Novosil (russian: Новоси́ль) is a

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and the

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Novosilsky District Novosilsky District (russian: Новосильский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #522-OZ and municipalLaw #425-OZ district ( raion), one of the twenty-four in Oryol Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The a ...

Oryol Oblast Oryol Oblast (russian: Орло́вская о́бласть, ''Orlovskaya oblast''), also known as Orlovshchina (russian: Орловщина) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Oryol. Populati ...

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, located on the right bank of the

Zusha River The Zusha (russian: Зуша) is a river in Tula and Oryol Oblast in Russia, a right tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flo ...

east of

Oryol Oryol ( rus, Орёл, p=ɐˈrʲɵl, lit. ''eagle''), also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast situated on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow. It is part of the Central Fe ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was first mentioned in 1155 as a fortress called ''Itil'' and was the seat of a branch of the

Rurik dynasty The Rurik dynasty ( be, Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichy; russian: Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi, ; uk, Рю́риковичі, Riúrykovychi, ; literally "sons/scions of Rurik"), also known as the Rurikid dynasty or Rurikids, was ...

in the

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. Town rights were granted to Novosil in 1777. 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 World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, Novosil was occupied by the German Army from November 13 to December 27, 1941.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Novosil serves as the

.Law #522-OZ As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Novosilsky 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 Novosil. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Novosil is incorporated within Novosilsky Municipal District as Novosil Urban Settlement.Law #425-OZ

Notable residents

* Maya Dmitrievna Koveshnikova (1926–2013), landscape painter * Slava Polunin (born 1950), performance artist

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* * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Oryol Oblast Novosilsky Uyezd