Borisoglebsk is a town in Voronezh Oblast

Voronezh Oblast

Voronezh Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It was established on June 13, 1934.-Main rivers:*Don*Voronezh*Bityug*Khopyor-Economy:...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the left bank of the Vorona River

Vorona River (Russia)

Vorona is a river in Penza, Tambov, and Voronezh Oblasts in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Khopyor River, and is in length, with a drainage basin of . The average discharge at the mouth is 41.5 m³/s. The river is frozen over from the beginning of December to the first half of...

 near its confluence

Confluence

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 with the Khopyor

Khopyor River

Khopyor is a river in European Russia, the biggest left tributary of the Don River. Length 979 km, watershed: 61,100 km², mouth width: 300m.Navigable up to 323 km...

.Population: 65,000 (1969). It is host to Borisoglebsk air base

Borisoglebsk (air base)

For the airport in Kazan see Kazan Borisoglebskoye.Borisoglebsk is an air base in Voronezh Oblast, Russia located 6 km east of Borisoglebsk. It is a small military airfield....

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Borisoglebsk was founded in mid-17th century. It is named for the Russian saints Boris and Gleb

Boris and Gleb

Boris and Gleb , Christian names Roman and David, respectively, were the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after the Christianization of the country....

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The famous Bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 revolutionary Ivan Fioletov

Ivan Fioletov

Ivan Timofeevich Fioletov Иван Тимофеевич Фиолетов was a Russian Communist activist, one of the Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution....

, one of the 26 Baku Commissars

26 Baku Commissars

The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary members of the Baku Soviet Commune. The commune was established in the city of Baku...

, was born here.

Another Russian revolutionary named Maria Spiridonova

Maria Spiridonova

Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a figure in Russian revolutionary circles at the beginning of the 20th century.- Biography :She joined the Socialist-Revolutionary Party during her training to become a nurse....

, assassinated Police Inspector General G.N. Luzhenovsky at the Borisoglebsk railway station in January 1906.