2000 miles by car.

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Hey people! yesterday I was returned from my excursion trip, it takes 2000 miles by drive and 6 days into different towns of russia, I made some fotos - enjoy it! The main part of my trip was around many-many great battlefields Novgorod-Leningrad-Pskov-Luga

1st - it is the monument for 2nd rifle army - it was absolutely destroyed by german's forces in 1942 (near 50.000peoples)
2nd - it is the remains of the bridge - it was destroyed by german's luftwaffe
3d- the monument for partisans who died during the battle for Leningrad since 1941-till 1944 ( near 300.000 peoples)
 

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1st- the dirol factory :wink:
2nd- the ruins of the small church
3d -the monument for 118 rifle division
 

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1st- monument of "Ice battel" in april 1242 our army with our king Alexand Nevsky are destroyed German's army on the ice of Chudskoe lake, according to contemporary Russian chronicles, after hours of hand-to-hand fighting, Alexander ordered the left and right wings of his archers to enter the battle. The knights by this time were exhausted from the constant fighting and struggling with the slippery surface of the frozen lake. The Crusaders started to retreat in disarray deeper onto the ice, and the appearance of the fresh Russian cavalry made them run for their lives. When the knights attempted to rally themselves at the far side of the lake the thin ice started to collapse, under the weight of their heavy armour, and many knights drowned.
2nd- the Chudskoe lake
 

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1st 2nd- the Pskov's Kremlin
 

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pskov's kremlin inside
 

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The Pskov by the 14th century, the town functioned as the capital of a de-facto sovereign republic. Its most powerful force was the merchants who brought the town into the Hanseatic league. Pskov's independence was formally recognized by Novgorod in 1348. Several years later, the veche promulgated a law code (called the Pskov Charter) which was one of the principal sources of the all-Russian law code issued in 1497.

For Russia, the Pskov Republic was a bridge towards Europe. For Europe, it was a western outpost of Russia and subject of numerous attacks throughout the history. Unbelievably, the kremlin (called by Pskovians the Krom) withstood 26 sieges in the 15th century alone. At one point, five stone walls ringed it, making the city practically impregnable. A local school of icon-painting flourished, and local masons were considered the best in Russia. Many peculiar features of Russian architecture were first introduced in Pskov.
 

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The Izborsk fortrest -Izborsk is a village in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. It contains one of the most ancient and impressive fortresses of Western Russia.

The village lies thirty kilometers to the west of Pskov and just to the east from the Estonian border. According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the town was the seat of Rurik's brother in 862. Although his burial mound is still shown to occasional tourists, archaeological excavations of long barrows abounding in the vicinity didn't reveal the presence of the Varangian settlement at the site, indicating that Izborsk was an important centre of the early Krivichs.

The next mention of the town in Slavonic chronicles dates back to 1233, when the place was captured by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. Pskov moved the fortress to a more convenient site in 1302. The most ancient extant structure is the Tower Lukovka (lit., "Onion Tower"), constructed in 1330. At that time it was the only stone building west of Pskov and adjoined a wooden wall. After seven other stone towers and the new stone wall were completed, Lukovka became a watch-tower. The Nativity church within the fortress was built in the 16th century. Near the fortress is a museum of stone crosses.
 

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and Izborsk again
 

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sights from tower of Izborsk's fortrest
 

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The Pechory

Pechory is a town in Pskov Oblast, Russia. According to the 2002 population census, the town had 13,056 citizens, including a few hundred ethnic Estonians.

The town of Pechory was founded as a posad near a famous Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery in the 16th century and soon developed into an important trading place. During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, Pechory was an important border stronghold. It was besieged numerous times by Russia's enemies: Stefan Batory's forces sacked the settlement during the Siege of Pskov (1581); the Swedes or the Polish stormed Pechory in 1592, 1611, 1615, 1630, and from 1655 to 1657.

After the Great Northern War broke off, Russians renovated the fortifications and Boris Sheremetev began his campaign of 1701 in Pechory. In the 20th century, the settlement that had been in oblivion for centuries, regained its status as a town (1918). From February to December of 1918, Pechory was occupied by the Germans. During Estonian War of Independence, the town was captured by the Estonian forces on March 29, 1919. On the grounds of the Tartu Peace Treaty, Pechory and the territory around it, called Setomaa, were given to Estonia.

During the years of independent Estonia, Petseri, as it was called at the time, was the centre of Petserimaa (Petseri County), one of the eleven counties that made up the Republic of Estonia. The Peter Church was built during the time. During the World War II it was occupied by the German army from August 1941 until August 11, 1944.
 

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The Pechory
 

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pechory again
 

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unsorted photos
 

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:wink:
 

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unsorted
 

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very rare common grave - usualy we have a graves from our war 1941-45, but it is grave from civil war 1918-1924
 

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unsorted churchs
 

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Attention!
The board ahead!
Tresspass will be presecured!
 

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