Tarnogsky Gorodok

Tarnogsky Gorodok stands on a promontory by the Tarnoga, near its junction with the Kokshenga. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Novgorod's landholders built a chain of small wooden strongholds along the Kokshenga and its tributaries to protect their northern possessions. This was the southernmost and largest of those forts, its site enclosed on three sides by the river.

The chronicle records an attack on the Kokshenga stronghold during the campaign of the young Ivan, son of the grand prince of Moscow, against Dmitry Shemyaka. The event is dated to 1452 in one account and 1453 in another. The region later passed under Moscow's control. A survey of 1678 described an earthen rampart enclosing the town, with twenty-eight shops and five storehouses inside and a market held on Saint Blaise's feast. By the end of the seventeenth century the fort had lost its military importance and its wooden defences had decayed.