Novaya Pokrovka

Novaya Pokrovka lies on the Don, near the old oxbow lake of Bogatoye. In 1571 the Russian frontier watch established the Bogaty Zaton post beside the water to observe movement across the steppe. Settlement grew in the Don valley in later centuries. A church of the Intercession was built here in 1784, giving the village its name of New Pokrovka. Across the river lay another settlement, Liski, whose name would later become associated with this stretch of the Don.