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Bryansk is the administrative centre of Bryansk Oblast in Russia, on the Desna River 379 km southwest of Moscow, famous as one of the oldest cities of the region and for its partisans of World War II. Its top sights are the Pokrovsky Cathedral on Pokrovskaya Hill, Chashin Kurgan, the Kurgan of Immortality and the Trinity Cathedral.
Bryansk takes 985 as its year of foundation, and the first settlement is thought to have stood on Chashin Kurgan before the city moved to Pokrovskaya Hill. It was part of Kievan Rus', the Mongol Empire and Lithuania in the Middle Ages, was contested by Moscow and Poland-Lithuania, and then became a major regional trading centre within Russia.
Bryansk had 379,152 people in the 2021 census and was named a City of Military Glory in 2010. A railway has served it since 1868, Bryansk International Airport lies 14 km southwest of the city, and buses and trolleybuses run in the city, which spreads along the right bank of the Desna.
Bryansk Trinity Cathedral is the cathedral of the Bryansk metropolis in Bryansk, Russia, and the largest church in Bryansk Oblast. Begun in 2006 and consecrated by Patriarch Kirill on 1 July 2012, it holds the relics of Prince Oleg of Bryansk and has a separate Peresvet bell tower about 80 m high.
Gorno-Nikolsky Church is the Baroque cathedral of the Gorno-Nikolsky Monastery on a rise in the historic core of Bryansk, Russia, opposite Pokrovskaya Hill. Built in 1751 by the Koltsov merchants on the site of a wooden church known from 1310, it housed the regional planetarium from 1977 to 1999.
Bryansk Resurrection Church is an Orthodox church in Bryansk, Russia, built in 1739 to 1741 as the cathedral of the Resurrection convent, which was closed in 1766, and it served as the cathedral of the Bryansk diocese until the Trinity Cathedral was consecrated in 2012.
Bryansk Tikhvin Church is an Orthodox parish church on the northern slope of Petrovskaya Hill in the historic New Sloboda of Bryansk, Russia. It was built in 1755 to 1769 with gifts from the Bukhteev merchants, replacing the old wooden church of Athanasius and Cyril, listed in 1628.
Bryansk Pokrovsky Cathedral is the oldest surviving church in Bryansk, Russia, standing on Pokrovskaya Hill, where the Bryansk kremlin stood. It was built in 1698 with money from the stolnik Evstrat Alymov in place of an old wooden cathedral church, and it was the main church of the city until 1798.
Chashin Kurgan is a hillfort site at the meeting of the Bolva and Desna rivers in Bryansk, Russia, held since the early 1980s to be where the chronicled city began, conventionally dated to 985. Its bowl-shaped ramparts stand up to 8 m high, with a fine view over the Desna valley.
Kurgan of Immortality is a war memorial in the Solovyi Central Park in Bryansk, Russia, and one of the symbols of the city. Begun on 7 May 1967 with earth from mass graves, it is a 12 m five-sided mound crowned by an 18 m concrete star pylon, with a wide view over the left bank of the Desna.
Bryansk Partisans Square is one of the central squares of Bryansk, Russia, where Lenin Avenue meets Krasnoarmeyskaya Street. Its monument to the soldiers and partisans who freed Bryansk, set up in 1966, is an unofficial symbol of the city, and the regional museum stands on it.
Tolstoy Park-Museum is one of the oldest parks in Bryansk, Russia, a 2.9-hectare park in the historic centre named after the writer Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Thanks to its unique collection of wooden sculptures it is one of the main sights of the city, at the head of Gagarin Boulevard.
Bryansk Museum of Local Lore is the main museum of Bryansk Oblast, in Bryansk, Russia, opened in September 1921 by historian Sergei Deev. Its collections were lost in the occupation, and it was rebuilt after the 1943 liberation, reopening in 1949 in what became its home on Partisans Square in 1985.
Bryansk Drama Theatre, named after A. K. Tolstoy, is the oldest theatre in Bryansk Oblast and one of the oldest and finest buildings in Bryansk, Russia, on Theatre Square in the city centre. Its building was laid down in 1924, opened in 1926 and rebuilt in 1949, and it is a regional heritage site.
Bryansk Peter and Paul Monastery is a revived Orthodox monastery in upland Bryansk, Russia, above a steep drop to the Desna floodplain, said to have been founded in the 13th century by Prince Oleg Romanovich. Its Vvedensky church of 1702 to 1705 is the only surviving building of the old monastery.
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