Yartsevo (russian: Я́рцево) is a

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and the

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Yartsevsky District Yartsevsky District (russian: Ярцевский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #261 and municipalLaw #139-z district (raion), one of the twenty-five in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central and northern parts of the ...

Smolensk Oblast Smolensk Oblast (russian: Смоле́нская о́бласть, ''Smolenskaya oblast''; informal name — ''Smolenschina'' (russian: Смоле́нщина)) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative centre is the city o ...

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, located on the Vop River, northeast of

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, the administrative center of the

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History

It was founded on the spot of a village of Yartsevo-Perevoz (), known since 1859. It grew due to the construction of a

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in 1873. Later on, a

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factory, a

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, a

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, and a

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were built in the area. Yartsevo was granted town status in 1926.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yartsevo serves as the

.Resolution #261 As an administrative division, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated within Yartsevsky District as Yartsevskoye Urban Settlement. As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban settlement status and is a part of Yartsevsky Municipal District.Law #139-z

Notable people

Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh (russian: Алекса́ндр Генна́диевич Ку́рош; January 19, 1908 – May 18, 1971) was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing ''The Theory of G ...

— mathematician. *

Svetlana Shkolina Svetlana Vladimirovna Shkolina (russian: Светлана Владимировна Школина; born 9 March 1986) is a Russian high jumper. Early career Shkolina was born in Yartsevo. As a teenager she won the silver medals at the 2003 Worl ...

— high jumper. * Noize MC - singer.

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