Petrovo-Gorodishche

The village is located on the Nerl River in the north, adjacent to the center of the village of Petrovsky , 18 km northeast of the district center of the city of Gavrilov Posad .

In the XVIII-XIX centuries, the village belonged to the names of the landowners Ragozins. In the XVIII century, as can be seen from church documents, in the village there was a wooden church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. In 1789, a stone church of the same name was built in its place. In 1828, at the expense of the landowner Ivan Alekseevich Ragozin, two warm chapels with thrones were added to it: in honor of the Conception of St. Anna and in honor of St. Basil the Great. At the church there was a stone bell tower. Around 1870, the church and the bell tower at the expense of the parishioners were surrounded by a stone fence with an iron grate. In 1893, the parish consisted of a village, the villages of Kostromikha, Putyatino, Markovo, Vyvozikh, Chernitsyno, Malaya Uronda, Morozovo and the village of Doutrovo. All the yards in the parish were 271, men - 916, women - 1003. There was a zemstvo public school in the village ^[2] .

In the late XIX - early XX centuries, the village was the center of the Petrovo-Gorodishchevsky volost of the Suzdal district of Vladimir province .

Since 1929, the village was the center of the Petrovo-Gorodishchensky village council of the Gavrilovo-Posadsky district ^[3] , since 2005 - as part of the Petrovsky urban settlement .

In the village is the active Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1789) ^[8]

Victor Arkadevich Glazunov (1958) was born - Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences ^[9]