Kologriv

Kologriv’s history involved a move along the Unzha River. Its earlier wooden fortress stood about forty kilometres upstream, on the opposite bank, and dated from the early sixteenth century. In 1727 the voivode Ivan Rogozin transferred the administration and garrison to Kichino without first securing higher approval. The new place offered a more convenient position on the New Vyatka trade route.

Offices, soldiers’ houses, a jail and salt stores accompanied the move, but official recognition came much later. In 1778 Catherine II’s provincial reorganisation made Kichino a town under the name Kologriv. A regular town plan followed. The Church of the Dormition, built in 1805–1807 above the town, added a new landmark to the settlement whose administrative origins still lay in that contested eighteenth-century relocation.