Arsk

Arsk is a metropolis and the place of business of Arsky District within the Tatarstan, Russia, positioned at the Kazanka River, 65 kilometers from the republic's capital of Kazan. It was based on the quit of the 14th century by using Volga Bulgarians. It was the seat of Archa Darugha a type of subdivision at some point of the Khanate of Kazan period. Even although the metropolis became positioned inside the area frequently populated through Tatars, the larger part of the darugha's population was Udmurt.

It is viable that earlier population of this location turned into additionally Finnic, who later assimilated with the Tatars. Arsk changed into one of the most powerful forts in the khanate. In 1506, it was the site of the Battles of Arsk Field, in which Tatar forces have been defeated by way of the Russians but later grew to become the tables and received certainly one of their most sizable victories inside the route of the Russo-Kazan Wars. Arsk was captured with the aid of the Russian military below Prince Vorotynsky in 1552, the equal yr whilst Kazan itself changed into captured.

In 1606, it turned into rebuilt as a Russian fort. In 1708–1796, it was the seat of Arsky Uyezd. In 1781, it turned into granted city fame. In 1918, it become taken in an anti-Bolshevik peasant rebellion. In 1920–1930, it changed into the place of job of Arsky Kanton; whilst the kantons have been abolished in 1930, it have become the place of job of the newly fashioned Arsky District. In 1938, it was demoted in repute to that of an city-kind agreement.