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    Ostashkov (Russian: Оста́шков) is a town and the administrative center of Ostashkovsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, on a peninsula at the southern...
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    issues in political science, economics, art, literature and culture. Ostashkov is the only town on the lake and is one of the most popular resorts in...
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    the Tver Oblast of Russia, about 10 km (6.2 mi) north of the town of Ostashkov. The island is the home of Nilov Monastery, which was founded by Saint...
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    Филиппович Магницкий), born Telyatin (Russian: Телятин; June 9, 1669, in Ostashkov – October 19, 1739, in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician and educator...
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    about 7,000 Polish prisoners interned in the prisoner of war camp in Ostashkov, located in the Katyn forest. The majority were military and police officers...
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    II. Staritsa was the seat of the last appanage principality in Russia. Ostashkov is a major tourist center. Tver Oblast is located in the west of the middle...
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  • (Talitsy) Kozelsk Kozelshchyna Oranki Stolbnyi Island on Lake Seliger near Ostashkov (ru) Putyvl (rail station of Tyotkino), Starobelsk (ru) Vologod (rail...
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  • Yuzhe (Talitsy), Kozelsk, Kozelshchyna, Oranki, Ostashkov (Stolbnyi Island on Seliger Lake near Ostashkov), Tyotkino rail station (56 mi/90 km from Putyvl)...
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    a popular tourist destination, particularly for fishing. The towns of Ostashkov and Valday are also known for their historical associations. Valdaysky...
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    View of Lake Seliger near Ostashkov in 1910....
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    largest camps were at Kozelsk (Optina Monastery), Ostashkov (Stolobny Island on Lake Seliger near Ostashkov), and Starobilsk. Other camps were at Jukhnovo...
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    Rzhev. Two other roads connect Rzhev with Tver via Staritsa and with Ostashkov via Selizharovo. There are also local roads with bus traffic originating...
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    a portraitist and icon-painter in the town of Ostashkov, Tver Governorate. Yakov was born in Ostashkov into a family of artists. His father Mikhail Lukich...
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    railway, running to the northwest, connects Velikiye Luki via Toropets and Ostashkov with Bologoye. One more railway connects Velikiye Luki to Nevel, where...
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    connects Moscow and St. Petersburg, passes close to Torzhok. A road to Ostashkov branches off to the west. There is also a road connecting Torzhok with...
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    is the town of Ostashkov. Population: 23,761 (2010 Census); 7,357 (2002 Census); 8,921 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Ostashkov accounts for 76...
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    organization. In 1940, the Soviet Union executed most of the Boy Scouts held at Ostashkov prison. The wartime scouts evolved into the paramilitary Szare Szeregi...
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    been built alongside it. Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island near Ostashkov, 1910 Pinchas Karlinskiy, supervisor of a floodgate at Chernigov, 1910...
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  • intellectual leaders who had been interned at Kozielsk or imprisoned at Ostashkov and Starobielsk had been killed by the occupying Soviet People's Commissariat...
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    Maksatikha - Bezhetsk - Sonkovo R-87: Rzhev - Selizharovo - Ostashkov P-88: R-89: Ostashkov - Volgoverkhovye P-90: Route M1 "Belarus" - Tver R-93: Medyn...
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    NKVD executed more than 6,200 Polish policemen and prisoners of war from Ostashkov camp. The Wehrmacht entered Kalinin on Monday 13 October 1941 according...
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    Александр Павлович Конаныхин Born (1966-09-25) September 25, 1966 (age 58) Ostashkov, USSR Citizenship Russia, Italy, and Argentina Occupation(s) KMGi, TransparentBusiness...
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    Country Destinations Russia Bologoye, Borovichi, Ostashkov, Tver, Velikie Luki, Veliky Novgorod, Zelenograd (Kryukovo)...
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    Kalyazin Kashin Kimry Konakovo Krasny Kholm Kuvshinovo Likhoslavl Nelidovo Ostashkov Rzhev Staritsa Toropets Torzhok Tver Udomlya Vesyegonsk Vyshny Volochyok...
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  • confirmed dead of 21,768. Of them 4,421 were from Kozelsk, 3,820 from Starobelsk, 6,311 from Ostashkov, and 7,305 from Byelorussian and Ukrainian prisons....
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  • 1939, he found himself in Soviet captivity in a special NKVD camp in Ostashkov. He was murdered by the NKVD in spring 1940 as one of the victims of Katyn...
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    Luga district, Smolensk, Kostroma, and Crimea). He visited the city of Ostashkov, where he began work on his novel Ugryum-reka ("Ugryum River" or "Grim...
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  • Орск Orenburg Oblast Osa Оса Perm Krai Osinniki Осинники Kemerovo Oblast Ostashkov Осташков Tver Oblast Ostrogozhsk Острогожск Voronezh Oblast Ostrov Остров...
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  • South N. Karazin N. Karazin 1948 The story of a crane migrating from the Ostashkov swamps to the Upper Nile. The book combines an interesting story, geographic...
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  • the southwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Ostashkov. At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Ostashkovsky Uyezd...
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