Valdivat

The village got its name from the river Valdivatka, which flowed through the lake with the primary Mordovian name Valdoval. Translated from the Mordovian language, the word "Valdo" means bright, "because" - water ^[2] .

The Valdivat village was founded in 1665. The first inhabitants were Russian horse Cossacks who were resettled here from the city of Karsun, who carried out military service and at the same time engaged in agriculture. At the end of the 17th century, the Valdivat Cossacks, together with their families, were relocated to the recently conquered city of Azov, and the settlement became the property of the landowners Khiryakov, Durasov and Lalyukhin.

In 1866, a male elementary school was opened in the village. In 1875, a strong fire broke out in Valdivat, from which most of the settlement burned out.

In 1930 the Red October collective farm was organized, and a machine and tractor station was created. During the Great Patriotic War, 167 villagers perished on the front.

The village is located 18 km north of Karsun on both banks of the Valdivatka River, which is a left tributary of the Barysh River.

In 1685 there were 55 yards in the village, by 1884 there were 200 yards and 1368 inhabitants. In the early 1930s, more than 1750 people lived in Valdivatsky, in 1996–905, in 2010 - 520 people, mostly Russians.

In 1973, a monument was installed in the center of the village to fellow villagers who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War.

Ethnographic and architectural interest are some of the wooden and brick buildings of the late XIX century.

• Ulyanovsk - Simbirsk Encyclopedia: in 2 volumes / ed. V.N. Egorov. - Ulyanovsk: Simb. Prince 2000-2004

• Local Lore Compass - Valdivat