Manturovo Kursk

Manturovo lies in the forest-steppe east of Kursk, in a district settled as Russia's southern frontier moved outward. Its first secure mention dates from 1709, though local accounts suggest an earlier origin. In the seventeenth century the surrounding country belonged to the Oskol district, where service families received land along the rivers and established villages. Manturovo later developed as a trading sloboda among the agricultural settlements of the region.