Where is it? Tver Oblast is located in northwestern Russia. The Moscow region is its immediate neighbor to the east, so it is in the Moscow time zone. On its other borders are the regions of Smolensk, Novgorod and Vogograd. The Volga River flows through the region and its main city.
What's the biggest city? Tver, whose population includes 408,903 of the region's 1,471,459 million people, according to the 2002 census. From 1931 to 1990, the... more

The region of Tver is about a 3-hour drive from Moscow, and has a wonderful website for English speaking visitors: http://tver-russia.com/ The website is so good, in fact, that I don't see the need to repeat everything here! I found a couple more websites that reference Tver:
Konstantin Kylagin's pictures of Tver: http://thekonst.net/en/photohunt/album/92
Encyclopedia.com's article on Tver: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Tver.asp... more