Oli baraza

Olı Bäräzä stands beside a tributary of the Ashit north of Kazan. Founded in the time of the Kazan Khanate, the village retained a Tatar community after the region came under Russian rule. In the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries its inhabitants were classed as state peasants. They cultivated grain and raised livestock, while mat weaving and carpentry were also practiced. Gravestones east of the village date from the khanate and subsequent periods.