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7 unusual facts about Tver Oblast


Berezayka

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

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.

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.

Lyubini

Lyubini, Bezhetsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia

Shlina River

The Shlina flows out at the Tver Oblast side close to the village of Komkino and flows east.

Vesyegonsk

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

Zharkovsky

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


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.

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.

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.


see also

Peno

Peno, Russia, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Penovsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia

Vilovo

Vilovo, Russia, a rural locality (a village) in Tver Oblast, Russia