Perevoz

Perevoz takes its name from a crossing of the winding Pyana, a tributary of the Sura. A settlement grew here on a trading road in the late sixteenth century and is recorded in 1593 as a possession of the Ascension Monastery of the Caves at Nizhny Novgorod. It remained monastic property until the secularization of church estates in 1764. In 1779 Pyansky Perevoz briefly became a district town under Catherine II's administrative reforms.