Fominichi

Fominichi gave its name to a district between the Oka and Desna watersheds, in the lands of the upper Oka princes. The area had belonged to the Mezetsk princes, a branch of the Chernigov ruling house. In his will of 1504 Ivan III left the Fominichi district, together with other lands in this region, to his son Yuri. The village later became a centre for the surrounding rural district, whose settlements lay among the forests and streams west of the Zhizdra.