Yelabuga

Yelabuga, historically Alabuga, stands on the right bank of the Kama. A fortified Bulgar site occupied the high ground here; its surviving tower is associated with the place known as Shaytan's Castle. The old fortress was eventually abandoned, and a Russian village arose in the same area in the second half of the sixteenth century. Documents also used the church name Tresvyatskoye for Yelabuga, though by the eighteenth century the settlement was generally known as the palace village of Yelabuga.