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Yaroslavl (Яросла́вль) — city in Russia, center of Yaroslavl Oblast. The historical part of the city is located at confluence of Volga and Kotorosl.
Population about 600,000.
The city of Yaroslavl (supposedly founded 1010, known from 1071) — is an intersection of major highways, railroads and waterways. Yaroslavl is also an important industrial center (petrochemical plant, tyre manufacturing plant, diesel engines plant and many others).
There are many institutions for higher education: Demidov University, Polytechnical University, Ushinskiy Pedagogical University, Medical Academy, International University for Business and New Technologies (MUBINT) and others.
Military tuition institutions include the High Military Financial School and the High Anti-aircraft Missile School.
The city posesses a well-developed network of public transportation: buses, trolley-buses and tramway lines.
There is one railway bridge across Volga and one road bridge; the second road bridge across Volga is under construction.
There are two major passenger raiway stations: Yaroslavl-Glavnyy and Yaroslavl-Moskovskiy. Electric shuttle trains go to Danilov, Rostov, Alexandrov, Nerekhta and Kostroma. Diesel shuttle trains go to Rybinsk and Ivanovo. Also many long-distance passenger trains go through Yaroslavl.
Yaroslavl boasts the oldest theater in Russia (the Volkov Theater, 1750).
