Dmitrovsk

Dmitrovsk (Дмитровск) is a town and the administrative center of Dmitrovsk Rayon of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Obshcheritsa River near its confluence with the Nerussa, 100 km southwest of Oryol. Population:

It was founded in 1711 as the village of Dmitriyevka (Дми́триевка). After a church was built there, it obtains the status of a selo and is renamed Dmitrovka (Дмитровка). It was granted town status in 1782, and renamed Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky (Дмитровск-Орловский) in 1929. During World War II, Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky was occupied by the German Army from 2 October 1941 to 12 August 1943 and administered as part of the so-called Lokot Autonomy. In 2005 it received its present name of Dmitrovsk.