Opaalkova

Opalkova lies on the Nepolka north of Kursk, among the small rivers and wooded fields of the Seim basin. A record of Kursk soldiers and cavalrymen in 1697 names the village as Opalkova in the Obmyatsky district. Its inhabitants included odnodvortsy, families whose status grew out of service on the southern frontier. Their village belonged to the rural landscape that developed around Kursk as the Russian state established its fortified towns farther south.