Chagodoshchensky district

Chagodoshchensky district is the most western territory of the Vologda region. Its area is 2,408.63 km². The length from north to south is 60 km and from west to east - 68 km.

Borders:

• in the north-west with the Boksitogorsky district of the Leningrad region
• in the northeast with the Babaevsky district of the Vologda region
• in the east with the Ustyuzhensky district of the Vologda region
• in the south with the Pestovsky district of the Novgorod region
• in the south-west with the Khvoyninsky district of the Novgorod region

The area is located in the basins of the Chagoda (Chagodoshchi) and Kobozh rivers , which are left tributaries of the Mologa . The main tributaries of the Chagodoshcha flowing in the region are Goryun , Smerdomka , Lid , Pes (with the Ratsa tributary) and Vnin , and the Kobozhi tributaries are the Belaya , Belaya , Chernaya and Veuch rivers . There are more than 20 lakes in the district. The largest of them are Black, Siglinskoe, Uglichnoe, Konevo.

The territory on which the district is now located consisted of six graveyards of the Bezhetskaya Pyatina of Novgorod land . These are Bogoroditsky in Smerdoml (mentioned 1498–99), Ilyinsky in Meghrin (mentioned 1498–99), Nikolsky and Pokrovsky in Cherensk (mentioned 1498–99), Nikolsky in Belsk (mentioned 1498–99) ^[4] , Voskresensky in Izbishche (mentioned 1581-82) ^[5] . In 1645–47, Nikolsky was also mentioned in the Izbishchi graveyard, which did not last long) ^[5] . And in 1685, the territory was included in the formed Ustyuzhno-Zhelezopolsky district , which existed until 1927 as Ustyuzhensky in the Novgorod province ( 1727 to 1918 ). At the same time, the boundaries of old volosts were changed, new ones were formed. Belsk volost (Nikolsky in Belsk) is included in the Kirov-Klimov volost, Smerdoml volost and Izboishchi are combined as part of the Belokrest volost ^[6] . At the request of the northern counties of the Novgorod province, the Democratic Congress of Soviets on May 10-13, 1918 from the Tikhvin, Ustyuzhensky, Cherepovets, Kirillovsky and Belozersky counties, the Cherepovets province was formed, which in 1927 was abolished and entered the Leningrad region. Then in 1927 in the Cherepovets district of the Leningrad region from the part of the former territory of the Ustyuzhensky district, the Verkhne-Chagodoshchensky district was formed. On July 23, 1930, the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, in accordance with the decree of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, issued a decree “On the Elimination of Districts” and the Cherepovets District was abolished and the district began to directly enter the Leningrad Region.

In connection with the division of the Northern Region into the Vologda and Arkhangelsk regions in September 1937, the cities and districts of the Leningrad Region were joined to the Vologda Region: the city of Cherepovets , the districts of Cherepovets, Myaksinsky, Prisheksninsky, Petrinivsky, Kirillovsky, Charozersky, Vashkinsky, Belozersky, Babaevagsky, Kadovsky, Kaduvsky , Kadovagsky, Kadovagsky, Kadovagsky , Kadovagsky, Kadovagsky , Ustyuzhensky, Borisov-Sudsky, Sholsky, Oshtinsky, Kovzhinsky, Vytegorsky and Andomsky.

The borders of the Chagodoschensk municipal district are established by the law of the Vologda Oblast dated December 6, 2004 No. 1128-OZ .

The composition of the settlements coincides with the previously existing village councils of the same name ^[7] .

Urbanization

In urban areas (working villages of Sazonovo and Chagoda ), 73.54% of the population of the region live.

By the Law of the Vologda Oblast dated November 26, 2015 No. 3783-OZ ^[16] , through their unification, the Belokrest, Borisov , Izboishche , Lukinsky , Meghrinsky and Pokrovsky rural settlements were transformed into the Belokrestsky rural settlement with an administrative center in the village of White Crosses .

Since 2015, there have been 92 settlements in the Chagodoschensky district as part of two urban and two rural settlements:

• Glassworks

1. OJSC Pokrovsky Glassworks (in the village of Sazonovo, Closed)
2. Smerdomskiy Glassworks OJSC (white, light green, dark green, brown glass)
3. LLC "Chagodoschensky Glassworks and K" - (production of glass containers)

• Chagodacomles OJSC (logging enterprise).
• Lime plant. (Severstroyresurs LLC)
• JSC Belokrest Creamery
• Bakery PO "Bread" (bakery, pasta and confectionery)

A114 federal highway passes through the district

There are two railway stations in the district on the Podborovye line - Cabozh of the Volkhovstroevsky branch of the October Railway - in Chagoda and Sazonovo ( Ogaryovo station).

Until 2008, the narrow-gauge railway peat enterprise "Dedovo Field" operated in the area.

In the May Day rural settlement, in the village of Anisimovo, there is a wooden church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, which is a monument of wooden architecture of the 19th century.

(based on materials from the historical and local history almanac "CHAGODA")

  The wooden John the Theologian Church is the latest construction in the area.  Initially, a chapel stood in its place.  Built in 1850, the church was considered ascribed to the Epiphany of Smerdoml and was the home church of the noble family of Posen.  Around the temple is a cemetery, now neglected.  At first, the temple built from timber was plastered, but soon the plaster was knocked down and the building was sheathed with tesa.  Its decor is simple to the limit.  On the gable of the western facade was a small, octal, belfry, completed by a low tent with a cupola.  The arched entrance to the temple was framed by a wooden rust.

A rich interior contrasted with modest decor. Closed in the 30s, the temple was first occupied by a village club, then a school gym and a warehouse. Located in a conspicuous place, not far from the estate of Posenov, he is waiting for the day of his resurrection.

• Information on the portal of the Vologda region
• Official site of the district administration