Kizkans

The village is located in the western part of the district, on the right high bank of the Dniester River , on a watershed ledge, known as the “Kitskansky cape” between the valleys of the Dniester and Botna rivers. The village is located 22 km from the district center and 8 km from the Tiraspol railway station. The Kizkans historically occupied an exceptionally advantageous transport and trade-geographical position on the routes from the center of the Principality of Moldova along the Dniester to Belgorod, from Budzhak to Podolia. Now the village is conveniently located near Tiraspol - the main consumer of agricultural products Kitskan. The locality is of crucial strategic importance, as it controls the approaches to the crossing across the Dniester and the dominant height - “Kitskansky cape” (158.1 m), or the so-called Kitskansky bridgehead , which played a decisive role in the Iasi-Chisinau operation of 1944. This height served as a convenient point for artillery shelling of settlements in the Dniester Valley, which the Nazis used in 1944 and the armed forces of Moldova during the armed conflict in 1992. The village is part of the Tiraspol-Bendery agglomeration .

Floodplain soils in the vicinity of Chitskan are highly fertile and suitable for growing vegetables and grain crops. The slopes of the “Kitskansky cape” have a corner and exposure, favoring viticulture and gardening. The proximity of the Dniester and the floodplains of Botna creates exceptional conditions for irrigation, fishing and fish farming. The vast floodplain Kitskansky forest has traditionally been of great economic and recreational importance both for the village and for Tiraspol located near.

The base of the village. 19th Century Development

The name of the village is translated from the Romanian language as shrews . Kitskany village was founded in 1367. Kizkans are first mentioned in documents of 1527 ^[7] . However, archaeological sites in the vicinity of the village indicate the presence of people here long before the foundation of the village. Among them stand out Verkhny Trayanov Val , Geth settlement, burial grounds , mound complexes.

The population of Kitskan in the XVII-XVIII centuries. was subject to sharp fluctuations due to the constant Tatar raids, the involvement of villagers in the construction and repair of the Bendery fortress and roads, the flight of peasants beyond the Dniester to the Zaporizhia Sich , to Slobozhanshchina, Podolia and Galicia . Given the nature and intensity of economic activity, especially the topography of the village, it can be assumed that in the middle of the 18th century there were 30–40 yards in the village and no more than 150–200 people lived.

In 1812, along with the annexation of Bessarabia, the village became part of the Russian Empire in the future as part of the Bendery district of Bessarabia . A significant role in the life of the village was played by the Novo-Nyametsky Holy Ascension Monastery founded in 1859. In 1861, the monastery received the ownership of 1859 acres of forest land. In 1862, the state village of Kitskany was transferred to the ownership of the monastery. 272 Kizkan and Kopan families fall into semi-serf dependency. The best lands of the village were transferred to the monastery. Many Kizkans were forced to relocate to the cities and villages of the Left Bank.

Village Development in the Second Half of the 20th Century

In the 1960s and 70s, agricultural production flourished on the local collective farm. The collective farm "Red Gardener" has achieved great success in the economy and social construction. The material and technical base of the collective farm brought him to the top ten most equipped in the MSSR . So a powerful reclamation system was created, irrigating almost 800 hectares, which was one of the largest indicators in the Moldavian SSR. A large greenhouse plant, vegetable stores, field roads are being built, ponds are being stocked. In the late 1960s. The "Red Gardener" became one of the millionaire collective farms. By the mid-1970s the collective farm's annual net profit reached 3 million rubles.

The collective farm had a horticultural specialization. More than 400 hectares of collective farm lands were allocated for the cultivation of tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, radishes, various herbs and other vegetable crops. On floodplain lands melon cultivation developed. The main specialization of the collective farm was the cultivation of apples, pears, plums, apricots, peaches, quinces, cherries, cherries. Over 300 hectares of land were allocated for orchards. Every year, the collective farm collected about 10-15 thousand tons of fruits. An array of vineyards with an area of ​​more than 200 hectares is divided on the western slope of the Kitskansky cape. Particular attention was paid to beekeeping and fish farming. Silver carp , carp , grass carp , crucian carp , and bream were grown in ponds.

In the 1960-80s, mainly on the collective farm funds were built: 2 secondary and 1 eight-year school; House of Culture; music studio; chess-checkers club "Kaissa"; summer stage; summer cinema; 2 libraries - adult and children; polyclinic, hospital; maternity hospital; pharmacy; 4 kindergartens; post offices and savings banks; consumer services plant; hotel; a restaurant; 6 shops; 2 museums; park of culture and rest, bathhouse. A monument to V.I. Lenin and a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in the Great Patriotic War, the Memorial of the Iasi-Chisinau Operation were erected in the village. Bus routes were established from Kitskan to Tiraspol and Slobodzeya , which was facilitated by the construction of a bridge connecting the village with the center of Tiraspol. Kitskany - became the first village in the Moldavian SSR, which back in 1989 at a meeting of the village Council officially approved its coat of arms. Given the large territory of the village, it was conditionally divided into administrative-territorial units: Merenesti, Zagornoye, India, Center, Rypa, Flaminda-I Flaminda-II, Pragon, Tsarany, Gabarda, and Holopuzivka.

Modern Kitskans

In the late 1990s. the collective farm was liquidated. In its place, small small commodity cooperatives formed. The specialization of Kitskan agriculture is vegetable growing (including greenhouse), gardening, viticulture, fish farming, beekeeping. Some of the villagers find work in the nearby cities of Transnistria - Tiraspol and Bender . Modern Kitskans are a multinational village. As of January 1, 2004, about 9 thousand people lived in the village. (52% are women), of which Russians make up 53%, Moldovans - 34%, Ukrainians - 10%, Bulgarians , Gagauzians , Belarusians also live. In the village, there were 2855 households.

At the beginning of 2014, the Kitskansky Village Council (villages of Kitskany, Merenesti, Zagornoye) has 3576 yards, the population is 9282 people. ^[eight]

• Obelisk of military glory on the Kitskansky bridgehead
• Memorial sign to the fallen defenders of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika
• Holy Ascension New Nyametsky Monastery

• Kitskansky bridgehead

• Kitskansky monastery
• Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the PMR - Forest crops of the Kitskansky forestry