[9] The area belonged intermittently to the Principality of Smolensk and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

[10] On 12 July 1929, governorates and uyezds were abolished, and Roslavlsky District with the administrative center in Roslavl was established.

[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Roslavlsky District as Roslavlskoye Urban Settlement.

[3] In Roslavl, there are enterprises producing parts for trucks, electrical equipment, and ceramics, as well as food.

The Russian route A130, formerly A101, connecting Moscow with the border of Belarus and continuing to Babruysk, passes through Roslavl.

There is a local museum in Roslavl, exhibiting archeological, ethnographic, and art collections.

[15] Among the natives of Roslavl were sculptors Mikhail Mikeshin and Sergey Konenkov, film director Ilya Frez, athlete Maria Itkina, as well as some ancestors of Fyodor Tyutchev.