Prudy

Serebryanye Prudy lies on the Osyotr, a tributary of the Oka, in the old frontier country south of Moscow. A sixteenth-century survey records the village as Prudy on the Rzhavets. It belonged to the Ryazan district while the Russian state maintained fortified lines farther south against raids from the steppe. The rivers and their valleys linked this rural district with the towns of Venev and Zaraysk and the wider Oka basin.