Glushkovo () is an urban locality (an

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) in the

Glushkovsky District Glushkovsky District () is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south-west of the oblast, on the border with Ukraine. The area of the dis ...

Kursk Oblast Kursk Oblast (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Kursk. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, Kursk Oblast had a pop ...

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. In the 19th century the village was an administrative center of Glushkovskaya

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Rylsky Uyezd Rylsky Uyezd (; ) was one of the subdivisions of the Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the western part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Rylsk. Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census of ...

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.Историческая информация о селе Глушково
/ref> Population: The settlement is adjacent to the

Seym The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the transition of government ...

river.

History

Russo-Ukrainian War

The town was ordered evacuated by Kursk governor Alexei Smirnov on 14 August 2024, days after Ukraine launched an incursion into the region. On 16 August, the

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destroyed a major road bridge over the Seym river in the town.

References

Urban-type settlements in Kursk Oblast {{KurskOblast-geo-stub