Turkmenevo

Turkmenevo developed in the valley of the Ik beneath the slopes of Naryshtau. In the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries people from the middle Volga moved into this country, where pastoral lands and arable farming met. In 1632 the headman of the Kyr-Yelan clan, Kulchan son of Kukkuz-bey, received a charter confirming hereditary land in the Ik valley and on the mountain slopes. Turkmenevo began to take shape in 1684; other villages appeared nearby during the eighteenth century.