Ostrogozhsk
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Ostrogozhsk () is a town and the administrative center of Ostrogozhsky District in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the Tikhaya Sosna River (a tributary of the Don), south of Voronezh, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 32,520.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Ostrogozhsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Острогожск
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Особняк Зыбцева.JPG
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Zybcev village in the town of Ostrogozhsk
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_map
- Russia Voronezh Oblast#European Russia#Russia
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Ostrogozhsk (Voronezh oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Ostrogozhsk (Voronezh oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Voronezh Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Ostrogozhsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Ostrogozhsk
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Urban settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Ostrogozhsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2
- Ostrogozhsk Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Ostrogozhsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Ostrogozhsk Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Ostrogozhsky Municipal District
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Located in
- Ostrogozhsky District
- Population
- 30549
- Area
- 22
- Elevation
- 110
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.ostrogozhsk.ru
- Image
- Ostrogozhsk.Voronezh obl.JPG
- Dialing code
- 47375
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- Commons category
- Ostrogozhsk
- postal code
- 397852–397855
- inception
- 1652-01-01
- category for people born here
- Q8067272
- native label
- Острогожск
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Administrative and municipal status
- Notable people
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Ostrogozhsk () is a town and the administrative center of Ostrogozhsky District in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the Tikhaya Sosna River (a tributary of the Don), south of Voronezh, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 32,520.
==History== Ostrogozhsk is a historical center of Eastern Sloboda Ukraine. It was established in 1652 by Belgorod Voivode Fedor Arsenyev and Cossack Ivan Zevkovsky (or Dzenkovsky) as Ostrogozhsk (little fortress) bringing along some 2,000 resettlers from Chernigov and Nezhin Regiments around an ostrog (fortress) of the Belgorod Defensive Line of Russia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostrogozhsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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