Travel - Sergiyev Posad

TRAVEL - SERGIYEV POSAD

Sergiyev Posad grew in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Trinity Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh, still (as of 2015) one of the largest monasteries in Russia.^{[citation needed]} Town status was granted to Sergiyev Posad in 1742.^{[citation needed]} The town's name, alluding to St. Sergius, has strong religious connotations. Soviet authorities changed it first to just Sergiyev in 1919, and then to Zagorsk in 1930, in memory of the revolutionary Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky  ( ru ).^[11]

The original name was restored in 1991

[Credits Wikipedia]