The unique Karelian National Museum of Local Lore was created in the city. The material for the main exposition was collected in expeditions along the Karelian villages of the Tver region.

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...

Tver is an old Russian city that has preserved its historical appearance and therefore is especially attractive for tourists. The city is located on the picturesque banks of the ancient Russian Volga River, in the place where the Tvertsa and Tmaki rivers flow into it. The distance from Tver to...

Main square of the city, the Sovetskaya square, has the shape of a semicircle with a radius of 60 meters. In May 2008 the monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver was erected on the square (the author of the composition A.N. Kovalchuk).

The great Russian river Volga takes its rise close to Volgoverkhovye village. The source of the river is inside a chapel from where the Volga comes as a small brook any child can step over. The Savior Transfiguration Cathedral of the Olginsky Nunnery stands in immediate proximity to the source.

During the Great Patriotic War der. Pozhnya Toropetsky district was the place where partisan bases were located. Here they underwent training, and then liaison, sabotage groups, partisan detachments were thrown into the enemy rear. Therefore, the Museum of Partisan Glory was created in Pozhna,...