Atrat

Atrat lies in the wooded country east of the Sura, near Alatyr. In the eighteenth century the village stood beside the Chyornaya stream and was inhabited by baptized Mordvin palace peasants. Neighbouring settlements occupied the same landscape of streams, fields and forest clearings. When the Simbirsk governorship was established in 1780, Atrat was included in the Alatyr district, linking its rural community to the administrative centre on the Sura.