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Yaroslav (JAROSLAV a province)

or JAROSLAV, a province of European Russia; bounded by the provinces of Novgorod, Vologda, YATES Kostroma, Vladimil and Tver. The surface is level and well watered by the Volga and its tributaries, the Mologa and Sheksma. The W. portion of the province has numerous ponds and marshes, the largest being Lake Nero, near Rostov, from which the Weska flows. The Volga is connected with the Neva by two canals through which considerable commerce was carried on before the World War. Market gardening, timber cutting, mining, and manufacturing were the chief occupations. There There were extensive linen and cotton mills, and factories for the manufacture of chemicals, machinery, metal ware, flour, tobacco and spirits, making Yaroslav one of the principal manufacturing provinces of Russia. Considerable commerce was carried on by the two railway lines, the Rybinsk-St. Petersburg and the Yaroslav-Moscow-Vologda.

Area, 13,751 square miles; pop. about 1,200,000.