Siva

Siva was a village in the wooded country west of the Kama. A census in 1621 recorded eight peasant households there; by 1678 the register counted twenty households and fifty-six men. In the late eighteenth century Siva was mentioned as the center of the hereditary estate of the landowner Vsevolozhsky. In 1836 it became the center of a volost within Okhansk district, giving the village a local administrative role as well as its place in the surrounding rural economy.