Two oldest Russian crowns-Monomakh's Cap | " Cap of Monomach " and Kazan Crown.

The administrative center of the oblast, the city of Blagoveshchensk, is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Far East, founded in 1856.

Nearly sixty when he arrives on Mars, a Russian biological scientist who is the oldest of the First Hundred.

Smolensk is among the oldest Russian cities.

Rav Kook was born in Grīva, at the time a town in Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire ( now a part of Daugavpils, Latvia ) in 1865, the oldest of eight children.

As one of the oldest members of Chingisid Borjigin, Batu became a viceroy over all the western parts of the empire, controlling routine affairs among the Russian princes, nominating Jochid retainers as governors of Iran, and receiving in audience grandees from the Caucasus.

The town of Hudiksvall, one of the oldest in Norrland, was ransacked by Russian troops in 1721.

The first modern critical edition of the Shahnameh was prepared by a Russian team led by E. E. Bertel, using the oldest known manuscript copies, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with heavy reliance on the 1276 manuscript from the British Museum and the Leningrad manuscript, dated 1333, of which the latter has now been considered a secondary manuscript.

Ludza, one of the oldest towns in Latvia, was first mentioned in Russian chronicles dating to 1173 or 1177.

The history of the oldest Eastern European shtetls began about a millennium ago and saw long periods of relative tolerance and prosperity as well as times of extreme poverty, hardships until pogrom in nineteenth century, inspired by Russian Tsars.

* The old fortress, with a number of museums, cafés and the oldest Russian Orthodox church in Finland.

Among the sights in the vicinity of Pskov are Izborsk, a seat of Rurik's brother in the 9th century and one of the most formidable fortresses of medieval Russia ; the Pskov Monastery of the Caves, the oldest continually functioning monastery in Russia and a magnet for pilgrims from all over the country ; the 16th-century Krypetsky Monastery ; Elizarovo Monastery, which used to be a great cultural and literary center of medieval Russia ; and Mikhaylovskoye, a family home of Alexander Pushkin where he wrote some of the best known lines in the Russian language.

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Gusli () is the oldest Russian multi-string plucked instrument.

The gusli is one of the oldest musical instruments that have played an important role in the Russian music culture.

Questions of the oldest population of Georgia, Caucasus and the Near East ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1965 ( in Georgian, Russian summary )

Some of the oldest Russian cities, including Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa, are located in the oblast.

Novgorod was one of the oldest centers of Russian civilization.

Novgorod is one of the oldest Russian cities and the one with the best preserved heritage of the Old Rus.

Tyumen is the oldest ( first ) Russian settlement in Siberia.

It is not seen in the oldest Komi texts from the 14th century, nor in loanwords from Komi to Khanty, dated to the 16th ; but it has fully occurred before loanwords from Russian entered the language in the 18th century, as / l / remains unchanged in these.

This school is widely known for its journal Sign Systems Studies, published by Tartu University Press ( formerly in Russian as " Труды по знаковым системам ") and currently the oldest semiotics journal in the world ( established in 1964 ).

He held this office thrice, the last at 84 years of age, thus qualifying for being the oldest ever incumbent Soviet or Russian head of state.

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a fair-haired young man in his late twenties and a descendant of one of the oldest Russian lines of nobility, arrives in St. Petersburg on a November morning.

His third oldest son, Yahya, is of interest to some because he reportedly converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and campaigned for a good part of his life to gain the Ottoman Imperial throne, to which his younger brother Ahmed I succeeded to in 1603.

St. Anthony's ( Deir Mar Antonios ) is the oldest monastery in the world and under the patronage of the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Brith Sholom Beth Israel is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in the South, founded by Ashkenazi ( German and Central European Jews ) Jews in the mid-19th century.

His actual position is Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, one of the fourteen autocephalous and several autonomous churches and the most senior ( though not oldest ) of the four orthodox ancient primatial sees among the five patriarchal Christian centers comprising the ancient Pentarchy of the undivided Church.

The village has the oldest Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the Cincinnati area, Golf Manor Synagogue.

South Canaan is home to Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary and the oldest Orthodox monastery in North America — Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery ().

* The largest and oldest are the Orthodox Union ( Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America ), which sponsors youth groups, kashrut supervision, and many other activities and its rabbinic counterpart, the Rabbinical Council of America ( RCA ).

Many consider this city one of the most beautiful in Belarus: one of its masterpieces survived through the centuries, Orthodox St Boris & St Gleb ( Kalozhskaya ) Church dating back to the 12th century, is the second oldest in Belarus.

* Uspenska Serbian Orthodox church, built in 1746, baroque, the oldest church in the city.

It is the second oldest Slavic Orthodox Church in the world ( after the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ).

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

Built in AD 397, Mor Gabriel monastery, is the oldest functioning Syriac Orthodox monastery.

south from Volodymyr is Zymne, where the oldest Orthodox monastery in Volynia is located.

Holy Ascension Orthodox Church, located in Albion, Michigan, is one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Michigan.

The oldest Christian denominations in Africa are the Coptic church in Egypt and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, all Oriental Orthodox, which rose to prominence in the fourth century AD after King Ezana the Great made Ethiopia one of the first Christian nations.

This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

Founded in 597, it is the oldest see in the English church.

; Primate: A primate is usually the bishop of the oldest church of a nation.

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

Another important church built in the 11th century is the Patron Saint church of San Giovanni Battista, located in the oldest section of the village also known as " Su Piggiu ".

Construction of Northwode Chapel by the monks of Jumiéges, Normandy, began in about 1140 and this became the present St Peter's Church and now the oldest surviving church on the Island.

* 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed ; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.

St. Nicholas Church, Vilnius | St. Nicholas in Vilnius, the oldest church in Lithuania

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

St James ’ is now the oldest Anglican church south of the Equator.

The Tsiranavor Surb Hovhannes Church of Avan ( 595 – 602 ) of Avan district which was partly damaged in the 1679 earthquake, is the city's oldest surviving church.

* The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod is completed in 1052, the oldest existent church in Russia.

* January 19 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed ; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines

* June 3 – The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.

* Tórshavn Cathedral, the second oldest church in the country.

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

Kerch's Church of St. John the Baptist was founded in 717, thus, it is the oldest church in Ukraine.

It was read in church, along with other epistles, some of which later became Christian canon ; and is one of the oldest extant Christian documents outside the New Testament.

* Baptistère Saint-Jean ( 4th century ) – the oldest church in France

* Église Notre-Dame-la-Grande – oldest romanesque architecture church in Europe