Russky Kameshkir

Russky Kameshkir was founded around 1700 on land belonging to the Trinity Monastery of Saint Sergius. Its first name, Sergiyevskoye, came from a church with an altar dedicated to Sergius of Radonezh, the monastery's founder. The village formed part of the spread of settlement into the lands southeast of Penza, where monastic estates stood among the communities of the Sura and Khopyor country. Its later name distinguished it as the Russian Kameshkir.