Gagarin

Gagarin, referred to until 1968 as Gzhatsk, is a town and the managerial focus of Gagarinsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Gzhat River, 240 kilometers upper east of Smolensk, the regulatory focal point of the oblast. The town's previous name is from that of the Gzhat River, which is of Baltic birthplace in 1718, a town on the region of current Gagarin was changed by a pronouncement of Peter the Great to a transshipment arrival organize called Gzhatsky landing stage. You can come here and explore this place.

From the mid-18th century, Gzhatsk was a sloboda, and in 1776, by an announcement by Catherine the Great, it was conceded uyezd town status and an escutcheon indicating "a freight boat stacked with bread prepared for takeoff, on a field argent", implying that the town was a decent landing stage for grain. Inside the structure of regulatory divisions, Gagarin fills in as the authoritative focal point of Gagarinsky District. As a managerial division, it is, as one with one provincial area the settlement of Trufany, joined inside Gagarinsky District as Gagarinskoye Urban Settlement. As a metropolitan division, this authoritative unit additionally has urban settlement status and is a piece of Gagarinsky Municipal District.