Sosnytsia

Sosnytsia lies on the Ubid, a tributary of the Desna, amid the pine forests from which its name is thought to derive. The Hypatian Chronicle mentions the town in 1234 during the wars of the Rus' princes. It later passed through Lithuanian and Muscovite hands before the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth recovered the region in 1618. A fortress was built in 1634, and in 1648 the Cossack uprising brought the town into the struggle for control of the Severian lands.