Ostrechiny

Ostrechiny lay near the mouth of the river of the same name in the country south-west of Lake Onega. The settlement is recorded from 1543, while the Ostrechiny pogost encompassed a much wider area of the lake's south-western shore and the basins of the Ostrechina, Inema and Muromlya rivers. Cadastral records from the sixteenth century trace villages in this Veps-speaking district, where place names preserve the history of successive settlements.