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unusual facts about Bely, Tver Oblast



1948 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

The House of creation named Academicheskaya Dacha was opened in Tver Province near the Vyshny Volochyok town at the eight kilometers from the railway station in a picturesque location on the banks of Msta River and Mstino lake.

3rd Air Army

The formation's combat path began in July 1942 during a defensive operation in the town of Bely, Tver Oblast, then participated in Rzhev-Sychevskaya and in the Luki operation.

Acmeist poetry

The Acmeists contrasted the ideal of Apollonian clarity (hence the name of their journal, Apollo) to "Dionysian frenzy" propagated by the Russian Symbolist poets like Bely and Vyacheslav Ivanov.

Battle of the Sit River

The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Sonkovsky District of Tver Oblast of Russia, close to the selo of Bozhonka, on March 4, 1238 between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Rus' under Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus.

Bely

Bely, Russia (Belaya, Beloye), name of several inhabited localities in Russia

Berezayka

Berezayka (rural locality), a rural locality (a settlement) and a railway station in Tver Oblast, Russia

Evgeny Pozdniakov

In the years of 1950-1970 the leading genre of Evgeny Pozdniakov works was a landscape, the main theme - the picturesque neighborhood of town of Maloyaroslavets and Krasny Kholm town in the north-east of Tver Province.

Fyodor Kon

Kon received a public beating for his defection but was soon assigned to lead the construction of Bely Gorod - a 10-kilometer outer ring of Moscow fortress that stood on the path of present-day Boulevard Ring.

Lake Ilmen

The basin of Lake Ilmen contains vast areas in Novgorod, Pskov, and Tver Oblasts of Russia, as well as minor areas in the north of Vitebsk Region in Belarus.

Patriarch Job of Moscow

Once, Ioann asked his father's permission to see his confessor in the Uspensky Monastery in their native town of Staritsa (Tver Oblast).

Podsosenka train disaster

The Podsosenka train disaster happened on March 3, 1992 at 5:15 (local time) near Nelidovo, Tver Oblast in Russia.

Putin's rynda

Top-lap asked to support his appeal, directed to the authorities of Kalyazinsky District in Russia's Tver Oblast.

Viktor Abramov

Abramov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a specialty as an "engineer-economist", and in 2004 was a member of the Federation Council of Russia representing Tver Oblast.

Volkhov River

The drainage basin of the Volkhov includes the large parts of Novgorod and Leningrad Oblasts, as well as areas in Tver Oblast, Pskov Oblast of Russia and Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus.

Zharkovsky

Zharkovsky (urban-type settlement), an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Tver Oblast, Russia


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