Sechenovo

Sechenovo was formerly known as Tyoply Stan, a village on the Medyanka near its source. Local tradition links its name to a halt by Ivan IV's army during the 1552 campaign against Kazan, when warm weather followed a spell of rain. The surrounding district was settled in the sixteenth century as Russian authority expanded across the middle Volga region. Later the village contained estates of noble families, among them the Yermolovs.