Mamadysh

The ancient Bulgar settlement of Kermenchuk in the vicinity of Mamadysh appeared in the early XII century. It is mentioned as "Ak Kirmen", "White Kirmeni", which is translated into Russian as "White Fortress" in 1151 in the annals of Kievan Rus... It is well known that the fortified settlement of Kermenchuk in the XII-XIV centuries was the center of the appanage principality of Volga-Kama Bulgaria, quite independent. And until recently, the remains of its walls were located 18 kilometers from modern Mamadysh, near the village of Russian Kirmeni.

After the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and the inclusion of the Mamadysh lands into the Russian state, Russian settlements began to appear in the lower reaches of the Vyatka-Kama interfluve from the second half of the 16th century. From the beginning of the XVII century the word "Mamadysh" appears in written sources.

July 3, 1613 was signed an official charter "On the formation of the monastery village of Troitskoye-Mamadysh on the site of the old Mamadysh wasteland, which was part of the Kazan voevodstvo, and then became part of the Kazan province as the center of Mamadysh district. Soon, ".Summer 7125 July 10th dayAccording to the decree of the Tsar and Grand Duke Mikhail Fyodorovich of all Russia, the memory of the Sviyazhsk Bogoroditsky Monastery to Archimandrite Korniliy and his brothers: to put him on the river on the Vyatka, in the village of Mamadyshah, a stockade ... for the arrival of Nogai people .... by monastic people of all kinds; ...".