Rudnya

Rudnya lies on the Tersa in the forest-steppe of the Medveditsa basin. The settlement was first known as Uspenskaya and is traditionally dated to the end of the seventeenth century; its first church was built in 1701. By the middle of the eighteenth century it had acquired the name Rudnya, associated with the working of local iron ore. An ironworks was operating in the sloboda by 1761, giving the village its distinctive place among the agricultural settlements of the river valley.