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Dmitrov

Dmitrov is a town in Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by population Russian federal subject after the city of Moscow....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, located to the north of Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. It is located on the Yakhroma River and the Moscow Canal

Moscow Canal

The Moscow Canal , named the Moscow-Volga Canal until the year 1947, is a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga River....
, which connects the Russian capital with the Volga River

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, Discharge , and Drainage basin. It flows through the western part of Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia....
. Population: 61,500 (2004 est.); 62,219 (2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
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History
Dmitrov was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1154 deep in the woods at the site where his son Vsevolod was born.

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Dmitrov is a town in Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by population Russian federal subject after the city of Moscow....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, located to the north of Moscow

Moscow

Moscow Canal

Volga River

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
).

History

Dmitrov was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1154 deep in the woods at the site where his son Vsevolod was born. Its name is explained by the fact that Vsevolod's patron saint was Saint Demetrius.

In the 13th century, the town marked a point where converged the borders of Muscovy, Tver

Tver

Tver is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, the administrative center of Tver Oblast. Population: 405,500 ; 408,903 . Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in Imperial Russia with population of 60,000 on...
, and Pereslavl-Zalessky

Pereslavl-Zalessky

Pereslavl-Zalessky or Pereyaslavl-Zalessky , is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. It was called Pereyaslavl until the 15th century....
. The town itself belonged to the princes of Galich-Mersky, located much to the north, until 1364, when it was incorporated into Muscovy. Both Dmitry Donskoy and his grandson Vasily II

Vasili II of Russia

Vasily II Vasiliyevich Tyomniy was the Grand Duchy of Moscow whose long reign was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history....
granted Dmitrov as an appanage

Appanage

An apanage or appanage is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who under the system of primogeniture would otherwise have no inheritance....
to their younger sons, so the town was a capital of a tiny principality.

The reign of Ivan III

Ivan III of Russia

Ivan III Vasilevich , also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Duchy of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Russia" Sometimes referred to as the "gatherer of the Russian lands", he tripled the territory of his state, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state....
's son Yuri Ivanovich (1503–1533) inaugurated the golden age of Dmitrov. It is during his reign that the black-domed Assumption Cathedral in the kremlin and a smaller monastery cathedral of Sts. Boris and Gleb were built. Thereafter, the town passed to Yuri's brother, Andrey of Staritsa

Andrey of Staritsa

Andrey Ivanovich was the youngest son of Ivan the Great by Sophia Paleologue. Since 1519, his appanages included Volokolamsk and Staritsa.When his elder brother Vasily III ascended the throne, Andrey was just 14....
. In 1569, it was seized from Vladimir of Staritsa

Vladimir of Staritsa

Vladimir Andreyevich was the last appanage Russian prince. His complicated relationship with his cousin, Ivan the Terrible, was dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible ....
, added to the Oprichnina

Oprichnina

The Oprichnina in the period of Russian history between Czar Ivan the Terrible's 1565 initiation, and his 1572 disbanding, of a domestic policy of political police, mass repressions, public executions, and confiscation of land from Boyar....
and consequently declined. The town suffered further damage during the Time of Troubles

Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles was a period of History of Russia comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last Tsardom of Russia Tsar Feodor I of Russia of the Rurik Dynasty in 1598 and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613....
, when it was ransacked by the Poles.

In 1812, Dmitrov was briefly occupied by the Grand Armée but in 1941 the Wehrmacht

Wehrmacht

Wehrmacht was the name of the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe ....
soldiers were stopped on the outskirts of the town. The Anarchist prince Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin

name= Peter Kropotkin|image = Kropotkin Nadar.jpg|image_size =|caption = Kropotkin, by Nadar |birth_date = |birth_place = Moscow, Russia...
spent his last years there. In the 1930s, the local kremlin was excavated by Soviet archaeologists. Apart from the Assumption Cathedral, chief landmarks of the Dmitrov District are the cloisters of Sts. Boris and Gleb

Boris and Gleb

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

Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a saint and Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker....
on the Peshnosha River, and of the Virgin's Nativity at Medvezhya Pustyn', all three dating back to the 16th century.

Transportation

Dmitrov is a railroad junction of the Moscow (Savyolovsky terminal)–Savyolovo

Savyolovo

Savyolovo is a microdistrict of the town of Kimry in Tver Oblast, Russia. It lies on the right bank of the Volga River and is connected to the left-bank part of Kimry by a 554 m long bridge over the Volga ....
branch and the Dmitrov–Alexandrov

Alexandrov

Alexandrov is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, north-east of Moscow. Population: Alexandrov Kremlin served as the capital of Russia for three months under Tsar Ivan IV of Russia until he agreed to return his court and the relics of Moscow which he had taken with him....
branch. The railroad provides an efficient service to Moscow. Dmitrov is also a cargo port on the Moscow Canal

Moscow Canal

The Moscow Canal , named the Moscow-Volga Canal until the year 1947, is a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga River....
.

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Miscellaneous

Dmitrov's altitude above sea level ia 179 m.
In a national competition in 2005, Dmitrov was recognized as the best-run town in Russia.

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