Petals

It is located on the Pureshok River , on the Ivanovo-Nizhny Novgorod highway, 123 km southeast of Ivanovo and 90 km east of the Shuya railway station (on the Vladimir -Ivanovo line). The distance to Nizhny Novgorod is 120 km by road.

The origin of the toponym Pestyak has several versions. According to one, the name is supposedly formed on behalf of the first settler nicknamed Pestun (a pestun is someone who is cherishing someone, a caring teacher; the old retired warrior, the teacher of new recruits, was also called the pestoon ). According to another, very critical, it arose from a personal name , the surname of a Polish prisoner of war, "Pan Pestyak" settled here ^[3] . According to another version - from the Old Slavonic word "pistichy" - that is, clean, bright (about water) ^[4] .

For the first time, the village of Pestyaki was mentioned in 1379 , until then called the churchyard , then in 1583 - as the possession of the boyars, princes Pozharsky (Starodubsky) . In a written source in 1628, it was reported that on December 31, 1621, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky presented "the village of Pestyakov in the Suzdal Uyezd of Nizhny Landekh" to his nephew, Prince Ivan Nikitich of Khovansky .

From the first half of the 18th century , the princes of Khovansky opened a cloth factory near the village, producing cloth for the needs of the imperial Russian army. In 1874, peasants assigned to the cloth factory rebelled; in order to pacify the factory rebellion, the cavalry unit of the Pskov Kirasir Regiment was sent, to which the rebels set fire to the fire — the fire destroyed the factory, and the factory owners refused to restore it ^[5] ..

According to the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of 1859, published in 1863 : “ Vladimir province of the Gorokhovets district , 2nd camp, the owner's village of Pistyaki , at the Pureshka river; located on the Yaroslavl trade route from the border of the Vyaznikovsky district to Balakhninsky. From the county town 60 miles; number of courtyards 230; male residents 588, female - 729. Orthodox Church 2, bazaar 1, fairs 3 ”. ^[6] .

In the XIX - the first quarter of the XX centuries. The village of Pestyaki is the center of the Pestyakovsky volost of the Gorokhovets district of Vladimir province .

According to the scribe books of the Suzdal Uyezd in 1628, the owner of the village of Pestyaki, Prince Ivan Nikitich Khovansky , listed the wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker . In 1752-1760, instead of the burned St. Nicholas Church, a stone church was built in the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , in a meal in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow. In addition to the village of Pestyaki, another 78 villages made up her parish. In 1787, a wooden single-throne Trinity Church was built in the village, with it a stone bell tower, built in 1885. ^[7] .

Under the Soviet regime , which pursued anti-religious politics , in the 1930s, the church was closed, the bell tower was destroyed. In the 1990s, the Assumption Church was returned to believers, repaired, the Peter and Paul side chapel was arranged in the refectory; the now restored Assumption Church is operational.

In 1999, an underground temple was opened under the temple in honor of the Great Martyr and healer Panteleimon . During restoration work, in the basement of the temple were found the remains of people killed by a shot in the back of the head. It turned out that these are the remains of clergymen shot by the NKVDeshniks in the 30s (a total of seven clergymen). Innocent slain were buried at the temple in a mass grave ^{[8] [9]} .

The village has a timber industry enterprise, a construction embroidery factory, a sewing production of uniforms and special clothes by Istok-Prom LLC, and a Kinesis training equipment factory.

Previously existing enterprises: a furniture factory, a packaging equipment factory, a flax factory, a dairy factory, a boot factory, a starch and syrup factory were declared bankrupt in recent times, which is why many residents of the village are forced to look for work in other cities of Russia.

The village has the Pestyakov Public Library (in the building of the former merchant house), the House of Culture, a music school, the Museum of Local Lore, the House of Children's Creativity (the House of Pioneers), the Chadushki studio; There are several creative associations of citizens, including their literary club "Revelation of the Word", the club "Veteran", the national theater "Dialogue".

There are local mass media: The budgetary institution of the Ivanovo region “The editorial board of the newspaper“ New Way ”, is presented on the website of the socio-political newspaper“ Pestyakovsky district “New Way” ^[27] .

One of the main monuments of the village of Pestyaki is a monument built in memory of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. , about fellow countrymen-pestyakovtsy who died or went missing in the battles for their homeland , and are included in the "Book of memory of the Ivanovo region."

In 2015, near the holy springs (springs) located on the shores of Lake Pestyakovsky ^[28] , a memorial complex was built, called the Alley of the 70th Anniversary of Victory, in honor of the Victory Day of the Soviet people in World War II .

In 2016, in memory of the most important event in the history of our Motherland - the Liberation of Moscow from the Poles in 1612 , in which the residents of Pestyakov also participated, a mound of glory was poured near the memorial complex with a granite stele installed on it.

In 2017, a Poklonniy Cross was erected and consecrated in Pestyaki in memory of the Orthodox Trinity Church (and the parish churchyard) that existed in the village, which was destroyed in the 30s. XX century., Located on the spot where subsequently were built base agricultural equipment and a complex of residential buildings ^{[29] [30]} .

Pestyaks belong to the Pestyakovsky ethnic section of the Landekhov-Mugreevsky ethnographic zone of the Suzdal land ^[31] .

• Petals - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• List of Cultural Heritage Sites in Pestyaki , Wikigid