The spring is located near the Okovtsy village 25 km from Selizharovo, the district center. The water of this spring is comparable to glacial meltwater in quality. The spring has been a sacred site after the appearance of the Okovets Holy Mother Icon in 1539.

Farmer Vadim Roshka and his family have been producing farm products in the Staritsky district for 5 years. This is a small family farm where they do everything with their own hands, the quality of the products is very high! The farmers have their own cows and pastures, the owners themselves...

The memorial complex in memory of all the soldiers of the great Patriotic war was built on the site of the bloody battles near Rzhev in 1942-1943. Created on the initiative of veterans of the great Patriotic war, those who held and drained the forces of the Hitlerite army group "Center". the...

August 29, 1609 the Russian army led by M. V. Skopin-Shuisky won the decisive victory over the Polish-Lithuanian invaders in the battle at the Konstantinovskoe field near the Zhabna river. In 2009 to the 400th anniversary of this victory the monument to the outstanding Russian commander Mikhail...

The Academic Dacha of Repin is the oldest and the most famous creative base of the Union of Artists, where for more than 100 years Russian painters have been gathering to participate in collective plein airs. An exceptional role in the organization and improvement of the Academic dacha belonged to...

The embroidery with gold and silver threads came to Russia from Byzantium and there - from the Arab East.Torzhok craft is known in Russia since the X century. In 1899 an educational-model gold embroidery workshop was opened, and in 1911 the first museum was created there, the exhibits of which were...

The history of Bely and the events of the war are told about by the expositions of the Museum of Local Lore. On the territory of the Belsky district there are 32 memorials in remembrance of the Great Patriotic War, in military cemeteries and in communal graves there 25 thousand perished Soviet...