Meleuz

Meleuz arose on the Orenburg road in the second half of the eighteenth century. Local historians conventionally place its founding in the 1760s, and from the 1780s the settlement was known as Meleuzovsky Yam, a post station. Its position on the road placed it among the settlements serving movement between the southern frontier around Orenburg and the country farther north. The later trading village grew out of this modest post-station settlement.