Zaplyusye

Zaplyusye lies near the upper waters of the Plyussa, among lakes, woods and marshes northeast of Pskov. A village of this name appears in a Novgorod land survey of 1498, near the lake then called Plyuso. The lake later took the village's name, Zaplyusskoye. The surrounding country belonged to the old church districts of the Novgorod lands, whose records preserved the names of small communities along the rivers and lakes of the western frontier.