Olı Mäñgär
Olı Mäñgär is a rural village (selo) in Ätnä District, Tatarstan, Russia. It lies 8 km east of the district center Olı Ätnä and about 163 km northeast of Kazan by road. The population was 680 in 2010.
The village existed in the time of the Khanate of Qazan. From the 17th to the first half of the 19th century, its residents were state peasants. The population peaked around 1900, at about 1900 people. In the early 20th century it had 3 mosques, 2 mektebs, 7 inns, 2 windmills, 3 watermills, 3 smithies, 4 small shops and a bazaar on Tuesdays.
Before 1920, Olı Mäñgär was part of Kazan Uyezd in Kazan Governorate. Since 1920 it has been part of Arça Canton, and with the creation of districts in the Tatar ASSR (now Tatarstan) it belonged to Tuqay (later Ätnä) District (1930–1959), Tuqay (former Qızıl Yul) District (1959–1963), Arça District (1963–1990), and Ätnä District (1990–present).
The village is the birthplace of several notable people, including two Tatar Soviet architects Äxmät Bikçäntäyef and İsmäğil Ğäynetdinef; poet Ğäbdessäläm bine Uray; Bari Abdullin, the second secretary of the Tatarstan Regional Committee of the VKP(b); Saniä Zahirova; and Nazlıgöl Latıypova, Hero of Socialist Labour and Honored Artist of the Tatar ASSR.
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