Utorgosh is a settlement at a station in the Shimsky district of the Novgorod region , the administrative center of the Utorgosh rural settlement .
| station settlement | |
| Utorgosh | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Novgorod region |
| Municipal district | Shimsky |
| Rural settlement | Utorgosh |
| History and geography | |
| Climate type | moderate |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 91 1091 [1] people ( 2010 ) |
| Nationalities | Russians |
| Denominations | Orthodox |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | 174159 |
| OKATO code | 49255850001 |
| OKTMO code | |
The settlement is located at the intersection of the P52 Feofilov Pustyn - Shimsk highway and the St. Petersburg - Dno - Vitebsk railway. Utorgosh railway station has been operating since 1903 . Near the village flows the river Mshaga - Sheloni tributary.
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History
The name is derived from the Old Slavic personal name Utorgost. [2]
The mention of the Uthorosh is contained in the scribal books of Shelonskaya Pyatina for 1498:
“The village of Utorgosh will of the Grand Duke of the Landsman with Demo Zakharov. For the Grand Duke 2 yard, arable land 12 boxes, hay 200 kopen. "
“The Grand Duke’s Utorgosh graveyard on the Barbarous land. And on it is the Church of the Transfiguration Spasovo. And people nevyaglyh: dv. pop Rementey da Nikitka deac. "
The territory of the modern Utorgosh rural settlement repeatedly changed its submission:
- until 1708, it was part of the Shelonskaya Pyatina of the Novgorod Land (in 1478 it was attached to Moscow Rus);
- c 1708 in the Ingermanland province;
- c 1727 as part of the Novgorod province;
- c 1917 as part of the Petrograd (Leningrad) province;
- since 1921 as part of the North-West region;
- from January 1, 1927 as part of the Leningrad Region;
- from July 1, 1944 as part of the Novgorod region.
The town of Utorgosh received a noticeable development after the construction of the main railway through it. Movement on the new railway was opened in 1903. The design name of the new station was the name of the river - Mshaga, however, already in 1904 the station was renamed and received the current name Utorgosh.
In 1941, the Utorgosh district was occupied by the German fascist invaders and became the center of the partisan movement in the Novgorod region. At the end of the winter of 1944, units of the Soviet army liberated Utorgosh. [3]
Until the early 1960s, Utorgosh was the center of the Utorgosh district, but before that, until 1927, it was the center of the Utorgosh volost in the Luga district .
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In the area of the Peredolskaya railway station, a pilot Sinchuk, Vasily Prokofyevich , was killed on February 1, destroying a German bomber Junkers Ju 88 with a ram attack. April 13, 1944 he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The plane with the remains of the pilot was found in a swamp near Utorgosh in August 1951 by schoolchildren V. Zhelezkov and A. Maximov. Vasily Prokofyevich Sinchuk was buried in the cemetery of the village Utorosh, and a granite obelisk was installed on his grave [4] .
A playwright Viktor Kurochkin worked as a people's judge in Utorgosh.
Notes
- ↑ 2010 All-Russian Population Census. 12. The population of municipal districts, settlements, urban and rural settlements of the Novgorod region . The date of circulation is February 2, 2014. Archived February 2, 2014.
- ↑ Mikhail Ryazantsev. St. Petersburg - Ezerische, 487 km . The newspaper "October highway" (March 19, 2010).
- ↑ Historical background . Administration Utorgoshsky rural settlement - the official site .
- ↑ Sinchuk Vasily Prokofievich
See also
- Utorgosh (station)