Vinnitsy

Vinnitsy stands on the Oyat amid the wooded hills south of the Svir, in a district long inhabited by Vepsian communities. A place called Vyunitsy appears among tribute-collecting points in a thirteenth-century addition to Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich’s charter. The Vinnitsy church district later embraced villages scattered across the lakes and forests of the Oyat basin. Its inhabitants belonged to the northern countryside linked to Novgorod through tribute and the administration of its pogosts.