Dorogobuzh
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- Russian town.en_name
- Dorogobuzh
- Russian town.ru_name
- Дорогобуж
- Russian town.image_skyline
- Dorogobuzh View of Dnieper.jpg
- Russian town.image_caption
- View of Dorogobuzh. The Dnieper River can be seen in the background.
- Russian town.map_label_position
- right
- Russian town.image_coa
- Dorogobuzh COA (Smolensk Governorate) (1780).png
- Russian town.federal_subject
- Smolensk Oblast
- Russian town.adm_district_jur
- Dorogobuzhsky District
- Russian town.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Dorogobuzhskoye
- Russian town.adm_selsoviet_type
- Urban settlement
- Russian town.adm_ctr_of1
- Dorogobuzhsky District
- Russian town.adm_ctr_of2
- Dorogobuzhskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian town.mun_district_jur
- Dorogobuzhsky Municipal District
- Russian town.urban_settlement_jur
- Dorogobuzhskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of1
- Dorogobuzhsky Municipal District
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of2
- Dorogobuzhskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.area_km2
- 35.15
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Dorogobuzh (; Belarusian: Дарагабуж) is a historic town and the administrative center of Dorogobuzhsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, straddling the Dnieper River and located east of Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
==History== thumb|left|Pre-1917 view of the Dnieper River in Dorogobuzh First mentioned in 1150, it was established as a fortress defending eastern approaches to Smolensk. It was located in the Principality of Smolensk, which in 1404 became part of Lithuania. It passed to the Grand Duchy of Moscow after the Battle of Vedrosha in 1500. In 1508, Vasily III sent Italian masters to build a wooden fort there.