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Medyn (Меды́нь) is a town and the administrative center of Medynsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Medynka River (Oka basin), northwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.[1]

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  1. 12 relations: Administrative centre, Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, Drainage basin, Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast, Medyn-Aduyevo (air base), Medynsky District, Oblast, Oka (river), Principality of Moscow, Principality of Smolensk, Russia.

  2. Cities and towns in Kaluga Oblast
  3. Medynsky Uyezd

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.

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Classification of inhabited localities in Russia

The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Kaluga

Kaluga (Калу́га) is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. Medyn and Kaluga are Cities and towns in Kaluga Oblast.

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Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Oblast (translit) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Medyn-Aduyevo (air base)

Medyn-Aduyevo was a Soviet Air Force base in Kaluga Oblast, Russia located 56 km northwest of Kaluga.

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Medynsky District

Medynsky District (Медынский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Kaluga Oblast and municipalLaw #369-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia.

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Oblast

An oblast (plural oblasts, oblasti, or rarely oblasty; Russian and oblast'; voblasc'; oblast; oblys; oblus) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

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Oka (river)

The Oka (Ока) is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as the town of Kaluga. Its length is and its catchment area., Russian State Water Registry The Russian capital Moscow sits on one of the Oka's tributaries—the Moskva.

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Principality of Moscow

The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.

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Principality of Smolensk

The Principality of Smolensk (eventually Grand Principality of Smolensk) was a Kievan Rus' lordship from the 11th to the 16th century.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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See also

Cities and towns in Kaluga Oblast

Medynsky Uyezd

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medyn

Also known as Medyn Urban Settlement.