Askiz

Askiz stands by the river of the same name in the country of the Khakas people. A church was built here in the early 1770s, and the village’s foundation is conventionally dated to that time. The traveller Peter Simon Pallas described a small settlement of yurts, a church and the houses of a priest and a local prince in 1772. The parish included people from several groups, among them the Sagay and Beltir.