Karachev (russian: Карачев) is an ancient

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and the

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Karachevsky District Karachevsky District (russian: Кара́чевский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #13-Z and municipalLaw #3-Z district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the ...

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History

First chronicled in 1146, it was the capital of one of the

Upper Oka Principalities In Russian historiography the term Upper Oka Principalities (russian: Верховские княжества - literally: "Upper Principalities") traditionally applies to about a dozen tiny and ephemeral polities situated along the upper course of ...

in the Middle Ages, until its rulers moved their seat to Peremyshl. Karachev was part of

Oryol Governorate Oryol Governorate (russian: Орловская губерния, ''Orlovskaya guberniya'') or the Government of Oryol, was an administrative division (a ''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 19 ...

from 1796 to 1920. Its old

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

was heavily damaged during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Karachev was occupied by the

German Army The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...

from 6 October 1941 to 15 August 1943.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Karachev serves as the

.Law #13-Z As an administrative division, it is, together with thirty-one rural localities, incorporated within Karachevsky District as Karachevsky Urban Administrative Okrug.Law #69-Z As a municipal division, Karachevsky Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated within Karachevsky Municipal District as Karachevskoye Urban Settlement.Law #3-Z

Infrastructure

Near Karachev, there is a tall radio mast used for

CHAYKA Chayka (russian: Чайка, lit. "seagull") also known as Radioteknicheskaya Systema Dalyoloiy Navigatsii abbreviated as RSDN (lit. Russian Hyperbolic Radio Navigation System) is a Russian terrestrial radio navigation system, similar to Loran ...

radio navigation system.

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External links

Official website of Karachev

Karachev Business Directory
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Bryansk Oblast Karachevsky Uyezd