- allrus.me russian-town-yelets/History of the town of Yelets. It arose as a fortress city on the border with the “Wild Field” in a series of fortress cities built in the X-XII centuries, whose task was to...
- First mentioned in 1146, Yelets was a frontier fortress protecting the duchy of Ryazan from Polovtsian (Cuman) attacks.
- encyclopedia.com reference/encyclopedias-almanacs…First mentioned in 1146, Yelets was a frontier fortress protecting the duchy of Ryazan from Polovtsian (Cuman) attacks.
- factmonster.com encyclopedia/places/baltic-cis/…First mentioned in 1146, Yelets was a frontier fortress protecting the duchy of Ryazan from Polovtsian (Cuman) attacks.
- wikious.com en/YeletsThe topic of Yelets is of great relevance today and has generated a wide debate in various sectors of society. ... City in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. Yelets.
- wiki2.org en/YeletsFor other places with the same name, see Yelets (inhabited locality). ... In 1591, Boris Godunov revived the largely deserted town by establishing a fortress there.
- http://yugorshkova.blogspot.com 2019/02/yelets-elder-…One of them is Yelets, located in 393 kilometers from Moscow. It was founded in 1146. Therefore, it is older than Moscow that was found in 1147. ... fortress.
- hum-research.com blog/2018/12/11/yelets-sluzhily-…(on materials of the yelets and county). ... Key words: southern borders, sluzhily Cossacks, frontier fortress, «gosudarevy» service.
- infoplease.com encyclopedia/places/baltic-cis/…First mentioned in 1146, Yelets was a frontier fortress protecting the duchy of Ryazan from Polovtsian (Cuman) attacks.