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Monument Attractions In Khvoyninsky District

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Yaroslav’s Courtyard

Millennium of Russia

Vitoslavlitsy Museum

Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets)

Iver Svyatoozersky Monastery

St. Sophia Cathedral

Khvoyninsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Boksitogorsky District of Leningrad Oblast in the north, Chagodoshchensky District of Vologda Oblast in the northeast, Pestovsky District in the southeast, Moshenskoy District in the south, Borovichsky District in the southwest, and with Lyubytinsky District in the west. The area of the district is 3,200 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the urban locality of Khvoynaya. Population: 15,552 ; 17,173 ; 19,649 . The population of Khvoynaya accounts for 41.1% of the ...
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Monument Attractions In Khvoyninsky District

1. Millennium of Russia Veliky Novgorod
The Millennium of Russia is a bronze monument in the Novgorod Kremlin. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of the history of Russian statehood. A competition to design the monument was held in 1859. An architect Viktor Hartmann and an artist Mikhail Mikeshin were declared the winners. Mikeshin's design called for a grandiose, 15-metre-high bell crowned by a cross symbolizing the tsar's power. The bell was to be encircled with several tiers of sculptures representing Russian monarchs, clerics, generals, and artists active during various periods of Russian history. Mikeshin himself was no sculptor, therefore the 129 individual statues for the monument were made by the leading Russian sculptors of ...
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