Debyosy

Debyosy stands on the Cheptsa, a tributary of the Vyatka. It first appears in the 1646 census as a new settlement on the Debeska stream. A wooden Church of Saint Nicholas was begun in 1749 and completed in 1754, giving the settlement the standing of a church village; it burned in 1756 and was rebuilt in 1767. Debyosy became a volost center in 1796. Early in the nineteenth century two branches of the Siberian road met here, one from Moscow and the other from Saint Petersburg.