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Veliky Novgorod (until 1999 the official name — Novgorod) is a city in North-West Russia, the administrative center of Novgorod oblast, City of military glory.

Velikiy Novgorod — one of the oldest and most famous cities of Russia (in 2009 officially said 1150 years). The location of the calling Chronicles, Rurik and origin of the Russian statehood. In the Middle ages — the center of Novgorod Russia and then the Novgorod land centre in the old Russian and Russian States. In 1136 it became the first free-style Republic on the territory of the feudal Russia (from now on, when after the battle at the mountain Ganoi Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev fled from the battlefield, the powers of the Prince of Novgorod was severely limited). For a period of time beginning in 1136 and ending the year 1478, when Novgorod lost (as a result of the victory of Prince of Moscow Ivan III the Great over the people of Novgorod to the Moscow-Novgorod war, 1477-1478) political autonomy, in relation to the Novgorod land, it is customary to apply the term "Novgorod Republic" (government last used the designation of Lord Novgorod the Great).

Novgorod was not subjected to the Mongol invasion; although he paid tribute to the Horde, but retained the unique monuments of old Russian architecture of pre-Mongol period, and was the only one of ancient Russian cities, escaped the decline and fragmentation in the XI—XII centuries.

The population of Veliky Novgorod — 221 954[3] people (2015); 90-e a place in Russia, it's about a third of residents of the area 90.08 km2.