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Solvychegodsk
Solvychegodsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right-hand bank of the Vychegda, Vychegda River, about northeast of Kotlas, the administrative center of the district. Population: History Solvychegodsk was founded in the 14th century on the shores of Lake Solyonoye. The locality was known as Usolye posad or Usolsk in the 15th century. Anikey Stroganov (1488–1570) began salt production in 1515, which later became a huge industry, and started the Stroganov family fortune. In the 16th–17th centuries, Solvychegodsk was a big commercial, handicraft, and cultural hub of Northern Russia. It was especially famous for its vitreous enamel, enamel industry. Solvychegodsk was captured and looted by Polish-Lithuanian vagabonds, the Lisowczycy, on January 22, 1613. In 1796, the town became a part of Vologda Governorate. It was also known as a place of political exile. In 1937, Solvychegodsk was transf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotlassky District
Kotlassky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.Law #65-5-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kotlassky Municipal District.Law #258-vneoch.-OZ It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Krasnoborsky District in the north, Lensky District in the northeast, Vilegodsky District in the east, Luzsky District of Kirov Oblast and Velikoustyugsky District of Vologda Oblast in the south, and with Ustyansky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Kotlas (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: Geography The district is located on both banks of the Northern Dvina and its main right tributary, the Vychegda. The Northern Dvina and the Vychegda divide the district into three comparably sized areas. A major part of the district belongs to the basins of the Northern Dvina and the Vychegda, including such major tribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast ( rus, Архангельская область, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲskəjə ˈobɫəsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast also has administrative jurisdiction over the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Including the NAO, Arkhangelsk Oblast has an area of , it is the largest of List of first-level administrative divisions by area, first-level administrative divisions in Europe. Its population (including the NAO) was 1,227,626 as of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census. The classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Arkhangelsk, with a population of 301,199 as of the 2021 Census, is the administrative center of the oblast.Charter, Article 5 The second largest city is the nearby Severodvinsk, home to Sevmash, a major shipyard for the Russian N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solvychegodsky Selsoviet
Solvychegodsky (masculine), Solvychegodskaya (feminine), or Solvychegodskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Solvychegodsky District, a former district of Northern Dvina Governorate (1924–1929) and Arkhangelsk Oblast (1938–1958) in the Russian SFSR *Solvychegodsky Uyezd, an administrative division in the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR; most recently (1918–1924) a part of Northern Dvina Governorate *Solvychegodskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Solvychegodsk Solvychegodsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right-hand bank of the Vychegda, Vychegda River, about northeast of Kotlas, the administrative center of the ... and ninety-three rural localities in Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as * Solvychegodsky Selsoviet, an administrative division of Kotlassky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroganov Family
The Stroganov family (Russian: Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы; French: Stroganoff) emerged as a preeminent Russian noble family renowned for their roles as merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. By the reign of Ivan IV ("the Terrible," 1533–1584), they had become the wealthiest commercial dynasty in the Tsardom of Russia. Their financial and military support proved critical to pivotal historical events, including the late-16th-century conquest of Siberia and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky’s 1612 liberation of Moscow from Polish forces. The family’s prominence originated with Fyodor Lukich Stroganov (d. 1497), a salt industrialist whose descendants bifurcated into two lineages. His elder son, Vladimir, established a branch that later transitioned into the peasant class, while the youngest son, Anikey Fyodorovich Stroganov (1488–1570), founded the noble line that rose to political dominance. Anikey’s descendants secured their status through stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vologda Governorate
Vologda Governorate (), also known as the Government of Vologda, was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its administrative center was in the city of Vologda. The area of the governorate is currently split between Arkhangelsk Oblast, Arkhangelsk, Vologda Oblast, Vologda, Kirov Oblast, Kirov, and Kostroma Oblasts, and the Komi Republic. Vologda Governorate was officially created in 1796 from the disbanded Vologda Viceroyalty (namestnichestvo) which was split between Arkhangelsk Viceroyalty and Vologda Viceroyalty just before the new administrative reform. Administrative division It was administered by 10 uyezds (the administrative centers, which all had the town status, are given in parentheses), *Velsky Uyezd (Velsk); *Vologodsky Uyezd (Vologda); *Gryazovetsky Uyezd (Gryazovets); *Kadnikovsky Uyezd (Kadnikov); *Nikolsky Uyezd (Nikolsk, Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anikey Stroganov
