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Located in a wooded area on the right bank of the Panikovets River , on both sides of the Zalegoshch - Setukha - Mtsensk highway, a kilometer from the rural administrative center of Grachevki village.

The name "Lomtsy" is derived from the geographical term scrap, scrap, llama - a low-lying place covered with forest or shrubbery, a floodplain meadow, or a windbreak, blockages of a felled forest. Another name "Arkhangelsk" - according to the church of St. Michael the Archangel ^[2] .

Initially, the settlement was formed on the left bank of the Panikovets River. Near the hillock a wooden church was built in the name of the Archangel Michael and a parish cemetery was built. In 1827, the church burned down. The whole church archive was also burnt. Therefore, data on the appearance of the parish did not survive as there were no folk legends. In the same year, at the expense of the parish landowners Golitsyn and Sukhotin, a stone church of the same name was built with an aisle in the name of Cosmas and Damian . Near the church were houses of clergy , and next to the church there was a small village Grachevka. Gradually, a settlement near the church expanded and since the church was located territorially on the site of the village, the status of the village passed to Grachevka. And Lomtsi remained a small village on the right bank of the river. In the written sources of Lomza, as a village, it is mentioned in the PKNU ( scribe book of Novosilsky Uyezd ) for 1646. Since 1885, a literacy school existed in the village, in 1915 - a parish church . The parish consisted of the village itself, the village of Rzhavets (the manor house of Rzhavets), Kochet and villages: Grachevki, Ivani (Shelkanovka, Ivanovka), Kazinka (formerly Rzhavtsy), Maryina , Trekhanetova ^{[3] [4]} .