Lyskovo (russian: Лы́сково) is a

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and the

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Lyskovsky District Lyskovsky District (russian: Лы́сковский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Lyskovsky Municipal District.Resolution #67 ...

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,310,5 ...

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, located on the southern side of the

Volga River The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchme ...

(since the 1980s, forming the

Cheboksary Reservoir Cheboksary Reservoir (Russian: Чебоксарское водохранилище, Chuvash: Шупашкар шыв усравĕ, ''Şupaşkar şıv usravĕ'') is an artificial lake in the central part of the Volga River and formed by the Cheboksa ...

), opposite the mouth of the Kerzhenets River, southeast of

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was first mentioned in 1410. In 1686, Lyskovo was granted by the Russian government to the émigré Georgian monarch

Archil of Imereti Archil ( ka, არჩილი) (1647 – April 16, 1713), of Bagrationi dynasty, king of Imereti in western Georgia (1661–1663, 1678–1679, 1690–1691, 1695–1696, and 1698) and of Kakheti in eastern Georgia (1664–75). After a series of ...

. Upon the extinction of his family, the village passed to Princes Gruzinsky, a related line of Georgian royalty who arrived to Russia in 1724. That family owned the village until the death of Prince

Georgy Gruzinsky Prince Georgy Aleksandrovich Gruzinsky (russian: Георгий Александрович Грузинский; 2 November 1762 – 15 May 1852) was a Russian nobleman of royal Georgian descent. An influential landowner and official in Nizhny No ...

in 1852. From 1749 to 1808, the Lyskovo estate housed St. Nino's Cross, the principal relic of Georgian Christianity. Town status was granted to Lyskovo in 1925.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Lyskovo serves as the

.Order #3-od As an administrative division, it is, together with the

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

of Golovkovo, incorporated within Lyskovsky District as the

town of district significance Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...

of Lyskovo. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Lyskovo is incorporated within Lyskovsky Municipal District as Lyskovo Urban Settlement.Law #133-Z

Transportation

The town is served by M7 Highway (

–

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering an ...

). There are no railways in Lyskovo or anywhere in the district. Ferry service connects the town with Makaryevo and its

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ( hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer whi ...

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External links

Unofficial website of Lyskovo
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Populated places on the Volga Makaryevsky Uyezd (Nizhny Novgorod Governorate)