Chita (; ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

('' selo'') in

Pestrechinsky District Pestrechinsky District (; ) is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is socio-economically developed municipal district with a total area of 1361 m2 loca ...

of the

Republic of Tatarstan Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city i ...

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, situated east of

Pestretsy Pestretsy (, ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Pestrechinsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the lis ...

, the administrative center of the district. The village is situated on the

Myosha River The Myosha (; ) is a river in Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Kama. It flows southward, east of and parallel to the Volga and joins the Kama just before that river joins the Volga. It originates in a forest near the Y ...

. Chita's population was 555 in 1989 and 499 in 2000; mostly ethnic Tatars (as of 1989). The main occupations of the residents are

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

and

cattle breeding Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock ...

. There is a secondary school, a cultural center, and a mosque in the village. It was founded during the first half of the 17th century.

References

* {{Authority control Rural localities in Tatarstan Laishevsky Uyezd