Mtsensk is a town in Oryol Oblast

Oryol Oblast

Oryol Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Oryol. Population: -Geography:It is located in the southwestern part of the Central Federal District, in the Mid-Russian Highlands. Kaluga and Tula Oblasts border it in the north, Bryansk Oblast is located to...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Zusha River

Zusha River

The Zusha River is a river in Oryol Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Oka River. The length of the river is 234 km. The area of its basin is 6,950 km². The Zusha freezes up in early December and stays icebound until late March. The Neruch River is its biggest tributary. The Zusha is...

 (Oka

Oka River

Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...

's tributary

Tributary

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) 49 kilometres (30.4 mi) northeast of Oryol

Oryol

Oryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...

. It stands on the Moscow

Moscow

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–Simferopol

Simferopol

-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...

 highway

Highway

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. Population: 28,000 (1970).

The settlement of Mtsensk was first mentioned in 1147 C.E. under the name of Mchensk of the Principality of Chernigov in Ipatievo Chronicles. In 1320, Mtsensk was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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. In the early 16th century, it became a part of the Russian state. It obtained the status of town in 1778.

Area attractions

There is a country-house museum

Museum

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 of Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...

 called Spasskoye-Lutovinovo some ten kilometers north of Mtsensk. Mathematician Andrey Kiselyov was born there.