title: Yañawıl, Vysokogorsky District
text: # Yañawıl, Vysokogorsky District
  
  Yañawıl (Tatar: Яңавыл, romanized: Yañawıl) is a rural locality (a derevnya) in Biektaw District, Tatarstan. The population was 142 as of 2010.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Yañawıl is located 46 km northwest of Biektaw, district's administrative centre, and 49 km northwest of Qazan, republic's capital, by road.
  
  ## History
  
  The village was established in the 18th century.
  
  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 mosque, a madrasa, a windmill and 6 small shops.
  
  Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Qazan Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Arça Canton; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Döbyaz (1930–1963), Yäşel Üzän (1963–1965) and Biektaw districts.
  
  