Fatezh

Fatezh stands above the Usozha, near the mouth of the small stream from which it takes its name. It began as a village of odnodvortsy, descendants of service people who held land on Russia's southern frontier. In 1779 the village became the centre of a newly formed district and was granted the status of a town. At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, its trade included hemp, grain, honey, tallow and wax from the surrounding countryside.