Stary Oskol

Stary Oskol is a city in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, found 618 kilometers south of Moscow. It is called Stary Oskol Old Oskol to recognize it from Novy Oskol New Oskol 60km south. Both are on the Oskol River. It was close to the Muravsky Trail utilized by Crimeans and Nogais to assault Muscovy. In 1571 a fortification was fabricated adjacent. It was surrendered following 15 years, yet the zone was still watched. In 1593 Oskol was refounded as a post. In 1617 it was scorched by the Poles. The encompassing zone was every now and again struck by the Tatars.

Inside the structure of managerial divisions, Stary Oskol fills in as the regulatory focal point of Starooskolsky District, despite the fact that it's anything but a piece of it. As an authoritative division, it is joined independently as the town of oblast centrality of Stary Oskol, an authoritative unit with a status equivalent to that of the districts. As a civil division, the domains of the city of oblast essentialness of Stary Oskol and of Starooskolsky District are consolidated as Starooskolsky Urban Okrug. Stary Oskol is an essential focal point of iron mineral mining, arranged at the fringe of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, one of the biggest stores of iron metal around the world. More than 8 million tons of iron metal are mined here every year. Therefore there is additionally a part of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in the city.