Yamgurchev

Yamgurchev (Russian: Ямгурчев) is a neighborhood and historic district in Astrakhan, Russia.

It is located southeast of the city center, across the river Kutum from the Bolshiye Isady bazaar.

According to the 18th-century historian Vasily Tatishchev, the name of the neighborhood comes from Yamgurchi Khan, the second-to-last ruler of the Astrakhan Khanate before it was conquered and annexed by Muscovy.

[1][2] Most buildings in today's Yamgurchev are single and two-storey family homes built of wood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Yamgurchev is home to a weekly flea market known as Vesyolaya Slobodka ("Jolly Quarter").