The village had name Сюмси-Можга [Syumsi-Mozhga] in pre-revolutionary lists: Syumsi – river name: сюм [(udm.) syum] – ‘a bay’ + си – topoformant with the meaning ‘a stream’ + Можга – family group name: ‘Settlement of the Mozhga clan located on the bank of Syumsi river’. In relation to the settlement, this means that it stands in the place where the river flows out of the bay.
It is one of the ancient settlements of the large, widely settled family group Mozhga. Relocatees from Syumsi settled on the whole basin of Kil’mez’ river, especially on branches of Vala river. They came to Izh and to Bashkir lands in Zakam’ye [after Kama river] region and Orenburg region. At the same time, the family group left no traces on the territory of Vatka clan union in the north of Udmurtia (Cheptsa river basin).
First Russian relocatees came to Syumsi-Mozhga at the beginning of the XIX century. The Udmurts left the clan location little by little, relocated in other Udmurt villages and even other regions [Atamanov 2015: 747-748].