Lower Bulanka

The village is located on the border of the Karatuzsky and Ermakovsky regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the foothills of the Western Sayan, within the South Minusinsk depression on the right bank of the Kebezh River, at the confluence of the Bulanka River. The relief is shallow ^[3] . Soils - podzolized chernozems. Soil-forming rocks - clay and loam. In the Kebezh floodplain - floodplain wetlands ^[4] .

The distance to the district center of the village of Karatuzskoye is 45 km, to the village of Motorskoye - 21 km.

Lower Bulanka was first mentioned in 1853 in metric books as the village of Bulan , located on the Bulanka River. In the XIX century, Latvians began to settle here, resettled from the western provinces of Russia, and in 1858 (in some sources, in 1857) a Latvian colony was formed in the village. By 1859, there were five courtyards in Nizhny Bulanka, 24 people lived. In 1860, a two-year parish school was opened in the village. Teaching was conducted in Latvian and German ^[6] .

Until 1917, the village belonged to the Mator volost of the Minusinsk district of the Yenisei province ^[7] .

In 1881, an independent parish was created from the Lutheran colonies, which included the Upper and Lower Bulanka. The pastor lived permanently in Nizhny Bulanka. The church was consecrated on November 9, 1886. In 1893 a library partnership was formed in the village, there were up to 300 titles of books and 12 periodicals. By the beginning of the 20th century, two Lutheran churches and two schools functioned in Nizhny Bulanka. In 1914, a two-story wooden building was built for the school on the foundation of rubble stone ^[6] .

In the late 1920s several families joined together in the Qinya commune, which quickly expanded; in 1931, the collective farm of the same name was organized on its basis. In 1932, another collective farm was organized - Sarkanays Oktobris. Subsequently, they merged into the collective farm "Latvia" ^[6] .

In 1933, the bell tower of the temple was dismantled, the room was converted into a club.

In the village of Nizhnyaya Bulanka, 33 people were dispossessed and deported, in 1937-1938. 114 more people were repressed ^[6] .

In January 1938, teaching in Latvian was discontinued, literature and textbooks in Latvian were destroyed, and teachers were repressed. The study of the native language was resumed only in 1989 ^[6] .

During the war, the entire adult male population of the village went to the front. In the post-war years, a branch of the Karatuz state farm was organized in Bulanka. In the 1980s and 90s peasant farms appeared ^[6] .

After the collapse of the USSR, Latvians from Nizhny Bulanka began to leave for their historical homeland ^[6] .

The village has a basic school, a club, a feldsher-midwife center, and a library with over 500 books in Latvian. Residents of the village are engaged in personal subsidiary farming and entrepreneurship in trade and agriculture, work in the public sector ^[6] .