Soltsy-Kirishi

Soltsy stood on the left bank of the Volkhov, opposite the later settlement of Kirishi. The Soltsy pogost on the river appears in a survey of the Obonezhskaya district in 1573–1574. Its church centre served the surrounding countryside along a waterway linking Novgorod with Lake Ladoga. By the eighteenth century the district was also known for bobbin lace, a craft practised in villages of the Kirishi country. At Soltsy stood an estate of the Bestuzhev family, whose members included participants in the Decembrist movement.