Kalcheva

Under the Paris Peace Treaty of 1856, the lands that belonged to Russia along the Trajan Walls were torn away to Wallachia, which was under the protectorate of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, the colonists lost the privileges and privileges granted by the king. The call of the colonists to the military service of Wallachia began. The colonists, expressing their displeasure, gathered in a square in the center of Bolgrad . By order of the Wallachian General Ghana, they began to be beaten, demanding that the organizers of this meeting be extradited. The tenth of the interrogated could not stand the bullying and called Dmitry Kanazirsky and Kalcho Minkov. In his book, Job Titorov does not name this person so that their children do not quarrel with each other. When the instigators were summoned to Ghana, he saw a silver medal on the Anninsky tape “For the construction of a stone bridge and fountain in the city of Bolgrad on the Yalpug River, as well as for improving cattle breeding and a fine-haired breed of sheep” on Dmitry Kanazirsky’s neck, and “For serviceable” at Kalcho Minkov the maintenance of the postal stations. ”This saved them from reprisal. After that, Bulgarian families began to move beyond Trayanov Val to the tract“ Three Giranya ”(three wells), Katlabukh, Karayvanskoye, in Kyshlya. (Kyshla translated from Turkic means a camp, wintering for cattle. Arsky -mushiya.) This village has gained the status of the village in 1861, when all the family settled at the junction of the river Tashbunar , which is 10 km from the Russian quarantine station to the. Kubey . The first was the village headman Kalchev Minkov. Later he went to Chisinau . For merits in his honor named one of the streets of the city center near the market - Minkovskaya (currently - Bulgarian street).

In the village are St. Michael the Archangel Church and two cemeteries - separately Bulgarian and Gagauz.

First priest Philip Bosnyak, clerk Vasily Tuzlov, sexton Peter Yurkov. Subsequently, after the war of liberation of 1877-1878, in which both our fellow villagers and militia took part, the colonies along Trayanov Val were returned to Russia. The terms for providing benefits for the colonists have expired. Families were strengthened, houses were built in the wasteland instead of dugouts. The call to the Tsar’s army began. Many served at the Tsar’s court, participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, the First World War of 1914-1918, and in the Great October Revolution of 1917.

In January 1918, the village was occupied by Romanians. Education at the school was conducted in Romanian, stick discipline was used. The gendarmes for the slightest offense beat the villagers, engaged in requisitions. On June 28, 1940, Soviet troops liberated Bessarabia. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, dispossession has begun. The first to the Far North regions were the families of Tropanets D.S., Stepanovs. Only Tropanets D.S. returned to the village. Only he was allowed to return to the village. In June 1941, the village was occupied by German-Romanian troops.

The first Komsomol members Petrova F. K., Kichuk G. G., Kasim I. P., Pereli G. I. The gendarmes began to beat for party affiliation. Thanks to the mayor (chairman) Tropants S. D., whose father has been in exile in the Far North since the summer of 1940, he said to the gendarmes: “These are the children of our cultivators, and they were in such a time, we don’t know what times are ahead of us” . Since then, they have not been beaten anymore. This is from the words of grateful Petrov F.K., Kasim I.P., with whom I personally spoke.

During the period of the "second Romania", that is 1941-1944. there were the same orders that villagers do not remember with a kind word, since for the period from 1918-1940, and from 1941-1944. only three villagers succeeded in graduating from the Bolgrad gymnasium, and subsequently Prague University, and during the Soviet period, higher education institutions were able to graduate about 100 people, not counting technical schools, pedagogical and medical, as well as vocational schools on a free basis.

With the advent of Soviet power in 1944, collective-farm production was organized, which made it possible to sharply increase the production of agricultural products and raw materials necessary to provide workers in industrial regions.

Crop failure 1946-1947 caused hunger, which the old-timers do not want to remember. After 1950, the birth rate in the village sharply increased, mortality decreased, since free medicine gave its positive results.

According to the 2001 census of Ukraine, the distribution of the population by mother tongue was as follows (in% of the total population):

According to the Kalchevsky village council: Ukrainian - 1.73%; Russian - 2.43%; Belarusian - 0.06%; Bulgarian - 94.17%; Gagauzian - 0.93%; Moldavian - 0.48%; Polish - 0.03%.

• The account card on the website of the Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian)
• The site of the village of Kalcheva
• Българските speak in Ukraine. Volume 5. C. D. Topalova. “Speak to the village of Kalchevo Bolgradsko, Besarabia. Rechnik. ”Odessa, 2009

In the village of Kalcheva, both cemeteries are Bulgarian!