Uchili is a village (selo) in Arsky District

Arsky District

Arsky District , also called Arça District or Archa 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 Arsk...

 of the Republic of Tatarstan

Tatarstan

The Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia located in the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Kazan, which is one of Russia's largest and most prosperous cities. The republic borders with Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, and Orenburg Oblasts, and with the Mari El, Udmurt,...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the bank of the Berezinka River, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of Arsk

Arsk

Arsk is a town and the administrative center of Arsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the banks of the Kazanka River, from Kazan, the republic's capital. Arsk is also a station on the Kazan-Agryz railroad. Population:...

, the administrative center of the district. Population: 243 (2000 est.); 224 (1989); all ethnic Tatars

Volga Tatars

The Volga Tatars are the largest subgroup of the Tatars, native to the Volga region.They account for roughly six out of seven million Tatars worldwide....

. There is a primary school and a club in the village. The main occupation of the population is cattle breeding

Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.- History :Animal husbandry has been practiced for thousands of years, since the first domestication of animals....

. There is a club, a secondary school

Secondary school

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, and a mosque

Mosque

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, attributed to the 19th century, in the village.

The village has been known to exist since the 17th century as Malaya Berzinka or Keçe Biräzä . In the 19th century shoulder-yokes and spindle

Spindle (textiles)

A spindle is a wooden spike used for spinning wool, flax, hemp, cotton, and other fibres into thread. It is commonly weighted at either the bottom middle or top, most commonly by a circular or spherical object called a whorl, and may also have a hook, groove or notch, though spindles without...

s were produced there. The imam

Imam

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 of the village mosque was Zinnätulla Zäynelbäşir ulı, grandfather of Ğabdulla Tuqay

Gabdulla Tuqay

Ğabdulla Tuqay was a Tatar poet, a classic of the Tatar literature, a critic and a publisher. Tuqay is often referred as the founder of the modern Tatar literature and the modern Tatar literary language, which replaced Old Tatar language in literature....

, who also lived in Öçile.