Lup'ya

The Lupya flows through the forested upper Kama country and joins the Kama from the left. Its name has been linked to Komi-Permyak and Mansi words for fallen or waterlogged timber, combined with a word for river. The neighboring Sysola country contained the pogost later called Koygorodok, recorded in 1586. The Lupya belongs to a network of northern rivers whose valleys connected Komi and Mansi lands with the great Kama waterway.