Lyubov is a German language teacher in Rybinsk. She says her name in Russian means "love." Rybinsk  Рыбинск is located close to Moscow on the Volga River. It was first mentioned in 1071 and is one of the oldest Slavic settlements on the Volga River. It was first recorded at Ust-Sheksna "the Mouth of the Sheksna." It became a centre of craft and metalworks which were traded. In the mid 1200s, Rybinsk was laid waste to by the Mongol invaders. In 1504, Rybinsk was referred to as Sloboda "the Fishing Village" because sturgeon and sterlets were supplied to the Muscovite court by local fishers. Catherine the Great granted Rybinsk municipal status in 1777 and named it Rybinsk.  During Soviet times, Rybinsk's name was changed to Shcherbakov in 1946 after Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a prominent Soviet politician who died of heart failure at the age of 44. In 1957, Shcherbakov became Rybinsk again. The name was again changed in 1984 to Andropov, after Yuri Andropov, ...