Mglin

Mglin stands on the Sudynka west of Bryansk, in the old Severian lands. First mentioned in 1389, it became a Cossack company centre during the Khmelnytsky uprising, first in the Nizhyn regiment and from 1663 in the Starodub regiment. A Cossack detachment under Ivan Nechay defeated Russian forces nearby in 1658. Empress Elizabeth granted Mglin to the last Cossack hetman, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, in 1760; after the Hetmanate's autonomy ended it became a district centre.