Solovtsovo

Solovtsovo, later called Novospasskoye, lies on the Syzran River in the country west of the Volga. The village arose in the seventeenth century and took its earlier name from its owner, Solovtsov. By 1780 it was recorded as Novospasskoye Solovtsovo, a settlement of landowners' peasants in the new Simbirsk governorship. Its fields and river valley formed part of the rural hinterland of the Volga frontier towns.