Online camera Pskov. Inzhenernaya Street, Industrialnaya Street
Pskov is one of the oldest cities in Russia and the center of the region of the same name. It was founded at the beginning of the 10th century and is famous for a whole placer of Russian medieval monuments of history, culture and architecture of the 12th - 17th centuries.
Pskov is a city with many splendid ancient churches and an imposing fortress with mighty walls and towers, in the structure of which its core - the Krom or Kremlin - stands out. This is a place with an amazing concentration of ancient sights, which "breathes" with calmness and thousand-year history.
Pskov is located in northwest Russia, near the border with Estonia and Latvia. The city lies on the homonymous lowland on the Velikaya River, where the Pskov River flows into it. Lake Pskov is 16 km away.
The exact age of Pskov is unknown. The date of the founding of the city is considered 903 - its first mentioning in chronicles. The city grew and developed around a mighty fortress, built on a steep hill at the confluence of the rivers Pskov and Velikaya. There are no analogues of this ancient fortification on the territory of modern Russia.
