Сергиев Посад (Загорск) в 1980-х годах / Sergiyev Posad in the 1980s

Сергиев Посад (Загорск) на фотографиях 1980-х годов

Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) in photographs from the 1980s

Музыка:
Дождь за окном - Алексей Рыбников

Music:
Rain outside the window - Alexey Rybnikov

Sergius Posad is on of the great historic towns of Russia. The original settlement grew around one of Russia's greatest monasteries - the Trinity Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh in 1337.
The settlement grew in size as the importance of the Monastery developed and in 1742 was granted town status.

During the years of the Soviet Union, Soviet authorities changed the name of the town first to just Sergiyev in 1919, and then to Zagorsk in 1930, in memory of the revolutionary Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky, born in Nizhny Novgorod of Jewish parents. Following the 1917 October Revolution, he was appointed Bolshevik Party Chief in Moscow, serving in that capacity from September 7, 1918 until his assassination in September of the following year.

The original name of the town was restored in 1991