Melnya

Melnya lies on the right bank of the Seim, west of Konotop. Counted among the older villages of the district, it is recorded from around 1500. The Seim winds through a wide valley of meadows and wooded banks, linking the settlement to the river country of Severia. In the seventeenth century the district was drawn into the wars and political changes of the Cossack Hetmanate.