Ivanovo - History

57°00N 41°00E, pop (2000e) 480 000. Capital city of Ivanovskaya oblast, C European Russia; on R Uvod, 318 km/198 mi NW of Moscow; founded, 1871; noted for its revolutionary activities in the 1880s, 1905, and 1917; railway; historic centre of Russia's cotton-milling; textiles, machines, chemicals, wood products, foodstuffs.

Ivanovo (Russian: Ива́ново) is the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.

Ivanovo has traditionally been called the textile capital of Russia. Probably the most famous of the city's female natives was the postmodern French writer Nathalie Sarraute.

History

Ivanovo was created by merging the old flax-processing village Ivanovo (first documented in 1561) with the industrial Voznesensky Posad in 1871.

By the early 20th century, Ivanovo competed with Łódź (also a part of the Russian Empire at that time) for a title of the main textile production centre in Europe.