Borovsk Travel Guide

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Borovsk is situated on the Protva River which flows in Moscow and Kaluga Oblasts. It is a left tributary of the Oka, which flows to the Great Russian River Volga. The length of the river is 282 km. The towns of Vereya, Borovsk, Protvino and Obninsk are located on the shores... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The Church of Elija was built between 1670 – 1680. Hospital chambers with the Church Ilija of the Prophet were constructed with support of princes Repnins. According to a legend, the church was built on a place where defenders who had been standing the siege of the monastery... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Borovsk was officially founded in 1358 (although people likely lived there for century or more before that), on a well-defended hill-top position in the midst of a thick pine forest, from which the city likely took its name. The word for "pine" is "bor" (áîð) in Russian.... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  There are many interesting buildings and houses in the Central square of Borovsk. Gostinni Dvor (Trading lines) is the most significant. Now it has rather attractive view because it was repaired some time ago. I haven't been to Borovsk since soviet times (25 years ago). I... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Like in every Russian great city or small town you may see a Lenin's monument (may be several or even many of them!). In Borovsk this monument is situated at the square in front of the Gostinni Dvor.There are a lot of streets in Borovsk which kept their names since soviet... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  This church was built in 1804. It stands at the south side of the central square where Uritzkogo street begins. Its dom attracts your attention just you enter the central part of the town. But when you come closer you will be dissapointed by its condition. Unfortunately it... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The town's central square featuring an obligatory statue of Lenin and an eternal flame at a World War II memorial.There is an inscription in Russian and in Latvian (or Lithuanian) with the names of lost soldiers. I don’t know why it was made in two languages – may be a... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  In Borovsk time has stopped, but the life has not stopped, and the city shows to us how Russian cities looked several centuries ago. Among one and wo-storied vein of building XVIII - represent a man-made poem from tree and stone out of the XIX century.And the strict spirit... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  In 1812 Borovsk was occupied by Napoleon's army as it tried to advance to the city of Kaluga on the way to Moscow. Napoleon stayed in Borovsk for three days, waiting for news from his general on the progress the advance was making. However, he was to be disappointed – his... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Borovsk is a small Russian town in Kaluzhskaya Oblast’ with population about 12 thousand people. It located just south from its border with the Moscow Oblast. It is situated about 100 kilometers south-west of Moscow.The town is less than two hours' drive from the capital. Go... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Borovsk used to be a town with a strong presence of the Old Believers, a movement that opposed changes in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-17th century.In 1653 Nikon sent a memorandum to the churches across the Russian State, which instructed them in various revisions... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The legend goes among inhabitants of Borovsk, that the city is ostensibly located on a huge tectonic break, that's why every possible misfortunes fall upon Borovsk so often! So there was, perhaps, the largest in modern history of Borovsk emergency in the Borovsk's motorcade... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The Church of Nativity of the Virgin is situated at a distance about a kilometer from the Monastery.You may watch my high resolution photo of Roscha near St.Paphnutius Borovsk Monastery on the Google Earth according to the following coordinates 55º 12' 51.10" N 36º 31'... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Borovsk is known to have existed since the XIIIth century as a part of the Ryazan Principality. In the XIVth century it was owned by Vladimir of Serpukhov, but passed to Muscovya when his granddaughter Maria of Borovsk married Vasily II.Napoleon stayed here, a fervent Old...