Derbyshki

Derbyshki (Russian: Дербышки; Tatar: Дәрвишләр бистәсе) is a residential area in the city of Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

There was an Astrakhan khan of the Kazan Khanate called Darwish Ghali II from 1554 to 1556.

On the territory of the empty farm appeared the current settlement Derbyshki.

[1] During the Second World War residents of besieged Leningrad were evacuated to Derbyshki.

One of the largest opto-electronic instrument research and production facilities was established in Derbyshki - NPO "State Institute of Applied Optics, founded in 1966 on as a branch of the S.I.Vavilov State Optical Institute.