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Ivanovo is the capital and largest city of Ivanovo Oblast, set on both banks of the Uvod River about 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow. It had about 362,000 people at the 2021 census and is the youngest city on the Golden Ring of old Russian towns.
Poor soils pushed the people of the village of Ivanovo toward weaving, dyeing and printing linen, and by the late 17th century it was a large craft center. Mills grew up in the 18th century, cotton printing followed, and in 1871 Ivanovo merged with the Voznesensky Posad to form the town of Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Its many textile mills earned it the name of the Russian Manchester, and it took its present name in 1932.
Today visitors come for the textile heritage, from calico museums to old mill streets, and for one of the richest collections of 1920s and 1930s constructivist buildings in Russia, along with churches, museums and a domed circus by the river.
The Museum of Ivanovo Calico opened on 9 June 1987 in the family mansion of the mill owner and collector Dmitry Burylin in Ivanovo. Built on his textile collection, its more than half a million items make it one of the largest fabric collections in Russia, from hand block printing to fashion.
The Museum of Industry and Art in Ivanovo was founded by the mill owner Dmitry Burylin, who began its building on 25 August 1912 and opened it on 26 December 1914. Built on the coins, books, paintings and antiques gathered by his family, it now belongs to the regional history museum.
The Shchudrovskaya Palatka is the oldest surviving brick building in Ivanovo, built in the late 17th century as the office of the managers of the village, with keel-shaped window frames. In the 19th century the textile maker Shchudrov added two floors and turned it into a fabric printing workshop.
Sheremetevsky Prospekt is one of the main streets of Ivanovo, running from Revolution Square over the Uvod River on the Sokovsky Bridge to the railway station. It is named after the Sheremetev family, who owned the village of Ivanovo from 1743, and it took back that name in 2012.
The Ship House in Ivanovo is a constructivist apartment house built in 1929-1930 to a design by D. F. Fridman for a workers' housing cooperative, with a long main block rising to eight floors. Its lower second block was nicknamed the Barge, and both are protected as a federal heritage site.
The Horseshoe House in Ivanovo is a six-story constructivist apartment house built in 1933-1934 for staff of the OGPU, the Soviet secret police. It has 104 apartments and a curved plan like a horseshoe, with an outer facade 186 meters long, and it is a listed regional heritage site.
The House of Soviets in Ivanovo is a constructivist government building on Revolution Square, built in 1932-1934 as the only finished part of a planned quarter for the Ivanovo Industrial Region. A ten-story tower was added to it in the 1970s, and it now houses the city administration.
The House of the Collective in Ivanovo is a large constructivist housing complex designed by Ilya Golosov after a competition held in 1928 for a workers' cooperative. Built on the old fair square as a commune house where daily life would be shared, it is protected as a federal heritage site.
The Vvedensky Convent in central Ivanovo grew around a church built with money from the town mayor Pavel Derbenev and his brothers to a design by Pyotr Begen. Patriarch Tikhon served there in 1918, and after decades as a state archive it became a convent in 1991.
The Assumption Church in Ivanovo was the only old Russian wooden church in the city, built around 1700 and moved twice before a fire destroyed it on 18 November 2015. It was carefully recreated on the same site in 2020-2022 from its measured drawings, and services are held there again.
The Ivanovo Regional Art Museum was founded on 19 May 1959 with about 16,000 works from the old Burylin museum, and it moved to the historic center in 1968. Its rare range covers the ancient world, the art of the East, Western Europe, Russian art and the Russian avant-garde.
The Ivanovo State Circus stands on the bank of the Uvod River in Ivanovo, and its present domed building with 1,626 seats opened on 11 February 1983. It replaced a wooden circus of 1933, the first Soviet state circus, which was blown up in 1977, and since 1997 it has borne the name of Volzhansky.
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