Kuvshinovo

Kuvshinovo is a city and the administrative center of Kuvshinovsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, located at the Osuga, 133 kilometers from Tver, the workplace of the oblast. The selo of Kamenka, the predecessor of Kuvshinovo, become first referred to in 1646. In the course of the executive reform done in 1708 by means of Peter the Great, it was covered into Ingermanlandia Governorate in view that 1710 known as Saint Petersburg Governorate, and in 1727 Novgorod Governorate cut up off.

In 1775, Tver Viceroyalty was fashioned from the lands which previously belonged to Moscow and Novgorod Governorates, and the location changed into transferred to Tver Viceroyalty, which in 1796 was converted to Tver Governorate. Kamenka belonged to Novotorzhsky Uyezd with the middle in Torzhok. In the 18th century, a paper mill become opened close to Kamenka. In 1869, merchant Mikhail Kuvshinov sold the mill and substantially improved it. The mill became known as the Kuvshinov Paper Mill. In 1912, a railway from Torzhok was completed, and the new station next to Kamenka became opened.

The station became named Kuvshinovo, after the mill. Eventually, a agreement around the station evolved, additionally with the name Kuvshinovo. The foremost enterprise department in Kuvshinovo is paper production. The Kuvshinovo Paper Mill built in the nineteenth century by merchant Kuvshinov, therefore the name became producing paper till the Nineties, and then the neighborhood wooden manufacturing stopped, and the mill needed to switch to cardboard production.