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Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl (Ярославль) is the capital city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia and a point on Golden Ring itinerary. Wikivoyage

Population 563,717 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Russia

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Russia

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Yaroslavl. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Jazz over Volga

    March

    (Джаз над Волгой), the international festival of jazz taking place every odd year since 1979 in March

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Yaroslavl); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Депо 2.8 km, Полянки 2.9 km, Приволжье 3.0 km, Сокол 4.5 km, Раздолье 5.5 km, Новоярославская 5.7 km

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