Danilov

Danilov lies in the wooded country north of Yaroslavl. It is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1592, when the lands of the former Yaroslavl principality had long been incorporated into the Russian state. In 1777 Danilov received town status amid Catherine II's reorganization of provincial administration. It became a local center in the Yaroslavl region, whose towns and villages were brought within the governorate established in the late eighteenth century.