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Kholmogory is located on the Northern Dvina River. The river was known locally/archaically as the Kuropolla - this is the toponym that shows up on the plan.

These are the former stomping grounds of the Pontic king Mithridates VI (known to his friends as "Eupator"). A site of naval authority (at the chokepoint between the Azov and Black seas) and antique ruins (the town is wedged against a mountain named…