Kholm

Kholm stands where the Kunya joins the Lovat, a river used in the old route linking the Baltic and Black Sea worlds. A Kholmovsky pogost belonging to Novgorod is recorded in 1471. In the Middle Ages the town was the seat of the Princes of Kholm, and it withstood repeated sieges by Lithuanians, Poles and Swedes. Kholm became an administrative town in 1777.