The basin of the Pechora, from the Izhma and the Tsilma to the Usa, beyond the Timan ridge.
The Primary Chronicle, telling the tale of Gyuryata Rogovich under 1096, calls the Pechora 'a people who pay tribute to Novgorod'. Novgorod sends its 'Pechora tribute collectors' (pechorskiye dannitsy): in 1187 they were killed in Pechora, together with the Yugra collectors, and with them about a hundred leading men fell (chronicle). Who the 'Pechora' were (Komi, Samoyeds, or both) is not settled.
The lower Pechora north of the sheet's edge runs to the Arctic.
Who holds it
- Name
- none named
- Title
- the Pechora people (no leader named)
- Confidence
- high
Novgorod chronicle under 6695 (1187); the Primary Chronicle's tale of Gyuryata Rogovich under 1096 (not re-checked in this run).
Overlord
Novgorod claims tribute.
How things stand that morning
Out of Novgorod's reach since the killings of 1187 as far as the record shows; no expedition recorded since 1193.
Wealth
Furs, walrus ivory and Arctic goods.
Military
Not recorded.
Customs and assemblies
Not recorded.
Overlord claims
Novgorod's tribute.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Two chronicle notices a century apart.
On the map: Cut at the sheet's northern (66.2 N) and eastern (58 E) edges; the lower Pechora and the Bolshezemelskaya tundra lie beyond.
Primary sources for Novgorod
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- The Chronicle of Novgorod (kept year by year; the Synodal manuscript written in the 13th and 14th centuries). Novgorod's own record, kept at St Sophia. Read online
- The Laurentian Chronicle (the Suzdal continuation kept in the late 12th and 13th centuries; manuscript 1377). The court record of Vsevolod III of Vladimir. Read online
- The Livonian Chronicle of Henry, Henry of Livonia (1225 to 1227). The chief source for the Baltic mission. Read online
- The birch-bark letters (11th to 15th centuries). Excavated letters and notes on birch bark, dated by the layer they lie in. Read online
- The law of the Gotlanders; The saga of the Gotlanders (Guta lag about 1220, Guta saga about 1220 to 1275; manuscript of about 1350). The law and the short history of the self-governing island. Read online
Sources and studies
- The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471 (Novgorod First Chronicle), tr. R. Michell and N. Forbes (1914): entries for 1164-1215 read through the archive.org full-text search (scan pp. 76-106)
- Wikipedia (en): Yugra
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.