Bolkhov
Sign in to saveBolkhov () is a town and the administrative center of Bolkhovsky District in Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Nugr River (Oka's tributary), from Oryol, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 12,800 (1969); 20,703 (1897).
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- Bolkhov
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Болхов
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- View of Bolkhov from the opposite bank of the Nugr River
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- Oryol Oblast
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- Bolkhovsky District
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- Bolkhov
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- Town of district significance
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- Bolkhovsky District
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- town of district significance of Bolkhov
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- Town
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- Bolkhovsky Municipal District
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- Bolkhov Urban Settlement
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- Bolkhovsky Municipal District
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- Bolkhov Urban Settlement
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Bolkhov () is a town and the administrative center of Bolkhovsky District in Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Nugr River (Oka's tributary), from Oryol, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 12,800 (1969); 20,703 (1897).
==History== Bolkhov was first documented in a chronicle from 1196. After the Mongol invasion of Rus', it became the seat of a local princely dynasty, whose descendants may be traced until the 19th century. In the 16th century, it became one of the fortified posts for defending Moscow from the Tatars on the south. It was there that the army of Vasily IV was defeated by False Dmitry II in 1608.