Radogosch

Radogoshch stood on the Sudost, a tributary of the Desna, in the old Starodub country. The Hypatian Chronicle mentions it in 1155, and historians generally identify it with the site of later Pogar. Lithuanian forces captured and burned the town in 1534 during the struggle with Moscow. Under the Cossack Hetmanate Pogar became a company centre of the Starodub regiment, and its townspeople sought confirmation of their municipal rights in 1666.