Ilyinsko Podomskoye

Ilyinskoye stood in the Viled River country, near the routes leading towards the Vychegda and Perm. A fortified site here dates to the fifteenth century. By the late sixteenth century the Viled lands formed part of the Solvychegodsk district, separated from that of Veliky Ustyug. In 1630 the district governor complained that peasants of Ilyinskoye and neighbouring parishes elected their own local judges and withheld the court fees he claimed for the treasury. Their reply invoked charters exempting them from those payments.