Nekloch'

Nekloch belongs to the lake country at the headwaters of the Polota, a tributary of the Western Dvina. Its name appears in accounts of an expedition into the lands of Polotsk in the twelfth century. Lakes and wooded ground mark this northern edge of the old Polotsk region, where waterways lead south towards the Dvina and its settlements. The lake of Nekloch preserves the name of the locality in this landscape.