Staroyuryevo

Staroyuryevo stands on the Lesnoy Voronezh, beneath the woodland once known as Yuryev Forest. Founded in 1643 as Yuryevo, the settlement was connected with the Kozlov defensive line, built to protect the frontier against Tatar raids. It grew and gave rise to outlying settlements, acquiring the name Old Yuryevo to distinguish it from them. Records of the 1760s list both smallholding #italic odnodvortsy#! and the serfs of Captain Dmitry Suzdaltsev among its inhabitants.