Lyskovo

Lyskovo lies on the right side of the middle Volga, opposite the Makaryev monastery. Local accounts date its earliest mention to 1410. The village grew as a trading and craft centre, aided by the great fair held across the river at the monastery; a royal decree confirmed the fair's revenues for the monastery in 1641.

Lyskovo had its own markets alongside the seasonal fair. In 1691 the trade in salt and fish was moved from the fair to the Lyskovo side of the Volga. The fair itself later moved to Nizhny Novgorod in 1817, changing the commercial geography of this stretch of the river.