Dubna Volost

Dubna Volost occupies the Valdai Hills on the left bank of the upper Western Dvina. Its written history reaches to 1489, when the volost appeared in chronicles. The district lay in a contested frontier: several wars moved it between Moscow and Lithuania before it returned to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1508. Later administrative changes attached the area to Ingermanland, later Saint Petersburg Governorate, and then to Pskov Governorate.

The wider Andreapol country preserves traces of a much older environment. Early Carboniferous fossils found in local clay and limestone include tree-like lycophytes, brachiopods and other organisms. Neolithic objects found near a lake show that people later occupied the same ground.