Belozerye

Belozerye developed in the forested country north of Vyatka. Families from Velikoretskoye settled in this area from the seventeenth century, and the village took shape during the eighteenth. It became the center of Pinyuzhanskaya volost, serving the surrounding rural settlements. Its name, meaning “white lake country,” recalls the lakes among the northern forests, while its inhabitants belonged to the farming communities that spread through the Vyatka region.