Nikolsky

Nikolskoye grew on the high bank of the Voya near the mouth of the Nolya. In 1612 the Vyatka Dormition Monastery began building a church here, and its peasants raised the first houses below the hill. A stone cathedral of Saint Nicholas was completed in 1668, giving the village its official name, though residents also called it Noli. It remained monastic property until 1764. In 1780 Catherine II made Nikolskoye the uyezd town of Nolinsk, with 113 peasant houses, a stone church and two distilleries.