Uglyanets

Area - 439.33 ha; the distance from the regional center - the village of Verkhnyaya Khava - 38 km. ^[2]

The village is located on the railway line Rostov-Voronezh-Moscow. At the stopping point Ugljanets, suburban trains of the Gryazinsky direction stopping the village from Voronezh. There is also a regular bus service between the village and the regional center.

There are two main versions of the origin of the current name of the village. The first is related to the location of Uglants. The field and the forest, meeting at a single point, form a corner, as it were, where the village is located. It is from the word angle that the name came - Ugljanets. According to the second version, Ugljanets got its name due to the fact that charcoal was burned in the village, which was later used by Peter the Great for building ships in Voronezh.

“Russian antiquity is heard in the word Ugljanets. Unlike the names of such neighboring villages as Usman, Khava, Karachun, the Tatar people did not touch his name. You don’t have to break your brain about why the village was named after this: once coal burners, coal workers settled in the forest thicket and began to burn coal. ” - V. Korablinov "Azores".

There is another version - the third, according to which Ugljanets was called the Angular military post and was part of the complex of defensive fortifications of the town of Orlov, being its northern outpost. The southern village was Khrenovoye. Orlov, the town was part of the network of fortifications of the Belgorod serif line. In the garrison served: children of the boyars, dragoons, archers, Cossacks.

The first settlement that arose in the modern village of Ugljanets dates back to the 16th century. Until 1617, the village was called Telachino.

Until the XVIII century, the village of Ugljanets was small, on its territory there were only a few dozen peasant houses. In search of refuge from the Tatars who raided the surrounding areas, people began to settle in the village of Ugljanets. After a hundred years, they already knew about the village in Voronezh. And city merchants came to Ugljanets for coal.

In 1778, part of the land that belonged to the Uglian inhabitants was taken away by the landowners.

It is known that in Ugljanets owned the estate S. Kryazhov, and in the village. Nikonovo, a former sanatorium "Ugljanets", was the estate of a tobacco manufacturer Sychev. The park (alleys, cascade of ponds) has been partially preserved from Sychev’s estate. Kryazhov Stepan Lukyanovich (1819-24.01.1888), public figure, philanthropist. From the merchant family Kryazhov, hereditary honorary citizen of Voronezh. The largest capitalist, owner of estates in the Voronezh district, including in the village. Maklok (forest, distillery), in with. Ugljanets, owner of the distillery in the city of Voronezh. The mayor of Voronezh (1866-1875), the vowel of the Voronezh City Council (from 1871) In 1869, at the expense of Kryazhov (about 150,000 rubles in silver) and under his leadership, the first water supply system in Voronezh was constructed, which Kryazhov presented to the city. Kryazhov assigned 10% of the profits from the water supply to the needs of public education. For the same purpose he deducted his mayor's salary (3000 rubles a year). In 1859, one of the donors (200 rubles) for the construction of the monument to Peter 1.

In 1868, the church of Archdeacon Stephen was built in Ugljanets ^[5] ; during the years of Soviet rule, it was used for other purposes, the current church.

In 1902, peasant uprisings began in the village of Ugljanets. Local residents tried to return, once illegally occupied by landowners, land. Despite the fact that peasants' property rights were recognized, land plots were returned to them much later.

During the Great Patriotic War, the village of Ugljanets was located at the very front line. In 1942, the headquarters of the military unit was located on its territory (the headquarters of the command of the Voronezh Front was located in the village of Anna). In the surrounding forests, in conditions of increased secrecy, there were military units and a large number of military equipment. The German command did not have information about the deployment of our troops. German aviation bombed the railway junctions (Usman and others), but not a single bomb fell on the territory of Uglants and the location of military units. Enemy aircraft, having complete air superiority, shot down 2 Soviet aircraft in the sky over Ugljanets. Funnels from the fall of aircraft in the meadow between with. Uglantsets and with. The Paris Commune persisted until the 70s of the 20th century. During the war, Claudia Shulzhenko performed a concert in front of the fighters in the Ugljansky church.

Since 2011, in the village of The Uglyansky Cossacks of East Kazakhstan Oblast The Great Don Army was formed on the Uglyansky farm. The Cossack community of the farm has 25 yards.

• The village of Ugljanets is known as the birthplace of the talented Russian writer Vladimir Alexandrovich Korablinov (1906-1989).

• Ugljanets Village - Voronezh Guide