Vyatskiye Polyany

Vyatskiye Polyany stands on the Vyatka River, in a region once inhabited by Udmurts, Mari and Tatars under the Kazan Khanate. In 1595 Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich granted lands here to the Vyatka Dormition Monastery. A log monastery dedicated to the Nativity was built the following year, and fugitive serfs from central Russia began to settle around it. In 1759 villages of the district were assigned to the new Izhevsk and Votkinsk works, supplying labor for the growing metalworking enterprises.