Ropsk

Ropsk lies in the wooded country southwest of Starodub. The town of Ropesk is mentioned in the chronicles in 1159 and is associated with the settlement later called Stary Ropsk. In the seventeenth century the district became part of the Cossack Hetmanate. When the Starodub regiment was separated from the Nizhyn regiment in 1663, Ropsk was among its company centres.