Khosheutovo

East of the lower Volga, the Ashuluk branches through the floodplain before entering the delta. This was part of the country of the Khoshut Kalmyks, whose name survives in Khosheutovo. Their communities moved between pastures on the steppe and the river's meadowlands. In the early nineteenth century Prince Serebdzhab Tyumen sponsored the construction of the Khosheutovsky Buddhist temple nearby, commemorating Kalmyk service in the war against Napoleon. It was one of the early permanent temples of the Kalmyk steppe.