Terbuny

The Terbuny country lies south of Yelets, on the forest-steppe between the upper Don and the Oskol basin. To the east stood the older village of Terbuny, established by service people from the Smolensk country and recorded in the seventeenth century. Its name has been connected with the working of flax, an occupation associated with those settlers. The district formed part of the lands settled as the Russian frontier moved southward; the later settlement that inherited the Terbuny name arose only after this period.