Oparino

Forests stretch across the watershed between the Vyatka and the northern rivers of the Luza basin. At Obyachevo, on the Luza, a fortified refuge was built in the late fifteenth century; its river, ravines and marshes formed part of its defenses. Farther west, Lalsk became a trading outpost in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The later settlement of Oparino lies in the wooded country between these river routes.