Vizinga

Vizinga was recorded in 1585 as a pogost with two wooden churches and three households of church servants. One church was dedicated to Saint Athanasius of Alexandria and the other to Saint George. A proposed explanation of its Komi name is “place of metal.” In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries iron ore was mined near Vizinga for the Nyuvchim foundry, linking the settlement's forested surroundings to the iron industry of the Sysola region.