Yuğarı Şaşı

Yuğarı Şaşı (Tatar: Югары Шашы, romanized: Yuğarı Şaşı) is a rural locality (a derevnya (awıl)) in Ätnä District, Tatarstan. The population was 142 as of 2010.[1]

Geography

Yuğarı Şaşı is located 8 km north of Olı Ätnä, district's administrative centre, and 85 km north of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.[2][3]

The village was established in the 17th century. Its name derives from the word yuğarı (high, higher) and the hydronym Şaşı.[4]

From 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries village's residents belonged to the social estate of state peasants.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had a mosque, a mekteb, a mill and 2 small shops.

Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Çar Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Arça Canton; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Tuqay (later Ätnä) (1930–1959), Tuqay (former Qızıl Yul) (1959–1963), Arça (1963–1990) and Ätnä districts.[5]

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