Bilar

Bilar is included in the historical and architectural reserve "Silver Ring" and is included in the international tourist route. In the Alekseevsky district of Tatarstan, on the territory of the modern village of Bilyarsk and beyond, the ruins of the pre-Mongol capital of Volga Bulgaria - Bilyar - the Great City of Inner Bulgaria on the Small Cheremshan River rest. Interest in this remarkable monument of history and culture arose in the XVIII century. About Bilyar at this time wrote V.N. Tatishchev in the "History of the Russian". N.P. Rychkov in the 60s of the XVIII century was one of the first to visit Bilyar, saw and described "the remains of stone ruins." The area of the Bilyarsk settlement with posads was 800 hectares. By area it was the largest city in Europe. Obviously, the name "Great" reflected not only the size of the city, but also the magnitude of the secular and spiritual power concentrated in it.