Zheshart

Zheshart lies on the lower Vychegda. A seventeenth-century census recorded two wooden churches, dedicated to the Prophet Elijah and Saint Nicholas, together with forty peasant households; eleven yards were empty after deaths and departures associated with poor harvests and plague. By 1678 the settlement had fifty-seven households, though only one church was mentioned. A stone Church of the Savior was built between 1794 and 1807, marking the continued life of the village on the Vychegda.