Information about the city of Ivanovo
Status: the administrative center of the Ivanovo Region.
The city is situated in the interfluve of the Volga and Klyazma Rivers, on the banks of the Uvod River
(tributary of the Klyazma River), 318 km north-east of Moscow.
Phone code: 7 (493) *******
Economy.
Main enterprises of textile and light industry:
- Ivanovo melange integrated plant
- Ivanovo worsted integrated plant (closed)
- Weaving factory-automatic machine n.a. 8th of March (the first in Europe, closed; in its buildings the "Silver Town" shopping centre is located)
- Spinning factory-automatic machine n.a. Balashov
- Big Ivanovo Manufacture (BIM)
- New Ivanovo Manufacture (NIM)
- Integrated plant n.a. Samoilov
- "Polet" - Ivanovo parachute plant
Main machinebuilding enterprises:
- Ivanovo plant of heavy machinetools building - manufacturer of unique heavy grinding-machines and machining center modules
- "Kranex" (former "Ivtorfmash") - manufacturer of excavators
- "Avtokran" - manufacturer of truck cranes
- "Ivenergomash" - manufacturer of truck cranes and drilling machines
- "Tochpribor" OJSC - manufacturer of testing devices
- 308th aircraft repair plant of the Ministery of Defence of Russia
Culture.
University. Power university.
Institutes: medical, civil engineering, agricultural,
textile, chemical-engineering. Faculty of the Moscow Commercial University.
Theatres: legitimate drama, musical, puppet. Circus.
The association of Historical and Local Lore Museums, including Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Ivanovo Chintz,
House-Museum of the Artist B.I. Prorokov etc. Memorial Complex of the Revolution of 1905-07.
Ivanovo is included into Golden Ring of Russia.
Sights:
- Schudrovskaya Pavilion (XVII century)
- Wooden Dormitory Church (the end of the XVII century)
- Cathidral of Merciful Saviour (1899), architect Fedor Shekhtel. It was pulled down in 1937
- A. Duringer manor house (1910), architect A.F. Snurilov
- Building of Agricultural Bank (1927), architect V.A. Vesnin
- House-ship (1930), architect D.F. Fridman
- House-horseshue (1934), architect A.I. Panov
- Complex of buildings of Ivanovo-Voznesensky Polytechnical Institute (1928-1937), architect I.A. Fomin
- "Collective House" (400-flat residential house, 1930), architect I.A. Golosov
- Wooden circus, the largest in Europe (1935), which was pulled down in 1975
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