The Pskov Region is located in the north-west of the Russian Federation. The region stretches 380 km from north to south, and 260 km from east to west.

The Pskov Region has internal borders with the Novgorod and Leningrad Regions of the north-west zone, and with the Tver and Smolensk Regions of the central zone of Russia; external borders with Belarus (352 km long), Estonia (249 km) and Latvia (270 km).

The region serves as a tourist link joining the tourist facilities of north-west and central Russia. The region is situated at the crossroads of the motorways and railways connecting Moscow with Riga and Tallinn, and St. Petersburg with Riga and Kiev. The Pskov airport has an international status. The region's capital, the city of Pskov, is located equidistant from St.-Petersburg (250 km), Tallinn (280 km) and Riga (260 km), and in 600 km from Moscow.

Pskov is mentioned first time as an already existing town dating back to 903. In the epoch of the Kiev Russia Pskov played the role of one of the main strong points on the north-western frontiers of the state, a craftsmen and trading town. The creation of Pskov Kremlin - Detinets - on the bay at the junction of the Pskova and the Velikaya rivers, dates back to the end of the X century.

The Pskov Detinets stood the sieges, behind its wooden walls the citizens were hiding from the enemies, the Veche (a kind of old Russian Duma) gathered here. Here was built the first church of the Holy Trinity. The existing Trinity Cathedral is the architectural monument of the XVII century, forth in succession. The most ancient out of preserved stone buildings are the Spaso- Preobrazhensky Cathedral and Cathedral of the Spaso-Mirozhsky monastery (1156). Some of the architectural monuments of the XV-XVII centuries survived till our days. Among those are the churches of Vassiliy on the hill (1413), Nikola from Usokha (1536), Ioakim and Anna (XVI century).