Kurkino

Kurkino lies near the headwaters of the Vyazovka, south-east of Tula in the open country of the Don basin. The village appears in written sources in 1676. Not far away, at the meeting of the Nepryadva and Don, Dmitry of Moscow’s army fought Mamai’s forces at Kulikovo in 1380. The river valleys of this frontier country witnessed both the passage of armies and the growth of later rural settlements.