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3 unusual facts about Msta River


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.

Jacob Sievers

In Sievers' honor, Alexander I named the channel that connects the outlet of the Msta River with the Volkhov river the Sievers Canal.

Sievers family

His daughter Elisabeth (1746-1818) captivated Giacomo Casanova but married her cousin Jacob Sievers who administered the north-west of modern-day Russia and built the Sievers Canal connecting the Msta and Volkhov rivers.


Moshenskoye, Novgorod Oblast

One of the waterways between Novgorod and the basin of the Volga River run along the Msta and the Uver, and the foundation of Moshenskoye was presumably related to the existence of this waterway.


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Lyubytinsky District

Chronicles mention that Olga of Kiev traveled up the Msta River in 947 and founded a pogost which is believed to have been located close to the current location of Lyubytino.