Gryazovets

Gryazovets lies on the Rzhavka River south of Vologda. It first appears in 1538 as a settlement dependent on the Korniliyevo-Komelsky Monastery, whose lands and community formed an important part of its early setting. In 1780 the settlement received a town charter and became the seat of an uyezd in the Vologda Viceroyalty. When the viceroyalty was abolished in 1796, the town passed to Vologda Governorate.