pogost
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thumb|275px|Vytegra|Vytegra Pogost, as photographed by [[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, ]]
A pogost (, ) is a historical Russian term for an administrative-territorial unit. In modern Russian, it typically refers to a rural church and graveyard. It has also been borrowed into Latgalian (pogosts), Finnish (pogosta) and Latvian (pagasts), with specific meanings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pogost” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.