The village was founded by a mountaineer named Kasum. Centuries ago, he built a house for himself among high trees on the Chiragchay river. Later people from nearest lands started to move on that territory. According to the census of 1886, there were 116 houses in the village with a population of 623 consisting of 316 men and 307 women. Before the
October Revolution there were two mosques in the village, as well as a two-year school. During the
Russian Empire, the settlement was the administrative capital of the
Kyurinsky Okrug. Today it is one of the biggest district centres of the Republic. ==References==