Kirillov is a town and the administrative center of Kirillovsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lakes Siverskoye and Dolgoye, 129 kilometers (80 mi) northwest of Vologda, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 7,728 (2010 Russian census); 8,229 (2002 Census); 8,817 (1989 Soviet census).
Bread-making factory in Kirillov
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery as seen from Lake Siverskoye
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan outside the walls of the monastery
Young peasant women in front of wooden house (ca. 1909 to 1915) taken by Prokudin-Gorskii.
Kirillovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast and borders with Kargopolsky and Konoshsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north, Vozhegodsky and Ust-Kubinsky Districts in the east, Vologodsky District in the southeast, Sheksninsky District in the south, Cherepovetsky District in the southeast, Belozersky and Vashkinsky Districts in the west, and with Vytegorsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 5,400 square kilometers (2,100 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kirillov. Population: 15,877 (2010 Russian census); 18,627 ; 21,702 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kirillov accounts for 48.7% of the district's total population.
The mouth of Sviyaga River, Lake Siverskoye
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, as seen from Lake Siverskoye
The St. Iliya Church of the Tsypin Pogost
