Memorial to Alexey Venetsianov in Vyshny Volochyok

Vyshny Volochyok (Russian: Вы́шний Волочёк) is a town in Tver Oblast of Russia. Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (Алексей Гаврилович Венецианов 18 February 1780 &ndash 04 January 1847) was a Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Tver Oblast (Тверска́я о́бласть Tverskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The settlement is known since 1471. A highway and a railway connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg pass through the town. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Population: 56,405 (2002 Census). Russian Census of 2002 (Всеросси́йская пе́репись населе́ния 2002 го́да was the first Census of the Russian Federation carried

The town is located 119 km north-west of Tver, in the Valdai Hills, between the Tvertsa and Tsna rivers, on the watershed between the basins of the Volga and the Baltic Sea. Tver (Тверь is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Tver Oblast. The Valdai Hills ( Russian: Валда́йская возвы́шенность or Валда́й Latvian: Valdaja augstiene are an upland region in north-west Tvertsa (Тверца is a River in the Tver Oblast in Russia, a left Tributary of the Volga River. Tsna (Цна is a river in Tver Oblast, Russia. It belongs to Baltic Sea ( Neva River) basin A drainage divide, water divide, divide or (outside North America) watershed is the line separating neighbouring Drainage basins The Baltic Sea is a Brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N Latitude and from 20°E to 26°E Longitude. Hence the town's name is translated from Russian as "Upper Portage". Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages In 1703-1722 Peter the Great had a canal constructed to link these two rivers (see Mariinsk Canal System). The Volga-Baltic Waterway, formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System (Russian Мариинская водная система is a series of Canals and Rivers Later, Vyshny Volochok became a major centre of textile manufacture.

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• FallingRain Map - elevation = 156m