Pyras

Pyras was a Komi settlement near the meeting of the Vychegda and Northern Dvina. The Vychegda-Vym chronicle places Stephen of Perm's preaching and baptisms at Pyras and on the Viled in 1379, at the beginning of his mission among the Permian peoples. The site lay on a major river route linking the northern interior with the White Sea. In 1675 the Dutch merchant Balthasar Coyett passed the shoals near Pyras on his journey along the Dvina and Sukhona.