Yarensk
Encyclopedia
Yarensk is a selo of 4,100 people located on the bank of the Vychegda River
near its confluence with the Yarenga
. It is the center of Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
.
The town of Yarensk was documented as early as 1384 as a station on the road leading from Novgorod to the Urals. In Imperial Russia it was the center of a huge uyezd
within Vologda Governorate
. Much of the present-day Komi Republic
was administered from Yarensk. The Tsar
used the town as a place of exile, most notably for Prince Vasily Galitzine. Yarensk was one of the Russian towns visited by Robinson Crusoe
in Defoe
's novel.
The modern village has a mid-18th century Orthodox
cathedral adapted for use as a local history museum.
Vychegda River
Vychegda is a river in the European part of Russia, tributary to the Northern Dvina. Its length is about . Its source is approximately west of the northern Ural Mountains. It flows roughly in western direction, through Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast. The largest city along the Vychegda is...
near its confluence with the Yarenga
Yarenga River
The Yarenga is a river in Ust-Vymsky District of Komi Republic and in Lensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Vychegda River. The length of the river is . The area of its basin . The principal tributaries are Vezhay River and Uktym River...
. It is the center of Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
Lensky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Lensky Municipal District...
.
The town of Yarensk was documented as early as 1384 as a station on the road leading from Novgorod to the Urals. In Imperial Russia it was the center of a huge uyezd
Uyezd
Uyezd or uezd was an administrative subdivision of Rus', Muscovy, Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR which was in use from the 13th century. Uyezds for most of the history in Russia were a secondary-level of administrative division...
within Vologda Governorate
Vologda Governorate
The Vologda Governorate or Government of Vologda was a guberniya in the historical northern region of the European part of Russian Empire.In its size it was second right after the neighboring Archangelgorod Governorate...
. Much of the present-day Komi Republic
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is situated to the west of the Ural mountains, in the north-east of the East European Plain...
was administered from Yarensk. The Tsar
Tsar
Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...
used the town as a place of exile, most notably for Prince Vasily Galitzine. Yarensk was one of the Russian towns visited by Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and...
in Defoe
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Richardson,...
's novel.
The modern village has a mid-18th century Orthodox
Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
cathedral adapted for use as a local history museum.