Starorussky District
Starorussky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Parfinsky District in the east, Demyansky and Maryovsky Districts in the southeast, Poddorsky District in the southwest, Volotovsky District in the west, and with Shimsky District in the northwest.Photo: Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Transfiguration Monastery, Staraya Russa and Muravievskiy fontan.
Transfiguration Monastery, Staraya Russa
Church
The Transfiguration Monastery is a former Russian Orthodox monastery founded in 1192. The monastery is located in the city of Staraya Russa, on the right bank of the Polist River. It is currently occupied by the Staraya Russa Town Museum.
Holy Trinity Church (Staraja Russa)
Church
Holy Trinity Church (Staraja Russa) is situated 3½ km west of Starorussky District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Staraya Russa and Ivankovo.
Staraya Russa
Photo: Oldgentleman83, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Staraya Russa is a small, historic town in the center of Novgorod Oblast, long famous domestically for its balneologic mineral waters resort, but much more famous among international travellers as Dostoyevsky's summer retreat, and the basis for the fictional town of Skotoprigonievsk in The Brothers Karamazov.
Ivankovo
Hamlet
Photo: Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ivankovo is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km east of Starorussky District.
Starorussky District
- Type: municipal district with 42,700 residents
- Description: district in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
- Location: Novgorod Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Starorussky District” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ստարայա Ռուսայի շրջան”
- Armenian: “Ստարոռուսկի շրջան”
- Belarusian: “Старарускі раён”
- Cebuano: “Starorusskiy Rayon”
- Cebuano: “Старорусский Район”
- Chechen: “Стари Руссан кӀошт”
- Chinese: “Starorussky Koān”
- Chinese: “舊魯斯基區”
- Chinese: “舊魯薩區”
- Dutch: “Starorussky District”
- Esperanto: “Starorusskij (distrikto)”
- Esperanto: “Starorusskij”
- Estonian: “Staraja Russa rajoon”
- Finnish: “Staraja Russan piiri”
- Finnish: “Starorusski raion”
- French: “raïon de Staraïa Roussa”
- French: “Raïon de Staraïa Roussa”
- German: “Starorusski rajon”
- Italian: “Distretto di Staraja Russa”
- Italian: “Starorusskij rajon”
- Latvian: “Staraja Rusas rajons”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Starorussky Koān”
- Polish: “rejon staroruski”
- Romanian: “Raionul Staraia Russa”
- Russian: “Старорусский муниципальный район”
- Russian: “Старорусский район Новгородской области”
- Russian: “Старорусский район”
- Russian: “Старорусский Район”
- Serbian: “Староруски рејон”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Stárorrusa”
- Tatar: “Иске Русса районы”
- Ukrainian: “Старорусський район”
- Ukrainian: “Староруський район”
- Vietnamese: “Starorussky”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mednikovo and Anishino.
Notable Places Nearby
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