Kolomna means fish river.

Why is Kolomna named that way? There are more than 20 versions: folk, scientific and even humorous. But still, according to modern scientists, Kolomna got its name from the Finno-Ugric tribes, translated as "fish river" .

In Kolomna always knew how to fish, as the rivers abounded with different varieties of fish, some of which are no longer found. For example, you can not now meet the taimen, and before he was part of the mandatory training of all Kolomna catchers. On the Oka there were fishing villages - Dedinovo, Fishers - from where the fish was taken to the princely and royal table. They caught sturgeon, beluga, nalim. Kolomna archaeologists found fish bones of the XII-XVIII centuries on the posad and in the Kremlin, most of all near the place where the port of Kolomna is now located, probably there was a fishing settlement. Medieval fish were huge: catfish reached three meters, pike - more than a meter.

Since fish was the main food of Kolomens in the Middle Ages, it was sold. At the city auction, you could buy sterlets, seurugas, huge sturgeons, belugas, pike, perch, perch, perch, karasei. The peak of trade falls on the XVII century. Begin to trade from the end of the XVI century.

Now in the Oka there are gusters, carp, carp, turf, ulcer, glue, bream, the largest - catfish and pike. And every spring in the Oka produce fry of different species of fish, even sturgeon, grown in the Mozhaisk reservoir. So catching a sterlet now for a fisherman is quite a dream come true.