Starodub-Votsky

Starodub Votsky belongs to the country across the Oka from Murom, where the high wooded Peremilovy hills overlook the river. The name Starodubye was used for a district along this bank, including the country between Klin and Varezha. A chronicle list names Starodub Votsky separately from another Starodub on the Klyazma. The old name remained attached to the Oka district even as villages and parish centres came to mark its landscape.