Sudai

Sudai lay on the eastern frontier of the Galich lands, among the forests and rivers beyond Chukhloma. The fortified town is known to have existed by 1536, and a reference to its fortress survives from 1542. Together with Bui and Kady it formed part of the line built against raids from the direction of Kazan. By the middle of the seventeenth century Sudai was the military and administrative centre of a district encompassing several substantial rural volosts.