Tver

Tver is a <a href="/facts/Types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia/jsrpqXhI">city</a> and the <a href="/facts/Administrative_centre/jyz1zfzk">administrative centre</a> of <a href="/facts/Tver_Oblast/4L8DaSSS">Tver Oblast</a>, <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russia</a>. It is situated at the <a href="/facts/Confluence/3ygntlsh">confluence</a> of the <a href="/facts/Volga/B96tkIJj">Volga</a> and <a href="/facts/Tvertsa/WUvqgRsJ">Tvertsa</a> rivers. Tver is located 180 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of <a href="/facts/Moscow/XUU6VkdY">Moscow</a>. Population: 416,216 (<a href="/facts/2021_Russian_census/qzWKtDRl">2021 Census</a>).
The city is situated where three rivers meet, splitting the town into northern and southern parts by the Volga, and divided again into quarters by the <a href="/facts/Tvertsa_River/WUvqgRsJ">Tvertsa River</a>, which splits the left (northern) bank into east and west halves, and the Tmaka River which does the same along the southern bank.
Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the <a href="/facts/Russian_Empire/hg1g5SpV">Russian Empire</a>, with a population of 60,000 by 14 January 1913. The city was known as Kalinin (Калинин) from 1931 to 1990.

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