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  Tver — FactMonster.com
451,000), capital of Tver region, central European Russia, at the confluence of the Volga and Tver rivers.
The city grew around a fort established in the late 12th cent.
Tver was renamed (1931) for M. Kalinin, a president of the USSR.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0849799.html   (222 words)

  
  Tver, Russia Travel Guide
The city of Tver is geographically situated between Russia's two main cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Tver Region (Oblast), populated by 1.6 million people, covers 84,100 square kilometers and is the largest region in Central Russia.
The territory of the Tver Region is equal to the territories of Moscow, Tula, and Ivanovo Regions combined.
tver-russia.com /map.html   (178 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
Tver Region is located in the central part of the East European Plain and is one of the largest regions in European Russia, with a total area of 84 100 km2.
Tver Region has large deposits of brown coal, peat, glassmaking sand, limestone, dolomite, and mineral fertilizers; it is also famous for its mineral springs.
Tver is the heart of Russia in every sense of the word: as a land of forests, lakes, and rivers; as a historical and cultural center; and as the crossroads of domestic and international transportation routes.
www.kommersant.com /t-74/r_5/n_418/Tver_Region   (4016 words)

  
 Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers' Community for Tver, Russia
Welcome to Tver, Russia Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers Community in Tver region.
Tver region has approximately 2 million inhabitants, 500 thousand live in Tver.
It's better to stay at night in Tver, then go to Moscow early in the morning.
www.horizonsunlimited.com /community/tver/index.php   (396 words)

  
 Staritsa (Starica), Tver region, Russia
Tver women are bused to Moscow to the famous "Anastasia Socials" at the Balchug hotel 200 yards from my Moscow home and office.
Tver Icons: http://kyyim.com.ne.kr/icondetver/ This site is in French but I'm listing it there on the assumption that French can be understood by an intelligent English speaker.
Istra and New Jerusalem, Klin, Tver, Volokolamsk, Yaropolets, Staritsa, Stepurino, Bortenyevo, Rzhev, Torzhok, Vyshny Volochek, Kashin, Valday, Ostashkov, Staraya Russa, Novgorod...
www.staritsa.info /tver.htm   (1991 words)

  
 AnastasiaWeb Tours - Tour cities - Tver
Tver is a middle-sized city (450 thousand inhabitants) tucked in somewhere between the two Russian capitals of Moscow (167 kilometers away) and St.Petersburg (485 km away).
Since the beginning of the 14th century Tver had been Moscow 's main rival in the violent struggle for becoming the the leader of all Russian principalities.
The Tver Cremlin used to be situated on the right bank, and the city stretched from there to the East and South-East - exactly where we land when we arrive from Moscow.
www.anastasiawebtours.com /tour_cities/tver.htm   (717 words)

  
 Tver Angels - Tver and Its History
Tver Region is situated in the north-western part of Russia, between the two capitals Moscow and St.Petersburg.
Tver was a wooden city and its buildings have not been preserved up to this time.
In Tver Region we cultivate flax, rye, and wheat.
www.tverangels.com /tver.shtml   (1184 words)

  
 Tver, Russia Travel Guide
According to the legend, Prince Mikhail rallied the Tver warriors to fight against the tartar yoke, but was ultimately captured, tormented, and died in the captivity.
Tver was at one time the capital of an unruly mini-state that was Moscow's chief rival in the 14th and 15th centuries.
The image of modern Tver with its present, clear, and rational layout is a unique example of 18th century architecture and city planning.
tver-russia.com /history.html   (915 words)

  
 Tver Regional Information Node
Tver State University (TTC) is one of the largest universities in the northwest region of Russia within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of General and Professional Education of Russian Federation (MGPE RF).
Tver INNOCENTRE, which is a methodical centre of MGPE RF in the field of innovation activity, where database on innovative RTD developments applicable to high-tech industry are collected from the majority of russian higher educational institutes and universities.
The R&D activities of Tver institutes of higher education are described in a special catalog prepared by the TCC of the Tver University.
enrin.tversu.ru /resume.html   (989 words)

  
 The Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast, populated by 1.6 million people, covers 84,100 square kilometers and is the largest region in Central Russia.
Tver mineral resources include gravel, construction and silicate sands, fireproof, ceramic and kaolin clay, limestone, sapropel, mineral water, and brown coal.
Tver's spas and sanatoriums were ranked 6th after Moscow Oblast, Sochi, Anapa, Crimea (although now a part of Ukraine, Crimea is traditionally considered as a domestic vacation site), and Mineral Waters.
www.russianamericanchamber.org /regions/tver.html   (2709 words)

