Podgornya

Podgornya is a rural locality in Plesetsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The population was 4 as of 2012.

Geography

Podgornya is located 100 km east of Plesetsk by road. Barkhatikha is the nearest rural locality.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1556 in the records of the Kargopol Uyezd. Until the 1980s, a village named Podol existed near it, which was called Vesinskaya before the revolution. According to local historians and residents, the old name of the village is linked to the once-inhabited Ves people of the Finno-Ugric tribes. In 1562, the "Letters of Nikita Grigoryevich Yakhontov and Companions from the Kargopol Books" mentioned the "Nicholas Pogost and the Church of Nicholas the Miracle-Worker." In 1651, due to its dilapidation, the Nicholas Church was dismantled, and a Trinity Church was built in its place, which was destroyed by lightning on June 3, 1789.