The generally accepted version is the foundation of Yuryevets in the first half of the 13th century as a fortification to protect the eastern borders of North-Eastern Russia by the Grand Prince of Vladimir Yuri II Vsevolodovich at the place where the icon of the Great Martyr George the Victorious appeared to him and was named after this saint - Yuryev-Povolsky.

[7] In 2013, during archaeological excavations on the Turgenev Plateau, an icon-medallion with the image of the Virgin Orans was discovered, which became additional evidence of the early date of the founding of the town of Yuryevets.

In 1593-1594, the "Sotnaya Gramota of 1593/94 on the posad of Yuryevets Povolsky" was compiled, the first census - a unique document on the history of the 16th century.

[14] In January 1609, in Yuryevets, the local militia under the leadership of the sorcerer Fyodor Krasny rose up against the Polish-Lithuanian interventionists.

In 1619-1620, in honor of the victory over the Polish-Lithuanian interventionists, by order of the posad people, the Epiphany Church was erected (the current building was built around 1720).

[7] In 1652, after the second escape from the village of Lopatitsy, where he served as a priest and was persecuted for demanding strict piety, Avvakum was appointed archpriest in Yuryev-Povolsky.

In 1661, on Voskresenskaya Gora, by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, a large stone kremlin was laid - "White Town".

[7] Currently, a reminder of the fortress remains an earthen rampart with a moat and a lake, local residents call this area "White Town".

On March 29, 1779, Empress Catherine II "For the services of the town to the state, granted Yuryevets a personal coat of arms."

[27] In 1816, on the initiative of the head of the district internal guard, a hospital was opened in Yuryevets to treat soldiers of the invalid team and prisoners.

[34] At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, with the assistance of the city head Vasily Eremeevich Litsov, a women's gymnasium and a craft school were opened in the town, and the streets were paved.

[41] On April 10, 1939, by the decision of the Ivanovo Regional Executive Committee, an air mail and passenger line was organized along the north-eastern route covering the district centers.

36, Yuryevets was included in the number of historical towns with valuable urban planning ensembles and complexes, natural landscapes and an ancient cultural layer.

[47] Initially, the fortress town stood on the so-called Georgievskaya Gora,[48] which was demolished and used in the construction of the shore protection dam of the Gorky Reservoir.

3 km from the town in the Gorky Reservoir there is an archipelago "Asafovy Gory", a specially protected natural area.

According to the 2020 census, the following nationalities lived in the town (nationalities less than 0.1% and other, see footnote to the line "Other"):[52] In the late 1980s, the town's industry was represented by a number of enterprises operating mainly on the basis of local raw materials from an active agricultural zone of dairy and vegetable, and flax-growing specialization - a dairy plant, a flax combing and spinning factory, fish and canning and brewing plants, a woodworking plant, a bakery, brick factories, as well as a number of small enterprises.

The modern economy of the town of Yuryevets includes organizations involved in the production and distribution of electricity, gas and water.

Passenger shipping, which was carried out along the Volga in the 19th-20th centuries, has ceased in recent times, the river station was sold in 2009 to the local ООО Yacht Club.

Natural monument[61] "Nagornaya Dacha", a town forest with a total area of 635 hectares on the western side of Yuryevets.

150 hectares of the Nagornaya Dacha forest were planted manually (part of it was grown from seeds), mainly in the post-war period.

In 2020, the passport of the natural monument of the Ivanovo Oblast "Yuryevets National Dacha" was approved and its area was reduced.

Gruzdev Sergey Sergeevich - volleyball coach[71] Zinin Lev Gennadievich - headed the Yuryevets woodworking plant.

[74] Medvezhonkov Pyotr Alexandrovich (01.07.1912 - 20.04.2004) - director of the Yuryevetsky state farm, contributed to the landscaping and improvement of the town.

Pannikov Nikolai Dmitrievich - the first chairman of the district council of veterans, director of the zooveterinary technical school.

[80] Andrei Tarkovsky - Soviet film director and screenwriter Flyagin Alexander Lvovich (1859-1929) - a member of the Duma, city head of Yuryevets (1914-1917), merchant, philanthropist.

Foteichev Alexander Valentinovich - teacher, public figure, inspirer of the creation of the Children's Music School in Yuryevets.

[82] Shishkin Gennady Pavlovich - public figure, chairman of the district council of veterans of war and labor.

[83] On May 6, Yuryevets residents take part in a procession on the day of remembrance of the holy great martyr George the Victorious.

[86] In summer, Yuryevets hosts the opening of the annual international film festival "Mirror" named after Andrei Tarkovsky (2007).

[92] A beach volleyball tournament is held annually on the Asafovy Islands[93] and in early May an athletics relay race "Path of Victory".