with the establishment of soviet power , the town received the mari name iashkarala, that is, a red city, red, that is , beautiful, but this is like the case with our red square in moscow outside. and few people have heard of this city, a deep backwater, only gogol in dead souls says, and the court writes: escort you from tsarev kakshaisk to the prison of such and such a city. in the middle of the 19th century, the local district police officer reported to the government: in the city, there are no factories, plants, and there are different craftsmen : one carpenter, two shoemakers, two tailors, one coppersmith, one alavyannik, two dyers, even with the advent of soviet power, which pulled the whole country. behind itself a bright future and ashkaralu was known only by the simple game of cities. this is the only city in russia whose name begins with and short. and only at the beginning of this century in the development of the capital of maria ell there was a real breakthrough in social architectural, economic. city awakened from a century-long sleep. when constructing new buildings, the a