Big Kandarat

Located on the Kandaratka River (the left tributary of the Barysh River ), 23 km north of the district center, in an open treeless area.

The name of the village is derived from the name of the Kandaratka River. V.F. Barashkov connects his origin with the Turkic formant "condor" or "condor" ("beaver", "beaver"), mentioning beaver rutting, about which there is information in letters of the XVII century. As an alternative etymology, the same author cites the Chuvash “cantar” (“hemp”), linking this name with “the practice of using the river to soak hemp”. ^[2] In the village, the legend of the Cossack Kondrat, whose large and small horse rati were located in the vicinity, is widely popular. According to legend, the military location, known as Kondrat Rat , subsequently merged in the people's memory in the Big and Small Kandarat , which formed the names of two settlements. The Potminskaya settlement, also founded by the Cossacks in 1673, now the village of Potma, is also located next to Bolshaya and Malaya Kandaratyu.

It was founded in the middle of the 17th century. On November 12, 1670, the battle of the tsarist forces with a large detachment of Razintsy retreating from Simbirsk took place west of the village on the Kandarat River. There was a Yamskaya station on the Moscow highway. In 1870 and in 1880 I.N. Ulyanov visited the local school.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were many Old Believers among the peasants.

In 1913, there were 517 courtyards in Bolshaya Kandarati, 2,903 residents, a stone Epiphany church (1808, destroyed during the Soviet era), a chapel, a school, a district hospital, a post office, 2 public mills, weekly bazaars on Thursdays, and the annual Yarilskaya fair ( on Thursday 9th Easter), shops, breweries, dyeing shops, carding shops, salotopni.

In 1996, the population was 737 people, mostly Russians. In 2010, the population dropped to 538 people.

At the school there is a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union I.K. Morozov , a native of the village, and the grave of educated members of the RCP at the collective farm current.

There is a board, school, hospital, club, library, three shops.