textile craft reached a special development: the
weaving of linen canvases and their finishing. Since 1743, the
Sheremetevs owned the village. In the middle of the 18th century, the
first manufactories were founded by rich peasants, and later the
production of chintz appeared. In 1871, through the merger of the
village of Ivanova and Voznesensky Posad, which appeared in 1853, the
city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk was formed, which soon became the leading
textile center of the Russian Empire.
A powerful revolutionary
movement arose in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, which played an important role in
the First Russian Revolution, during which the first city council in
Russia appeared here.
In 1918 the city became the center of the
Ivanovo-Voznesensk province. In 1932 it was renamed Ivanovo. He was
given the special role of a kind of testing ground for the Soviet social
experiment to implement the ideas of the "new society". The city became
one of the centers for the spread of constructivist architecture. In the
middle of the 20th century, a number of machine-building enterprises
were created in Ivanovo.
The city of Ivanovo is located in the center of the Ivanovo region on the banks of the Uvod River, 290 km northeast of Moscow and about 100 km from Yaroslavl, Vladimir and Kostroma. The territory of the city is 10,484 hectares, of which 2,353 hectares are built up. One of two cities in Russia (along with Khanty-Mansiysk) located at the point of confluence - the place where integer parallels and meridians intersect (without minutes and seconds).
Ivanovo is located in the MSK (Moscow time) time zone. The offset of the applicable time from UTC is +3:00. In accordance with the applied time and geographic longitude, the average solar noon in Ivanovo occurs at 12:16.
The soil in the area of Ivanovo and its environs is loamy (red clay), with a rather abundant content of sand. Gray clay is found in places. Occasionally iron is found, and at the bottom of the Uvod there is sulfur pyrite. The subsoil layer of sand rests on a layer of clay, so water always lingers here and can be found at a depth of 10-13 meters. The soil is poor in nutrition for plants and requires good fertilization.
Dividing the city into two parts, the Uvod River (a tributary of the Klyazma River) flows from north to south. Within the city, small rivers flow into the Uvod: Talka, Kharinka and several streams.
On the banks of the rivers within the city there are large recreation
parks: them. Stepanov[30], Revolutions of 1905 and Kharinka. In the 60s
of the XX century, another park named after N. S. Khrushchev was laid
out on the western outskirts of the city. Over time, he fell into
disrepair. However, the picturesque birch grove that remained on its
territory remains one of the favorite places for the townspeople to
relax. In the people, this area was called "Goat swamp". The forests
surrounding the city are concentrated at the southern, eastern and
northern borders of the city, they are places of recreation for the
population.
The city consists of four administrative districts:
Leninsky, Frunzensky, Oktyabrsky, Sovetsky.
Ivanovo is located on
an area of 10,484 hectares, of which 2,353 hectares are built up. The
total area of the housing stock is 8643.8 thousand m², the number of
apartments is 179 thousand, on average, 19.1 m² per one Ivanovo citizen.
The total area of all streets, driveways, embankments and squares is
about 19.7 million square meters, their length is 700 km. It is planned
to develop a radial-ring system of streets.
According to official data, the ecological situation in the Ivanovo
region as a whole is assessed as satisfactory, but the state of water
bodies in the city is not such. The rivers that flow through the city
are mostly polluted with household waste. The city faces the problem of
supplying citizens with clean drinking water, which is mainly taken from
the Uvodskoye reservoir. The main sources of air pollution in Ivanovo
are vehicles.
Climate
The climate of Ivanovo is temperate
continental, type Dfb according to the Köppen climate classification.
Warm, but not hot summers and moderately frosty winters with stable snow
cover are typical. During the year, a significant amount of
precipitation falls: about 620 mm. The coldest month of winter is
January with an average monthly temperature of -12 degrees, the warmest
month of summer is July, the average monthly temperature of which is
+18.8 degrees. The average annual temperature is +4.3 °C. The absolute
minimum temperature was recorded in January 1940 and amounted to -46
degrees.
Ivanovo, unlike its neighbors (Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Kostroma),
developed primarily as an industrial center, so a significant number of
industrial enterprises existed here.
The city is traditionally
considered the center of the textile industry. At the moment, the number
of textile enterprises has somewhat decreased, but there are a large
number of clothing enterprises. Starting from the thirties of the XX
century, machine-building enterprises (KRANEKS, IZTS, Autocrane,
Ivenergomash) began to be actively created in the city. Currently, food
industry enterprises are developing. A small number of chemical
enterprises also exist in Ivanovo. Until the beginning of the 90s, there
was a research institute of the Union scale - NIEKMI (research
experimental design machine-building institute).
Currently, trade
and the service sector are developing at an accelerated pace. The city
has a large number of shopping centers, an extensive network of fast
food restaurants and nightclubs. There are prerequisites for the
development of tourism.
Highways
Russian federal highways P600, highways 24K-090, 24R-093
and 24K-260 pass through Ivanovo.
