Syukeyevo
Encyclopedia
Syukeyevo is a village (selo) in Kamsko-Ustyinsky District
of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
, located on the bank of the Mordovskaya River (a right tributary of the Volga), 23 kilometers south-west of Kamskoye Ustye, the administrative center of the district. Population: 750 (1997 est.); 792 (1989); all ethnic Russians. There is a secondary school and a church in the village. The main occupation of the population is agriculture and cattle breeding, a gypsum mine is constructed in nearby Syukeyevsky Vzvoz. In the 19th century the village produced bricks, people was involved into carpentry, limestone, sulfur, bitumen mining. Syukeyevo Caves
were near the village.
The village has been known to exist since the times of the Khanate of Kazan
. 11 July 2011 cruise ship Bulgaria shipwrecked near the village
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Kamsko-Ustyinsky District
Kamsko-Ustyinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the forty-three in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It is located in the western portion of the republic and borders with Verkhneuslonsky District in the north, Tetyushsky District in the south, Apastovsky District in...
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 bank of the Mordovskaya River (a right tributary of the Volga), 23 kilometers south-west of Kamskoye Ustye, the administrative center of the district. Population: 750 (1997 est.); 792 (1989); all ethnic Russians. There is a secondary school and a church in the village. The main occupation of the population is agriculture and cattle breeding, a gypsum mine is constructed in nearby Syukeyevsky Vzvoz. In the 19th century the village produced bricks, people was involved into carpentry, limestone, sulfur, bitumen mining. Syukeyevo Caves
Syukeyevo Caves
Syukeyevo Caves were a group of caves in what is today Kamsko-Ustyinski District, Tatarstan, Russia. Located near the village of Syukeyevo until the 1958, they were destroyed by an eruption of the banks of the newly filled Kuybyshev Reservoir....
were near the village.
The village has been known to exist since the times of the Khanate of Kazan
Khanate of Kazan
The Khanate of Kazan was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. Its khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, the thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El,...
. 11 July 2011 cruise ship Bulgaria shipwrecked near the village
Bulgaria (ship)
Bulgaria was a class 785/OL800 Russian river cruise ship which operated in the Volga-Don basin. On 10 July 2011, Bulgaria sank in the Kuybyshev Reservoir of the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Kamsko-Ustyinsky District, Tatarstan, Russia, with 201 passengers and crew aboard when sailing from the...
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