It is on the banks of the Cherny Iyus river, 80 kilometers northwest of the regional center of the village of Shira, as well as the railway station.

[6] The following species, characteristic of the southern steppe regions, find here the northern limit of their habitat: Ardea cinerea (Grey heron), Nyroca ferina (Common pochard), Tadorna tadorna (Common shelduck), Recurvirostra avoceta (Pied avocet), Totanus totanus (common redshank), Sterna hirundo minussensis, Upupa epops (Eurasian hoopoe), Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (Red-billed chough), Otocoris brandti, Otocoris brandti Montana, Calandrella brachydactyla (Greater short-toed lark), and Locustrella naevia mongolica.

[6] From among the species of adjacent Mongolia, Cygopsis cygnoides (Swan geese) penetrate here, along with Otis dybowskii (Great bustard), Emberiza godlewskii (Godlewski's bunting), and Perdix daureca (Daurian partridge).

[15] In 1893 the name of the settlement was the Village of Pokrovskoe (Chebaki),[19] Yenisei Province, Achinsk District, Kizyl Administration.

It was named Pokrovskoe after the Pokrova Bogoroditsy church which was built at the expense of the gold miner Z. M. Tsybulsky (1867, nowadays unpreserved).

[20] In reports for 1893,[21][22] the Orthodox priest Matvey Tyzhnov from Pokrovskoe (Chebaki) mentioned a sacred object, the embodiment of the spirit of fire, Khakas: Чалбах Tös, romanized: Chalbach Tyos, lit.

'Wide or Extensive Spirit' and the rituals of their veneration in connection of shaman tradition and spiritual life of the Khakass.

'Universe or Creator', Khakas: Чайаан – Чалбах(ғы), romanized: Chir – Chalbakh(gy), lit.

[16][34][35][36][37] In 1867 Pokrova Bogoroditsy church became part of orthodox parishes of the Yenisei Governorate, Achinsk uezd, Uzhur volost.

[16][43] The Brotherhood at the Krasnoyarsk Cathedral in the Name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1894[44][45] began to supply the libraries of church parochial schools with books for out-of-class reading.

[41] In missionary reports of that time, the local population was described as "inorodtsy"[46] and their customs or superstitions and their rituals and believes were different.

[clarification needed] In 1897, a total of 10 sciopticons (magic lanterns) and 600 paintings on glass were ordered from the Moscow manufacturer Swiss citizen Theodor Schwabe, a physico-optical mechanic.

[41] In the Minusinsk district[48][49] in the Chebakovsky-Pokrovsky parish with a non-Russian population on 1 August 1897, a seminary student Pavel Sukhovsky was ordained.

[16] In 1933,[59][60] the center of the Chebaki District of the West Siberian Krai was moved to the village of Shira, Russia.

[16] In the village of Chebaki there is the largest mass grave, with over 170 buried, of the people deceased on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War by Kolchac Army or policemen in the taiga or on the roads and buried where they died, later reburied in a mass grave in the rural square of the village of Chebaki in 1921.

On the dacha's estate there was a beautiful garden with greenhouses, in which several perfectly ripe oranges were grown by Christmas.

This operation gave the Ivanitsky such financial results: half the price agreed namely 50 thousand yen, and the second half was paid in Tomsk to Ivanitsky's sisters.In 1917 in a data description the presence of consumer society in the village was mentioned, and the number of farm animals was noted: 737 horses, 571 working horses, 76 foals; 99 cattle, 448 dairy cows, 258 calves; 1080 sheep and goats, and 104 pigs and piglets.