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6 unusual facts about Oka River


Avtozavodsky City District, Nizhny Novgorod

It is located in the southwest of the Lower City of Nizhny Novgorod, on the low left bank of the Oka River and has a land border with Leninsky City District to the north.

Battle of Molodi

On 26 July 1572 the huge horde of the khan, equipped with cannons and reinforced by Turkish janissaries, crossed the Oka River near Serpukhov, decimated the Russian vanguard of 200 noblemen and advanced towards Moscow in order to pillage it once again.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Refugees from southern Rus' moved mostly to the northeast, into the forested region with poor soils between the upper Volga and the Oka Rivers.

Prioksky City District

It is located in the upper part of the city on the high right bank of the Oka River and has a land border only with Sovetsky City District along Meditsinskaya Street.

Silent Souls

The two men take her body to Gorbatov (the smallest town in Russia), in order to perform cremation rites on the banks of the Oka River.

Uralic languages

Gyula László places its origin in the forest zone between the Oka River and central Poland.


White Sea – Baltic Canal

For example, in the summer of 2007, a large piece of equipment for Rosneft's Siberian Vankor Oil Field was delivered by the Amur-1516 from Dzerzhinsk on the Oka River, via the Volga–Baltic Waterway and the White Sea Canal to Arkhangelsk, and then from there by the ocean-going SA-15 class Arctic cargo ship Kapitan Danilkin to Dudinka on the River Yenisei.


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