Ocnita (Kamensky district)

Located in the northern part of the district, 9 km from the district center. The village is located in the valley of the Dniester tributary of the Ocnita River. In the vicinity of the village is a unique thermal spring, protected by the state as a hydrogeological monument of nature, formerly called “Windows”. From it comes the name of the village ^[3] .

In 1959, 1348 people lived in Ocnita, in 1979 - 1099, in 1989 - 985, and in 2004 - 815 people. The vast majority of the population are Ukrainians , the rest are Moldovans , Russians , Bulgarians , etc.

The village was first mentioned in documents of 1769. Four barrows are located near the village, one of which is called the “Moiseev Grave”; according to legend, a wooden tower was built on it to signal residents in case the Tatars approached.

The first temple built in the village in the name of the holy great martyr Demetrius of Solunsky was wooden. It lasted until 1808, when at the expense of the former priest John Zubritsky, a new stone church was erected with a bell tower standing separately. In 1864 a parish school opened in the village.

In 1901, Yu.A. Sitsinsky in the "Archaeological Map of Podolsk Province " gave the following description of Ocnita and its environs: "In the eastern side of the village, in the Bolgan Valley, on the southern slope of the mountain, there is a cave in the form of a cell. A carved cross and inscriptions are visible on the eastern side. The top of the cave collapsed. Coniferous forest grows around the cave. The people call this area "Monastery" ^[4] .

The list of landowners of Olgopol Uyezd ^[5] in 1914 in the village of Oknitsa of the Kamensky volost included: Poltovich Alexander Cezarevich, who owns 438 tithes, Poltovich Petr Cezarevich - 197 dessiatins, Poltovich Gustav-Adolf Frantsevich - 168 dessiatins. and Poltovich Valery-Karl Cezarevich, who had 153 tithes.

After the establishment of Soviet power in 1928, a new seven-year school building was erected in Ocnita. In 1929, the first collective farm “Chervoniy Promin” was organized in the village, in 1930 - another one to them. Molotov. In 1932, both farms merged into one collective farm - to them. Budyonny, and since 1956 he began to bear the name of Chapaev. In 1963, the collective farm merged with the collective farm to them. Frunze sat down Grushka. In February 1970, an independent collective farm “Dawn” was formed in the village. The main crops were: tobacco, wheat, corn, sunflower, fodder beets. The collective farm had a dairy farm, a sheep farm, a pig farm, a poultry farm, and a horse farm. Horticulture and beekeeping developed.

In 1952, the House of Culture was built; in 1968 - a new school building. Also open a feldsher-midwife station, a nursery, a shop, a post office. In 1970, the village erected a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in the Great Patriotic War .

In the 90s. in the village the parish of the Orthodox Church was restored and the church of the Holy Great Martyr Dimitry of Solunsky was again consecrated.

• Krivenko A.V., Burla M.P., Fomenko V.G. and others. Geography of the Kamensky region of PMR. -Tiraspol, 2009. -191 p.

1. ↑ This locality is located in the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic . According to the administrative-territorial division of Moldova, most of the territory controlled by the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is part of Moldova as the administrative-territorial units of the left bank of the Dniester , the other part is part of Moldova as the municipality of Bender . The declared territory of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika controlled by Moldova is located on the territory of the Dubossary , Kaushansky and Novoanensky regions of Moldova. In fact, the Transdniestrian Moldavian Republic is an unrecognized state , most of the declared territory of which is not controlled by Moldova.
2. ↑ http://date.gov.md/ro/system/files/resources/2015-11/coduri%20postale%20RM.xlsx
3. ↑ Eremia A.I. Grail Pemintului. Skice de toponymy of moldovenyaske. –Kishinev, 1981, S. 29-32.
4. ↑ Sicinsky Yu.Y. Archaeological map of Podolsk province: facsimile reprint / Compiled and published by OL Bazhenov, preface I.S. Distiller/. - Kamenetz-Podilskyi: Center for Podolia Science, 2001
5. ↑ List of Landowners of Olgopol County for 1914.