Rakoma

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Rakoma

 

(also Rakom, Rakomo), a village near the northwestern tip of Lake Il’men’. Prince Iaroslav stayed in Rakoma during the Novgorod uprising of 1015. In the pistsovye knigi (documents on economic matters) of the late 15th and 16th centuries, Rakoma is designated as a “sovereign’s village” in the court’s volost (small rural district) of Paozer’e in the Shelon’ piatina (area) of Novgorod. Archaeological excavations have discovered cultural layers dating from the tenth century.

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