Stepanenki

Stepanenki lies in the upper Kama country near Kuliga, a region associated with communities of Old Believers. Adherents of the old Russian rites had reached the upper Kama by the seventeenth century, seeking places to live away from persecution. Their settlements formed part of the Russian-speaking communities of northern Udmurtia. The village's religious traditions belong to that history of migration into a country of forests and the headwaters of the Kama.