Псковский пригород Вороноч - город XIII-XVI вв. на русско-литовском пограничье

ENVoronoch, one of the suburbs of Pskov, has been known from written sources since the 14th century. The city was situated near the Pskov-Lithuanian border in the southeast part of the lands of Pskov. In the early 16th century Voronoch, together with all of the lands of Pskov, came under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, but this ended for the city at the turn of the 1570s. In the 1570s Voronoch was self-governed and in 1581 its inhabitants swore allegiance to King Stephen Bäthory. Voronoch returned to Moscow's jurisdiction on the basis of a 1582 treaty and in the mid-1580s Moscow's chroniclers stated that Voronoch was a 'hill fort where there used to be a city'. On the basis of data from 1969, 1980-1982, 1998, and 2002-2004 archaeological investigations, it is possible to fairly thoroughly describe the Medieval city of Voronoch. It arose in the 13th century at the site where a settlement had existed in the final quarter of the 1st millennium. Voronoch hillfort, which was situated on a promontory on the river Sorot and was separated from the plateau by a ditch and bank, was a city outwork during the 13th-16th centuries. The hillfort was surrounded by an unenclosed settlement, the topography of which corresponds to the description of the suburb of Voronoch in the 1585-1587 census book.