Veliky Novgorod (until 1999 the official name is Novgorod, now the abbreviated name of the city) is a city in the north-west of Russia. The administrative center of the Novgorod region and the Novgorod region, which does not belong to it, possessing the status of a city of regional significance and forming the city district of Veliky Novgorod with the only settlement in its composition. City of Military Glory.