Bologoye

Bologoye is a metropolis and the administrative center of Bologovsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, as well as a major railway hub. It is located about midway among Moscow and St. Petersburg on the railway direction connecting the two towns. The first point out of Bologoye in ancient facts dates again to 1495, that's considered its year of foundation. In the course of the executive reform achieved in 1708 by means of Peter the Great, Bologoye became blanketed into the Ingermanland Governorate recognized because 1710 because the St. Petersburg Governorate.

In 1727, a separate Novgorod Governorate turned into break up off. In 1770, it have become a part of Valdaysky Uyezd of Novgorod Viceroyalty. In 1796, the viceroyalty changed into converted into Novgorod Governorate. In 1851, Bologoye became a station of the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway. In the second half of of the nineteenth century, the Rybinsk–Pskov–Vindava railway surpassed via Bologoye, turning it right into a large railway junction. Railway-associated industries have contributed significantly to the city's increase.

On June 3, 1917, Bologoye was granted metropolis repute. Between April 1, 1919 and October 1920, the workplace of the uyezd changed into transferred from Valday to Bologoye, but soon after it turned into moved back to Valday. The enterprise of Bologoye specifically serves the railways. Additionally, there are a pipe production factory, a tumbler-making manufacturing unit, a metallic manufacturing plant, in addition to organisations of construction and food industries.