Webcam Bezhetsk. Rybinskaya Street, Nechaeva Street (Tver region).
Bezhetsk is a small town in the Tver region, located on the banks of the river Mologa, 126 kilometers northeast of the regional center. The area of the settlement is 17 square kilometers.
The first mention of the settlement, which is located on the site of the present town, is dated back to 1137.
In 1272 Tver Prince Svyatoslav Yaroslavovich ruined the settlement.
At the end of the 14th century the settlement was included in the Moscow principality. Until 1766, the settlement was called Gorodetsk.
In 1775, the village was given the status of a city and named Bezhetsk. In 1796 the city was given the status of the center of Bezhetsky district of Tver province.
In 1876 in Bezhetsk was put into operation a railway station.
In 1935 Bezhetsk joined the category of cities of regional subordination, and became the district center of the Kalinin region.
During World War II several thousand residents of the city went to the front.
In the postwar years began active construction of houses and social and administrative buildings.
In 2003, a monument to the Akhmatova-Gumilyov family was opened in Bezhetsk.
