Danilov (Russian: Дани́лов) is a town and the administrative center of Danilovsky District in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.

[9] Danilov was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1592 and was granted town status in 1777.

[1] As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Danilov is incorporated within Danilovsky Municipal District as Danilov Urban Settlement.

There is also a major railway station where locomotives are switched from electrification system DC 3 kV to AC 25 kV and vice versa.

Railway lines go to Yaroslavl, Vologda, and Buy.