  
 What's Tver? - Accomodation - Russian Studies - Delta Intercontact
Tver streets and architecture fill you with the atmosphere of Russian history and traditions.
The medium-sized city of Tver (population 500,000), located 170 km north-west of Moscow on the main route between Moscow and St. Petersburg, is an ideal learning environment.
Tver had its own Kremlin (destroyed by fire in the 18th century), the remnants of which are exposed to public in the Local Lore Museum.
www.delta-ic.net /studyrussian/accomodation/tver1   (447 words)

  
 Tver - Search Results - MSN Encarta
It is a major industrial and transportation center located at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa...
Kalinin, name of Tver', city, western Russia, from 1933 to 1990.
Vyshniy Volochëk, city in the Tver’ Oblast of western Russia.
encarta.msn.com /Tver.html   (90 words)

  
 Sainted Arsenii, Bishop of Tver'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Saint Arsenii was appointed to the Tver' cathedra.
Upon the return of Metropolitan Kyprian and archdeacon Arsenii to Moscow, the Tver' prince sent his boyars with a petition to the metropolitan concerning ordination of Arsenii to the Tver' cathedra.
The saint founded on the river T'maka near Tver' the Zheltikov monastery, where in similitude to the Kievo-Pechersk monastery was built a church in the names of the Monks Antonii and Theodosii of Pechersk (1394), and a stone Uspenie cathedral.
www.holytrinityorthodox.com /calendar/los/March/02-06.htm   (488 words)

  
 The Tver shop of rare books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There is a description of the things which were exported and imported to Tver region.
The first research of Tver's history and economics, no doubt, will take the worthy place in Tver historiography because this book is original and because Tver's history is shown on the wide background of the central Russia's history in XV-XVIII centuries, on the background of Russia's foreign and domestic policy.
You can see the unique encyclopedia of Tver' history XV - the beginning XVIII century where the problems from the general topography to the genealogy of each citizen are expounded.
www.karavan.tver.ru /books/?lng=en   (462 words)

  
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Tver is situated between the two capitals: Moscow and St. Petersburg.
On extent of 14th -15th centuries Tver competed with Moscow for a leadership in association of Russian grounds.
In Middle Ages Tver was one of the main centers of a craft manufacture and an international trade of Russia, the city was glorified by skilful builders, gun makers, painters.
www.behappy2day.com /tver.php   (2036 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Tver (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
451,000), capital of Tver region, central European Russia, at the confluence of the Volga and Tver rivers.
An industrial center, Tver has industries producing linen textiles, light machinery, and rolling stock.
Tver was renamed (1931) for M. Kalinin, a president of the USSR.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tver.html   (246 words)

  
 Tver Oblast Information
Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Its administrative center is the city of Tver.
Tver Oblast is the area of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Tver_Oblast   (167 words)

  
 TVER - Online Information article about TVER
Tver is an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox See also:
Tver dates its origin from 118o, when a fort was erected at the mouth of the Tvertsa to protect the Suzdal principality against See also:
Great Russia, and it was only with the help of the Tatars that the princes of the former eventually succeeded in breaking down the See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /TUM_VAN/TVER.html   (565 words)

  
 Botanic Garden of Tver State University
The Botanic Garden of Tver State University is situated at the meeting place of the Volga and Tvertza rivers.
It is one of the main green spaces of Tver.
In 1971 Tver State University, the former Pedagogical Institute, refused to support the garden and the garden passed to municipal plant-growing holding.
www.bgci.org /garden.php?id=1123   (550 words)

  
 Tver- Travel
In Middle Ages Tver was one of the main centers of a craft manufacture and an international trade of Russia, the city was glorified by skilful builders, gun makers, painters.
Tver Region is situated in the north-western part of Russia, between two capitals Moscow and St.Petersburg.
Tver was a wooden city and its buildings have not preserved up to the time.
www.firstdream.com /traveltver/traveltver.shtml   (892 words)

