Shchuchye

Shchuchye stands among the lakes of the southern Trans-Ural plain. The settlement takes its name from Lake Shchuchye, while the shore of Lake Nifanovskoye lies close by. A village was established here in the 1750s, in a district where Russian fortified settlements and villages had begun to appear in the late seventeenth century. Lakes remain a conspicuous feature of the surrounding country.