Borisoglebsk

Borisoglebsk stands on the left bank of the Vorona River close to its confluence with the Khopyor, in Russia's fertile Central Black Earth Region. The town was founded in 1646 and took its name from Saints Boris and Gleb, among the first saints canonised in Kievan Rus' after Christianisation. Its later importance came from the combination of rich farmland and water access.