Troitskoye Na Shchigrakh

Troitskoye on the Shchigor was a village of odnodvortsy, descendants of service people who held land in the Kursk country. Its name came from the Church of the Trinity, rebuilt by parishioners in 1774. Five years later Catherine II ordered the village to become the centre of a new district under the name Shchigry. The transformation reflected the growth of settlement and administration in a region that had once formed part of Russia's southern frontier.