Dry Karsun

The village is located on the Sukhaya Karsunka River (Yevleika).

Dry Karsun was founded as one of the most important centers for the extraction of clay. Until the collapse of the USSR, mining, sale, and processing of clay products was carried out there.

Until 1917, more than 900 people lived in the settlement. On the territory of the village was located the Sukhokarsun church, which was a local attraction (later the church was converted into a school). Masters, artisans, mined clay and processed it. Trade was actively developing, until the end of the 19th century, a clay fair was organized in the village, and many artisans on horseback went to trade in Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) or other nearby cities and settlements.

In the 1960s, about 3,000 people lived in the village, a brick factory, a kindergarten, an elementary school, a canteen, a club, and a wood processing complex were built. A water supply system and columns were built. The forestry industry began to develop actively. In the early 1970s, a fire department and a medical unit appeared in the village. From the beginning of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s, asphalt and concrete pavements, sidewalks (on one street only) were made, an asphalt road was laid from the Karsun-Inza section, but because of the crisis in 1991-1993, the road in the village itself was laid was not. After the collapse of the USSR, a great decline began in the village. By the end of the 90s of the XX century, a brick factory closed, the whole forest industry stopped. In 2009, the secondary school closed, only the elementary school remained. The population has fallen from 3,000 to 500 people. In 2009, a clay museum was built in the village, which tells about the history of the village.

• Sukhoi Karsun // Ulyanovsk-Simbirsk Encyclopedia / Ed. V.N. Egorov. - Ulyanovsk: Simbirskaya book, 2004. - T. 2: N — I. - S. 309. - 592 p. - ISBN 5-8426-0035-8 .