On August 23, a researcher I.D. Muhametshin gave a lecture “Spassk is a city on the river” to visitors of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve. At the lecture, the audience learned the history of the old town of Spassk established from the village of Spasskoe in 1781 during the creation of the Kazan Governorate.
The city was small, but it was the center of flour milling and served as a transshipment point for goods for neighboring counties. At the beginning of the 20th century, up to 2.5 million poods of cargo passed through the city pier annually. During this period, there was Holy Trinity Church, an almshouse, a hospital, a library, a city bank, 3 colleges, 19 watermills and windmills operated. The most beautiful building in the city was the red brick pedagogical college built in 1912.
Spassk was famous for its bazaar. There were a lot of people in the square on Sunday. The peasants sold their goods: hides, grain, firewood, coal, resin, tar, pots and jugs, wooden and clay children’s toys.
With great interest, the audience learned that in the autumn of 1846, the poet Nekrasov visited Spassk. It is known that in the central square of the city, which looked like a swamp, the poet managed to hunt and even shoot a great snipe!
In 1935, the city of Spassk was renamed Kuibyshev in honor of V.V. Kuibyshev, a Soviet statesman and party leader. In the 50s of the twentieth century, due to the construction of the Kuibyshev reservoir and hydroelectric power station, the city was relocated from the flooded area.
17 people attended the lecture.

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