  
 Tver Region (Russia)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tver is between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, surrounded by the regions of Novgorod, Smolensk, Pskov, Jaroslav, Vologda and Moscow.
In December 23rd 1996, the Legislative meeting of Tver region (Zakonodatelhnoe Sobranie Tverskoj oblasti) confirmed coat of arms and flag of region.
The coat of arms presents the golden throne on the red shield, the Monomakh head-dress is lying on the seat.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-69.html   (250 words)

  
 IASS-AIS Call for Papers: Understanding and Reflectivity - Tver
Conferences devoted to the problems of this kind have been regularly held in Tver since 1990 when they were begun on the initiative of the prominent methodologist G.P.Shchedrovitsky.
The academic institutions of Tver traditionally participating in the organization of our conferences are the State University of Tver, the Tver University of Economics and Management, the Tver Agricultural Academy and some others.
Papers and scientific reports at the Tver hermeneutic conferences are oriented to joint activities of specialists working in the sphere of anthropocentric approaches to philological, philosophical, pedagogical, economic, historical, medical, psychological, biological, theological as well as all the other applications of understanding and reflectivity.
www.arthist.lu.se /kultsem/Ais/sem-CFP/c0203tver.html   (805 words)

  
 The Institute for Education in International Media
Tver* lies between the two largest cities in Russia, 110 miles from Moscow and 320 miles from St. Petersburg.
Also of interest are: Staritsa, with its multitude of churches and ethnographic museum, and Ostashkov, with its fully preserved buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries and the enormous Nilov monastery.
Tver InterContact Group Institute of Russian Language and Culture* is a private educational and consulting company with a branch in Moscow.
internationalmediaprograms.com /tver.htm   (395 words)

  
 TVER STATE MEDICAL ACADEMY
For more than 60 years Tver State Medical Academy has been playing a leading role in the development of medical science and training of medical and scientific personnel.
Tver State Medical Academy is a worldwide-recognized medical establishment in Tver with more than 50 years history and many decades of experience in the field of training of foreign citizens.
Today, on the boundary of the third millennium, the Academy still remains the largest medical scientific, research and educational centre, noted for its extensive clinical and laboratory base and a brilliant teaching staff.
www.geocities.com /docmedcor/TSMAONE.html   (267 words)

  
 General information on Tver City: accommodations in Tver, transportation to Tver, Tver climate, telecommunications in ...
Recently, however, Tver is beginning to offer a greater diversity of banking services than ever before, which directly benefits visitors in that they no longer have to endure the nervousness of traveling with a large amount of cash.
As of late, Tver has seen an explosion in the number of automated bank tellers throughout the city center, meaning that the days when visitors would arrive with a bundle of cash in their pockets to fund their expenses is over.
Located near the Tver city center, this luxurious and spacious apartment, equipped with satellite television, telephone, full kitchen, sauna, king size bed and a pool table provides a great level of comfort and security.
www.tverromance.com /tverguide/part7   (1768 words)

  
 Hotel - Hotel Osnabruck
Hotel "Osnabruck" is located in the central historical part of Tver.
During the hotel construction financial support was given by a group of businessmen from the German city of Osnabruck, a twin-city of Tver (thus the name of the hotel "Osnabruck").
Tver celebrated its birthday on 24th and 25th of June.
hotel.tver.ru /_content.php?Id=3.49   (241 words)

  
 Tver archives
The Tver region is located northwest of Moscow.
Two state archives are located in Tver and thirty-six municipal archives are located in the centers of districts.
The materials of all state and municipal archives of the Tver region are accessible for citizens and researchers, as a rule, but region state archives have documents that are restricted for searchers, of course.
www.tversu.ru /archives/tverarch.html   (573 words)

  
 Tver - Search Results - MSN Encarta
It is a major industrial and transport centre located at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa...
Nicholas II, Declaration to representatives of Tver (quotations): Monarchy: I shall maintain the principle…
I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was upheld by my own ever to be remembered dead father.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Tver.html   (101 words)

  
 Publications - Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The book presents working materials of the "Mainstreaming Gender Studies into Curriculum" project (2001-2003), including the conference materials ("Sex and Gender in Social Studies and Humanities", Tver State University, 26-27.05.2003), bibliographies, as well as several translations devoted to the foreign experience of integrating women's studies into academy.
A collection of articles written by the scholars of the Tver Centre of Women's History and Gender Studies, also with information about the Centre and its projects.
This conference was organised by the Tver Center of Women's History and Gender Studies.
tvergenderstudies.ru /pbbk000e.htm   (464 words)

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