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Mednoye, Tver Oblast

Village in Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia

Summary

Village in Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia

Field	Value
en_name	Mednoye
ru_name	Медное
image_skyline	Церковь Казанской иконы Божией Матери в Медном с дороги-68.jpg
coordinates
pushpin_map	Russia#European Russia#Russia Tver Oblast
map_label_position	right
federal_subject	Tver Oblast
adm_district_jur	Kalininsky District
inhabloc_cat	Selo
mun_district_jur_ref
urban_settlement_jur	Mednovskoye Rural Settlement
pop_2010census	2645
pop_2010census_ref
pop_latest_ref
established_date	1340
established_title	First mentioned
postal_codes	170521

Mednoye () is a village in Kalininsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Tvertsa River, 28 km west of Tver, by the Moscow–St.Petersburg highway. Population: 3,047 (1992).

History

Mednoye was first mentioned as a votchina of one of Tver boyars in some documents dating from the 14th century. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the village prospered due to its location on the road leading from Tver to Torzhok and Novgorod. During the Oprichnina, there were 104 households in the village.

In the 19th century, Mednoye was a post station on the route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. One chapter of Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is dedicated specifically to this village.

A plaque commemorating the massacre in Mednoye ([[Jasna Góra]], [[Częstochowa]], [[Poland]])

During World War II Mednoye was a centre of heavy tank fighting (October 1941) which formed part of the Battle of Moscow. It also became known as a NKVD mass execution site. Between April 3 and April 19, 1940, 6,311 Polish officers from the Ostashkov POW camp were brought to the area of Mednoye and subsequently shot to death behind the village of Yamka during the Katyn massacre.

Sights

Apart from the Katyn war cemetery, the landmarks of Mednoye include the Church of Our Lady of Kazan (1764), the 18th-century post station, and the memorial house of Sergey Lemeshev.

References

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