There is no exact data on the time of the founding of this village. It is only known that in 1799, during the general land survey, the village of Surovka was part of the Sengileevsky district and belonged to Alexander Grigorievich Petrovo-Solovovo, who was a real secret advisor and chamberlain. It is assumed that this village was granted to him by Empress Catherine II in the second half of the 18th century. He owned 13,441 desyatinas and 1,014 sazhen of land, where peasants lived: 1,337 men and 1,382 women, a total of 2,719 people. Soon, Petrovo-Solovovo sold this estate to Fyodor Pokhvisnev, who incorporated it into his Podkurovsky estate. Upon the liberation of the peasants from serfdom, the Surov society was allocated 1,900 desyatinas of land for 164 households.

Currently, Surovka has 197 households and a population of 1,203 people. The village has long been famous for its wool workers and especially tailors. The latter craft is particularly well developed here: more than 60 people engage in tailoring, moving from village to village from autumn to spring; wool workers, on the other hand, travel far beyond the Volga. The landowner in Surovka is the Simbirsk merchant woman Lyubov Kuzminishna Pertzovich, who owns a farm five versts from the village and 136 desyatinas and 315 sazhen of land, purchased in 1877 from the Samara merchants Pyotr Afanasyev Gilyanov and others. These merchants redeemed their allotments, sold them, and relocated from Surov to Samara merchants.

The church in the village was built in 1819 by Count Sheremetev, and the school was opened in 1867.