Olgov

Olgov is the name of a medieval town traditionally associated with the Seim at the site of later Lgov. The chronicle mentions it in 1152 among the towns of the Kursk lands, within the changing territories of the medieval Rus' princes and their neighbours. The broad river valley carried a chain of settlements through the forest-steppe, between Kursk and Rylsk.

By 1571 a frontier watch post stood in the area. A monastery dedicated to Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica arose nearby in the seventeenth century, and its settlement eventually became the town of Lgov in 1779. The monastery was also known by the old name of Olgov, preserving a link in local tradition between the chronicle town and the later settlement on the Seim.