Novgorod or Veliky Novgorod is a city in Russia.

As a municipal division, the city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod is incorporated as Nizhny Novgorod Urban Okrug.

Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

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Sack of Novgorod Conditions under Oprichnina were worsened by the 1570 epidemics of plague that killed 10,000 people in Novgorod.

Its administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod.

He would soon have to leave Novgorod because of this conflict.

Novgorod Oblast (, Novgorodskaya oblast ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

The only major cities to escape destruction were Novgorod and Pskov.

Moscow gradually absorbed the surrounding principalities, including the formerly strong rivals, such as Tver and Novgorod.

Important trading ports during the period include Birka, Hedeby, Kaupang, Jorvik, Staraya Ladoga, Novgorod, and Kiev.

1240 Swedish Novgorodian Wars A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.

Apart from Ladoga and Novgorod, Gnezdovo and Gotland were major centres for Varangian trade.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk (probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo) was located on the area settled by the West Slavic Radimichs tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

Daniel's participation in the struggle for Novgorod in 1296 indicated Moscow's increasing political influence.

The oprichnina consisted of a separate territory within the borders of Russia, mostly in the territory of the former Novgorod Republic in the north.

According to the Primary Chronicle, a Varangian from Rus' people, named Rurik, was elected ruler of Novgorod in 862.

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky ( ) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry.

He sent his envoys to Norway and, as a result, they signed a first peace treaty between Russia and Norway in 1251.

The first reference to Moscow dates from 1147 when Yuri Dolgorukiy called upon the prince of the Novgorod Severski to come to me, brother, to Moscow .

Daniel took part in his brothers' Dmitri of Pereslavl and Andrey of Gorodets struggle for the right to govern Vladimir and Novgorod, respectively.

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Later, they moved to Nizhny Novgorod and then Simbirsk, where Ulyanov took up a prestigious position as an inspector of primary schools.

Nevsky tried to strengthen his authority at the expense of the boyars and at the same time suppress any anti Mongol and anti Muscovite uprisings in the country (Novgorod uprising of 1259).

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Seven Russian cities, namely Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg, and Kazan, have underground metros, while Volgograd features a metrotram.

Their western conquests included almost all of Russia (save Novgorod, which became a vassal), Kipchak Cuman Confederation, Hungary, and Poland (which had remained sovereign state).

The Novgorod together with Pskov retained some degree of autonomy during the time of the Mongol yoke and were largely spared the atrocities that affected the rest of the country.

During the Great Feudal War in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tver once again rose to prominence and concluded defensive alliances with Lithuania, Novgorod, Byzantium, and the Golden Horde.

Such relationships could be tenuous, however, as changes in a city's internal politics could disrupt Lithuanian control, as happened on a number of occasions with Novgorod and other East Slavic cities.

The East Slavs gradually settled Western Russia in two waves one moving from Kiev toward present day Suzdal and Murom and another from Polotsk toward Novgorod and Rostov.

An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although vanished during the 15th or 16th century, is sometimes considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian.

He was summoned by the Novgorodians to become knyaz (or prince) of Novgorod and, as their military leader, to defend their northwest lands from Swedish and German invaders.

These involved anti North Caucasian films in the Vkontakte network in Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Novgorod , neo Nazi films in Tomsk, xenophobic status messages in Lipetsk , and hate crime posters in Tula .

The rapid expansion of Muscovy influence soon put it into a position to rival the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and after the annexation of Novgorod in 1478, Muscovy was among the preeminent states in Northeastern Europe.

At some point during the late 9th or early 10th century Kiev fell under the rule of Varangians (see Askold and Dir, and Oleg of Novgorod) and became the nucleus of the Rus' polity.

Galicia Volhynia was eventually assimilated by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, while the Mongol dominated Vladimir Suzdal and Novgorod Republic, two regions on the periphery of Kiev, established the basis for the modern Russian nation.

During the grim conditions of the epidemics, famine and ongoing Livonian War, Ivan grew suspicious that noblemen of the wealthy city of Novgorod were planning to defect, placing the city itself into the control of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

German colonists in the 12th and 13th centuries settled in numerous cities on and near the east Baltic coast, such as Elbing (Elbląg), Thorn (Toruń), Reval (Tallinn), Riga, and Dorpat (Tartu), which became members of the Hanseatic League, and some of which still retain many Hansa buildings and bear the style of their Hanseatic days.

The official language in Moscow and Novgorod, and later, in the growing Muscovy, was Church Slavonic, which evolved from Old Church Slavonic and remained the literary language for centuries, until the Petrine age, when its usage became limited to biblical and liturgical texts.

It is also argued that he intentionally kept Russia as a vassal to the Mongols in order to preserve his own status and counted on the befriended Horde in case someone challenged his authority (he forced the citizens of Novgorod to pay tribute).

The date given for Oleg's conquest of the town in the Primary Chronicle is 882, but some historians, such as Omeljan Pritsak and Constantine Zuckerman, dispute this and maintain that Khazar rule continued as late as the 920s (documentary evidence exists to support this assertion see the Kievian Letter and Schechter Letter.