Yaropolets (russian: Ярополе́ц) is a village in
Russia
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's
Volokolamsky District
Volokolamsky District (russian: Волокола́мский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #1/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast an ...
in
Moscow Oblast.
While small, the village has several attractions. It is home to both the Goncharov Estate and the Chernyshev Estate, The Church of Our Lady of Kazan, and Russia's first rural hydroelectric power station.
Cossack political and military leader,
Hetman
( uk, гетьман, translit=het'man) is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders.
Used by the Czechs in Bohemia since the 15th century. It was the title of the second-highest military co ...
of
Right-bank Ukraine
Right-bank Ukraine ( uk , Правобережна Україна, ''Pravoberezhna Ukrayina''; russian: Правобережная Украина, ''Pravoberezhnaya Ukraina''; pl, Prawobrzeżna Ukraina, sk, Pravobrežná Ukrajina, hu, Jobb p ...
Petro Doroshenko
Petro Doroshenko ( uk, Петро Дорофійович Дорошенко, russian: Пётр Дорофе́евич Дороше́нко, pl, Piotr Doroszenko; 1627–1698) was a Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukr ...
is buried in the village.
References
Rural localities in Moscow Oblast
Volokolamsky District
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