Uvarovo

Uvarovo lies on the right bank of the Vorona River in the Tambov region. According to the town's commonly reported history, it was founded as a Cossack settlement in 1699 and became a selo in 1702. A postal road built through Uvarovo in 1770 connected Borisoglebsk and Kirsanov, giving the village a place on a wider route across the countryside. Its later growth into an important commercial centre occurred mainly after the early nineteenth century. Before the settlement was founded, the location belonged to the broader southern frontier of the Russian state rather than to a town of that name.