Public transport
Public
transport in the city is represented mainly by fixed-route taxis, which
use cars of small and medium capacity. As such, there are no state and
municipal city bus routes in the city. In addition, the city has a
network of trolleybus routes. The trolleybus service was opened on
November 5, 1962. The first line ran from Bagaev Square (now Victory
Square) to the GZIP plant. There are currently 11 trolleybus lines
operating in the city. The tram service was launched on November 6, 1934
and existed until June 1, 2008. For the entire period of operation in
the city there were 6 tram lines. According to the former mayor of
Ivanovo Alexander Fomin: "Over the past 20 years, the number of vehicles
in the city has increased by more than 10 times, and the traffic
intensity is 5-7 times higher than that for which they were designed."
Railway transport
In the northern part of the city there is the
Ivanovo station of the Northern Railway, which is a major railway
junction. The Shuya-Ivanovskaya railway was built in 1867-1868. In 1894
a new railway station was built. By the beginning of the 1930s, its
capacity was no longer enough, and in 1929-1933, a third, more spacious
station was built next to it, which to this day is the largest
architectural monument of modernism in Russia.
Communication with
Moscow is represented by two daily night trains during periods of high
passenger traffic and one (two-group Kineshma - Ivanovo - Moscow) during
periods of low passenger traffic. There was no daily direct rail link to
Moscow from the beginning of 2011 until March 2018. On March 13, 2018, a
high-speed comfortable electric train "Lastochka" was additionally
launched with departure from Ivanovo 4 times a day.
From Ivanovo
to the Moscow railway station in St. Petersburg, a night branded fast
train "Textile Region" runs.
Trains Ivanovo - St. Petersburg,
Samara - St. Petersburg, Ufa - St. Petersburg, Kineshma - Moscow,
"Lastochki" Ivanovo - Moscow, as well as summer trains Kostroma -
Ivanovo - Anapa, Kostroma - Adler and Murmansk - Simferopol pass through
the station (since April 27, 2020).
Suburban trains depart from
Ivanovo to Yaroslavl, Kineshma, Kovrov, Alexandrov and Yuryev-Polsky.
Within the city there are also stations: Ivanovo-Sortirovochnoe,
Tekstilny, Gorino.
The north-western districts of the city are
crossed by the longest electrified narrow-gauge railway in Russia,
serving the Ivanovo silicate plant.
Intercity bus service
Ivanovo bus station is located at the opposite end of the city from the
railway station, at the intersection of Lezhnevskaya street and
Stankostroiteley street. With its help, regular bus service is organized
with various cities, mainly in the central part of Russia. There are
also two bus stations: on Station Square near the railway station and in
the Rio shopping complex.
Air Transport
Air communication is
carried out with the help of a civil airport and a military transport
airfield.
Southern - civil.
Severny is an airfield for
military transport aviation and AWACS.
Yasyunikha is a sports
airfield of ROSTO.
Water supply
Providing the population, enterprises and
organizations of the city with drinking water is carried out from two
sources:
surface - Uvod river;
underground - artesian wells of the
Sidorovsky field of the Ivanovsky district, the towns of Lesnoye and
Gorino of the city of Ivanovo.
To maintain the water level in
Uvodi, hydraulic structures operate in the complex:
Uvodskoye
reservoir with a volume of 83 million m³ with a dam near the village of
Khudynino;
Canal Volga - Uvod with a length of 77 km with a flow rate
of 596 m³ / s;
water supply and pumping station on the Volga;
dam
of the Uvodskoye reservoir.
The Ivanovo water basin includes four
dams that are not on the balance sheet of JSC Vodokanal.
Drainage
The external sewerage system of the city of Ivanovo includes:
sewage
treatment plant near the village of Bogdanikha;
main pumping stations
(GNS-1 and GNS-2) on the street. Smirnova;
pumping sewage pumping
stations (46 pieces)
A single stretch of the street sewer network is
about 792.5 km.
The sewage treatment plant near Bogdanikha was
put into operation in 1978 with imperfections and deviations from the
project. Their capacity is 320 thousand m³/day. Sewage treatment
facilities are worn out, a number of elements of the technological
scheme of treatment require replacement or reconstruction. The
unsatisfactory operation of the obsolete equipment of the existing
treatment facilities leads to the adoption of urgent measures to replace
it with a new one and reconstruct the existing treatment facilities.
Currently, the reconstruction of structures near Bogdanikha is underway.
The technical condition of engineering networks and water disposal
facilities is characterized by a high level of wear - 83%, an annually
increasing accident rate and low capacity efficiency. With 100% wear,
33.4 km of main collectors are in operation, which is 95.3% of the total
number of this type of collectors.
