Сыктывкар

History of Syktyvkar

  • Jan 1, 1550

    The settled population is known to appear in the 16th ctntury A.D.

  • Ust-Sysolsk was mentioned in written documents

    Ust-Sysolsk was mentioned in written documents
  • The settlement was reorganized into a town according to the reform of Catherine II

  • Ust-Sysolsk became a place of exile for progressive people who opposed the tsarist regime.

    Among them were N.I. Nadezhdin, an ethnographer, geographer and literary critic; V.A.Rusanov, a well-known polae researcher; bolsheviks A.P.sklyarenko; Z.P. solovyov and others.
  • Syktyvkar was given a Komi name of Syktyvkar

  • Syktyvkar became the capital of the Republic of Komi