Gukovo (farm, Rostov region)

Gukovo Farm is located in the Krasnosulinsky district of the Rostov Region on the Gnilusha River. The distance from the farm to the city of Krasny Sulin is 25 kilometers.

There are two streets on the farm: Krasnopartizanskaya and Stepnaya.

The foundation date of the farm is July 13, 1802. The settlement was founded in a deep hollow on the banks of the Gnilushi River by the inhabitants of the village of Gundorovskoy Yesaul Gerasimov and the centurion Gukov, in accordance with the decree of the Military Chancellery of July 13, 1802. The first of those who settled the farm were the Cossacks, who received their land allotments for military service.

Sloboda Gukovskaya is mentioned in the "Alphabetical List of Populated Places of the Don Army " for 1867. By the middle of the XIX century, the Cossack settlement Gukovskaya became the center of Gukovskaya volost. It had 18 yards and 114 inhabitants. Fertile lands, coal deposits that surface in some places, sand and brown clay, which were widely used for construction, attracted immigrants from densely populated cities and villages of the Don Don Troops Region and from Central Russia.

By the end of the 80s, the Gukovo-Gnilushansky farm (this was the new name of the farm), already numbered 89 yards and 300 souls of both sexes. In July 1885, 12 farmers of the Cossack class, "who had the right to vote this year", turned to Archbishop Mitrofan of the Don and Novocherkassk region for permission to build a church in the name of Nikolai Ugodnik . The temple was erected quite quickly, since for this purpose the inhabitants of the farm bought an old wooden church with all church utensils in the Yekaterinoslav province of the Slavic-Serbian county in the settlement of Chernukhina. The new church was consecrated on March 1, 1888, its first priest was Dmitry Nikolsky. After 90 years, the church was reconstructed, becoming a brick. The renewed church (the throne remained the same - wooden) at the invitation of Alexander's father was painted by the famous Moscow artist - Lev Nikolayevich Sharkhun.

Soon after the opening of the Nicholas Church in the farm, a parish school was opened, about 80 children became its students.

The main occupation of the inhabitants of the farm has always been cultivation ; About 30 thousand acres of land were allotted for these purposes. The farm also had three windmills, several retail shops.

With the advent of Soviet power in January 1920, a village council was created in the Gukovo farm, which was called Gukovo-Gnilushansky. It included the farms Gukovo, Ivanovka, Chuevo, Mars. Here in February 1929 the Red Partisan collective farm was formed, which was one of the first in the Sulinsky district. Initially, there were only seven yards in it, and after a year - already 180.

In the thirties, a club, shops, a seven-year school were rebuilt in the farm. A sand quarry was actively developed behind the farm, from which sand was delivered to the Gukovo station via a narrow-gauge road. Later, a small brick factory began to work here, where they burned clay dishes, made bricks. In 1939, the first mine No. 39 was put into operation, and in March 1941, mine No. 3 was launched.

During the Great Patriotic War, the farm was occupied by the Wehrmacht . Upon his release, five soldiers of the 47th Guards Rifle Division were killed. In their honor, a monument was erected in the center of the farm.

At the beginning of the XXI century , an asphalt road passes through the farm. In the center, a Culture House with a library, a school, an administrative building with a liaison office, new shops were rebuilt. On the outskirts of the farm operates a large modern mine "Diamond" ^[2] .

The farm has 4 bridges, 311 private farmsteads, 309 private farms, a feldsher-midwife station, a secondary school, a library, a club, and the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker .

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