Heat supply
As of 2015, the
city had three thermal power plants. Since 2015, one CHPP has been
decommissioned and closed by the operating organization PJSC T Plus. The
centralized heat supply of the city is provided by Ivanovskaya CHPP-2
and Ivanovskaya CHPP-3. In the 80s of the XX century, on the
northwestern outskirts of the city, in the Leninsky Put area, the
construction of CHP-4 was started. However, it was not completed.
Mobile communications in the region are provided by Tele2, MTS, Beeline, Megafon and Yota, which provide services based on 4th generation (4G) networks.
The first men's real school appeared in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in 1873,
the first women's gymnasium (now school number 30) in 1878. The first
universities (Ivanovo-Voznesensky Polytechnic Institute and
Ivanovo-Voznesensk Pedagogical Institute) were opened in 1918.
There are nine universities, seven branches of universities, 24
secondary specialized educational institutions, ten colleges, three
technical schools and ten schools in Ivanovo. A total of 63 educational
institutions, not counting schools and gymnasiums.
There are 2 federal state institutions, 6 regional state institutions, 18 municipal institutions in Ivanovo. One of the most significant health problems of the city is the shortage of medical personnel in medical institutions.
Ivanovo, the center of light industry, began to be called the "city
of brides", since a large number of women worked at its enterprises for
the manufacture and processing of fabrics. A certain role in the
popularization of this expression was played by Andrey Mironov's song
“Why are we not a couple”, which sounded in the 1981 film “Honest,
smart, unmarried”. Each of her three verses contains the following
lines:
About love I tell you all over again,
But when you get
tired of repeating in vain,
So know: I will leave for Ivanovo,
And
Ivanovo is a city of brides.
This song (music - E. Krylatov,
lyrics - M. Plyatskovsky) opens the minion A. Mironov, released at the
end of 1982, "Well, why are we not a couple."
The theme of the
“city of brides” is played up in various forms in the films of the same
name in 1985 and 2008.
In the 1985 film City of Brides directed
by L. Maryagin, the action takes place around the automation of a
textile mill and relations with its employees.
In the 2008
feature-length TV movie City of Brides (working title is Once Upon a
Time in Baben-Baben, directed by Mikhail Krupin), three male heroes end
up in a provincial town inhabited exclusively by women.
In the
sketchcom "Nasha Russia" (second season) there was a storyline - the
Ivanovo sushi bar "White Iva", whose waitress, Anastasia Kuznetsova
(Mikhail Galustyan), showed signs of attention to male customers (the
nickname "city of brides" was played up, where there are more women,
than men).
A large number of printed publications are published in Ivanovo, the
most famous are Rabochy Krai, Chastnik, Ivanovskaya Gazeta, and
Ivanovo-Press.
Broadcasting from Ivanovo is carried out by 21
radio stations.
The Ivanovo Regional Radio and Television
Transmitting Center (a branch of the RTRS "Ivanovo ORTPC") supplies the
territory of the Ivanovo Region with digital terrestrial and analog
terrestrial television and radio signals.
All federal channels
are present in the city's television broadcasting network. There are
local TV companies: Ivteleradio, TRC "Bars", TRC "7x7".
On the
territory of the city, as of February 2023, the following stations
broadcast:
69.29 - Radio Chanson
87.9 - Love Radio
88.6 -
Silver rain
89.1 - Radio of Russia
92.2 - Children's radio (PLAN)
99.7 - Radio Vera (PLAN)
100.7 - Vesti FM
101.2-NRJ
101.6 -
Retro FM
102.0 - Radio Record
102.5 - Autoradio
103.0 - Road
radio
103.6 - Radio Monte Carlo
104.2 - Radio Mayak
104.9 -
Radio Vanya
105.4 - New radio
106.0 - Europe plus
106.3 - Radio
of Russia
106.7 - Ivanovo FM
107.1 - Radio Dacha
107.7 -
Russian radio
The city of Ivanovo is represented in the Russian Football
Championship by the Tekstilshchik football team. The club was founded in
1937. In 1940 and in 1986 he was the winner of the RSFSR Football Cup,
repeatedly became the silver and bronze medalist of the RSFSR Football
Championships. In 1992-1993 and 2007 he played in the first league.
Since 2008, he has been playing in the second league. After three in the
FNL, Tekstilshchik took the last 20th place in the 2021/2022 season and
was relegated to the PFL.
In the basketball championship of
Russia among Premier League clubs, Ivanovo is represented by the Energia
women's basketball team.
The White Sharks rugby club, which plays
in the Federal League, is based in the city. The home stadium is
Avtokran of the Ivanovo Truck Crane Plant.
In 2008, the ice
sports and entertainment complex "Olympia" was opened, which is the
largest in the Central Federal District and one of the largest
facilities of this type in Europe.
The city has Tekstilshchik,
Lokomotiv, and Spartak stadiums.
Once Ivanovo, together with a
number of Russian cities, hosted the Bandy World Championship.
The Palace of team sports was built in the city in December 2020