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Vyazma
Vyazma is a town in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, on the Vyazma river on the road from Moscow to Smolensk. Seat of a small principality from the 13th century, it was taken by Lithuania in 1403 and by Moscow in 1494. Russian forces fought the retreating French there in 1812, and in October 1941 Soviet armies were encircled nearby.
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