Year: 2020, Number: 3, Pages: 126-139
The origin of the settlers who founded the villages located in the coastal protection zone of the Marine Reserve (Zakaznik) "Zaliv Vostok" (Vostok Bay) has been clarified. The settlement of Volchanets was founded by settlers from Moldavia; translation of the komonym — Valley. The villages Dushkino and Novolitovsk were founded by immigrants from the Starodubsky district of the present Bryansk region of Russia.