Yakshur Bodya

Yakshur-Bodya was founded shortly before 1682 by Udmurts of the Bodya clan, who settled beside the Yakshurka stream. A household census in 1710 recorded twelve inhabited yards and sixty-nine people; six years later twelve inhabited and three empty yards were listed. The villagers kept bees in forest trees, farmed, and made charcoal for the ironworks of the region. In 1824 Emperor Alexander I stopped here during an inspection journey to the Izhevsk works, after the road to the plant had been improved for his visit.