Dovolnoye

Dovolnoye lies on the Bagan River in the Baraba forest-steppe of western Siberia, near a lake that shares its name. Local tradition dates the village to 1703 and tells of exiled peasants who stopped beside the Bagan and chose to settle there. The river offered fish and the surrounding ground could be cultivated. Lakes, grassland and patches of woodland characterise the broad, low plain around the settlement.