 Several "slobodas" later formed around the outpost and in the beginning of the 18th century the "slobodas" of Stanichnaya, Butyrskaya, and Vybornaya merged into the village of Pokrovskoye (), named for a Church of the Intercession.In 1780, it was chartered as the town of Sengiley; named for its position on the river then of the same name (now the Sengileyka, a tributary of the Volga), which comes from Erzya words "syang", meaning "tributary" and "lei", meaning "river".In 1925, Sengiley was demoted in status to that of a rural locality, but was granted urban-type settlement status later that year.