15 Facts About Pskov Oblast

Pskov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the west of the country.

Pskov Oblast is the westernmost federal subject of contiguous Russia .

Pskov Oblast is located in the Baltic Sea drainage basin, mostly in the basin of the Narva River.

Pskov Oblast was first mentioned in chronicles under the year 903, and several versions of the Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks ran through its current territory, along the Velikaya and the Lovat rivers.

Until the 1230s, Pskov Oblast was a principality; subsequently it was subordinated to Novgorod and became a republic, one of the two republics in Rus.

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Over time Pskov Oblast became dependent on the Grand Duchy of Moscow and after 1399 Moscow appointed viceroys to Pskov Oblast.

Formal independence ended in 1510, when Pskov Oblast was occupied by the troops of Vasili III of Russia, the Grand Prince of Moscow.

The north of the present area of Pskov Oblast, which at the time belonged to Russia, was a part of Ingermanland Governorate, which was renamed Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1710.

Besides, in 1920 the westernmost areas of the Pskov Oblast Governorate including Pechory, Izborsk, Vyshgorodok and Pytalovo that since 1918 were occupied by the North-Western Army, Latvian and Estonian republican units, were ceded from Russian SFR to Latvia and Estonia respectively under the Tartu Peace Treaty and Riga Peace Treaty.

Pskov Oblast Airport serves regular flights to Moscow Domodedovo and Saint Petersburg Pulkovo.

The Christ's Transfiguration Cathedral of Mirozhsky Monastery in Pskov Oblast, built in the 12th century, contains the 12th-century frescoes, which are extremely rare in Russia.

The only other pre-Mongol building in Pskov Oblast is the katholikon of the Ivanovsky Monastery in Pskov, which was constructed in the 1140s and is allegedly the oldest surviving building in the oblast.

Pre-18th century civil architecture is extremely rare in Russia, only a handful of building survived, and Pskov Oblast contains several dozens of the best samples of this genre.

Pskov Oblast Governorate happened to be the location of the family estate of Alexander Pushkin, a Russian poet credited with the creation of contemporary Russian language.

Pskov Oblast spent considerable time at the estate, and once was banished there for two years.