Suna

Suna was founded in 1650 as an estate of the Vyatka Dormition Monastery, when a Church of the Ascension was completed on the Suna River. Until 1780 the village was known as Voznesenskoye on the Suna; Catherine II then ordered it renamed Suna. The river name has been compared with Mari and Komi words for clay or silt. The church village grew in the wooded country south of Vyatka, within the lands of the monastery.