Chudovo is a town and the administrative center of Chudovsky District

Chudovsky District

Chudovsky District is an administrative district , one of the 21 in Novgorod Oblast, Russia....

 of Novgorod Oblast

Novgorod Oblast

Novgorod Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Its administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod. Some of the oldest Russian cities, including Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa, are located there...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Kerest River (left tributary

Tributary

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 of the Volkhov

Volkhov River

Volkhov is a river in Novgorod Oblast and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia.-Geography:The Volkhov flows out of Lake Ilmen north into Lake Ladoga, the largest lake of Europe. It is the second largest tributary of Lake Ladoga. It is navigable over its whole length. Discharge is highly...

). It lies on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 and St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

, 80 kilometres (49.7 mi) north of Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod is one of Russia's most historic cities and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast. It is situated on the M10 federal highway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg. The city lies along the Volkhov River just below its outflow from Lake Ilmen...

 and 100 kilometres (62.1 mi) south of St. Petersburg. It is an important railway junction, at the intersection of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway

Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway

The Moscow to Saint Petersburg Railway is a railway running between the two largest Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and through four oblasts: Moscow, Tver, Novgorod and Leningrad...

 (inaugurated in 1851) and the Veliky Novgorod–Volkhov

Volkhov

Volkhov is an industrial town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated east of St. Petersburg, on the Volkhov River. Population: -History:...

 branch (railway between Chudovo and Staraya Russa

Staraya Russa

Staraya Russa is a town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located south of Veliky Novgorod. It is a wharf on the Polist River in the Lake Ilmen basin. It serves as the administrative center of Starorussky District, although administratively it is not a part of it...

 via Veliky Novgorod was opened on July 12, 1878; however, the segment beyond Veliky Novgorod was destroyed during World War II and never restored). Population:

History

The settlement of Chudovsky Yam was first mentioned in chronicles in 1539. It received its present name in 1851; town status was granted to it in 1937.

There is a museum

Museum

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 of Nikolay 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

Gleb Uspensky

- Early life :Uspensky was born in the city of Tula, where his father was a government official. He attended the gymnasiums at Tula and Chernihiv, devoting much of his time to the reading of the Russian classics. He studied at the university of St. Petersburg for a short time in 1861, until it was...

 situated in the house where he used to live in the 1880s. Count Arakcheyev's residence Gruzino is several miles away.

Industry

The largest industries of the town include match

Match

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 factory, plywood

Plywood

Plywood is a type of manufactured timber made from thin sheets of wood veneer. It is one of the most widely used wood products. It is flexible, inexpensive, workable, re-usable, and can usually be locally manufactured...

 factory, and Cadbury Schweppes

Cadbury Schweppes

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factory.