The region surrounding Arkhangelsk was known to the Vikings as Bjarmaland. Around 890, Ohthere of Hlogaland described his travels through a populated area near a river and the White Sea.…
Kemerovo, a fusion of several ancient Russian communities, is their successor. On a route leading from Tomsk to the Kuznetsk stronghold, a waypoint known as Verkhotomsky ostrog was built in…
The first records of Lipetsk date back to 13th-century chronicles. The name, which rhymes with Leipzig and Liepaja, means “Linden city.” The Mongols destroyed the city in 1284. Peter the…
The Nikon Chronicle first refers to Tula in the year 1146. Tula was a small stronghold situated on the Principality of Ryazan’s frontier during the Middle Ages. After it was…
West-central Russia’s Naberezhnye Chelny is an industrial city. Riverside Park, a lush green space on the banks of the Kama River, is traversed by trails. The city’s central square, Azatlyk…
Penza was established as a Russian frontier fortress city. It still has earth ramparts from the middle of the 16th century in the city centre and ruins of the Lomovskaya…
The oldest section of the city of Ryazan, the Ryazan Kremlin, serves as a historical and architectural museum. One of Russia’s oldest museums is this one. It is perched atop…
The regional capital of Russia’s Udmurtia is Izhevsk. It is located in Eastern Europe along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains. With a population of more than 600,000,…
Simbirsk withstood a month-long siege in 1668 from a 20,000-strong force under the command of the Cossack rebel commander Stenka Razin. Yemelyan Pugachev, a second country rebel, was imprisoned in…
Tolyatti, often spelt Togliatti, is a Russian city located in the Samara Oblast. The largest Russian city that isn’t the administrative hub of a federal subject is named after Italian…
Saratov in Russia had developed into an important Volga shipping port by the 1800s. In 1870, the Ryazan-Ural Railroad arrived in Saratov. The line continued to move east after crossing…
As a Russian border fort, the city was established on August 19, 1628, when a group of Yeniseysk service class residents led by Andrey Dubenskiy arrived at the confluence of…