Meshchovsk
Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Meshchovsk (Template:Langx) is a town and the administrative center of Meshchovsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Tureya River Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Template:Ru-census2021 Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]
History
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Principality of Mezetsk 1238–ca. 1400
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File:Lob flag moskovskiy.svg Grand Duchy of Moscow 1503–1547
File:Flag of Oryol (variant).svg Tsardom of Russia 1547–1721
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire 1721–1917
Template:Flagicon Russian Republic 1917
File:Flag of Russian SFSR (1918-1937).svg Soviet Russia 1917–1922
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 1922–1991
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation 1991–present
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It was first mentioned in Russian chronicles in connection with the Mongol invasion of Rus' in 1238.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". During the Middle Ages it was the patrimony of Princes Mezetsky.
Catherine the Great granted it town rights in 1776.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
During World War II, Meshchovsk was occupied by the German Army from October 7, 1941, to January 7, 1942.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Meshchovsk serves as the administrative center of Meshchovsky District, to which it is directly subordinated.[3] As a municipal division, the town of Meshchovsk, together with forty-eight rural localities, is incorporated within Meshchovsky Municipal District as Meshchovsk Urban Settlement.[4]
Architecture
Notable buildings include the old (1678–1696) and new (1829–1854) Orthodox cathedrals, both dedicated to the feast of the Annunciation.
Notable people
It was the birthplace in 1846 of Vyacheslav von Plehve, the German-descended director of the Imperial Russian Police and later Minister of the Interior.
References
Notes
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Lang". (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO). Code 29 227, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).
- ↑ Law #354-OZ
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Sources
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