[4][5] The estate of Vladimir Ulyanov's grandfather Alexander Blank stands on the grounds of the State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve "Lenino-Kokushkino" which is located within the district.

[6] Additionally the Pestrechinskaya stoyanka historical monument dating from the Bronze Age (XVIII-IX BC) can be found near the village of Pestretsy.

[5].The coat of arms of the Pestrechinsky district was approved in 2007 and entered into the State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation under the designation No.

The red color on the coat of arms represents the qualities of hard work, strength, courage and beauty.

According to the first, Pestretsy is formed from the "motley people" (pestryy narod), or various workers who settled in the region in the 15th-16th centuries such as woodcarvers, fellers, potters, carpenters, tailors.

[8] Prehistoric peoples first began to settle on the territory of the modern Pestrechinsky district at the end of the ice age.

These inhabitants were primarily engaged in fishing and hunting and remnants of their places of living were subsequently discovered near the village of Pestretsy.

During his reign, the Trinity-Sergius Monastery was erected on Sviyazhskaya Mountain on the banks of the Volga, an event that was followed by the granting of land to east of Kazan to its builders by Ivan IV.

In the 16th century, the pottery industry became especially developed in the region, which would then grow into the production of artistic ceramics with Tatar national ornaments.

[3] After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Tatarstan made an attempt to secede from the Russian Federation and gain its independence.

The administrative centers of rural settlements are the large villages of Belkino, Bogorodskoe, Ekaterinovka, Kibyachi, Kobyakovo, Kovali, Kon, Koschakovo, Kryash-Serda, Kulayevo, Lenino-Kokushkino, Nadezhdino, Otar-Dubrovka, Panovka, Pestretsy, Pimeri, Tatarskoe Khodyashevo, Chita, Shali, Staroe Shigaleevo and Yantsevary.

[10][20] In 2019, the head of the Pestrechinsky district, Ilham Kashapov, presented a sustainable model of rural development at the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS Participants.

[21] In terms of housing stock under construction, the Pestrechinsky district ranks third in the republic after Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny.

[22] In 2020, the Pestrechinsky district took first place in terms of the total area of residential buildings commissioned per capita.

[6] The Lenino-Kokushkinsky state natural-historical zakaznik (natural park) resides on the territory of the district, containing artificially created forests which are composed of species of pine and larch in the water protection zone of the Ushnya River.

[5] Pestrechinsky district is included along the small ring of the tourist route "Pearl Necklace of Tatarstan" with attractions like the State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve of Republican significance "Lenino-Kokushkino" containing the estate of Vladimir Ulyanov's grandfather - Alexander Blank.

The ancestors of the Kryashens of the Pestrechinsky district were old-baptized Tatars and retained pagan beliefs even into the 19th century.

[25][24] In the post-Soviet period, the religious, cultural, and everyday distinctiveness of the Kryashens from the Muslim Tatars became the reason for a number of Krashen organizations to demand recognition of the status of an independent people.

[25] The most famous district Kryashen is the Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Gavrilov, the defender of the Brest Fortress.

[24] Another well-known native of the area is the honored test pilot of the USSR Avdeev, Ivan Yegorovich from the village of Priyutovo.

An Eneolithic era site belonging to the Garino-Borsk culture from III-II thousand years BC was also discovered on the right bank.