Kokshaysk
Kokshaysk (Template:Lang-chm, Kakšanla; Template:Lang-ru) is a village in Mari El, Russia, administratively subdued to Yoshkar-Ola, as the Yoshkar-Ola river port is place there. It is situared near the Mari village Kokshamary, on the left bank of the Bolshaya Kokshaga, where it flows into the Volga. A road connects the village with Yoshkar-Ola (56 km) and Novocheboksarsk (34 km). In 2003 population of Kokshaysk was 1,340, mostly ethnic Russians, Mari, Chuvashs, Tatars.[1]
History
Once Kokshaysk was a town. On 11 April 1574 it was founded as a fortress on the lands of the Mari people, to suppress them in the Cheremis Wars. Then Tsaryovokokshaisk was founded in the Mari mainland and Kokshaysk lost it's importance. For 190 years it was the center of Kokshaysky Uyezd, covered both, Mari and Chuvash, sides of the Volga. In 1685 and 1727 Kokshaysk was damaged by the great fires. [2]There were only 70 homesteads in Kokshaysk in 1724 and in 1765 it degraded to a village status, uyezd was also baolished. Territorially it belonged to Tsaryovokokshaisky uyezd of Kazan Governorate. In 1774 Yemelyan Pugachev, defeated in the battle of Kazan crossed the Volga there. In 1920 Kokshaisk was incorporated to the Chuvash Autonomous Oblast, but in 1925 it was transferred to Mari Autonomous Oblast. In 1977 the port of Yoshkar-Ola was built there and Kokshaysk was directly subdued to the Mari capital.