Bolkhov

Bolkhov () is a town and the administrative center of Bolkhovsky District in Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Nugr River (Oka's tributary), from Oryol, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 12,800 (1969); 20,703 (1897).

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Bolkhov
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Болхов
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Imgp0669-vid iz-za nugri.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: View of Bolkhov from the opposite bank of the Nugr River
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: bottom
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Bolkhov COA (Oryol Governorate) (1781).png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Oryol Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Bolkhovsky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur: Bolkhov
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type: Town of district significance
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: Bolkhovsky District

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History
Administrative and municipal status
Religion
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==History== Bolkhov was first documented in a chronicle from 1196. After the Mongol invasion of Rus', it became the seat of a local princely dynasty, whose descendants may be traced until the 19th century. In the 16th century, it became one of the fortified posts for defending Moscow from the Tatars on the south. It was there that the army of Vasily IV was defeated by False Dmitry II in 1608.