Lipno

Lipno belonged to the wooded lands of Novgorod’s Obonezhskaya district, where rivers and church centres linked scattered villages. Lipno appears among the tribute-collecting places listed in a thirteenth-century addition to Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich’s charter. Later records name a Resurrection church district on the Lipna among the pogosts of the upland part of Obonezhye. These older centres continued to mark the organisation of the countryside after Moscow took Novgorod in 1478.