Turki

On the Khopyor River, the settlement later known as Turki began in 1723 as the village of Rysya. It stood on lands granted by Peter I to twenty-nine men who had fought in the Russian-Swedish war. The landowners petitioned for a church in 1736, and the Holy Synod ordered a wooden church dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan and Saint Nicholas the following year. The village then became known as Bogorodskoye. In August 1774 a detachment of Pugachev's rebels under Colonel Kamensky passed through it.