city Smolensk: All Data

Smolensk is a city in Russia (with Crimea). This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.

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Smolensk: Chronology of Mentions

Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.

1055 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Principality of Principality of Smolensk, part of Kievan Rus'
1133 AD
Capital of Principality of Smolensk
1243 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
1243 AD
Capital of Principality of Smolensk (Mongol Empire)
1261 AD
Capital of Principality of Smolensk (Golden Horde)
1388 AD
Capital of Principality of Smolensk (Lithuania)
1502 AD
Mentioned in Event: Livonian Intervention alongside Lithuania
1514 AD
Mentioned in Event: Fourth Lithuanian-Muscovite border war
1609 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish Invasion of Russia (1609)
1609 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Smolensk (1609–1611), part of Polish Invasion of Russia (1609)
1611 AD
Mentioned in Event: Polish Invasion of Russia (1609)
1613 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Smolensk (1613–1617), part of Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)
1620 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Voivodeship of Smolenks Voivodeship, part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1632 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Smolensk (1632), part of Smolensk War
1654 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
1654 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Smolensk (1654), part of Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
1812 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Smolensk (1812), part of French invasion of Russia
1812 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Valutino, part of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Smolensk, part of Russian Empire
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Bolsheviks take control of most of European Russia
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of Smolensk
1941 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Smolensk, part of Battle of Smolensk
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Battle of Smolensk
1943 AD
Mentioned in: Smolensk operation, part of World War II
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the oblast of Smolenskaya Oblast’, part of Russian Federation