Atishchevo

Atishchevo was a village in the wooded Chuvash country south of the Volga, near the site of the later town of Kanash. It was also known as Shikhrany, a name preserved in the settlement's local history. Its inhabitants lived among the fields and forests of the Tsivil basin, in a district where Chuvash villages formed a network of neighbouring communities. Woodland supplied building timber and materials for household tools.