Yorga

Yorga lies north of Cherepovets in the forest country between the Sheksna and White Lake. The village and its district appear as Yerga in documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, their name apparently drawn from a local river. Landholding families, including the Monastyryov and Sviblov families, held the district in medieval times. The settlement later became known as Voskresenskoye and was associated with pottery made from local clay.