Sarapul

Sarapul stands on the right bank of the Kama, one of the older settlements of the river country. A population register of 1596 mentions the village of Voznesenskoye, later known as Sarapul, and refers to fishing in the Sarapul and Siva waters. One explanation connects the name with a Chuvash word for a yellow fish or sturgeon, once plentiful in the river. The settlement received a town charter in 1780 and, by the end of the eighteenth century, had become a merchant town known for footwear making.