Kozhevnikovo

Kozhevnikovo lies in the country of the upper Ob, south-west of Tomsk. Its early history is connected with scattered farmsteads established along the river. In 1680 the Tomsk mounted Cossacks Stepan Fomin and Pyotr Borisov Kozhevnikov acquired arable land near the Kairbak stream; other farmsteads appeared nearby in the same period. Communities of service families and farming households gradually grew in the countryside around the Ob.