Ugorshchina (Great Standing on the Eel)
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The Kaluga Holy Tikhon Desert was founded in the second half of the XV century by the Monk Tikhon, the Kaluga Wonderworker. In the Vladimir monastery monastery is:
• Diorama The Great Stand on the Eel. 535 years ago, on October 17, 1480, one of the most important events of Russian history took place - the Russia in which we live was born. The beginning of standing on the Ugra River put an end to the Tatar-Mongol yoke. Unfortunately, this fact is not yet fully realized.
Savior-on-Ugra was founded shortly after the "Standing on the Ugra" at the expense of Prince Dmitry Feodorovich Vorotynsky in 1498 in the lower reaches of the Ugra River, at the place of flight of Khan Akhmat in 1480.
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