Raznezhye

Raznezhye lies on a channel of the Volga's left bank, amid the forests and floodplains opposite the higher southern shore. Monastic inventories describe it as newly settled after the surveys of 1621–1624, on land used for collecting wild honey. It belonged to the Annunciation Monastery of Nizhny Novgorod and became the centre of an estate with dependent villages and clearings. The river connected its inhabitants to the busy Volga route and the markets along it.