Korchevsk district

The county was located in the southeast of the Tver province and bordered on the Tver , Bezhetsky , Kashinsky and Kalyazinsky districts. In the south it bordered on the Moscow province ( Dmitrovsky and Klinsky districts ). The area of ​​the county was 3866 square meters. verst . The main transport artery is the Volga River . Korchevsk district is the only one in the province where there were no railways (the terminal station Savyolovo on the railway of the same name, built in the immediate vicinity of the village of Kimra on the opposite bank of the Volga, belonged to the Kalyazinsky district). At the same time, the narrow-gauge railway network of the Kuznetsov porcelain and faience factory operated (between Kuznetsovo, Korcheva and Fedorovsky). The narrow gauge railway lost its economic significance only by the end of the 60s of the 20th century and was dismantled.

The county was formed in 1781 as part of Tver governorship from parts of Kashinsky and Tver districts. In 1796, during the creation of the Tver province, the county was abolished, but in 1803 restored. In 1918, Kimry County was formed from part of its territory. In May 1922, Korchevsk Uyezd was liquidated; its territory passed to Kimry Uyezd.

The population in 1863 was 100.5 thousand people. (without Korcheva), in 1892 - 121 949 people, in 1913 - 152.4 thousand people. The population density is 33.3 people. per 1 square. verst; in terms of population density, the county is one of the middle in the province. The population is almost all Russian ; completely Russified Karelians (about 1200 people) live in the north-west of the county, in the village. Vednov. The dominant religion is Orthodox ; from schismatic sects, insurgency is especially widespread. Populated places - 838, of which many are large; the most significant - with. Kimry (5083 people).

In 1913 there were 16 volosts in the county ^[1] :

• Goritskaya, - p. Goritsy .
• Danilovskaya - with. Danilovo .
• Ilyinskaya - with. Ilyinsky .
• Kimrskaya - s. Kimry .
• Krasnovskaya - with. Red .
• Kudryavtsevskaya - d. Kudryavtsevo .
• Lartsevskaya - d. Lartsevo .
• Nikolo-Sozinskaya - with. Popovskoe .
• Paskinskaya - village of Paskino .
• Pogoreltsevskaya - c. Fire victims .
• Christmas - s. Rozhdestveno .
• Selikhovskaya - s. Selikhovo .
• Stoyantsevskaya - s. Stoyanets .
• Suvorovskaya - v. Suvorovo .
• Fedorovskaya - s. Fedorovskoe .
• Yakovlevskaya - D. Yakovlevskaya .

In police terms, the county was divided into two camps:

• 1st camp, flat with. Kimry .
• 2nd camp, flat with. Stoyanets .

Due to the scarcity of soils in the county, crafts and otkhodnichestvo are widespread (the largest center of shoe craft is the village of Kimry ), s. Kuznetsovo (now Konakovo ) is the center of porcelain and faience production.

In the village of Kimry, in Kimrskaya, Ilyinsky, Lartsevskaya, partly in the Suvorov volosts, peasants sewed shoes without exception. More than 10 thousand peasants from these volosts sewed shoes in Moscow and other large cities, returning to the villages only for the period of spring and autumn field work. Some peasants from the villages of Stoyantsevskaya, Goritskaya and Pechetovskaya volosts were hereditary carpenters and also spent considerable time earning money in neighboring volosts and counties (Pechetovsky carpenters traded in the Uglich district). At the beginning of the 20th century, the Molginsky (Stoyantsevskaya volost) contractor Andrei Yakovlevich Fedorov could provide up to 60 carpenters at a time, and his fellow villager T. Smirnov was more modest. He "drove artels" only up to 15 people. In sec. Goritsy was widely represented felting.

• Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875-1946) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .
• Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev (1888-1972) - Soviet aircraft designer, three times Hero of Socialist Labor .
• Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901-1956) - Russian Soviet writer.
• Nikolsky, Mikhail Alexandrovich (1901-1988) - Soviet military commander, Colonel General of the USSR Armed Forces .
• Bulatov, Dmitry Alexandrovich - the only Bolshevik in the Korchevsky Council in 1918.
• Bazanov, Dmitry Sergeevich (1894-1978) - professor, the first Bolshevik from among local residents in Kimry and Kimra Uyezd, the first chairman of the Ilyinsky Volga Executive Committee, the second after P.M. representing a unique encyclopedia of the life of the Kimr peasants in the first two decades of the 20th century.
• Ivan Alexandrovich Witver (1891-1966) was born in the village of Ilyin on Malaya Puditsa, Ilyinsky volost in the family of a Swiss cheese maker and a Russian noblewoman. In 1921 he graduated from Moscow State University, and remained a staff member. Professor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize. He is the author of a number of scientific works and a well-known textbook for the 9th grade, “Economic Geography of Foreign Countries,” which has passed 16 editions and translated into 19 languages.
• Perkhurov, Alexander Petrovich (1876-1922) was born in the Sherepovo estate of the Suvorov volost in an old noble family. He graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. Member of the Russo-Japanese and World War I. Cavalier of many state military awards. In October 1917 he was presented for production as a major general, but the October coup prevented it. On the recommendation of B.V. Savenkova, on July 4, 1918, he led an anti-Soviet uprising in Yaroslavl. After the uprising was suppressed, 07/20/1918 he served in the army of Admiral A.V. Kolchak, promoted to general. In 1920 he was captured by the red partisans, after a short stay in custody he served as a military specialist in the Red Army. Then he was arrested and taken to Yaroslavl, where he was put on trial and shot. Rehabilitated December 16, 1994. According to Ch. Colonel Perkhurov, and Lieutenant Fedorov, were arrested by the editor of the regional newspaper Kimrsky Vestnik, P. V. Efremov, published in the post-Soviet era, on a July night crossing the Volga. At this time, the mother of the colonel lived in the estate of Tekutievo, Kimrsky County. Lieutenant Fedorov was shot along with a group of unreliable local residents, and Colonel Perkhurov was transferred to Moscow.
• Pulikovsky, Vladimir Alexandrovich (1854? -1916), from the Polish noble family, graduated from the Page Corps, officer. After the next partition of Poland, his grandfather Jozef Pulikovsky entered the service of the Russian emperor. Father Alexander Iosifovich, a career officer, taught geography at military schools, in the 1880s bought the Chudinovo estate on the left bank of Malaya Puditsa in Ilyinsky volost, where his son Vladimir and his family soon settled after retirement. Prior to this, V. A. took part in the Russian-Turkish war, was awarded the Order of Stanislav for distinction in the siege of Kars. Having become a resident of Korchevsk Uyezd, he served in the Zemstvo administration as a justice of the peace, then from 1898 to 1902 he became the chairman of the administration, participated in the Russian-Japanese war. As the chairman of the council, he paid much attention to the construction of roads, the development of education, the opening of libraries, which only with him began to appear in the county. He facilitated the opening in 1912 of the library and the people's house in the village. Trinity, the construction of a new school building in Chudinovo, instead of the dilapidated Trinity.

Currently, the county territory (within the borders of 1917) is part of the Kimry , Konakovsky , Kalininsky , Rameshkovsky and Kashinsky districts of the Tver region , as well as the city of Dubna, Moscow region .

• Bakharev Yu.A. Ilyinskaya volost. - Kimry: Kimra Printing House, 2013 .-- 171 p.

• Richter D.I. Korcheva // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Tver region. Encyclopedic reference (inaccessible link)
• An electronic geocoded list of settlements of Korchevsk district according to 1859
• Korchevsk district on a two-verst topographic boundary map of the Tver province of 1853
• Old maps of Korchevsky county