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    Tver (Russian: Тверь, IPA: [tvʲerʲ]) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the confluence of the Volga and...
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    600 business jet with ten people onboard crashed near Kuzhenkino in Tver Oblast, approximately 100 kilometres (60 mi) north of its departure point in...
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    In Russia, the oblasts are 46 administrative territories; they are one type of federal subject, the highest-level administrative division of Russian territory...
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    locations in the oblast. Located in European Russia between latitudes 54° and 57° N and longitudes 35° and 41° E, Moscow Oblast borders Tver Oblast in the northwest...
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    Murmansk Oblast Russia Republic of Karelia Finland Lapland Norway Finnmark Novgorod Oblast Russia Vologda Oblast Leningrad Oblast Pskov Oblast Tver Oblast Pskov...
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    The Diocese of Tver (Russian: Тверская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tver Oblast and is one of the oldest dioceses of the Russian...
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  • Oblast Korostyn [ru] Leningrad Oblast Staraya Ladoga Pskov Oblast Izborsk Tver Oblast Volgoverkhovye [ru] Vologda Oblast Ferapontovo Yaroslavl Oblast...
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    Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Smolensk Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Tver Oblast, Tula Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Vologda Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Yaroslavl Oblast....
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    Kalinin in the Soviet Union, namely Kalinin (now Tver) and Kaliningrad (now Korolev, Moscow Oblast). The German language was replaced with the Russian...
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    Kalinin in the Soviet Union, namely Kalinin (now Tver) and Kaliningrad (now Korolev, Moscow Oblast). Kalinin was one of six Politburo members who signed...
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  • Alexeyevsky District As of 2012, one rural locality in Tver Oblast bears this name: Rodniki, Tver Oblast, a village in Moldinskoye Rural Settlement of Udomelsky...
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    Flag of Tambov Oblast (22 February 2005) Flag of Tomsk Oblast (29 May 1997) Flag of Tula Oblast (25 November 2005) Flag of Tver Oblast (28 November 1996)...
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    Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern...
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    Saint Petersburg Kaliningrad Pskov Novgorod Vologda Arkhangelsk Nenets Komi Tver Yaroslavl Kostroma Smolensk Moscow Moscow Vladimir Ivanovo Bryansk Kaluga...
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    Battles of Rzhev (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    II. The battles took place in the northeast of Smolensk Oblast and the south of Tver Oblast, in and around the salient surrounding Rzhev. Due to the...
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    Volga (category Rivers of Tver Oblast)
    basin. The source of the Volga lies in the village of Volgoverkhov'e in Tver Oblast. Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 meters (738 ft) above sea level northwest...
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    The Kars oblast was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently...
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    degree (1942) A street in Nelidovo, Nelidovsky District, Kalinin Oblast (today Tver Oblast), was named after Fritz Schmenkel in 1965. In 1976, a street in...
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    Afanasy Nikitin (category Principality of Tver)
    Никитин; died 1475) was a Russian merchant from Tver and one of the first Europeans (after Niccolò de' Conti) to travel to and document his visit to India...
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    Yakutsk Oblast (Russian: Якутская область) is a historical oblast (province) within the Russian Empire and the RSFSR (until 1920). It corresponds with...
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    town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies 45 kilometers (28 mi) south-south-west of St. Petersburg...
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  • The Battle of Tver took place in two stages on July 21–23, 1609 during the Russo-Polish War between a Russian–Swedish combined army and the Polish–Lithuanian...
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  • Olga Volchkova (category People from Tver)
    Oil Painting restorer. She worked as a conservator and curator in the Tver Oblast Art Gallery, and joined a journeyman team of important early post-Soviet...
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    "Довоенные годы". www.tver.ru. 18 January 2017. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. "Korolyov | city, Moscow oblast, Russia | Britannica"....
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    (1991–1997) Tver Oblast: Andrey Shevelyov (2011–2016), Dmitry Zelenin (2003–2011), Vladimir Platov (1995–2003), Vladimir Suslov (1991–1995) Tyumen Oblast: Sergey...
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    surrounding Moscow Oblast, also serves as its capital The city of Saint Petersburg, though a separate entity from the surrounding Leningrad Oblast, also serves...
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    Greater Finland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (with the exception of some in Russian). By contrast, the Karelians of Tver Oblast, who had gained a measure of political autonomy independent of Finnish...
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    Principality of Moscow (category History of Moscow Oblast)
    principality of Vladimir, alongside Tver. A struggle between the princes of Moscow and Tver began after Mikhail of Tver became the grand prince in 1304....
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    Nordic cross flag (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Karelia Flag of Plodovskoe, Leningrad Oblast Flag of Predgorny District, 1997–2017 Flag of Rameshki, Tver Oblast Flag of Rameshkovsky District Flag of...
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    Tskhinvali (category De-Stalinization)
    in 1922, Tskhinvali was made a capital of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR. Subsequently, the town became largely Ossetian...
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