Ishley (village)

The distance to Cheboksary is 19 km, to the district center 21 km, to the railway station 4 km. Located on the banks of the Unga River ^[2] . The village is located south of the Volga M7 highway , along the highway 97K-001 Cheboksary - Surskoye ^[3] .

The first mention of the village of Pervy Pikhtulino (as the present village of Ishley was called until 1917) dates back to 1600, when the Chuvash settlements began to appear in the Unga River basin, which moved here to the Volga from the southern outskirts of the present republic in search of land not occupied by anyone and “freedom” from feudal oppression. Until October 1917, the village was called the First Pikhtulino. For the first ten years of Soviet power, it was a volost center, and from March 1935 until July 1959, it was the center of the Ishley district . In 1964, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the village of Ishley-Pokrovskoye was renamed Ishley ^[4] .

Local historian I.S. Dubanov, referring to the " Dictionary of the Chuvash language " N.I. Ashmarina , suggests that the name comes from the Chuvash personal male masculine name Isha ^[5] .

In 1781 - 1782 according to the Gazette of the Viceroyalty of Kazan , in the Kozmodemyansky district in the village of Pervy Pikhtulino at the Unga River, there were 400 baptized Chuvashs , 1 yashash peasant ^[8] .

An Orthodox church in honor of the Protection of the Holy Virgin in the village was built in 1815 at the expense of parishioners. The temple was stone, construction went on for ten years. In 1927, by order of the Soviet authorities, this church was closed, the domes and the bell tower were destroyed, and the temple building was used as a workshop for making felt boots ^[9] . In 1997, instead of the destroyed temple, the District Administration handed over to the Parish of the Orthodox Church one of the buildings of the former sanatorium, which was converted into a church ^[10] . Since 2010, a chapel was built in the name of St. Nicholas on the site of the old church, and on October 11, 2011 the chapel was consecrated.

The village has a House of Culture, a library. Popular places of leisure are the Taravat cafe and the Tale cafe. There is a district hospital and an ambulance station.
Streets: 60 years of October, Bazarnaya, Vladimir, Factory, Western, Zarechnaya, Green, Kazan, Komsomolskaya, Space, Lenin, Forest, Youth, Bridge, Nagornaya, New, Novoishleyskaya, Gully, Pikhtulinsky, Victory, Pokrovskaya, Field, Prudnaya, River, Garden, Soviet, State Farm, Solar, Satellite, Stadium, Construction, Tobachi, Uspenskaya, Farmer, Central, School, Highway, South.
Lanes: Lesnoy, Lesnoy 2nd, Lugovoy, Gully, Sanatorium.
Directions: Garage ^[11] .

• Monument to the fallen in World War II (Bazarnaya St., square in memory of the fallen soldiers) ^[12] .
• Monument to soldiers-internationalists - BMP-1 (in honor of war veterans, participants in local wars, Fatherland defenders, natives of the Cheboksary district, who fell in hot spots in Afghanistan and the North Caucasus on duty and military duty; square in memory of the fallen soldiers) ^{[13] [ 14]} .

The large enterprises of the village are: Ishley factory of high-voltage equipment and IE Shaleeva OV (production "Shaleevskiy Ishleyiskie sausages").