Key dates in the history of the city of Bryansk

According to one version, the city of Bryansk wore a different name - Debriansk. It is derived from the word "debri" (jungle). The word denotes a wooded ravines and dense forests.

Key dates in the history of the city:

985 a year. The official date of the founding of the city. Date received by archaeological data, during the excavation of the old fortress city.

1146. The first mention of the city of Bryansk in chronicles.

1246. The occurrence of specific Bryansk principality.

1356. Bryansk was captured by the Lithuanian prince Olgerd and attached to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

1500. Moscow Governor James Zakharievich Cat won Bryansk and attached to the Moscow principality.

1607. This year Bryansk twice been attacked by False Dmitry II. The residents themselves burned the city, so it does not get all Falsdmitry.

1627. Bryansk fortress moved from Moscow "musketeers". It is the soldiers who were supposed to guard the border of Moscow principality.

1708. Peter I visited Bryansk.

1709. The city became part of the province of Kiev.

1785. In Bryansk by Catherine II founded the arsenal for the manufacture of siege and field artillery.

Bryansk

In the city of Bryansk there are about 450,000 people, and the city occupies a much larger area than other cities with the same population. In Bryansk four districts: the Soviet, Bezhitsk, Volodarsky and Fokinsky. Each area is separated from the other rivers and ravines.

Bezhitsk area was once a separate town called Bezhitsa.

Soviet area - is the central district of Bryansk. There are administrative buildings of the city and the Bryansk region.

It is believed that the city of Bryansk was founded more than a thousand years. In 1781 adopted the coat of arms of Bryansk. The coat of arms of the city shows the golden mortar bombs and pyramids. In 1985 Bryansk celebrated its millennium anniversary.

In the city of Bryansk available locomotives, freight cars, motor graders, road construction equipment, agricultural machinery, garments.

In Bryansk there are several museums, youth theater, puppet theater, children's musical theater, circus, theater, a planetarium. The city center is a football stadium "Dynamo".