Old White Yar

The village is located on the banks of the Kuibyshev reservoir .

The fortified city of Beliy Yar (Belaya Yar) was founded in 1652 ( summer of 7160 ) ^[2] , which became the beginning of the newly established Zakamsky serif line ^[3] , which became a continuation of the Sinbir serif line . Initially, the defense along the new fortified line was held by the Cossacks and the Smolensk gentry. In September 1653, the Laishevsky governor Levashev was ordered from Kazan to select 100 Laishevsky horse-drawn Cossacks with wives and children for permanent housing.

The fortress had a quadrangular shape - 142 sazhens in length and 140 sazhens in width. Eight towers: 4 octagonal towers - in the corners and four quadrangular, with three passing gates: one "to the Kazan side", the other - "from the Volga" and the third - from the south side "from the Bushuyka voloshka".

With the construction of the fortress, it became part of the Sinbirsk district .

The inhabitants of the fortress, in addition to guarding the line, were engaged in fishing, which was delivered to the royal table: “On the White Yar of the great sovereign, a fish court, and in the yard a glacier. "On a glacier, dried fish logs with a shutter ...". ^[four]

Since December 18, 1708, the suburb of Belaya Yar, according to the Decree of Peter I , became part of the Sinbirsky district of the Kazan province .

In 1774 there was a major battle of the associate Emelyan Pugachev - ataman Somov with the tsarist troops.

The church in the suburbs of Byly Yar is a two-altered church in the name of the Holy Trinity, the Nativity of Christ, the building and stone chapel, the church is warm, with a capacity of up to 1000 people, burned down on September 13, 1848, was rebuilt in 1854, rebuilt in 1871, and lighted in 1878.

Since 1780, the suburb of Bely Yar entered the Stavropol district of Simbirsk governorship .

Since 1796 - in the Stavropol district of Simbirsk province .

According to the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron, since 1851, the suburb of Bely Yar belonged to the Stavropol district of the Samara province . It was inhabited by 4415 people in 652 yards, there was an Orthodox church, 3 shops, windmills ^[5] .

Since 1928 - in the Nikolo-Cheremshansky district of the Middle Volga region / Middle Volga region / Kuibyshev region / Kuibyshev region .

Since 1943 - in the Cherdaklinsky district of the Ulyanovsk region.

• In the village was born the participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ivanovich Ogurechnikov (1915-1979) ^[3] .

• In the village worked the foreman of the collective farm “MOPR”, Hero of Socialist Labor Alexander Nikolaevich Seledkin (1918-1975) ^[3] .
• In the village was born the Hero of Socialist Labor Fedor Maksimovich Pinkov (1903 - 1972).

• Sinbirsk County
• Sinbiri serif trait
• Zakamsky notch

• White Yar // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Repyev M.I. , Simbirsk Territory, Paris , 1935.
• Peretyatkovich G. Volga region in the 17th and early 18th centuries, 1882.

• The history of the village of White Yar (neopr.) . Archived on September 22, 2012.