Lenino-Kokushkino (russian: Ле́нино-Коку́шкино; tt-Cyrl, Ленино-Кокушкино, translit=Lenino-Kokuşkino), informally called Apaqay ( tt-Cyrl, Апакай), is a
rural locality
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...
(a ''
selo'') in
Pestrechinsky District of the
Republic of Tatarstan
The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...
,
Russia
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, located on the
Ushnya River in the
Myosha's
basin,
north of
Pestretsy, the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
of the district.
[''Inhabited Localities of the Republic of Tatarstan'', p. 222] Population: 2,703 (2000 est.); 2,124 (1992 est.).
In 1997 the population was 63%
Volga Tatars
The Volga Tatars or simply Tatars ( tt-Cyrl, татарлар, tatarlar) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Russia. They are subdivided into various subgroups. Volga Tatars are Russia's second-largest ethnicity after ...
and 34%
Russians
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History
It has been known since the
Khanate of Kazan
The Khanate of Kazan ( tt, Казан ханлыгы, Kazan xanlıgı; russian: Казанское ханство, Kazanskoye khanstvo) was a medieval Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552 ...
epoch as Yañasala ( tt-Cyrl, Яңасала, links=no). In Russian, it has been known as Kokushkino (russian: Кокушкино, links=no) until Lenin's death in 1924, when it was renamed Lenino (). In 1964, Lenino was merged with the nearby village of Apakayevo () and given its present name.
Lenin's family owned an estate here, which had been inherited from the family's maternal line (
Blank family
The Blank family in the Russian Empire was the family of the maternal grandfather of Vladimir Lenin.
Some researchers suggest that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish convert to Christianity (Alexander Blank). Whether or not Lenin, whose ma ...
) and served as the family summer residence during Lenin's childhood and until his father's death. Lenin and his sister Anna also lived at the house in Kokushkino under a brief house-arrest, resulting from suspected involvement in his elder brother Alexander's revolutionary activity.
[Payne] The house where Lenin lived and spent his childhood summers mostly burned down in 1902, but the remaining part has been converted into a museum. In 1991, Lenino-Kokushkino Natural and Historical Reserve was established.
Economy
The main occupations of the residents are
agriculture
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,
cattle breeding, and
poultry farming.
There is a bakery, secondary, musical, and vocational schools, and a
mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
.
References
Notes
Sources
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*Robert Payne. ''The Life and death of Lenin''. Simon & Schuster, New York 1964
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Rural localities in Tatarstan
Laishevsky Uyezd