Adalaga

Adalaga, later called Stara Vodolaha, lies on the Mzha in the forest-steppe south of Kharkiv. In the seventeenth century it belonged to the Kharkiv Cossack colonel Hryhorii Donets. A contemporary inventory described a stockaded fort on the open frontier, containing the colonel's courtyard and a wooden church of the Intercession. The church burned in 1711 and was replaced in 1736, as the settlement continued to develop around the old fortified site.