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Вологда
Vologda was first mentioned in Novgorod chronicles for 1147, when Saint Gerasimus found a church and village already standing there. Surrounded by impassable woods, the settlement was inhabited by Novgorodians who pulled the ships from a tributary of theVolga to a tributary of the Northern Dvina, thus making possibl...
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga. It was created in 1944 out of four other oblasts: Moskva Oblast, Orel Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, and Tula Oblast. It is located at the historical region of the former Kaluga Governorate.
Ozersk
Ozersk was founded in 1945, immediately after the test the first American atomic bomb. The town is built for employees of the nuclear industry, in those days was first produced in the Soviet Union.Scientific management of the atomic project commissioned to Igor Kurchatov, the eminent Soviet scientist. Initially Ozer...
Pskov
Izborsk