[2] Blood type analysis shows a relationship to Danish Red and Angeln cattle.
Animals are solid red in various shades, sometimes with white on the udder.
Bulls average 133 cm in height and 830 kg weight.
[2] The breed is claimed to have good resistance to leucosis, tuberculosis and brucellosis.
From the breed's formation in Nizhegorod province in the 19th century it spread to the floodplain of the Oka river in the Vladimir and Ivanov regions and the Chuvash ASSR.