Yelabuga

Yelabuga is a city within the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, positioned at the right bank of the Kama River and 200 kilometers east from Kazan. The former call of the city was Alabuga. Its records dates back to the tenth century, while a Volga Bulgarian border fortress, the so-referred to as Alamir-Sultan citadel changed into built with the aid of Bulgarian Khan Ibrahim in 985 CE. The fort changed into constructed on the place of the legendary tomb of Alamir-Sultan. The name 'Alabuga' originally noted the tower of the castle, later the whole city became named Alabuga.

The citadel turned into later deserted, and its stays at the moment are known as Saytan qalasi. In the second half of the 16th century, a Russian village become based on the identical spot. The metropolis is the birthplace of painter Ivan Shishkin. Nadezhda Durova, who, disguised as a man, was a incredibly embellished cavalry officer at some stage in the Napoleonic Wars died there in 1866. It is also in which the Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva committed suicide in 1941. The poet is buried on the municipal cemetery.