Veliky Ustyug
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Veliky Ustyug is a town in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located in the northeast of the oblast at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 31,665.
The Sukhona embankment, as seen from the Troitsko-Gledensky Monastery
St. Prokopy, the Ustyug icon from 1669, Velikoustyugsky Museum of History, Art, and Architecture
Veliky Ustyug by Ivan Bilibin, around 1900
St. Nicholas Church and the bell-tower
Semyon Dezhnev
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Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian zemleprokhodets, an explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Ko
Veliky Ustyug
…town turned into a significant commercial and industrial center in the 16th and 17th centuries. Veliky Ustyug area was the birthplace of the explorers Semyon Dezhnyov, Yerofey Khabarov, Vladimir Atlasov, and of St. Stephen of Perm. Veliky Ustyug lost its key role as a river port with the diminishing importance of the…
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