The ancient city of Tver, which grew out of the Principality of Tver, flourishes in our days. Even in pre-revolutionary times, its rapid growth began, and in the Soviet era it began to develop even faster. Despite the fact that he suffered during the Great Patriotic War, hardworking residents restored him, making him even more beautiful than he was.
Once it entered the Kalinin region, which later became the Tver region. The name of the city comes from the Tvertsa River. Tver is one of the most ancient Russian cities. Judging by the chronicles, it was founded back in 1135. In 2016, environmentalists sounded the alarm when they discovered a catastrophic drop in water levels in all rivers flowing through it. Tver is located immediately on both banks of the mighty Volga. The record of negative and positive temperatures in Tver is -43.8 and +38.8 degrees Celsius.
In the 13th century, Tver for some time was part of the Pereyaslavl principality. Tver residents were among the first to refuse to pay tribute to the Golden Horde, joining the struggle of Russian cities with the Tatar-Mongol invaders. Tver was annexed to the Moscow principality by Tsar Ivan III at the end of the 15th century. In the Time of Troubles, it was ravaged by the Polish-Lithuanian invaders. The city suffered such enormous damage that it had to be restored for almost a hundred years. For several years this city was owned by Alexander Nevsky, but later Tver was transferred to his brother Yaroslav.
It is in the Tver region that Seliger is located, a huge glacial lake with an area of 260 square kilometers. The main architectural attraction of the city is the Catherine II Travel Palace, erected by order of the empress at the end of the 18th century. In the 20s and 30s of the last century, the Bolsheviks destroyed many ancient Tver churches. From 1931 to 1990, Tver was called “Kalinin”. The area of the Tver region exceeds 84,200 square kilometers, which is twice the size of the whole of Switzerland. After the end of World War II, a list of 15 most important cities of the RSFSR was compiled, which should be restored as a priority. Tver entered him. In the Tver region there are about 800 rivers and about 600 lakes.
