Selo Yartsevo

Yartsevo stands on the middle Yenisei between the mouths of the Kas and Sym, two rivers entering from the western forest. Local tradition dates its beginnings to a winter station founded by Cossacks from the Ket in 1605, near the mouth of the Sym. The village grew on the Yenisei amid the early Russian expansion along Siberian waterways. A stone church dedicated to the Annunciation was built here in 1796.