Roshal (town)
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Roshal (Russian: Роша́ль) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Voymega River some 156 km east of Moscow. Population: 22,300 (2005 est.); 22,407 (2002 Census).
Roshal was founded in 1916 as a settlement of Krestov Brod (Крестов Брод). It was renamed Roshal in 1917 in honor of a Bolshevik Semyon Roshal (1896–1917) and granted town status in 1940.