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Pskov is the largest city and administrative capital of Pskov Oblast. One of the oldest cities in the country, it has preserved many unique architectural monuments of the 12th-16th centuries. Map.
Pskov (Russian: Псков, IPA: [pskof] ⓘ; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River.
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Pskov, city and administrative centre of Pskov oblast (region), northwestern Russia. The city lies along the Velikaya (Great) River at its confluence with the small Pskova River, at a point 9 miles (14 km) above the Velikaya’s outfall into Lake Pskov.
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Photo credit: TASS/Kirill Chaplinsky Pskov appeared to be surprisingly clean and not too crowded. As we found out later, the majority of the city's population was away. The country estate Mikhailovskoye is very close to the city, which is where Russia’s famed poet Alexander Pushkin lived and worked during various periods of his life. Every year on ...
Photo credit: Alamy/Legion-Media Slavs typically built their churches and monasteries on land surrounded by fortress walls in order to protect them from looting and enemy attacks. However, in Pskov the situation is different as many churches are located beyond the walls of the fortress. These churches look alike but they all are built in a unique s...
To get to Pskov from Moscow take a train from Leningrad railway station or from Riga railway station. It will take you about 15 hours if you depart from the latter, and 11 hours if you take off from the former. Both trains depart from Moscow in the evening and arrive in Pskov in the morning. Pskov is located about four hours from St. Petersburg. Th...
Pskov, oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It occupies an area of 21,400 square miles (55,300 square km) in the lowland basins of the Lovat, Shelon, and Velikaya rivers, with intervening low, morainic uplands. Much of the surface is covered by peat bog, grass marsh, and lakes—notably Lake.
Coordinates: 57°19′N 29°15′E. Pskov Oblast (Russian: Пско́вская о́бласть, romanized: Pskovskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the city of Pskov. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 599,084. [14] Geography.
