Gorodnya (Batetskiy district)

The village is located on the Gorodonka River - a tributary of the Chernaya River, in the north-west of the district, 5 km north-west of the administrative center of the district - the village of Batetskiy and 2 km south of the village of Chernaya .

CJSC Sadko, the former collective farm “Way to Happiness”, specializes in dairy farming ^[2] .

According to the statistics on the national economy of the Luga district of 1891, the estate in the village of Gorodnya with an area of ​​231 tithes belonged to nobles M.V. and S.V. Vsevolozhsky ^[3] .

The Church of Dimitry of Solunsky, 1826 ^[4] , was closed in 1939 , in 1945, services were resumed in the church ^[5] , at that time the church belonged to the VI Luga deanery district of the Leningrad diocese ^[6] , in 1960 a campaign to close The church was initiated by the Bateck district committee of the CPSU in March 1961 - the church was closed again, residents collected 617 signatures and sent it to the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church with a request not to close the church, but on March 10 and 11, 1961 the church was decided by local and regional party authorities was crushed, crosses and a coupe Ala dismantled ^[7] . After 40 years, the temple was returned to believers ^[2] , since 1997 it belongs to the newly formed Batetsky deanery of the Novgorod diocese ^[5] .

In the village there is a mass grave of Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War in battles for nearby villages ^[8] .

Until March 2009, Gorodnya was the administrative center of the Gorodensky rural settlement. As a result of the referendum, regional law No. 559 - OZ was amended on March 31, 2009, the Gorodensky rural settlement was abolished, and its territory became part of the Batetsk rural settlement ^[9] .

The main comprehensive school ^[10] operates in the village, in December 2003 a new House of Culture ^[11] was opened, in 2005 an ethnographic festival was held there ^[12] , also in Gorodnya there is a kindergarten, district stores and private entrepreneurs, a post office , the population is provided with the services of the information and telecommunication network "Internet", mobile radiotelephone communication works well.

A kilometer south of Gorodny there is a highway connecting Luga with Veliky Novgorod , the nearest railway station is the Batetskaya Oktyabrskaya railway on the line St. Petersburg - Vitebsk , in the village of Batetskiy, and the nearest stopping points ("29 km" and "Rusynya") on the railway line Luga - Novgorod-on-Volkhov is located 4 km south of the village, beyond the river Luga .