The traditional scholarship argues that they were organized into five "kontsy" (ends) - konets (конец; pl. концы) in Russian - i.e., the boroughs of the city they lived in; each end was then organized by the streets in which they lived.
Traditionel teorier hævder, at de var organiseret i fem "kontsy" (kvarterer) – konets (russisk: конец; pl. концы dansk: ~ bydelene de boede i, og hver bydel var derefter organiseret efter gaderne, de boede i).