title: Sorawıl
text: # Sorawıl
  
  Sorawıl (Tatar: Соравыл, romanized: Sorawıl) is a rural locality (a selo) in Qaybıç District, Tatarstan. The population was 221 as of 2010.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Sorawıl is located 34 km northwest of Olı Qaybıç, district's administrative centre, and 142 km southwest of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.
  
  ## History
  
  The earliest known record of the settlement dates from 1710.
  
  From 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries village's residents belonged to the social estate of state peasants.
  
  By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had a literacy school, 2 mills, a grain scourer, 2 blacksmith shops and 2 small shops.
  
  Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Çuyıl Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Chuvash Autonomous Oblast; since ́1921 in Tatar ASSR's Bua (1921–1922) and Zöyä (1922–1927) cantons; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Qaybıç (Ölcän in 1927) (1927–1944), Külle İl (1944–1956), Qaybıç (1956–1963), Bua (1963–1964), Apas (1964–1991) and Qaybıç districts.
  
  