Verkhny Landekh

Historical information

Historical information
Museums
Handicrafts, trades
Accommodation    The administrative center of Verhny Landeh region. Formed in 1985. The distance from the working settlement Verhny Landeh to the city of Ivanovo is 114 km. The population in 01.01.2001 was 2,1 thousand people. The distance to nearest railway station Shuya is 82 km.
    The name of the village is taken from the name of the river Landeh and it means “vast lowland along the river flowing through the marshes”. According to the records in salary books of Patriarchal Department in 1628-1630 the village of Verhny Landeh with the nearby villages was owned by prince D.M.Pozharsky until 1642. And when he passed away his estate was inherited by his wife and children. The village was granted to him by Tsar V.I.Shouisky. According to the census books 1678 half of the village with nearby villages belonged to prince Yury Dolgoruky. The other half belonged to prince Y.I.Pozharsky.
    The modern center of the settlement is situated at the old market square. There is a telephone and a telegraph in the settlement. There are state administrative institutions with their offices, a secondary school, a kindergarten, a nursery school, a center for out- school activities, a handicraft center, a central regional hospital, a polyclinic and a pharmacy.
    There are following enterprises in Verhny Landeh: Velas Ltd (embroidery factory), an organization for repairing roads with asphalt plant, milk processing factory.

Museums

Mitski Museum of Regional Studies
155655, Ivanovski district,Verkhnelandekhovski region,v.Mit,Torgovaya str.,h.1 Tel.: (09349)2-44-40 Open from 11.00 to 17.00, closed - sunday.	Situated in the building constructed by local Credit Society in 1912-1914. Opened in 1956. From 1956 till 1958-school museum of Regional Studies, from 1958 till 1972-People`s museum, since 1972-a branch of Ivanovo state historic revolutionary museum,since1998-modern name. The basis of the museum collection are articles of peasants’ everyday life, hand-made goods, photodocumentary material.

Handicrafts, trades

Verkhny Landekh stitch-embroidery factory

153665, Ivanovo district, Verkhny Landekh region,the settlement of Verkhny Landekh.
It is created on the base of Verkhny Landekhs stitch artel based in 1928. It produces linen and table linen with manual and machine embroidery (a white stitch, a white satin stitch and chain stitch). Before the revolution Verkhny Landekh was the center of Ivanovo's embroidery craft. After October the skilled workers working earlier for merchant Yeliseyev, were united in a cooperative artel.The teacher V.N.Speranskaja became the first chairman of this artel. The artel produced bed sheets, towels, pillowcases, cloths embroidered with a white stitch. Patterns were distinguished by simplicity and laconic forms. They were made of geometrical or floral motives. Products of Verkhny Landekh masters were always famous by faultless technical performance of embroidery.

Accommodation

Residence

Hotel

155210 Ivanovo district, Verhny Landekh region, Verhny Landekh
For 40 persons.

Feeding

Cafe

155210, Ivanovo District, Verkhni Landekh region, Verkhni Landekh
For 30 places. Russian cuisine.

Dining room

155210, Ivanovo district, Verkhni Landekh region, Verkhni Landekh
For 50 places. Russian cuisine.