Mosalsk is a town and the administrative center of Mosalsky District

Mosalsky District

Mosalsky District is an administrative district , one of the 24 in Kaluga Oblast, Russia....

 of Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga.-Geography:Kaluga Oblast is located in the central part of the East European Plain. The Smolensk Highland lays in the western and north-western part of the oblast, while the Central Russian Highland -...

, Russia

Russia

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, located 82 kilometres (51 mi) west of Kaluga

Kaluga

Kaluga is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population: It is served by Grabtsevo Airport.-History:...

. Population:

First attested in 1231 (recorded as Masalsk), it became the center of one of the Upper Principalities in the 14th century. After Ivan III

Ivan III of Russia

Ivan III Vasilyevich , also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Rus"...

 annexed the principality to the Grand Duchy of Moscow

Grand Duchy of Moscow

The Grand Duchy of Moscow or Grand Principality of Moscow, also known in English simply as Muscovy , was a late medieval Rus' principality centered on Moscow, and the predecessor state of the early modern Tsardom of Russia....

 in 1493, local princes emigrated either to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th /13th century until 1569 and then as a constituent part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791 when Constitution of May 3, 1791 abolished it in favor of unitary state. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the polytheistic...

 (where they became known as Princes Massalski) or to Moscow (where they were known as Princes Koltsov-Masalsky). Mosalsk was granted town status within Kaluga Governorate in 1776. The town's main landmark is St. Nicholas Cathedral (1818, pictures).

External links

• Mojgorod.ru. Entry on Mosalsk