Mednoye, Tver Oblast
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Jasna Góra, Częstochowa, Poland
)Mednoye (
highway. Population: 3,047 (1992).Mednoye was first mentioned as a
Novgorod. During the Oprichnina
, there were 104 households in the village.
In the 19th century, Mednoye was a post station on the route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. One chapter of Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is dedicated specifically to this village.
During
POW camp were brought to the area of Mednoye and subsequently shot to death behind the village of Yamka during the Katyn massacre
.
Apart from the Katyn war cemetery, the landmarks of Mednoye include the Church of Our Lady of Kazan (1764), the 18th-century post station, and the memorial house of
Sergey Lemeshev
.
