Nikolsk

Nikolsk stands on the right bank of the Yug River in northern Russia. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the surrounding country was contested between Novgorod and Moscow. The river offered a route toward Veliky Ustyug and the northern waterways.

Nikolsk was a fifteenth-century landing place on a trade route connecting the Northern Dvina basin with the Vetluga and Volga. It became an uyezd centre and received town rights in 1780, during the establishment of the Vologda viceroyalty. Its harbour had served the movement of cargo along the northern routes.