Joltai

The village of Dzholtay is located in the middle of the ATU Gagauzia, in the lowland between the hills, 17 km north of the regional center of Chadyr-Lunga. The territory occupied by the village is 28,900 sq.m., including the area of ​​the village - 176.95 ha. As of January 1, 2008, 594 families live in the village, with a total number of 2,300 people. The main part of the population (about 98%) is the Gagauz. In addition to them, Russians, Ukrainians, Moldavians, Bulgarians, Gypsies live in the village.

In historical literature there is no consensus on the time of foundation of our village. It is only known that almost all Gagauz villages were founded no later than the beginning of the 19th century on the site of the abandoned villages of the Nogai Tatars, which by 1807 had been evicted to the Crimea and the Kuban. In the statistical dictionary of Bessarabia, the date of the emergence of the village of Joltai is 1825. However, during this period, the settlement of Budzhak almost did not occur. In the "History of the Gagauz of Bessarabia" M. Chakir believes that the village of Dzholtai was founded in 1820. In the Decree of the Senate “On the Granting of Transdanubian Immigrants' Rights to Foreign Colonists” of December 29, 1819: the village of Dzholtay, in which 28 families lived, was part of IV Budzhaksky District under No. 15. Therefore, the village already existed before the Decree of 1819.

And, finally, the first information about Joltay dates back to 1806. According to the population, 10 people (two families) lived in the village. By that time, almost all the Tatars had left Bessarabia. Therefore, this date can be considered the starting point of the history of the village. Although the name remains from the Tatars, and, of course, has deeper roots. In the village there is an old cemetery where tombstones of 1706 met 20–25 years ago, perhaps, if you study this architectural monument, you can supplement the information about the settlement of the Gagauzians and their residence on the Budzhak steppes. Thus, the foundation time of the village of Dzholtay can be considered reliable - 1806.

Until 1830, the main branch of the economy was animal husbandry and agriculture. According to land surveying carried out in 1872, the village officially had 3105.1 tithes of land. The population of the village increased every year and by 1910 amounted to 1035 souls of both sexes.

According to the inventories compiled in 1891-1893 in Joltay there was: 1 rural government, 1 church (which they began to build in 1891 and finished in 1895), a parish school and an ordinary postal station. In 1912, a one-class Zemstvo school was opened in the village.

On June 28, 1940, Bessarabia was liberated and reunited with the Left Bank. The transformations that were begun were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. As a result of the successful implementation of the Iasi-Chisinau operation, Dzholtai was released on August 25, 1944.

On September 21, 1946, the Komsomolets collective farm led by Petkovich Il was established in Joltay. G. In 1950, a club and library began to function in the village. In 1959-1960 the village was electrified. In December 1963, the Komsomolets collective farm was merged into one farm with the collective farm of the village of Tomay , known as Pravda.

On January 7, 1967, the united collective farm was disunited and a new collective farm, the XXIII Congress of the CPSU, was created. On December 1, 1977, the collective farm was transformed into the Yuzhny state farm.

From 1944 to 1969 an eight-year school worked in the village, which was later transformed into a secondary school. The House of Culture was built in 1966.