Webcam Uglich. Lenin Street, Spasskaya Street (Yaroslavl region).
Uglich is an urban settlement in the Yaroslavl region, the administrative center of the Uglich district. It is located on the right bank of the Volga River in a place where the river makes a bend (angle), hence its name. The distance to Moscow is 200 kilometers, to Yaroslavl is about 100 kilometers. The population of the city is 32321 people.
This is one of the oldest cities on the Volga, which for centuries has witnessed a lot of important events for Russia. Here visited the famous French writer Alexander Dumas and lived famous Soviet poet Olga Berggoltz. Today Uglich is a part of the tourist route "Golden Ring of Russia", which annually visited more than three hundred thousand tourists.
The history of the city of Uglich is more than a thousand years old. According to legend, in 937 Prince Igor sent his troops headed by voevoda Yan Pleskovitich, a relative of Princess Olga, to the Volga River to collect the tribute.
He founded on the bank of the great Russian river first fortification, and then the city, which was originally called Uglich field.
After the collapse of the Old Russian state Uglich became part of the Rostov-Suzdal principality, and in 1218, the main town of the eponymous fiefdom.
In 1328, under Ivan Kalita, it was annexed to Moscow; half a century later, during the Moscow-Turkish confrontation, Uglich was burned, but Moscow Prince Dmitry Donskoy rebuilt it again.
Ivan the Terrible gave the city to his younger brother Yuri. In the winter of 1551 a wooden fortress was built in the Uglich forests, which was rafted to the besieged Kazan along the Volga River and laid in the place where the Sviyaga River flows into it, the town of Sviyazhsk.
By the 16th century, Uglich became a remote outskirt of the Moscow state, where people who were unwanted in the capital were often exiled. Ivan the Terrible's last wife Maria Nagaya and her son Dmitriy were among such exiles. It is to them, perhaps, the most tragic and most significant event in the history of the city is connected.
On May 15, 1591, an alarm bell notified townspeople that nine-year old tsarevich Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible and Maria Nagaya, was killed. Eyewitnesses claimed it was an accident: the boy, who suffered from epilepsy, fell on a knife during another attack of illness and fatally injured himself.
But many suspected that Boris Godunov was to blame for the tragedy, and his servants, 12 in all, who were in town, were killed. The causes of the Uglich tragedy were investigated by a special commission, about two hundred townspeople were executed, and even the bell, which rallied the Uglichites to revolt, was whipped and exiled to Tobolsk. But the death of Tsarevich Dmitry remains the biggest mystery in the history of the city.
In 1611, during the Great Troubles, Uglich was besieged by the troops of Poles Jan Sapiega, who managed to bribe his way into the town. It was almost completely devastated and burned, and its inhabitants were killed. From the large and rich Uglich only a few hundred inhabitants who had lost their homes and property remained.
The first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich, ordered people to be moved to Uglich from other places: Yaroslavl, Moscow and Rostov. By the end of the XVII century, the town had already been restored kremlin, new churches and houses were built, and it once again became an important cultural and commercial center of Russia.
Under Peter I, Uglich became the center of a large province and received its own coat of arms, which depicts the heavenly patron of the city - Tsarevich Dmitry.
In the XX century in the town were built Butter Factory, clock factory "Chaika" and the first hydroelectric power plant on the Volga. Today Uglich is a major tourist center, which attracts tourists with its ancient architecture, as well as constantly emerging new excursion destinations.
