Voznesenskoye

Voznesenskoye belongs to the forest country of the Northern Dvina, north of the Toyma rivers. In the seventeenth century the surrounding Irshchina formed part of the Lower Toyma district of the Vaga lands. The rivers joined scattered villages to the Northern Dvina, the great route by which goods and people travelled between the interior and the White Sea. The later Afanasyevskaya district grew from this group of northern settlements.