Shigony

Shigony lies on the Usa, west of the great bend of the Volga. The district was known as Nogaisky Brod, or Nogai Ford, recalling the peoples who travelled through this part of the steppe. A Russian village called Shigony grew here in the early eighteenth century, on an estate held by Alexander Menshikov. The surrounding Usolye lands had earlier belonged to the Stroganov family and the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery.