Morki

Morki was established in 1678 in the forested country of the Mari, north of the middle Volga. The Mari lived in the lands between the Volga and Vyatka, where local communities practiced agriculture and maintained traditions distinct from those of their Russian neighbors. The settlement arose after the conquest of Kazan had brought the region under Russian rule. Its Mari name, Morko, preserves the language of the people who inhabited the surrounding countryside.