Vokhma

Vokhma takes its name from a river in the forested country of the upper Vetluga. The settlement developed as Voznesenye, at a meeting of old overland trading routes, and was named for a Church of the Ascension built in 1740. Merchants and peasants came to its fairs from towns including Nikolsk, Totma, Veliky Ustyug and Vyatka. In the later eighteenth century a landing near the Nikolsky pogost helped connect the district's trade with Kazan and the Vyatka.