Yaroslavl - Churches & Parks

Friday, 21 September 2018

Yaroslavl is one of Moscow's "Golden Ring" cities -- a circle of cities northeast of Moscow that were important in early Russian history, most of them having been founded in the 10th to 12th centuries. Yaroslavl is the largest and most industrial of these cities, but the older part of the city retains its historic charm. (Sergiyev Posad is also a Golden Ring city, and some consider Uglich, Rybinsk, and Tutaev part of them as well.)

Confluence Park, where the Kotorosi River flows into the Volga. The "1008" is not the year of Yaroslavl's founding by Yaroslavl the Wise (in 1010), but the number of years since then.

Many churches in Russia come in pairs: a summer church and a winter church. Here the summer church is the white one in the foreground. The winter church is the red brick church in the background. Winter churches were built to be easier to heat. Summer churches were built to be light and airy, but too difficult to keep warm in the winter.

The Cathedral of the Assumption

Another view of the Cathedral's domes.

The Chapel of Alexander Nsevskij stands in a small park in front of the regional government building.

Behind the government building is the Church of St. Elijah the Prophet.

I take way too many photos of onion domes and bell towers.

The iconostasis in the Church of St. Elijah the Prophet.

The church is noted for its frescoes.

An interesting weathervane in Yaroslavl.

The "Great Patriotic War" (World War II) was devastating to the Soviet Union, particularly the Russian republic. Yaroslavl's memorial to that war has an eternal flame.