Kozelsk
Sign in to saveKozelsk () is a town and the administrative center of Kozelsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Zhizdra River (a tributary of the Oka), southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Kozelsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Козельск
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- 40 Церковь Николая Чудотворца на Белёвской горке.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Saint Nicholas church
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- top
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Kozelsk (Kaluga oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Kozelsk COA (Kaluga Governorate) (1777).png
- Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_map
- Russia Kaluga Oblast#European Russia#Russia
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Kaluga Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Kozelsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Kozelsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Kozelsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Kozelsk Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Kozelsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Kozelsk Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 18245
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1146
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Administrative and municipal status
- Military
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Sources
Kozelsk () is a town and the administrative center of Kozelsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Zhizdra River (a tributary of the Oka), southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
==History== thumb|left|upright|Kozelsk siege in 1239 by Batu Khan It was first mentioned in an 1146 chronicle as a part of Principality of Chernigov. Kozelsk became famous in the spring of 1238, when its twelve-year-old prince Vasily, son of Titus, had to defend the town against the army of Batu Khan. The latter dubbed it an "evil town" because its citizens had been fighting the attackers for seven weeks in a row, killing around four thousand enemy soldiers during the siege. The citizens of Kozelsk were greatly outnumbered and almost all of them died in battle.