Vetlitsy

Vetlitsy stands on the Vop north of Yartsevo, in the forested uplands of the Smolensk country. The Vop flows south to the Dnieper, joining the village's river valley to the great waterway that passes Smolensk. Woodland and scattered fields cover the surrounding country, whose roads linked smaller communities with the towns on the Dnieper. During the early modern wars, this region lay close to the frontier contested by Moscow and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.