Yartsevo is a town and the administrative center of Yartsevsky District

Yartsevsky District

Yartsevsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 25 in Smolensk Oblast, Russia....

 of Smolensk Oblast

Smolensk Oblast

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, Russia

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, located on the Vop River

Vop River

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 63 kilometres (39.1 mi) northeast of Smolensk

Smolensk

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. Population:

It was founded on the spot of a village of Yartsevo-Perevoz , known since 1859. It grew due to the construction of a cotton mill

Cotton mill

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 in 1873. Later on, a soap

Soap

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 factory, a brickworks

Brickworks

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, a sawmill

Sawmill

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, and a foundry

Foundry

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were built in the area. Yartsevo was granted town status in 1926.