Anikey Fyodorovich Stroganov (also spelled Anika or Aniky; ; Christian name: ''Joasaphus'' (Иоасаф); 1488–1570) was a Russian explorer, merchant and monk. He was an early progenitor of the Stroganov family, whose members were prominent Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, noblemen, and statesmen through to the early 20th century. Biography Anikey Stroganov was the youngest of the four sons of Fyodor Lukich Stroganov. He was born in Novgorod, but soon after his birth, the Stroganovs migrated to Solvychegodsk. After the deaths of his brothers Stefan, Iosif and Vladimir, his father became a monk. All the family wealth, included several large estates and saltworks, were passed to Anikey. Anikey improved and expanded his salt business and when his sons , and Semyon became adults, Anikey founded new salterns in the Kolskaya Guba and Perm. In the beginning of the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Stroganov received the right to control the trade rules prescribed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as the fourth Premier of the Soviet Union, premier from 1941 until his death. He initially governed as part of a Collective leadership in the Soviet Union, collective leadership, but Joseph Stalin's rise to power, consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, while the totalitarian political system he created is known as Stalinism. Born into a poor Georgian family in Gori, Georgia, Gori, Russian Empire, Stalin attended the Tiflis Theological Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He raised f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vychegda
The Vychegda (; ) is a river in the European part of Russia, a tributary of the Northern Dvina. Its length is about . Its source is approximately west of the northern Ural Mountains. It flows roughly in a western direction, through the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast. The largest city along the Vychegda is Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic. The Viled, the Yarenga, and the Vym are among its main tributaries. The Vychegda flows into the Northern Dvina in Kotlas (Arkhangelsk Oblast). The river basin of the Vychegda comprises vast areas in Arkhangelsk Oblast and in the Komi Republic, as well as less extended areas in Kirov Oblast and Perm Krai Perm Krai (, ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a Krais of Russia, krai), located in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is Perm, Russia, Perm. The population of the krai was 2,532,405 (2021 Russian census, 2021 .... About of the Vychegda is navigable. In 1822 the Vychegda was conne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisowczycy
Lisowczyks or Lisowczycy (; also known as ''Straceńcy'' ('lost men' or 'forlorn hope') or (company of ); or in singular form: Lisowczyk or ) was the name of an early 17th-century irregular unit of the Polish–Lithuanian light cavalry. The Lisowczycy took part in many battles across Europe and the historical accounts of the period characterized them as extremely agile, warlike, and bloodthirsty. Their numbers varied with time, from a few hundred to several thousand. The origin of the group can be traced to konfederacja (a form of semi-legal mutiny of royal forces, practiced in the Kingdom of Poland and then in the Commonwealth), organized around 1604 by Aleksander Józef Lisowski. They began to grow in strength and fame a few years later, when Lisowski's irregulars were incorporated into the forces fighting in Muscovy. The Lisowczycy unit of the Polish cavalry received no formal wages; instead, they were allowed to loot and plunder as they pleased. They relied on their spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vychegodsky
Vychegodsky () is an urban locality (a work settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast on the left bank of the Vychegda River, east of Kotlas. Population: History Vychegodsky was founded in 1942 in connection with the construction of the North-Pechora trunk-railway. There are three secondary schools and one vocational technical school there. Economy Transportation There is a railway station in Vychegodsky, called Solvychegodsk, on the railroad connecting Kotlas and Vorkuta. Vychegodsky is located on the road connecting Kotlas and Syktyvkar Syktyvkar (, , ; , ) is the capital city of the Komi Republic in Russia, as well as its largest city. It is also the administrative center of the Syktyvkar Urban Okrug. Until 1930, it was known as Ust-Sysolsk after the Sysola, Sysola River. Ety ... via Koryazhma and Ilyinsko-Podomskoye. See also * Administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotlas
Kotlas () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: Kotlas is the third-largest town of Arkhangelsk Oblast in terms of population (after Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk) and an important transport hub. History The place was probably inhabited from ancient times, but was only granted official town status by the Russian Provisional Government, Provisional Government of Russia on June 16, 1917, when it was a part of Vologda Governorate. In 1918, the area was transferred to the newly formed Northern Dvina Governorate, and in 1924 the uyezds were abolished in favor of the new divisions, the districts (raions). Kotlassky District was established on June 25, 1924. In 1929, Northern Dvina Governorate was merged into Northern Krai, which in 1936 was transformed into Northern Oblast (1936-1937), Northern Oblast. In 1937, Northern Oblast was split into Arkhangelsk Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
