Belyovsky District (russian: Белёвский райо́н) is an administrative district (

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), one of the twenty-three in

Tula Oblast Tula Oblast (russian: Ту́льская о́бласть, ''Tulskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an Oblasts of Russia, oblast) of Russia. It is geographically in the European Russia region of the country and is p ...

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.Law #954-ZTO Within the framework of municipal divisions, it is incorporated as Belyovsky Municipal District.Law #543-ZTO It is located in the west of the

oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...

. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Belyov Belyov (russian: Белёв) is a town and the administrative center of Belyovsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River. Population: 13,180 (2018); History As is the case with many other towns in the former Up ...

. Population: 20,952 ( 2010 Census); The population of Belyov accounts for 66.4% of the district's total population.

Geography

Belyovsky District is located in the west of Tula Oblast, on hilly terrain in the central

Russian Plain The East European Plain (also called the Russian Plain, "Extending from eastern Poland through the entire European Russia to the Ural Mountaina, the ''East European Plain'' encompasses all of the Baltic states and Belarus, nearly all of Ukraine, an ...

. The district is 80 km southwest of the city of

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, and about 200 km southwest of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. A highway runs directly from the district's central city of Belyov to the city of Tula, and another highway runs north-south through the middle of the district along the

Oka River The Oka (russian: Ока́, ) is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its ...

. The area measures 40 km (north-south), and 42.5 km (west-east). The administrative center is the town of Belyov. The district is bordered on the north by Suvorovsky District, on the east by

Odoyevsky District Odoyevsky District (russian: Одо́евский райо́н) is an administrative district (''raion''), one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia.Law #954-ZTO Within the framework of municipal divisions, it is incorporated as Odoyevsky M ...

, on the south by

Arsenyevsky District Arsenyevsky District (russian: Арсе́ньевский райо́н. ''Arsěńěvskij rajon'') is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia.Law #954-ZTO It is located in the west of the oblast. The area ...

, and on the west by

Kozelsky District Kozelsky District (russian: Козе́льский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Kaluga Oblast and municipalLaw #7-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. ...

(Kaluga Oblast), Ulyanovsky District) (Kaluga Oblast), and

Bolkhovsky District Bolkhovsky District (russian: Бо́лховский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #522-OZ and municipalLaw #464-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Oryol Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the ...

(Oryol Oblast).

History

The district's history is centered on the city of Belyov, one of the oldest cities in Russia. Because it was on the southwest frontier of the central Russian area for several centuries, it changed hands frequently and saw much fighting. The earliest recorded inhabitants were the

Vyatichi The Vyatichs or more properly Vyatichi or Viatichi (russian: вя́тичи) were a native tribe of Early East Slavs who inhabited regions around the Oka, Moskva and Don rivers. The Vyatichi had for a long time no princes, but the social structu ...

tribe of the Eastern Slavs, at least through the 10th century. Located on the upper reaches of the Oka River, the area grew economically on trade and the production of handicrafts. During the times of

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...

, it was part of the

Principality of Chernigov The Principality of Chernigov ( orv, Чєрниговскоє кънѧжьство; uk, Чернігівське князівство; russian: Черниговское княжество) was one of the largest and most powerful states within ...

. In the 14th and 15th centuries, it was part of Lithuania.

Ivan III Ivan III Vasilyevich (russian: Иван III Васильевич; 22 January 1440 – 27 October 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of all Rus'. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blin ...

("the Great") attached the area to Russia by the end of the 15th century. The region was attacked by the

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

s in 1507, 1512, 1530, 1536 and 1544. During this time, Belyev became both a fortress in the defensive line of Russia and a major religious center with two monasteries founded. In 1777, by decree of

Catherine the Great , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anhal ...

, the district was officially formed as part of Tula Province. The Russian poet

Vasily Zhukovsky Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский, Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy; – ) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19 ...

was born in the village of Mishenskoe in Belyovsky District in 1783.

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