Gavrilov Posad is a town in Ivanovo Oblast

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, Russia

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, located on the Voymiga River at its confluence

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 with the Irmes River, 85 kilometres (52.8 mi) southwest of Ivanovo

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. Population:

Gavrilov Posad was first mentioned a legal document in 1434 as Gavrilovskoye settlement. It is believed that it was founded some time in the 13th century by Vsevolod the Big Nest and named after his son Svyatoslav

Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich of Vladimir

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, whose second Christian

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 name had been Gavriil. In 1609, the settlement was turned into Gavrilova sloboda

Sloboda

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. In 1789, it was renamed Gavrilovsky Posad

Posad

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and granted town status. It was given its present name in the 20th century.