Cükätaw

Cükätaw, also called Zhukotin, was a medieval Bulgar city near the Kama and the seat of its own principality. Before the Mongol invasion it was an important center of the fur trade in Volga Bulgaria. Batu Khan's army destroyed the city in 1236, but it continued to figure in the history of the region afterward. Repeated raids by Russian river raiders weakened it in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. After Yuri of Zvenigorod sacked Cükätaw in 1414, the town was abandoned.