Mosalsk (russian: Моса́льск) is a

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and the

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Mosalsky District Mosalsky District (russian: Мосальский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Kaluga Oblast and municipalLaw #7-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The ar ...

Kaluga Oblast Kaluga Oblast (russian: Калу́жская о́бласть, translit=Kaluzhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga. The 2021 Russian Census found a population of 1,069,904. G ...

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, located west of Kaluga, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

First attested in 1231 as Masalsk (), it became the center of one of the

Upper Oka Principalities In Russian historiography the term Upper Oka Principalities (russian: Верховские княжества - literally: "Upper Principalities") traditionally applies to about a dozen tiny and ephemeral polities situated along the upper course of ...

in the 14th century. After Ivan III annexed the principality to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1493, local princes emigrated either to the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Lit ...

(where they became known as Princes

Massalski 200px, Coat of Arms of the Massalski family The House of Massalski (Plural: Massalscy, feminine form: Massalska), sometimes Masalski , Massalsky or Mosalsky, is a Polish-Lithuanian, Russian-Lithuanian princely family of Ruthenian origin from the ...

) or to Moscow (where they were known as Princes Koltsov-Mosalsky). Mosalsk was granted town status within

Kaluga Governorate Kaluga Governorate (1796–1929) was a List of governorates of the Russian Empire, governorate of the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Its capital was Kaluga. Administrative division Kaluga Go ...

in 1776.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Mosalsk serves as the

, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the

of Mosalsk is incorporated within Mosalsky Municipal District as Mosalsk Urban Settlement.Law #7-OZ

Architecture

The town's main landmark is St. Nicholas Cathedral (1818).

Notable people

The town was the birthplace of Professor

Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (Александр Иванович Чупров; 1841–1908) was a professor of political economy and statistics at Moscow University whose lectures provided the standard introduction to economics for late 19th-centu ...

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External links

*Mojgorod.ru
Entry on Mosalsk

{{Authority control Cities and towns in Kaluga Oblast Mosalsky Uyezd