The southern part of the modern village of Novy Nekouz is the ancient village of Nikolskoye in Zamoshye (Nikolo–Zamoshye), located 1 km south of the Kharino railway station, which then grew into a settlement (village) New Nekouz (1931, the year of the formation of the new administrative center).
The village has been known since the XVII century, the Archival Service of the Yaroslavl region keeps the Metric books of the church of the village of Nikolskoye in Zamoshye for 1739, the church at that time was wooden. Only in the XIX century two stone churches were built in the village: the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Nikolo-Zamoshye (summer) 1807g. (lost in the 1930s), the Church of the Epiphany (winter) was built in 1873 (now an active temple, the central temple of the Nekouz deanery, an identified cultural heritage site). The village of Nikolo-Zamoshye is currently part of Lenin Street in the "Reza" microdistrict in the Novy Nekoz district center.