The Vorotnikovs are a clan of people whose izba is near the road leading from Medvedgorod to Ryazan, in southern Medved Oblast, Matriarchate of Periaslavl.
The Vorotnikovs have been prosperous farmers and woodsmen for centuries and are widely respected in southern Medved Oblast. In the 1900s, one of their more successful sons, Mikhail Stepanovich, was courted and married by Great Mother Irina Ivanovna.