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The Vyatichs or more properly Vyatichi or Viatichi were a tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 of Early East Slavs who inhabited a part of the Oka
Oka River

Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol Oblast, Tula Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Vladimir Oblast and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga....
 basin
Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
.

The Primary Chronicle
Primary Chronicle

The Primary Chronicle , or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113....
 names a certain tribal leader Vyatko as the forefather of the tribe. The Vyatichi were mainly engaged in farming and cattle-breeding. Between the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vyatichi paid tribute to the Khazars
Khazars

The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who dominated the Pontic steppe and the North Caucasus from the 7th to the 10th century CE. The name 'Khazar' seems to be tied to a Turkic languages verb form meaning "wandering"....
 and later Kievan princes
Rulers of Kievan Rus'

Grand Prince of Kiev was the title of the Kievan prince and the ruler of Kievan Rus in the 9th?12th centuries.Rurik , a semi-legendary Scandinavian Varangian, was at the roots of Kievan Rus'....
. The tribe, however, was constantly trying to defend its own political independence up until the early twelfth century.






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The Vyatichs or more properly Vyatichi or Viatichi were a tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 of Early East Slavs who inhabited a part of the Oka
Oka River

Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol Oblast, Tula Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Vladimir Oblast and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga....
 basin
Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
.

The Primary Chronicle
Primary Chronicle

The Primary Chronicle , or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113....
 names a certain tribal leader Vyatko as the forefather of the tribe. The Vyatichi were mainly engaged in farming and cattle-breeding. Between the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vyatichi paid tribute to the Khazars
Khazars

The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who dominated the Pontic steppe and the North Caucasus from the 7th to the 10th century CE. The name 'Khazar' seems to be tied to a Turkic languages verb form meaning "wandering"....
 and later Kievan princes
Rulers of Kievan Rus'

Grand Prince of Kiev was the title of the Kievan prince and the ruler of Kievan Rus in the 9th?12th centuries.Rurik , a semi-legendary Scandinavian Varangian, was at the roots of Kievan Rus'....
. The tribe, however, was constantly trying to defend its own political independence up until the early twelfth century. By the eleventh century, the Vyatichi had already populated the Moskva
Moskva River

The Moskva River is a river that flows through the Moscow Oblast and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River....
 basin and the area of today's Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the tribe founded a number of cities due to developing handicraft
Handicraft

Handicraft, also known as craftwork or simply craft, is a type of work where useful and decorative devices are made completely by hand or using only simple tools....
s and increasing trade
Trade

Tradeis the willing exchange of goods, Service , or both. Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter , the direct exchange of goods and services....
, including Moscow, Koltesk, Dedoslav, Nerinsk and others. In the second half of the 12th century the land of the Vyatichi was distributed among the princes of Suzdal
Suzdal

Suzdal is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, situated north-east of Moscow, from the city of Vladimir, on the Kamenka River....
 and Chernigov. The last direct reference to the Vyatichi was made in a chronicle
Chronicle

Generally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronology order. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler....
 under the year of 1197. Indirect references, however, may be traced to the early fourteenth century.

Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves
Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves

Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves is a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church, monk and martyr from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra . He got famous for spreading Christianity among the heathen East Slavic tribe of Vyatichi ....
 was a missionary who converted many Vyatichi to Christianity (in 1215), being beheaded by their chiefs August 27 ca. 1215.

There are numerous archeological monuments in Moscow that tell historians about the Vyatichi. Their fortified settlements of the 11th century were located in the historical center of today's Moscow, namely the Borovitsky Hill, Kolomenskoye
Kolomenskoye

Kolomenskoye is a former royal estate situated several miles to the south-east of Moscow downtown, on the ancient road leading to the town of Kolomna ....
 (the spot of the former Diakovskoye village), Kuntsevo (a district of Moscow) and others. One may also find traces of Vyatich settlements in Brateyevo, Zyuzino, Alyoshkino, Matveyevskoye and other localities of Moscow. Burial mounds with cremated
Cremation

Cremation is the process of reducing human remains to basic Chemical element in the form of bone fragments through flame, heat, and vaporization....
 bodies have been found along the upper reaches of the Oka and Don.