| Golden Ring of Rusia is ring of few
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| | forests) remains. Some towns got same
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| historical towns located to North-East of
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| | names as "native" towns at Kievan rus.
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| Moscow.
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| | Historically, center of this part of
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| Exact number of towns varied, but main
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| | Russia was Vladimir. Vladimir Monomakh
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| towns are:
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| | was choosen as king of that lands and
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| - Vladimir
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| | later his childs was kings.
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| - Bogolubovo
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| | But at 13th century peacefull life was
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| - Suzdal
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| | interrupted by Mongolian invasion. After
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| - Yuriev-Polskiy
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| | invasion Moscow appeared as center in the
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| - Murom
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| | region, but not Vladimir.
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| - Gorohovetz
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| | During invasion majority of towns was
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| - Gus-Crystalny
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| | fired off and majority of population
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| - Mstera
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| | killed. As a result, remnants of
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| - Holui
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| | population have began to build new towns,
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| - Paleh
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| | far away inside forests. One of them was
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| - Ivanovo
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| | Moscow.
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| - Pless
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| | Mongols was brought out of Russia at 14th
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| - Kostroma
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| | century, when different Slavic countries
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| - Yaroslavl
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| | united around Moscow and got a victory
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| - Tutaev
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| | over Mongols. Moscow reappeared as a
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| - Rostov Velikiy
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| | center in the region and older towns - as
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| - Pereslavl-Zalesski
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| | its satellites.
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| - Uglich
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| | That is how "golden ring of Russia"
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| - Aleksandrov
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| | appeared.
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| - Sergiev-Posad
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| | This region is historical, a lot of
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| Historically, this place was populated by
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| | buildings, ancient churches survived
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| different Slavic tribes at 12th century.
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| | Mongol invasion and older Kremlins exist
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| Most of tribes arrived the place as they
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| | in the region.
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| escaped from Kiev rus which was attacked
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| | As well, it is center of Monasteries and
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| by various turk tribes. But, over hard to
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| | many historical handicrafts of Russia
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| penetrate forest it was hard to attack.
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| | produced in this region. Among them Paleh
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| Historically that lands was named as
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| | and Mstera Icons, Sofrino Icons, Sergiev
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| "lands over forests", that is why in some
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| | Posad monastery nested dolls.
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| towns names still part "zalesski" (over
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