Kadyy

Kadyy grew as a fortress settlement where roads connected Yuryevets with Makariev and Galich, and Vyatka with Kostroma. Its first documentary mention dates to 1546. The Votgat River and its tributary, the Kadyyevka, protected the position, while a ditch strengthened the other approaches. A survey drawn up in 1573 described a fortification with three walls and three towers.

The settlement’s inhabitants were drawn into the struggles of the Time of Troubles. People from Kadyy and the surrounding country fought Lisowski’s forces in 1609 and participated in the militia associated with Minin and Pozharsky in 1611–1612. Its later administrative career was more short-lived than its defensive origins: in 1778 Kadyy became a county town within Kostroma Viceroyalty, but the county was abolished when Kostroma Governorate was formed in 1796. Most of its territory then passed to Makariev County.