Bolgar is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District

Spassky District, Republic of Tatarstan

Spassky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the forty-three in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Bolgar. District's population: 21,779 ; Population of Bolgar accounts for 42.1% of the district's population.Until October 4,...

 of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the left bank of the Volga River

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...

, 140 kilometres (87 mi) from Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

. Population:

The excavated monuments of the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria, or Volga–Kama Bolghar, is a historic Bulgar state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers in what is now Russia.-Origin:...

, Bolghar

Bolghar

Bolghar was intermittently capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th to the 15th centuries, along with Bilyar and Nur-Suvar. It was situated on the bank of the Volga River, about 30 km downstream from its confluence with the Kama River and some 130 km from modern Kazan...

, are within easy range from the town. The modern town of Spassk was formed from the village of Chertykovo on the bank of Bezdna River

Bezdna River, Tatarstan

The Bezdna or Biznä is a river in Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a left-bank tributary of the Volga River, falling into the Kuybyshev Reservoir near Kuralovo, Spassky District. Its length is 45 km and its drainage basin is 806 km²....

 in 1781. It was renamed Spassk-Tatarsky in 1926, then Kuybyshev (in honor of Valerian Kuybyshev) in 1935, before getting its present name in 1991.

In 1953, the town was moved from the place of its foundation closer to historical Bolghar, due the construction of Kuybyshev Reservoir and flooding of the original Spassk.