Where is it? Ivanovo Oblast, or region, is located in western Russia, northeast of Moscow. It is bordered by Kostroma Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, and Yaroslavl Oblast, and the Volga River flows through the northern part of the region. It is in the Moscow time zone, and you can find the current local time here.

What's the biggest city? Ivanovo, which has... more

I've looked at a bunch of websites about Ivanovo and they've all said the same thing: "it's the city of textiles" and also "the city of brides," since apparently most of the textile workers are women. Makes me imagine huge industrial complexes and smokestacks and Rosie the Riveter types wearing white veils...but I don't know if that's accurate or not since there seems to be very little of actual substance (that's not written in Russian) about Ivanovo on the web.

Here's the Wikipedia article on Ivanovo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanovo

Here's... more