Everything about Veliky Ustyug totally explained
Veliky Ustyug is a
town in
Vologda Oblast,
Russia, located at the
confluence of the
Sukhona and
Yug Rivers. Population: 36,000 (1970). It is served by
Velikiy Ustyug Airport.
Origin of the town's name: the first recorded settlement here, the monastic settlement at
Gleden, was created near the point where the
Yug River flows into the
Sukhona River. Downstream from this confluence the two rivers form a single waterway known as the
Northern Dvina. By the late fifteenth century the community had acquired the title
Great -
Veliky .
The town of Veliky Ustyug was first mentioned in a
chronicle in 1207. It was a part of the
Vladimir-Suzdal Principality. Located at the junction of important
trade routes, the city turned into a significant commercial and industrial centre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Veliky Ustyug lost its key role as a river port with the diminishing importance of the Sukhona river route for trade between China and western Europe. This was particularly exacerbated by the opening of the
Suez Canal in 1869. The city is known for its remarkable
handicrafts, such as
silver filigree,
birch bark fretwork, decorative
copper binding, and
niello.
Veliky Ustyug is also the birthplace of
Semyon Dezhnev,
Yerofey Khabarov, and
Vladimir Atlasov.
In 1998 Moscow Mayor
Yury Luzhkov proposed to officially locate the residence of
Ded Moroz in Veliky Ustyug (instead of traditional
Laplandia . There was established a public (ОАО) company "Ded Moroz" to promote Veliky Ustyug as the official residence of Ded Moroz. There is a special post office here devoted to answering children mail to Ded Moroz that already answered more than 1.2 million letters
[. There are plans to build an amusement park "12 Months in the Votchina of Ded Moroz" and a museum "Home of Ded Moroz"][
It is also the basis for the fictional city of Veliky Gusliar written about by Kir Bulychev.
]Views of Veliky Ustyug
Image:vu02.jpeg|View to cathedral complex in Veliky Ustyug from village Dymkovo (photo 2001).
Image:vu05.jpeg|Spaso-Preobrazhensky cathedral on Krasnaya street in Veliky Ustyug (photo 2001).
Image:vu07.jpeg|View to Sukhona River from bell tower of Uspensky cathedral in Veliky Ustyug (photo 2001).
Image:vu11.jpeg|Portal of church of Dmitry Solunsky in village Dymkovo near Veliky Ustyug (photo 2001).
Image:vu13.jpeg|City river port of Veliky Ustyug (photo 2001).
Image:vu18.jpeg|Embankment in Veliky Ustyug (photo 1913).
Image:vu19.jpeg|Embankment in Veliky Ustyug (photo beginning of twentieth century).
Image:Sukhona sunset.jpeg|Sunset on Sukhona River near Veliky Ustyug (photo 2001).
Image:dvina.jpg|Northern Dvina starts as the confluence of Yug River (on left) and Sukhona River (on top) near Velikiy Ustyug (photo 2001).
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