Bykovo

Bykovo took root beside Lake Bezymyannoye on the left bank of the Volga, where the river's floodplain offered grass and cultivable ground amid the drier steppe. In 1784, settlers from Karavainka crossed from the opposite bank and established new farmsteads here. Among them were the brothers Andrei and Vasily Bykov, whose surname gave the new lakeside settlement its name.