page_title: Porkhovsky District
section_title: Culture and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Porkhovsky District / Culture and recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Our Lady's Nativity Church in Porkhov, Pskov Oblast, Russia. Русский: Церковь Рождества Богородицы в городе Порхов Псковской области. This is a photo of a cultural heritage object in Russia, number: 6010236000 This template and pages using it are maintained by the Russian WLM team. Please read the guidelines before making any changes that can affect the monuments database!
context_page_description: Porkhovsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-four in Pskov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central and northeastern parts of the oblast and borders with Strugo-Krasnensky District in the north, Soletsky District of Novgorod Oblast in the northeast, Dnovsky District in the east, Dedovichsky District in the southeast, Novorzhevsky District in the south, Ostrovsky District in the southwest, and with Pskovsky District in the west. The area of the district is 3,190 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the town of Porkhov. Population: 21,568; 28,470; 35,015. The population of Porkhov accounts for 49.2% of the district's total population.
context_section_description: The district contains 24 cultural heritage monuments of federal significance and additionally 115 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. The federally protected monuments include the Porkhov Fortress, three archeological sites, and a number of churches.
  Porkhov hosts the Porkhovsky District Museum, the only state museum in the district.
  Within 17 kilometers (11 mi) from Porkhov, on the bank of the Shelon River, is the Neoclassical manor of Princes Gagarin located in the village of Kholomki. In the early 1920s, Kholomki hosted an art colony that was frequented by Korney Chukovsky, Vladislav Khodasevich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. The village of Volyshevo, home to the former manor of the Stroganovs, is close at hand.
caption: The church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Porkhov
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