Bryansk Oblast Voyage Tips and guide

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Map of Bryansk Oblast

• 53.242534.3666671 Bryansk — the more-than-1,000-year-old capital of Bryansk Oblast was badly damaged during World War II, but retains many pretty churches; exceptional for a Russian city, it has leafy ravines cutting through its hilly center
• 53.634.3333332 Dyatkovo — a town that became the center of regional partisan opposition to the Nazis and is also the national center for lead-crystal (glass) art
• 52.75277832.2361113 Klintsy — a small city, but nonetheless the region's second largest, that has preserved in its center a notable collection of 19th century architecture, including some rather impressive merchants' and officials' houses
• 53.06111132.8483334 Mglin — home to the massive early 19th-century Uspensky Cathedral, which somehow avoided destruction throughout World War II and Soviet rule; it has been renovated
• 52.53333331.9333335 Novozybkov — this small city is a contemporary center of the Old Believer Sect of Russian Orthodoxy, having been founded by persecuted Old Believers, and contains several important Old Believer churches

• 52.3333.821 Bryansky Forest Nature Reserve — a peaceful marshy forest

Bryansk International Airport (BZK ^IATA)