Kasevo

Kasevo, also known as Petropavlovka, was a village on the Shyvyryalka River in the western Ural country, now absorbed into Neftekamsk. Its inhabitants belonged to the category of palace peasants, rather than peasants owned by a private landlord. Grain cultivation was their principal occupation. A census of 1710 counted 42 inhabitants, while the first revision of 1719 recorded 136 peasant souls; these figures came from different administrative enumerations.

The village suffered during Pugachev's rebellion, when one of the rebel leader's associates ravaged the settlement and burned its church. A new Church of Saints Peter and Paul opened in 1825. From 1796 Kasevo lay in Birsk district of Orenburg province. These records place it within the agricultural settlements and changing administrative divisions west of the Urals, while the destruction and rebuilding of its church provide a local thread through the upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.