Ushkan

Ushkan-Ata lies on an old caravan route across the dry country between the lower Volga and Khwarazm. Nearby stood Trestargo, a town dating from the time of the Golden Horde. In 1732 the Russian officer Johann Gerber recorded the necropolis and the remains of a medieval town and a caravanserai built of fired red brick. The burial ground preserves the memory of communities that travelled and lived along this road.