Ryazan
Proper noun
Meaning
An oblast of Russia.
A city, the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, 196 kilometres south of Moscow.
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The oldest reference in the annals mentions Cossacks of the Russian principality of Ryazan serving the principality in the battle against the Tatars in 1444.
In the 16th century, the Cossacks (primarily those of Ryazan) were grouped in military and trading communities on the open steppe and started to migrate into the area of the Don.
Pavlov attended and graduated from the Ryazan church school before entering the local theological seminary.
The war commissariat of Ryazan succeeded in gathering in some fifteen thousand of such deserters.