On April 17, 1636, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich issued a proclamation founding Tambov (Old Style). When the Crimean Tatars first attacked, it served as a frontier fortification, but its significance as…
Stavropol is the capital city and the administrative hub of Stavropol Krai in Russia. The 2010 Census found 398,539 people living there. Voroshilov was the name till January 12, 194.…
One of Scotland’s 32 unitary administrations is South Lanarkshire. In addition to many rural towns and villages, it borders the southeast of the City of Glasgow and includes some of…
Smolensk is one of the oldest cities in Russia that has been discovered. The city was first mentioned in writing in 863 AD, two years after Kievan Rus was established.…
The second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula is Simferopol. The city is regarded as the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and is recognised internationally as belonging to Ukraine…
In the region of the current city, a Greek colony was founded in the sixth century BC. Nearly 2000 years were spent by the Greek city of Chersonesus, first as…
The Republic of Mordovia is located in Russia, and Saransk serves as the nation’s capital and commercial hub. It is situated about 630 kilometres (390 miles) east of Moscow at…
Today, most of the city’s landmarks were not built until the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Round Square ensemble was created during that period. It is a scaled-down…
The final Russian Empire city to be established was Murmansk. Due to the requirement for transportation of military supplies from Petrozavodsk to an ice-free area on the Murman Coast in…
In historical documents, the city was first mentioned in 1267. It was a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania starting in the fourteenth century. After the Union of Lublin…
The inhabitants of the Kumyk villages Tarki, Kyakhulay, and Alburikent, which owned the surrounding regions, were to be relocated to the deported Chechens’ settlements on April 12, 1944. In addition…
When Magnitogorsk was supposed to become a one-industry town based after the two most technologically advanced steel-producing cities in the United States at the time—Gary, Indiana, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—as part…