Melenki

Melenki lies in the countryside south of Murom, near the Melenka and Unzha rivers. Local accounts describe the settlement as emerging in the late seventeenth century; it was known as Veretyevo before taking the name Melenki. A church of the Intercession was built there in 1709.

In 1778 the palace village was made a district town as the Vladimir administration was reorganised. Accounts differ by a year on the formal date, but the change gave Melenki a new administrative role in the surrounding district.