Muromtsevo

Muromtsevo stands on the Tara River in the forest country east of the Irtysh. The Tara basin was home to Turkic-speaking communities known as the Tara Tatars before Russian settlement expanded into the area. A local account places the beginnings of Muromtsevo among the settlements that grew from an older sloboda during the late seventeenth century. Another tradition dates its foundation to 1707 and associates its name with Ivan Muromtsev.