Klyazminsky Gorodok

Klyazminsky Gorodok is a village in the Kovrovsky district of the Vladimir region of Russia. The center of the Klyazma rural settlement.

The population is 919 people (2010).

Geography
The village is located on the right bank of the Klyazma River, 17 km to the north-east of Kovrov.

History
At 4 km from the modern village there was the city of Starodub-on-Klyazma (Starodub-Ryapolovsky ), founded in 1152 by Yuri Dolgoruky.

On August 10 1659 stolnik Prince Vladimir Volkonsky was given a fiefdom of the estate to the landed salary of 930 quarters 186 quarters in the village Klyazminskoe town (formerly referred to as "Klyazemskoe mound") Starodub-Ryapolovskogo mill, Suzdal district on the Klyazma River.

On August 5, 1691, Prince Vladimir Ivanovich Volkonsky gave his boyar, Mikhail Fokich Grushetskiy, his patrimonial estate in Suzdal, Klyazminsky Gorodok, as a dowry for his daughter Avdotya.

In 1803, in the village, instead of the former wooden one, a stone church with a bell tower and a fence was constructed with the money of the landowner Prince Pyotr Aleksandrovich Volkonsky (c1589- and parishioners. There were two thrones in the church: in the cold - in honor of the Protection of the Holy Virgin and in the warm side-chapel - in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker. The parish consisted of villages and villages: Khoriatino, Chentsy, Chutkino, Bliznino, Knyaginkino, Repniki, Babirikha, Golyshevo. Since 1891 in the village there was a church and parish school, which had its own premises.

In the late XIX - early XX century, the village was part of the Sannikovskaya Volost of the Kovrov Uyezd, since 1926 - as part of the Osipov Volost. In 1859 there were 84 households in the village, in 1905 - 64 yards, in 1926 - 86 yards.

Since 1929, the village was the center of the Klyazma-Gorodets village council of the Kovrov Rayon, since 1940 - the center of the Klyazma village council, since 2005 - as part of the Klyazma rural settlement.

Population
Population 1859 [5]	1905 [6]	1926 [7]	2002 [8]	2010 [1] 473	↘ 175	↗ 483	↗ 998	↘ 919

Infrastructure
In the village of Klyazma Gorodetsk there is the main general education school (in 1983 a new building was opened), kindergarten No. 19 "Luchik", a polyclinic, the operating cash desk No. 8611/0256 of the Sberbank of Russia, the house of culture, the department of the federal postal service.

Attractions
The church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1803). [[File:Starodub-on-the-Klyazma.JPG|Stela in memory of the 850th anniversary of Starodub-on-Klyazma (2002)