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3 unusual facts about Volokolamsk


Dmitri Nikitinsky

Dmitri Vladimirovich Nikitinsky (born February 9, 1992 in Volokolamsk) is a Russian football midfielder who last played for FC Tambov in Russian Professional Football League.

Joseph Volotsky

Joseph Volotsky came from a family of a rich votchinnik and owner of the Yazvishche village in the Principaity of Volokolamsk.

After having lived in a few other monasteries, Joseph became disappointed with their lax morals and founded his own cloister in 1479 near Volokolamsk, which would become known as the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery.


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Mongol invasion of Rus'

Thereupon Batu Khan divided his army into smaller units, which ransacked fourteen cities of modern-day Russia: Rostov, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kashin, Ksnyatin, Gorodets, Galich, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok.


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