Klin (Vachsky district)

According to the scribal books of 1628 - 1630, the village of Klin was listed in the possession of various landowners — the okolnichny prince Gregory Volkonsky , the Lupandin brothers, and others.

In the XIX century the village was a famous trading place. Here, every week on Tuesdays, a bazaar worked, where peasants brought bread and other products. Not only peasants from the nearest settlements came to the auction, but also merchants from Murom. The richest houses were the houses of merchants (Dusty, Sherikhovs, Shishkovs, Malinovs, Aranyshevs). The richest were the Aranysheva brothers. They owned a steam mill, as well as the largest (two-story) brick house ^[4] . In Soviet times, it was located Klin village council.

In 1910, a large stone church in the then pseudo-Russian style was built on the site of an ancient wooden church. There were three chapels in the church: the main one - in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, and one in honor of the Apostle John the Theologian and another in honor of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, "All the Mourners of Joy." They built it with all the inhabitants of the village. In 1896, the parish consisted of the village of Klin and the village of Kurmish, in which, according to the clearing lists, there were 180 households, 723 male souls and 889 women. The village had a parochial school, in which there were 54 students. ^[5] Already in the fall of 1937, the church was destroyed - the altar part and the roof with five domes were destroyed.

At first, the locals accepted the idea of ​​collectivization without much enthusiasm, even in 1935 there was still no 100% coverage. But in the years 1938-1939, the collective farm them. Stalin stood firmly on his feet, participated in the Exhibition of National Economy, his day nursery-garden appeared here, tractors and cars were actively bought. After the war, the collective farm quickly recovered, especially high productivity observed in the 1970-80s. At this time, the productivity of fields and farms increased, and grain yields of 30 or more centners per hectare became the norm. At that time, a large construction of production facilities and housing was carried out, a two-storey building of the Klin school was built, besides, asphalt roads, running water with good drinking water, and street lighting were laid throughout Klin. Working conditions were good, and they went to work in a collective farm from all over the Soviet Union.

One of the owners of the village of Klin was the father of the famous Russian poet and thinker Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, a nobleman Alexey Sergeevich Nekrasov. This is evidenced by the case “On giving Mr. Nekrasov on the Murom and Gorokhovets estate of evidence” ^[6] , which is stored in the Vladimir State Archive. It says that A.S.Nekrasov owns the land of 105 acres 61 sazhen with 24 souls of the male population.

It is known that on their lands Nekrasovs were engaged in the extraction of alabaster (up to 25,000 pounds per year), receiving for it 600 rubles of income per year. With a good harvest of apples from their orchards, they received proceeds from the sale of up to 500 rubles. In addition, the Nekrasov estate belonged to the outflow of hay mowing across the river Oka in the amount of 19 dessiatinas, 150 fathoms. Judging by the number of serfs, the Klin estate of the Nekrasovs was larger than in the three villages of Gorokhovetsky district (Aleshunino, Safonovo, Mikhailovskoye), and in terms of size and importance of land identical to them. These villages are located on the left bank of the Oka opposite the Klin estate.

The last decades for Klin, as well as for many villages of Russia, were not easy. The lack of own production, the outflow of the working population to the cities almost turned the richest village of the Nizhny Novgorod region into one of the thousands of dying villages. However, a program has now been adopted for the creation of the Nekrasovsky Historical and Cultural Center ^[12] , and the tourist potential of Klin is also being studied. In addition, work is already underway to recreate the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ^[13] .

To date, the village has a secondary school, in which there are only elementary classes, a library, a post office, two shops, a veterinary station, ^[14] .

You can get to Klin by car on the motorway P125 Murom - Nizhny Novgorod , turning at the signpost in Filinsky or by the Pavlovo- Klin regular bus. ^[15]

• Kochetov, Mikhail Sergeevich (1913—1939) - Hero of the Soviet Union, resident of Klina.
• Isaev Grigory Petrovich (1895-1978) Chairman of the Stalin Collective Farm in the heyday of the economy before the war, when the collective farm was a member of the VDNKh