Whistle (Krasnensky district)

The first mention of the village dates back to 1744. In the documents of the audit of the taxable estate, the village is mentioned as newly settled, at that time the village had a different name - Red Well, according to the Lists of the populated areas of the Voronezh province in 1859, the village also has a third name - Svyatovka. The village got its first name by the name of the stream on which it was located. According to the audit of 1763, in the village of Krasny Kolodez there were 8 yards and 41 male souls. In the village lived several families of serfs belonging to Sinelnikova from the city of Ostrogozhsk. The administrative settlement was located on the territory of the Korotoyak district of the Voronezh province. The volost administration was located in the village of Kolbino (since 1859). There was no church in the village, residents were assigned to the parish of the Christ-Nativity Church, located in the village of Gorki 5 kilometers away, after World War I, a community of Christian Baptists arose in the village.

The village was founded by state peasants (single palaces) of the Korotoyak district of the Voronezh province. The presence of natural pastures and meadows led to the occupation of the village inhabitants by cattle breeding. Back in the 1970s, about 100 yards accounted for about 2,000 sheep in private households, and about 5,000 sheep in the socialized sector. The number of cattle reached 200 animals on private farms and 600 animals on a collective farm. There were two herds of work horses, up to 80 heads.

The number of yards in different years.

1744-6

1763-8

1795-16

1812-21

1859-36

1885-45

1900-52

1906-65

1926-102

1943-121

The development of the village was greatly influenced by government measures for the resettlement of low-land peasants, both in tsarist times and in Soviet times. Before the revolution, there were several resettlements of village residents in Primorye, the Kuban, Altai and the Urals, and during the Soviet era, several dozen families from Whistle and neighboring Kiselevka were resettled in the Crimea and the Volga region. The village is located in a picturesque place. Two more beams adjoin the Bolshoy Log beam in the center of the village, forming a kind of hollow in which the village is located. A strongly shallow stream flows from south to north, which after 2 kilometers flows into an artificial reservoir, a favorite resting place for residents of neighboring villages. Not far from the village there is a natural landscape monument, the Reduced Alps, where relict vegetation typical of alpine meadows is concentrated in an area of ​​70 hectares.

In 1895 a parish school was opened in the village. In 1908, the new building of the Zemstvo elementary school was built, in 1909 the school was named after Peter the Great, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Poltava. In the period from 1928 to the mid-60s, children from 5 settlements, Whistles, Kiselevka, Malinovo, Redkodub and Krasnaya Levada, studied at the school. Among the graduates of the school there are honored artists, poets, an honored worker in the food industry, professors, candidates of science and a lot of wonderful people whom not only their small homeland, but all of Russia can be proud of. Despite the fact that in the mid-1960s the village was recognized as “unpromising” , the Whistle developed, new MTF buildings, a new mechanic workshop, a feed workshop, a canteen for collective farmers and a house of culture were built. Unfortunately, today the village is going through hard times, the population has declined significantly, today about 170 people live in it, about as many as it was in the late 18th century.

The whistle is located in the Bolshoy Log, 9 kilometers north of the regional center, the village of Krasnoe. In the village there is a school, a house of culture, a feldsher-midwife station and a library. Until 1964, the agricultural enterprise-collective farm Voskhod existed in the village, in the same year it was merged with the Mayak collective farm with a center in the village of Krasnoe. Currently, agricultural enterprises on the territory of the settlement do not exist, land transferred to long-term leases to third parties. Near the village there are powerful outcrops of Cretaceous strata suitable for industrial use, and also at the Konishchevo tract there are small outcrops of iron ore, which currently have no industrial significance.

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