Troitskoye-Kuroedovo

Troitskoye Kuroedovo lies by the Sar-Barysh in the wooded country west of the Volga. The village arose in the late seventeenth century during the construction of the Syzran defensive line, when forts and settlements marked the Russian frontier. In 1754 parishioners built a stone church dedicated to the Trinity, from which the village acquired the name Troitskoye. The surrounding farms and villages remained part of the rural Simbirsk lands after the frontier moved farther south.