Korcheva was a town in central
Russia, on the territory of the modern
Konakovsky District,
Tver Oblast, on the
Volga River, with a population of a few thousand people. It was first mentioned in the 1540s as a selo. Korcheva received town status in 1781 by the order of the empress
Catherine II. Korcheva was the administrative center of Korchevskoy Uyezd, one of the uyezds of
Tver Viceroyalty and subsequently, from 1803, of
Tver Governorate. The town was prosperous until it was bypassed by the railroads in the latter half of the nineteenth century.