Tereshka

The Tereshka drains the eastern slopes of the Volga Uplands before joining the Volga from the right. Its course runs through a country of wooded valleys and open land on the great river's western side. In 1621 a survey recorded Tatar nobles and Mordvin landholders using forests, hay meadows, fisheries and beaver grounds on the Tereshka and neighbouring rivers. These resources formed part of the river country later drawn into the Russian network of frontier settlements around Petrovsk and Burasy.