Biography of the city of Dmitrov

The City Coat of arms is founded in Prince Yuri Dolgoruky and named after the holy great martyr Dimitry Solunsky - the heavenly patron saint of the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, Vsevolod, born that year. Dmitrov was not only strategic importance as a border fortress, but also an economic one. From here, along the rivers of Yakhrome and sister, a waterway went to the upper Volga, along the city the city was associated with the upper reaches of Klyazma, from where the goods could be delivered to Vladimir.

However, the trade route and sister was able to fully realize himself only in the XV -XVI centuries, having connected the Volga no longer Vladimir, but Moscow, which was due to most of the political instability in the region, eliminated only after the unification of Rus'. Soon he recovered from ruin and to this there was already a big city with suburbs. Then the son of Vsevolod Vladimir approached him with the army gained in Moscow.

It was not possible to take the city, moreover, during the retreat of the enemy, Dmitrovchans defeated one of his detachments. The city has repeatedly changed its owners. During the attack of Vladimir, he was part of the Pereyaslav Principality. The Galician-Dmitrov Principality was formed near, then, when the annals reported the death of Prince Galitsky and Dmitrovsky David Konstantinovich and, when the princes Boris Dmitrovsky and Fyodor Galicia, the Galician-Dmitrov principality is mentioned and the independent Dmitrov Principality is formed.

During the XIII century, the city was twice in, was plundered by the Mongol-Tatars, the last time the steppe raid touched the city in the Dmitrov Principality of the Moscow and the title of Prince Dmitrovsky remained behind the sons of the Grand Duke. It was at this time that the Assumption Cathedral is being built and stone construction begins in the Borisoglebsky monastery.

Herberstein reports that the trading ties of the Dmitrov merchants reached the Caspian, through Dmitrov passed the trade route to the north, where bread was delivered and from where the furs, salt and valuable hunting birds were taken to Moscow. Dmitrov trade was patronized by the highest princely power, for example, in the year it was here that merchants from the conquered Vyatka are settled.

In Dmitrovsky Prince Vladimir Andreevich executed, finding himself the last specific prince in Rus', and the city is transferred to the oprichnina.

At this time, Rus' was plunged into the most severe crisis, affecting the Dmitrov trade. Henry von Staden, describing the way to Moscow in Shaksne, Volga, and others. Trinity siege. In February, Skopin-Shuisky spoke out against them, he defeated the Sapega in a field battle and liberated Dmitrov, but the Don Cossacks allied to the Poles kept the city.

Sapega, however, did not detain in Dmitrov-waiting for arrival from the Volga detachments with supplies, he went to Volokolamsk, and Skopin-Shuisky, thus taking off the blockade of Moscow, solemnly entered the capital. Polish ruin has been affected for a long time. The wooden fortifications destroyed by the sapeghe were no longer restored, especially since the need for them has disappeared.

In the city there lived only a person in more than yards. Another hundred yards were empty. However, after 25 years, the population increased 10 times, but did not reach a century ago. The revival of the old river trade route began only with the founding of St. Petersburg, although at the end of the 17th century it was used to deliver living fish from the Volga to the tsarist table in special ships.

In Dmitrov, the county is becoming the center of the county, which, in addition to the territory of the modern Dmitrovsky district, also included Sergiev Posad and, among many Russian cities, receives the coat of arms. Stone construction resumes, old wooden churches are being rebuilt, and a regular development plan receives a regular plan. The Patriotic War of the year almost did not inflict damage to the city.

Dmitrov occupied the French detachment, but having learned about the approach of Russian troops from Klin, he soon left the city without a fight. It is curious that the “visiting card” of the city, as in Tula, was gingerbread, as well as the bagels. In particular, during a visit to Alexander II, instead of traditional bread-salt, a printed gingerbread was brought to the guest. In the second half of the 19th century, after the construction of the Nikolaev railway in the Moscow-Sank-Petersburg, through Klin and the Yaroslavl Railway through Sergiev, Posad Dmitrov, remaining an administrative center, is in a relatively unprofitable economic situation, the significance of the old river trade is rejoicing, the population is reduced, although the county was considered one of the most industrially developed in the province along with Bogorodsky and Moscow.

From this state, the city was partly withdrawn by the construction of the Moscow-Savyulovo railway, by the time of the First World War, the growth of the population and industry begins. In particular, Galkin’s Chugunoliye Plant received an order for the manufacture of a number of details of the experimental tsar-tank, which was soon tested at the landfill near the village of Okayvo Dmitrovsky district.

The development of economic relations in the county was facilitated by the creation of the Union of Dmitrov cooperatives in the city of the Union. The next rise of the city is also associated with the revival of the waterway to the north.The construction gave impetus to the industrial development of the city, the DEZ, DZFS, the city territory expanded due to the inclusion of former collective farm lands on which the Gorky village was created, the population increased 3 times.

At the same time, the Vasilievskaya and Preobrazhenskaya churches were demolished on the highway. Dmitrov unfolded the offensive of the Nazi troops, see Battle for Moscow, they managed to force the channel and gain a foothold at the Morstovskaya height south of Dmitrov, but on November 29 they were knocked out from there, after which the counter-cost of the Red Army began.

By December 11, the entire Dmitrovsky district was released from invaders. In the years, the city was built up with apartment buildings and acquired the main features of modern appearance. In X, housing construction froze, resuming on the previous scale only at the beginning of x. A large -scale campaign for the improvement and development of the city was held by the city’s years.

In the year, Dmitrov won first place in the All -Russian competition "The Most Located City of Russia" in the category "up to thousand.