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2 unusual facts about Pskov


Kerensky–Krasnov uprising

Following the October Revolution, Kerensky fled Petrograd and went to Pskov, where he rallied troops loyal to his cause in an attempt to retake the capital.

Zvonnitsa

Zvonnitsa was an architectural form especially widespread in architecture of Pskov.


Abu al-Walid

His forces engaged and surrounded an entire company of the VDV 76th Guards Air Assault Division from Pskov.

Administrative divisions of Novgorod Oblast

Podberezinsky District (with the administrative center in the selo of Podberezye) was established in 1945 as a part of Velikiye Luki Oblast, moved in 1957 to Pskov Oblast, and abolished in 1958, being split between Kholmsky, Loknyansky, Velikoluksky, and Ploshoshsky Districts.

Anatoli Ivanov

Anatoli Viktorovich Ivanov (born 1972), Russian footballer with FC Pskov-747

Arseny Semionov

In 1950-1970s Arseny Semionov painted enthusiastically ancient Russian city of Pskov, Staritsa, Izborsk, Torzhok, Suzdal, Staraya Ladoga, Kostroma.

Bologoye

In the second half of the 19th century, the RybinskPskovVindava railway passed through Bologoye, turning it into a large railway junction.

Boris Meissner

Boris Meissner (August 10, 1915 Pskov - September 10, 2003 Cologne) was a German lawyer and social scientist, specializing in international law and Eastern European history and politics.

Daumantas of Pskov

After arriving in Pskov, Dovmont was baptized into Eastern Orthodoxy, assumed the Christian name Timotheus (Russian: Timofei) and married a daughter of Dmitry of Pereslavl, son of Alexander Nevsky.

Estonian Auxiliary Police

The 37th and 40th battalions were fighting against the partisans in the Pskov Oblast, as was the 38th battalion in the Luga-Pskov-Gdov region.

Galina Gorchakova

The Maid of Pskov and Fevroniya in The Invisible City of Kitezh.

Krivandino

Krivandino, Velikoluksky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Velikoluksky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia

Kunyinsky District

The two big lakes in the district, Lake Zhizhitskoye and Lake Dvinye-Velinskoye, which are two biggest lakes of Pskov Oblast after Lake Peipus, also belong to the basin of the Western Dvina.

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.

Luzhsky District

Another one, lying to the west, connects the Baltiysky railway station of Saint Petersburg and Pskov, passing through Luga.

Mikhalki

Mikhalki, Russia, a village in Velikoluksky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia

Panther–Wotan line

In the north, the line was to have been constructed roughly from Vitebsk to Pskov, where it then followed the west bank of Lake Peipus, and its river delta to the Baltic Sea at Narva.

Plyussa

Between 1851 and 1862, the railway connecting Saint Petersburg and Warsaw via Pskov was built and crossed Luzhsky Uyezd.

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.

Sergei Ivanovich Osipov

Since the late 1940s each year and often several times he visited Staritsa, Torzhok, Pskov, Old Ladoga, Izborsk, imported from these trips numerous studies, sketches and paintings.

Soltsy

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

Velikaya River

The drainage basin of the Velikaya comprises vast areas in the west and southwest of Pskov Oblast, as well as in the east of Latvia and in the north of the Vitebsk Region of Belarus.

Vytautas

A major stand-off between the two armies ended without a battle in the Treaty of Ugra, by which Velikiy Novgorod was granted to Jogaila's brother Simeon Lingwen, and the important city of Pskov to Jogaila's envoy Jerzy Nos, the latter settlement a clear violation of the treaty of Raciąż.


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