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Landmark Attractions In Zhukovsky District

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Zhukovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,360 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the town of Zhukov. Population: 48,999 ; 46,180 ; 45,940 . The population of Zhukov accounts for 24.8% of the district's total population.
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  • 1. Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery Zvenigorod
    The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. It is the preeminent landmark of Zvenigorod, a town 48 km west of Moscow. In 1398, Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod asked Savva, or Sabbas, one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, to come to his capital city and set up a monastic abode on the Storozhi Holm . St. Savva of Storozhi was interred in the white stone cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity in 1407. This diminutive, roughly hewn church still stands, although its present-day exquisite look is the result of a 1970s restoration campaign. The frescoes in the altar date back to the 1420s, but the rest of the interior was painted in 1656. A magnificent iconostasis in five tiers and the Stroganov School royal doors ...
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  • 3. Kurgan Bessmertiya Bryansk
    Mound of Immortality is the name of several memorials/monuments in the former Soviet Union that commemorate the Soviet soldiers and ordinary citizens who fought and perished during the German-Soviet War. They exist in the following locations: Polotsk, Belarus Orsha, Belarus Bryansk, Russia Smolensk, Russia Yefremov, Tula Oblast, Russia In addition there is a Mound of Immortality in honor of Polish-Lithianian-Belarusian poet Adam Mickiewicz in Novogrudok, Belarus.
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  • 4. Svensky Monastery Bryansk
    Svensky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery located at the confluence of the Desna and Svin Rivers, three miles from Bryansk, Russia. The monastery was originally known as Svinsky, after the Svin River, but the spelling was subsequently changed to Svensky, because svinsky also means of the swine in Russian. Church legends attribute the monastery's foundation to Prince Roman of Bryansk, who was reportedly buried there. As the legend has it, the monastery was founded to mark the place where a miraculous icon of the Theotokos appeared to Roman, the second son of St. Mikhail of Chernigov, and cured him of blindness. A tree where it was found, was chopped down to be used for icon painting. The miraculous icon represents the Theotokos Panachrantos with SS. Anthony and Theodosius. It is pop...
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