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. The village itself was formed more than 400 years ago, after the Siege of Kazan by the troops of Ivan the Terrible. 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. The first settlement in those parts was named the Trinity Wasteland (Troitskaya Pustosh'). Subsequently, the area began to be actively populated by various artisans. In the 16th century, the pottery industry became especially developed in the region, which would then grew into the production of artistic ceramics with Tatar national ornaments.