Smolensk

Coat of arms

The flag

Smolensk is a city in Russia. It is located on the Dnieper River, and 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow. It is the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast. As of 2014, the population was 330,000.

Smolensk Media

St. Michael's Church (Svirskaya) was built in 1180–1197 and is one of the few surviving structures in Russia from before the Mongol conquests.
Siege of Smolensk (1609–1611) by Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
View of Smolensk in 1912. Early colour photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
French and Polish soldiers assault the burning city of Smolensk, 1812.
Smolensk under German occupation, 1941.
Smolensk railway station
House Engelhardt
Дом Будникова
здание Сбербанка
Editorial office of the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda