Okoneshnikovo

Okoneshnikovo grew beside Lake Kozyakovo in the forest-steppe east of the Irtysh. In the early nineteenth century peasant settlers established dwellings near the lake; a surviving order of 1815 permitted Timofey Okoneshnikov and Fyodor Valetov to move there. The settlement took its name from one of these early inhabitants. The surrounding flat country is dotted with lakes and small birch groves.