Selo and administrative center of Kholmogorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
For other places with the same name, see Kholmogory.
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Cathedral Square in Kholmogory, 19th centuryThe ruined Kholmogory Cathedral in 2023"Colmogor", near "Mare Glaciale", shown on Giacomo Gastaldi's 1550 map of MoscoviaCoat of arms of Kholmogory
The Kholmogory area was at first in historical times inhabited by the Finno-Ugrians "Zavolochskaya Chud", (i.e. "the Chud [who live] beyond the portage"), known also as Yems in old Novgorod chronicles, and Karelians. The first Slavonic population to enter Kalmamäki were Pomors from Vologda area after 1220. As early as the 14th century, the village (the name of which was then spelled Kolmogory) was an important trading post of the Novgorod Republic in the Far North of Russia. Its commercial importance further increased in 1554 when the English Muscovy Company made it a center of its operations in furs. The Polish-Lithuanian irregular forces known as Lisowczycy besieged the wooden fort during the Time of Troubles (1613), but had to retreat in failure.