Novgorod-Severskyy is one of the most ancient cities of Kievan Rus period. The first record of it we find in "Edification of Volodymyr Monomakh to his children" in connection with the description of Polovtsian detachment defeat near this city in 1078. But as archeo-logical finds indicate it was founded as a fortress at the border of Rus at the end of the Xth century. After Lyubech Congress of Princes in 1097 Novgorod-Siverskyy became the centre of the principality, the history of which is connec
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