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The first mention of Ivanov dates back to 1561 and according to legend is associated with the name of Ivan the Terrible. It was this year that Ivan the Terrible granted his relatives - princes Temryukovich-Cherkassky. But the document on the “granting” of the village was not published then or later, and it is unknown whether it existed. Judging by the results of archaeological excavations, the settlement arose long before the XVI century. Really reliable information about the village belongs to the beginning of the XVII century, to the time of the peasant war and the Polish-Swedish intervention. Ivanovo became the center of the feudal fiefdom. The owners of the village in 1579 built a men's Pokrovsky monastery near it (on the site of the present Palace of Arts). Near the monastery began to settle peasants, and there was a monastery settlement Pritykino (now Krutitskaya Street). The peasants of the village of Ivanovo were engaged in bakery, craft, trade.

In the XVII century Ivanovo became the center of canvas fishing. The canvas was made with the help of a hand loom, and flax was spinned by peasants in villages with the help of spindles and spinning wheels. The canvases were bleached along the banks of the river Uvod. At the end of this century there is a slaughter fishery on canvases began to apply a drawing. In the village of Dunilovo, fishing flourished. There were 37 shops, 40 sheds, 16 regiments, 4 forges. Trade was also booming in Kineshma.

In the first half of the XVIII century, the village turned into a large commercial and commercial village. In 1705, by decree of Peter the Great, a customs house was established in Ivanovo to collect various duties from trade into the treasury. In 1743, the village, for a long time belonging to the princes of Cherkasy, passed to Count P.B. Sheremetev.

Since the middle of the XVIII century. in our region began to appear large textile manufactories, which were made of local raw materials fabrics - linen fabrics. In 1742, the first manufactory was founded in the village of Ivanovo, its owner was the "capitalist" peasant Grigory Butrimov. In the '40s and '50s. In the eighteenth century, the enterprises of Grachev, Garelin, Yamanovsky appeared here. And to the onts of the XVIII century there are finishing manufactories that produced stuffed fabrics.

During the war of 1812, the population of our region took an active part in the activities of the militia. In the village of Yegoryev, Ivanovo district is the grave of the hero of the war of 1812, General E.I. Vlastov.

On August 2, 1871, the village of Ivanovo and Voznesensky Posad merged into one urban settlement Ivanovo-Voznesensk.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ivanovo was one of the centers of the revolutionary and working-class movement in Russia. In December 1897, the first strike of textile workers took place, which ended in the victory of the workers. In May 1905, during the first Russian revolution, a general strike took place in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, during which the First City-wide Soviet of Workers' Deputies was formed.

In the late XIX - early XX century in Ivanovo-Voznesensk was carried out a large stone construction. Factory buildings and mansions of manufacturers were erected in the popular "modern" style at the beginning of the twentieth century.

January 14, 1929 was formed Ivanovo industrial region (hereinafter - IPO), which included the territories of modern Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Kostroma regions. In total, the IPO covered 135 thousand square kilometers, with a population of 4671 thousand people. It produced 40% cotton, 75% linen, 25% silk fabrics in the USSR. In terms of its economic power, IPO ranked third after the Moscow and Leningrad regions.

During the first five-year plans, the construction of new enterprises began in the region. On May 1, 1929, the Red Talka factory was opened. November 7, 1929 came into operation Ivanovo Melange plant. In parallel with the construction of enterprises began to build residential buildings. In 1926, 138 new homes were built. Two-storey houses looked like Western European cottages and, therefore, they were then called "Ivanovo Holland" or "Ivanovo Switzerland". Houses were built in Ivanovo and according to original architectural projects: for example, a 400-apartment "house - commune", "house of specialists" for 100 apartments on Kalinin Street. In 1929, according to the project of architect D.V. Rozanov, the Central Hotel was built in the city. Their exterior design clearly traces the features of constructivism - architectural style, widespread in these years.

