Kashira

Kashira () is a town and the administrative center of Kashirsky District in Moscow Oblast, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population:

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Kashira
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Кашира
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Kashira-vid.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: View of the central part of Kashira from the opposite side of the Oka River
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: right
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Kashira (Moscow oblast) (1998).png
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Kashira.svg
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Moscow Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Kashirsky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur: Kashira
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type: Town

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Kashira () is a town and the administrative center of Kashirsky District in Moscow Oblast, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population:

==History== It was first mentioned in 1356 as the village of Koshira () named after the Koshira River (today's Kashirka River). However, 1619 is considered Kashira's foundation year, when the town was transferred from the left bank of the Oka to the right bank some upstream and rebuilt after it was badly damaged by the Crimean Tatars in 1592 and 1596.