Kursk

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Image - Kursk: a street in the city center.

Kursk. Map: II-17. City (2000 pop 443,500) and oblast capital in the Russian Federation. It was first mentioned in the chronicles in 1032 as a fortified town in Chernihiv principality and a defense outpost against the Cumans. Later the capital of an appanage principality, it was razed in 1240 by the Mongols. Rebuilt in 1582 as a fortified town on Muscovy's frontier with the Crimean Khanate, from 1708 to 1727 it belonged to Kyiv gubernia. From 1780 to 1797 it was a vicegerency capital, and from 1797 to 1917, a gubernia capital. Today Kursk is an important transport, industrial, and cultural center. Of its 98,800 inhabitants in 1926, 2,400 were Ukrainian.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1989).]

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1 Belgorod oblast 2 Berlynsky, Maksym 3 Bezperchy, Dmytro 4 Borovykovsky, Levko 5 Brezhnev, Leonid 6 Bukreev, Boris 7 Bulgakov, Makarii 8 Chernihiv principality 9 Danylevych, Vasyl 10 Gubernia 11 Horlenko, Yoasaf 12 Iziaslav Mstyslavych 13 Kachurovsky, Ihor 14 Khalansky, Mykhailo 15 Khrushchev, Nikita 16 Kramatorsk 17 Kuban 18 Kursk region 19 Lazarevsky, Oleksander 20 Levshin, Aleksei

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