Ivanovo
[key], city, capital of Ivanovo region, central European Russia, in the
Moscow industrial region. A great Russian textile center, the city was the
historic center of Russia's cotton-milling industry. From the 1880s it was a
center of labor unrest. During the revolution of 1905, 60,000 workers went
on strike and formed one of the first soviets of workers' representatives.
After six weeks the strike was crushed. The city was called Ivano-Voznesensk
until 1932.
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