Yurievets 10 rubles 2010 SPMD

Yurievets 10 rubles 2010 SPMD

The reverse in the upper right portion of the disk is represented by the coat of arms of the city Yurievets in the center - the panorama of the city, against the backdrop of the river. The top of the ring at the edge of the rim - the inscription: "THE ANCIENT CITY OF RUSSIA", at the bottom - "Yurievets."

Yurievets - small, but perhaps among the oldest settlements of Ivanovo region. According to the generally accepted version of Prince Volodymyr founded the town of George II in 1225, the year in the same place where he was a phenomenon of the icon of St. George. And Yurievets named in honor of the saint. According to other historians, the city was founded by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky somewhat earlier, in 1150, the year.

In the history of Russia Yuryevets said at the beginning of the 17th century. Townspeople were created militias, which gave a fitting rebuff to the Polish-Lithuanian invaders, and be a great help to increase and promote the people's army under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin.

Yurievets located on the right bank of the Gorky reservoir, opposite the confluence of the Volga River in Unzha. It is a place of its current location wonderful story of salvation of his city residents. In the late 40s of the twentieth century, it was designed by the construction on the Volga River huge reservoir. Many small villages, towns, and villages, and together with them and Yurievets, subject to relocation, and coastal areas - flooding. Only people Yurievets decided to fight for his small home, before Stalin defended the right of the city to stay on the historic site. To do this, between the city and the Volga River was built a dam that protects the area from flooding Yurievets.

Yurievets glorified just two well-known film director who spent his childhood here. It is the creator of the Soviet kinoskazok Alexander Rowe, cult Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.

Release date March 1, 2010