Agryz (Russian: Агры́з; Tatar: Әгерҗе, romanized: Ägerce) is a town and the administrative center of Agryzsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Izh River (Volga's basin), 304 kilometers (189 mi) east of Kazan.

[3] It was founded as a settlement serving the construction of the Kazan–Yekaterinburg railway.

[2] It was granted town status on August 28,[citation needed] 1938.

[10] The Agryzhan spelled out Agrizhan Tatar or Agryjan (Indian form), were the Muslim descendants of 51 Indian Hindu Punjabi Khatri Merchant and one Indian Muslim trader from North India mostly from Khatri caste, primarily from the Punjab, but also from Indian Merchants of Sindh and Rajasthan from the Marwari people, who settled in Astrakhan between 1636 and 1725, and called Astrakhan Indians this Men married with Buddhist Kalmyks, with local Muslim Tatar and Orthodox Christian Russian women.

The Agrizhan eventually assimilated with the Muslim Astrakhan Tatars.