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Torzhok ( Russian: Торжо́к) is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Tvertsa River along the federal highway M10 and a branch of the Oktyabrskaya Railway division of the Russian Railways. The town is famous for its folk craft of goldwork embroidery.
Torzhok, city, Tver oblast (region), western Russia, on the Tvertsa River, 37 miles (60 km) west of Tver. The first recorded mention of Torzhok dates from 1139. In the 14th century it became the centre of a small rural district in the Novgorod Feudal Republic, on the trade route between Novgorod.
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Tver Governorate (Russian: Тверская губерния, romanized: Tverskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Tver.
Situated some 40 miles to the west of the city of Tver and near the mid-point of the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, Torzhok is among the oldest settlements in central Russia.
- William Brumfield
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Torzhok, founded at the turn of the 10th-11th centuries, is a town with a population of about 46 thousand people located in the Tver region, 65 km north-west of Tver. In the past, it was an important center of trade on the way to Novgorod and St. Petersburg from the southern regions of Russia.
Travels Across Russia: Torzhok. Torzhok, Tver, Russia. Torzhok is among the oldest settlements in central Russia. The town is first mentioned in ancient chronicles, under the year 1139. Its favorable location on the Tvertsa River made it a place of active commerce (the name “Torzhok” comes from the word for trading site), and the town was ...
Jul 15, 2010 · The fair city of Torzhok is among the oldest settlements in central Russia. Situated on the Tvertsa River some 60 kilometers to the west of Tver, the town is first mentioned in ancient...
