volkhov mtsensk on vasilievna from moscow to orel by rail . approximately 400 km travel time by train 4 hours also can the city be reached by bus or by car? the birthplace of the writer and publicist ivan sergeevich turgenev, the city of youth of the first russian nobel laureate in literature ivan bunin with the oryol land the lives of nikolai leskov afanasy fet leonid andreev mikhail prishvin are connected, but oryol is interesting not only for its literary heritage. the city of military glory, and the city of the first salute, orel can tell a lot about the military history of the country in the center of the eagle on the strelka at the confluence of the orlik and oka rivers , the oldest stone building of the city , the epiphany cathedral, proudly stands in its place, the ancient slavic settlement later a fortress appeared on the strelka, which laid the foundation for the modern city. founded the fortress in 1566 by decree of tsar ivan iv the terrible about the construction of the fortification, the king took during the inspection of the sout