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9 unusual facts about Novgorod Oblast


Borovichi

There are road connections to Tikhvin (via Lyubytino), Okulovka, and Pestovo.

Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive

The retreat would be carried out in stages, using intermediate defensive positions, the most important of which was the Rollbahn Line formed on the October Railway running through Tosno, Lyuban and Chudovo.

Military settlement

Alexander I, however, stood his ground and announced that "military settlements will be created, even if we have to pave the road from Saint Petersburg to Chudov today’s Chudovo; some 100 km away from Petersburg with dead bodies".

Shimsky District

It is also connected by roads with Luga, Staraya Russa, and Volot.

Soletsky District

Soltsy is connected by roads to Veliky Novgorod via Shimsk, to Staraya Russa via Volot, and to Dno.

Soltsy

The town is located along the Novgorod–Pskov highway and is also connected by road to Staraya Russa via Volot.

Ustyuzhna

Ustyuzhna is also connected by roads with Tver via Vesyegonsk, with Bezhetsk via Sandovo, and with Borovichi via Pestovo.

Vesyegonsk

There, it connects to the railway running between Moscow and Mga via Krasny Kholm and Pestovo.

Volkhov

Another railway line passing through Volkhov connects Chudovo in the south and Lodeynoye Pole, Petrozavodsk, and ultimately Murmansk in the north.


Kushaverskoye peat narrow gauge railway

The Kushaverskoye peat railway emerged in the 1967s, in the area of Khvoyninsky District, Novgorod Oblast.

Paul-Werner Hoppe

In the spring of 1942, he received a severe leg wound in fighting the Red Army near Lake Ilmen in the Demyansk Pocket in Novgorod Oblast, U.S.S.R.


see also

Berezayka River

The drainage basin of the Berezayka includes the major parts of Valdaysky and Bologovsky Districts, as well as minor areas at Okulovsky and Borovichsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast and the urban-type settlement of Ozyorny in Tver Oblast.

Chagoda

A railway line connecting the stations of Kabozha (in Novgorod Oblast) and Podborovye (Leningrad Oblast) runs through Chagoda.

Krasno

Krasno, Russia, a village (selo) in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Lovat River

Downstrean of Velikiye Luki, in the selo of Podberezye, the Lovat turns northwest and enters Novgorod Oblast.

Pskov Oblast

The rivers in the southeast of the oblast drain into the Lovat River, which has its source in Belarus and crosses Pskov Oblast from south to north, continuing to Novgorod Oblast.

Pyra

Pyra, Russia, an urban-type settlement in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Sergey Mitin

Sergey Gerasimovich Mitin (b. 1951), Russian politician, governor of Novgorod Oblast

Tsentralny

Tsentralny Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the Work Settlement of Tsentralny in Volodarsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Valday

Lake Valdayskoye (or Lake Valdai), a lake in Novgorod Oblast, Russia