Posad

A posad (Russian and Ukrainian: посад) was a type of settlement in East Slavic lands between the 10th to 15th centuries, it was often surrounded by ramparts and a moat, adjoining a town or a kremlin, but outside of it, or adjoining a monastery. The posad was inhabited by craftsmen and merchants and was its own distinct community, separate from the city it adjoined.^[1] Some posads developed into towns, such as Pavlovsky Posad and Sergiev Posad.

During the 1920s administrative territorial reform in the Soviet Union, posads were converted into urban-type settlements.

^ Brancato, Ekaterina (2009). Markets Versus Hierarchies: A Political Economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-84720-811-8.

[BrancatoMarkets-1] Brancato, Ekaterina (2009). Markets Versus Hierarchies: A Political Economy of Russia from the 10th century to 2008. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-84720-811-8.

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