Varzi-Pelga

It was founded no later than the middle of the XVII century by immigrants from the village of Utchan (now in the Alnash region of Udmurtia) ^[1] . The name comes from the hydronym "Varzi" and the microethnonym of Udmurt origin "Pelga" ^[2] . According to the materials of the second revision of 1744–47, in the village of Mikhailova, hundreds of Vasilyevskaya Arskaya roads, there were 44 revision souls of the state yasak Vasyaks ^[3] , according to the third revision in the village of Gerasimova, hundreds of Andreevsky Arskaya roads, there were 95 inhabitants (44 men, 51 women) of newly baptized Udmurts ^{[4 ]} .

In the XVIII-XIX centuries, the population of the village consisted of state peasants ^[5] . In the "List of Populated Places of the Russian Empire", published in 1876, the settlement is mentioned as the treasury village of Varzi-Pelga of the 2nd camp of the Elabuga district of the Vyatka province , at the Varze river, located 65 versts from the county town of Elabuga . There were 39 yards in the village and 283 people lived (129 men and 154 women), there was a mill ^[6] .

In 1887, in the village of Varzi-Pelga of the Varzi-Pelginsky rural society of the Mushakovo volost , 364 state peasants lived for some time (170 men, 194 women) in 63 yards. The land allotment was 1242.5 tithes (514.6 tithes of arable land, 318.6 tithes of hayfields, 186.6 tithes of capitation forest and 129.9 tithes of forest allotment, 13.9 - pasture , 13.8 - estates and 65.1 tithes uncomfortable land), the inhabitants had 191 horses, 96 cows and 550 units of small livestock (sheep, pigs and goats). 69 people were engaged in local crafts (35 of them - carriage forests). There were 6 literate and 17 students. There was a water mill ^[7] . In 1905, 427 people (216 men, 211 women) lived in 75 yards in the village of Varziatchinsky volost ^[8] .

In 1920–21, it was part of the Votsk Autonomous Okrug , since 1921 it was part of the Yelabuga canton of the TASSR , and since 1928 it was part of the Chelny Canton . From 1930 - in the Krasnoborsky district (in 1948 - the center of the Varzi-Pelginsky village council ^[9] ), from 1960 - in the Agryz district (from February 1, 1963 to March 4, 1964 - in the Elabuga rural region ) ^[5] .

At the end of the 70s, the village fell into the alleged flood zone of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir and was moved 2.5 kilometers upstream of the Varzinka river. Some residents moved to Kichketan and other places ^{[1] [10]} .

The village is located in the north-eastern part of Tatarstan, on the right bank of the Varzinka river, at a distance of about 57.5 kilometers along the roads south of the city of Agryz and 2 km along the roads east of the center of the village, the village of Kichketan .

Time Zone

In 2010, the village population was 143 people (71 men, 72 women) ^[12] .

National composition

According to the 2002 census , Udmurts accounted for 93% of the national population structure ^[13] .

There is a village club. Also on the territory of the village are the buildings of the former Agryz boarding house for the elderly and disabled ^[14] .

There are four streets in the village - Beregovaya , Club , Novaya and Polevaya ^[15] .