Nikolsk

Nikolsk is a town and the administrative center of Nikolsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, positioned at the proper bank of the Yug River. The location was at the start populated by way of the Finno-Ugric peoples.In the 14th-15th centuries, during the colonization, it was a disputed territory among the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Novgorod Republic. Novgorod managed a chief part of the Russian North, and, mainly, all regions along the Sukhona River northeast of what is now Nikolsky District.

Moscow controlled Veliky Ustyug, which it inherited from the Vladimir–Suzdal Principality, at the same time as the Yug River become the waterway it used to get to Veliky Ustyug. It is understood that during 1425 Nikolsk and surrounding territories paid tribute to Novgorod. In the end of the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Moscow took over the Novgorod's territories and Nikolsk have become one of the key points at the manner from Moscow to the White Sea, which till 1703 turned into the primary course for the foreign alternate in Russia.

The harbor of Nikolsk in particular changed into used to transport cargo. In the direction of the executive reform performed in 1708 via Peter the Great, the territory became protected into Archangelgorod Governorate. In 1780, the governorate turned into abolished and transformed into Vologda Viceroyalty. At the equal time, Nikolsk have become the seat of an uyezd and turned into granted town rights.