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Some names for inhabited places can be misleading. For example, in Russia, "pogost" usually refers to cemeteries. The most famous pogost is, of course, Kizhi — a stunning ensemble of wooden churches on Kizhi Island, recognized as a UNESCO monument. But a pogost can also refer to a small settlement that must include a church, a priest's house, and a cemetery. If peasants settled there as well, the pogost would "transform" into a village. A village was considered a larger center made up of several inhabited places with developed infrastructure: a church, hospital, and administration. A slightly smaller territorial unit is a hamlet — even one or two farmhouses with land holdings. The main difference between a hamlet and a village was the absence of a church. Another small settlement is a settlement. This term was used for a place where people from other areas would settle, that is, "settlers." Farmsteads could be recognized by the number of houses: there could be up to several hundred, or it could be a single estate with a large farm. Most often, farmsteads were found in the Don and Kuban regions, where agriculture was the primary occupation.