Dorogobuzh

Dorogobuzh is a town and the managerial focus of Dorogobuzhsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, straddling the Dnieper River and found 125 kilometers east of Smolensk, the regulatory focal point of the oblast. First made reference to in 1150, it was set up as a stronghold protecting eastern ways to deal with Smolensk. In 1508, Vasily III sent Italian experts to fabricate a wooden fortification there. Dorogobuzh was assaulted amid the Time of Troubles, with its populace decreased to ten individuals in 1614. Somewhere in the range of 1611 and 1668, it had a place with Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth as a piece of Smolensk Voivodeship.

In this way, it endure other outside attacks and various flames. Dorogobuzh was involved by the German Army amid World War II first from October 5, 1941 to February 15, 1942 when it was freed by three divided separations and some Soviet troops, on the other hand from June 7, 1942 to September 1, 1943. Inside the structure of managerial divisions, Dorogobuzh fills in as the authoritative focus of Dorogobuzhsky District. As a regulatory division, it is consolidated inside Dorogobuzhsky District as Dorogobuzhskoye Urban Settlement. As a civil division, this regulatory unit likewise has urban settlement status and is a piece of Dorogobuzhsky Municipal District.