Koponovo

Koponovo stands above the right bank of the Oka, east of Ryazan. A seventeenth-century survey records the village divided between landowners and describes two wooden churches, dedicated to the Transfiguration and to St Paraskeva. Their icons, bells and furnishings were provided by the parishioners. The Oka gave the village access to the river route between Ryazan and Kasimov, while its parish drew together the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside.