Manturovo

Manturovo is a metropolis in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. An historic Finno-Ugric Meri trading settlement and a wooden hill fortress once existed at the website of cutting-edge Manturovo, on the confluence of the Unzha and Mezha Rivers. The call way Mantu = Podzol, Rova = higher region in sparsely coniferous forest. According to its name it have had a Saame or Nenents roots. Finno-Ugrian Rova derives from Saame word Roavve which means that hill or open location as result of woodland hearth.

It have become a Meri agreement by means of 300 CE and remained such till at the least the 14th century. The Russian village of Manturovo become first mentioned in 1617. Later on, it grew into a metropolis and became granted metropolis reputation in 1958. Manturovo became connected via St. Petersburg–Vyatka Railway to Vyatka and Perm in 1908. Since then it has advanced from quiet united states village railway station to a forest enterprise middle such as a big fener factory.