Throughout its history, Ivanovo remained a typical industrial formation. In Ivanovo-Voznesensk, the first kitchen factory in the country was opened. She was housed in the former dormitory of the Fokina factory on Krutitskaya Street. Here was organized the "mechanical preparation of dinners", food in large thermoses delivered in hot form in the factory canteens. The kitchen was designed to cook 14,000 meals a day. However, this was not enough and in the Posad district of the regional center on the site of the broken Ascension Church in 1930, another factory was laid - a kitchen (now the Ivanovo branch of RSTU is located in this building).

In 1933 in Ivanovo opened a large stadium "Dynamo" (now "Textilist"). Parks were set up for people to rest. On May 27, 1930, the City Council decided to create a park of culture and recreation. Revolutions of 1905 on the basis of the so-called Kuvaev Forest. In May 1936, the Stepanov City Park was opened. In 1934, the Ivanovo Regional Union of Soviet Artists began to work. At regional exhibitions, the works of masters were exhibited: I.N. Nefedov, N.P. Sekerin, V.N. Govorov, N.G. Burov, A.M. Kuznetsov, D.A. Trubnikov.

In the 1930s - 1940s, the textile industry developed rapidly here, in the 1950s - 1960s - mechanical engineering and other industries. In the late 1950s - early 1960s, Ivanovo was the center of the Upper Volga Sovnarkhoz - a large regional economic association in the northeast of the European part of Russia.

Ivanovo is located in the center of the Golden Ring of Russia. Many historical monuments and museums are concentrated here, such as: Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, A.I. Morozov House-Museum, D.G. Burylin Museum of Industry and Art, the well-known Ivanovo Sitz Museum (currently merged with the regional museum of local lore into the Museum of Industry and Art).

Ivanovo Regional Art Museum was opened in 1960, the museum exposition includes works from private collections, spare funds of the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery. The exposition consists of 5 departments: the art of ancient Egypt, the ancient world, the ancient Russian state of the 18th - early 20th centuries, Soviet art and Palekh art. The department of Russian art presents almost all the classics of Russian painting, ranging from F.S. Rokotov and B.A. Borovikovsky and ending with representatives of the "World of Art" V.A. Serova and K.A. Somov. The department of Soviet art is especially rich, where you can see the paintings of B.A. Kustodiev, V.D. Polenov, A.A. Daineka and Ivanovo artists - I.N. Nefedov, M.I. Malyutin, E.A. Gribov, etc.

The branch of the art museum is the house - the museum of the People's Artist of the USSR B.I. Prorokov (Prorokov Street, 15). The museum recreates the environment that surrounded the artist in his youth, here you can get acquainted with author’s works and photographs.

In November 1996, on the 80th anniversary of the birth of the poet M.A. Dudin, his room-museum was opened. Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin is an outstanding frontline poet, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. Gorky, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honored Worker of Culture of Armenia, Honorary Citizen of Ivanovo and Armenia. The room-museum of M.A. Dudin is located in the building of ONMO NT (Lenin Prospect, 16), earlier in this room was the Ivanovo branch of the Writers' Union, where M. Dudin visited many times during his visits to Ivanovo.

In 2002, an archaeological museum was opened on the basis of the historical faculty of IvSU by students. It can trace the entire archaeological history of the Ivanovo region and the city of Ivanovo, from the Paleolithic (ancient stone age) to the Iron Age. Exhibits were collected by students of the faculty during the archaeological practice.

"Shchudrovskaya tent" - the first brick building of civil purpose, built in the village of Ivanovo in the second half of the XVII century by the then owners of the Ivanovo fiefdom - the princes of Cherkasy. The original purpose was the "patrimonial courtyard", where the administration of the patrimony was concentrated. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was in the possession of the merchant Osip Shchudrov, who adapted it for industrial purposes. Two floors were built: the third - for the manufacture of typing and plucking and the fourth - for natural drying of finished goods on "dryers".

The Ivanovo land is associated with the life and activity of counts Sheremetev, poetess M. Tsvetaeva, architects of the Vesnin brothers, playwright A.N. Ostrovsky, traveler Admiral G.I. Nevelsky, artist I.I. Levitan, singer F.I. Chaliapin, scientist N.N. Benardos, father and son of Tarkovsky and many others.