Ust-Cheptsa

Ust-Cheptsa stands where the Cheptsa enters the Vyatka. The first known record of a Russian settlement at the river mouth dates to 1405, when the area belonged to the independent Vyatka lands. In 1489 it passed into the Russian state with the conquest of Vyatka. Eighteenth-century documents call the village Ust-Chepetskoye, while its shorter everyday name preserves its position at the mouth of the Cheptsa.