Qayınsar, Atninsky District

Qayınsar Каенсар
selo
Qayınsar
Coordinates: 56°18′28″N 49°19′43″E / 56.307886°N 49.328513°E / 56.307886; 49.328513
Country	Russia
Region	Tatarstan
District	Ätnä District
Time zone	UTC+3:00

Qayınsar (Tatar: Каенсар, romanized: Qayınsar, Russian: Каенсар) is a rural locality (a selo) in Ätnä District, Tatarstan. The population was 119 as of 2010.^[1]

Qayınsar, Atninsky District is located 12 km northwest of Olı Ätnä, district's administrative centre, and 87 km north of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.^[2][3]

The earliest known record of the settlement dates from 1646. Its name derives from the words qayın (birch) and the hydronym sar (swamp, from Finno-Ugric languages).^[4]

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

By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had a mosque and a mill

Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Çar Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Arça Canton; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Tuqay (later Ätnä) (1930–1959), Tuqay (former Qızıl Yul) (1959–1963), Arça (1963–1990) and Ätnä districts.^[5]

• "Каенсар". tatarica.org (in Tatar). Retrieved 2022-08-08.

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