Rastyapino

Rastyapino was a village in the bend of the Oka west of Nizhny Novgorod, where pine forests spread along the river. Documents show it already existed in 1607, and a 1615 survey records the village under the form Rostyapino. It was associated with an earlier settlement called Sukhaya Rechka, or Dry Stream. The Oka carried the waters of the Russian interior toward the Volga, while small villages occupied the wooded land along its banks.