Yapançı () 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 are typically describ ...

(a selo) in

Ätnä District Atninsky District (; ) is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the northwest of the republic. The territory of the district includes 47 set ...

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 ...

. The population was 5 as of 2010.

Geography

Yapançı is located 16 km south of

Olı Ätnä Bolshaya Atnya (, ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Atninsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the l ...

, district's administrative centre, and 54 km north of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.

History

The village already existed during the period of the

Khanate of Qazan The Khanate of Kazan was a Tatar state that occupied the territory of the former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its ca ...

. Its name derives from the

anthroponym Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'', 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'', 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and coll ...

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

state peasants State peasants (, gosudarstvennye krestiane) were a special social estate (class) of peasantry in 18th–19th century Russia, the number of which in some periods reached half of the agricultural population. In contrast to private serfs, state peasa ...

. By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had a

mosque A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard. Originally, mosques were si ...

, a blacksmith shop, a windmill and a watermill. Before the creation of the

Tatar ASSR The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Tatar ASSR or TASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. The resolution for its creation was signed on 27 May 1920 and the republic was proclaimed on 25 June 1920. Kazan ...

in 1920 was a part of

Çar Uyezd Tsaryovokokshaysky Uyezd (''Царевококшайский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Kazan Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Tsaryovok ...

Qazan Governorate Kazan Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708 to 1920, with its capital in Kazan. History Kazan Governorate, together with seven other gov ...

. Since 1920 was a part of

Arça Canton Arsk Canton (known as Kazan Canton at the time of its foundation) was an administrative division (a сanton) of the Tatar ASSR in 1920–;1930. Its area was 7,500 km; population: 375,000. In 1926, 59.2% of the population were Tatars, 37 ...

; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Tuqay (later Ätnä) (1930–1959), Tuqay (former Qızıl Yul) (1959–1963),

Arça Arsk ( rus, Арск, p=ˈarsk; ) is a town and the administrative center of Arsky District in Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Kazanka River, from the republic's capital of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 18,114. Ety ...

(1963–1990) and Ätnä districts.

References

External links

* {{Cite web , title=Япанчы , url=https://tatarica.org/tat/razdely/municipalnye-obrazovaniya/municipalnye-rajony/tn-rajony/yapanchy , access-date=2022-08-08 , website=tatarica.org , language=tt Rural localities in Atninsky District