Döbyaz

Döbyaz was founded in the time of the Kazan Khanate in the wooded country north of Kazan. It lay in the Alat district, on the great Alat road from Kazan toward the Vyatka lands. In the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries its inhabitants were classified as state peasants descended from service Tatars. They farmed and raised livestock, made bricks, and also owed labor obligations connected with timber supplies to the state.