- Things to Do in Yelets, Russia: See Tripadvisor's 1,555 traveler reviews and photos of Yelets tourist attractions.Bulunamadı: fortress
- At the end of 1591, by decree of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, under the leadership of governor Ivan Myasny, the construction of a new fortress Yelets began.
- First mentioned in 1146, Yelets was a frontier fortress protecting the duchy of Ryazan from Polovtsian (Cuman) attacks.
- In the late 16th century the fortress of Yelets was reconstructed and the town later flourished as an industrial and trade centre, particularly well-known for...
- 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...
- Yelets is one of the oldest cities in the Black Earth region It appeared as a fortress on the banks of the Bystraya Sosna River in 1146.
- But on the streets of Yelets it suddenly occurred to me that Russian towns with short and expressive names have their own unique provincial aura.
- The tower was built at the beginning of the 20th century in the style of fortress architecture.
- The Red Square was part of the Yelets fortress. Its name reminded locals of the blood shed there by the defenders of the city, who stood guard over it more than...
- Yelets is the oldest centre of the Black Earth Region. ... In 1591, Boris Godunov revived the largely deserted town by establishing a fortress there.