Ust-Khoperskaya

The village is located on the northeast slope of the East Don Ridge in the steppe zone. It is located in the northwestern part of the Serafimovichi district: 32 km from the regional center - the city of Serafimovich, 130 km from the railway station Sebryakovo and 230 km from the regional center - the city of Volgograd ; on the right bank of the Don , against the confluence of the Khoper River .

The village of Ust-Khoperskaya was located on the right side of the Don River, 30 kilometers from the District village ( Ust-Medveditskaya station, the Donskoy Army Regions ), in the region, since ancient times populated by the Don Cossacks. Initially, the village was located on the left side of the Don River, in the tract "Winter meadow", at the mouth of the Khopyor River, which is why it got its name Ust-Khopyorskaya. However, from a flood whose year is unknown, the village was moved downstream to the left side of the Don River, to Lake Nikolsky, this place is located against the upper end of the current village settlement and is called the “Old Town”. When the village was moved to its current place, it is also unknown. But from the magazine of Peter I it can be seen that in 1696 the town of Khoper was already on the right side, that is, in its present place. She also came here due to the flood. The time of the first initial settlement of the village is unknown, it existed already in the 17th century and is mentioned “in the travel note of the boyar Shein , who sailed past them in 1695 with his troops to Azov”.

In 1724, a wooden church was built and lit in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village. She existed for 70 years. Due to its dilapidation, on September 17, 1784 a stone church was laid, with the same bell tower, also in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The old wooden Nicholas Church is sold in the village of Gulyaev. The utensils of the church were sufficient; in it were: a silver vessel of 1782, the gospel of 1615, the gospel of 1735. Silver cross donated by Colonel Astakhov in 1811. There was another church in the village, in the cemetery, in the name of the Resurrection of the Lord, was built in 1850 at the expense of Colonel Emelyanov and his wife Sophia, also a stone, with a bell tower and a fence. In 1828, 80 yards burned out in the village, and on May 12, 1885, 13 yards burned out in it. Cholera was in 1830, 1848, 1849, 1885, and 1886. ^[2]

Civil War

During this period, the village became the stronghold of the uprising against the Bolsheviks in the Khopersky and Upper Don Don districts, the leader of the uprising was Alexander Vasilievich Golubintsev

Soviet period

In the 1930s, the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Church of the Resurrection of the Lord were destroyed in the village. In the 1950s, a monument was built, for soldiers who fought and died during the Great Patriotic War, in the 60s the building of the village council, school, and kindergarten was built. In the 1970s, asphalt was laid from the regional center to the Bobrovsky-1, Krutovsky and Rybinsk farms.

During the years of Soviet power, forced collectivization, the politics of slander , were practiced, and they did not bypass the village of Ust-Khoperskaya. The terrible Holodomor of the early thirties did not bypass it either.

In the Soviet period, farming in the village of Ust-Khoperskaya was developed, animal husbandry, a slaughterhouse, cowsheds and pigsties, a car workshop, a gas station, warehouses, two bakeries, a river port for barges, a sausage shop, and three shops.

Modernity

Currently it is part of the Serafimovichi district of the Volgograd region. It is located 5 km from the mouth of Khopr downstream of the Don River. The structure of the Ust-Khopersky rural settlement includes: the village of Ust-Khoperskaya, Rybny farms, Bobrovsky-1, Zimovnoy, Izbushensky. The territory of the settlement covers an area of 23,589.06 hectares, including 372.2 hectares occupied by settlements . Agriculture specializes in growing crops and sunflowers.

There are two schools on the territory of the Ust-Khopersky settlement: Ust-Khopersky secondary school, and Bobrovskaya elementary school, where 114 people are trained and 25 teachers work; kindergarten "Birch". In the village there is a House of Culture and a library, in the villages of Bobrovsky -1 and Rybny - a club. The settlement has a hospital, an outpatient clinic and a medical facility, a communications center, a leskhoz, and KhPP. In the village there is a church parish.

Residents of the village and farms mainly work in Ust-Khoperskoye LLC, which is engaged in crop production, as well as in five farms. On the territory of the settlement - 10 outlets, one private hairdresser, a refrigerator repair shop and car service, also operating tourist centers in Rybnoye village and in the village of Ust-Khoperskaya. ^[3]

Famous Natives

• Kaledin, Alexey Maksimovich
• Govorukhin, Orest Makarovich
• Golubintsev, Alexander Vasilievich
• Gordeev, Andrey Andreevich
• Kryuchkov, Kozma Firsovich

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  Ust-Khopersky church

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  Administration of Ust-Khoperskaya

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  Monument to soldiers who fought and died during the Great Patriotic War

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  Ust-Khoperskaya village in early spring

• website Administration of the Serafimovichi municipal district
• A brief description of the villages of the region Donskoy troops Sulin Ivan Mikhailovich 1861-1921
• Ust-Khoperskaya (village)