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Izborsk (; ) is a village in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast
Pskov Oblast

Pskov Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Pskov Oblast borders the European Union countries of Estonia and Latvia, as well as Belarus....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It contains one of the most ancient and impressive fortresses of Western Russia.

The village lies thirty kilometers to the west of Pskov
Pskov

Pskov is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia located in the north-west of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River....
 and just to the east of the Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
n border. According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the town was the seat of Rurik
Rurik

Rurik or Riurik was a Varangian chieftain who gained control of Staraya Ladoga in 862, built the Holmgard settlement near Novgorod, and founded the Rurik Dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus and then Galicia-Volhynia 14th and Muscovy until the 16th century....
's brother in 862. Although his burial mound is still shown to occasional tourists, archaeological excavations of long barrow
Long barrow

A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period. They are rectangular or trapezoidal earth mounds traditionally interpreted as collective tombs....
s abounding in the vicinity did not reveal the presence of the Varangian settlement at the site, indicating that Izborsk was an important centre of the early Krivichs.

The next mention of the town in Slavonic chronicles dates back to 1233, when the place was captured by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword
Livonian Brothers of the Sword

Bishop Albert of Riga founded the military order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in 1202; Pope Innocent III sanctioned the establishment in 1204....
.






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Izborsk (; ) is a village in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast
Pskov Oblast

Pskov Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Pskov Oblast borders the European Union countries of Estonia and Latvia, as well as Belarus....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It contains one of the most ancient and impressive fortresses of Western Russia.

The village lies thirty kilometers to the west of Pskov
Pskov

Pskov is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia located in the north-west of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River....
 and just to the east of the Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
n border. According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the town was the seat of Rurik
Rurik

Rurik or Riurik was a Varangian chieftain who gained control of Staraya Ladoga in 862, built the Holmgard settlement near Novgorod, and founded the Rurik Dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus and then Galicia-Volhynia 14th and Muscovy until the 16th century....
's brother in 862. Although his burial mound is still shown to occasional tourists, archaeological excavations of long barrow
Long barrow

A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period. They are rectangular or trapezoidal earth mounds traditionally interpreted as collective tombs....
s abounding in the vicinity did not reveal the presence of the Varangian settlement at the site, indicating that Izborsk was an important centre of the early Krivichs.

The next mention of the town in Slavonic chronicles dates back to 1233, when the place was captured by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword
Livonian Brothers of the Sword

Bishop Albert of Riga founded the military order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in 1202; Pope Innocent III sanctioned the establishment in 1204....
. Pskov moved the fortress to a more convenient site in 1302. The most ancient extant structure is the Tower Lukovka (literally, "Onion Tower"), constructed in 1330. At that time it was the only stone building west of Pskov and adjoined a wooden wall. After seven other stone towers and the new stone wall were completed, Lukovka became a watch-tower. The Nativity church within the fortress was built in the 16th century. Near the fortress is a museum of stone crosses.

According to the Treaty of Tartu
Treaty of Tartu

The Treaties of Tartu were peace treaties between the Russian SFSR on one side and newly independence Estonia and Finland, which had previously been parts of Imperial Russia, on the other....
, the Russian-Estonian state boundary went eastwards of Izborsk and thus the town was part of Estonia from 1920 to early 1945 when, both Russia and Estonia being part of Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
, the Russian SFSR/Estonian SSR boundary was moved westwards
Territorial changes of the Baltic States

Territorial changes of the Baltic states occurred when Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia gained their independence from Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 and thus Izborsk became part of Russian SFSR
Russian SFSR

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , also called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Russian SFSR and the RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
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