Kholm

Kholm

Kholm ( _ru. Холм) is a town in the southern part of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Kholmsky District. Its population is 4,300 (2003 est.); 4,325 (2002 Census). It is situated at the confluence of Lovat River and Kunya River, 77 km north of Toropets, 93 km south-west of Staraya Russa, and 200 km south of Novgorod.

The settlement was first noticed in 1144 as Kholm Pogost (literally: "a hill cemetery"). During the Middle Ages the town, then a seat of the Princes Kholmsky, withstood innumerable sieges by Lithuanians, Poles, and Swedes. In 1777 it was renamed into the uezd town of Kholmsk. During World War II it was occupied by the Wermacht from 1941 to 21 February 1944, when it was liberated in the aftermath of the Toropets-Kholm Operation. The town was completely ruined, and its current population is only a third of the pre-war one.

In the dense woods and impracticable swamps to the west from Kholm lies the deserted [http://www.towns.ru/other/rdeysky.html Rdeisky Monastery] .

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=57.15,31.18333&spn=0.1,0.1&t=k&hl=en Kholm on maps.google.com]


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