Chudovo
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Chudovo (Russian: ) is a town in and the administrative center of Chudovsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Kerest River (left tributary of the Volkhov, Lake Ladoga basin). It lies on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, 80 km north of Novgorod and 100 km south of St. Petersburg. It is also an important railway junction, at the intersection of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway (inaugurated in 1851) and the Novgorod-Kirishi branch (connection to Novgorod opened in 1871). Population: 17,434 (2002 Census). Geographical coordinates: .
The settlement of Chudovsky Yam was first mentionned in chronicles in 1539. The present name was obtained in 1851, the status of town was granted in 1937.
There is a museum of Nikolai Nekrasov in the house where he used to work in summertime between 1871 and 1876. In the nearby village of Syabrenitsy there is a museum of the writer Gleb Uspensky situated in the house where he used to live in the 1880s. Count Arakcheyev's residence Gruzino is several miles away.
The largest industries of the town include match factory, plywood factory, and Cadbury Schweppes factory.
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