Yurtysh

Yurtysh (Юртыш; Юртыш) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Vysokogorsky District, Tatarstan, Russia. The population was 414 as of 2010.

Geography
Yurtysh is located 36 km north of Vysokaya Gora, the district's administrative centre, and 46 km north of Kazan, the republic's capital, by road.

History
The earliest known record of the settlement dates from the 17th century.

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

By the beginning of the 20th century, the village had two mosques, a madrasa, a mekteb, four windmills, two grain scourers, a match factory and four small shops.

Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920, it was part of Tsaryovokokshaysky Uyezd of Kazan Governorate. From 1920, it was part of Arsk Canton; after the creation of districts in the Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan), it was located in Dubyazsky (1930–1963), Zelenodolsky (1963–1965) and Vysokogorsky districts.