Velikoselye (Crimea)

The 2001 All-Ukrainian Census showed the following distribution by native speakers ^[9]

Population Dynamics

For 2017, there are 3 streets in Velikoselye ^[22] ; the area occupied by the village is 101.6 hectares, in which, in 195 yards, according to the village council for 2009, there were 582 inhabitants ^[20] . In the village there is an elementary school-kindergarten ^[23] , a feldsher-midwife station ^[24] , a rural house of culture ^[25] . Velikoselye is connected by bus with Simferopol , the district center and neighboring settlements ^[26] .

Velikoselye is located in the northern part of the region, in the steppe Crimea, at the source of the Velikoselskaya beam ^[27] , currently it is the main collector No. 11 of the North Crimean Canal . About 3 kilometers southwest was the disappeared village of Amur

The height of the village center above sea level is 11 m ^[28] . The distance to Nizhnegorsky is about 34 kilometers (along the highway) ^[29] , the nearest railway station is Azov (on the Dzhankoy – Feodosiya line ) —about 16 kilometers ^[30] , Sivash about 13 kilometers. Transport communication is carried out along the regional highway 35N-167 Azov - Lyubimovka ^[31] (according to the Ukrainian classification - S-0-10443 ^[32] ).

The historical name of the village is Toganash-Min, in the documents of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries, there is mainly a Russified version of the spelling of Taganashmin. The name consists of two components. The first - Toganash ( Crimean-Tat. Toğanaş ) - is a Turkic personal name that can be translated into Russian as "falcon" (derived from the Crimean Tatar word toğan - "falcon" with the help of the diminutive affix aş ). The second component - Min ( Crimean-Tat. Miñ ) - means “thousand” in translation from the steppe dialect of the Crimean Tatar language and goes back, in this case, to the name of the Kipchak tribal association. This name is also found in other Crimean place names: Karamin, Saray-Min, Jaga-Min, Biyuk- and Kuchuk-Min, Min-Jaba, Minler, Minlerchik. The spelling of Taganashmin spread in the second half of the 19th century, when the village was inhabited by Russians, due to the fact that in Russian the unstressed is pronounced as a . ^{[33] [34]}

In the well-known documents of the times of the Crimean Khanate, Taganashmin is not mentioned, in the Cameral Description of the Crimea in 1784, the village of Togan Eli Deep Chongarsky Kadylyk of the Karasbazar Kaymakanism is recorded ^[35] . After the annexation of Crimea to Russia (8) April 19, 1783 ^[36] , (8) February 19, 1784, by the registered decree of Catherine II to the Senate , in the territory of the former Crimean Khanate, the Tauride Region was formed and the village was assigned to Perekop county ^[37] . After the Pavlovsk reforms, from 1796 to 1802, it was part of the Perekop county of Novorossiysk province ^[38] . According to the new administrative division, after the creation of the Tauride province on October 8 (20), 1802 ^[39] , Taganashmin was defined as the center of the Taganashminsky volost of the Perekop district.

According to the Vedomosti of all villages, in Perekop county consisting of the number of yards and souls in the volost ... dated October 21, 1805 , in Taganashmina 102 Crimean Tatars and 4 yassers (former slaves) lived in 19 houses and at the mosque ^[10] . On the military topographic map of Major General Mukhin in 1817, 15 yards are indicated in the village of Togonash ^[40] . In 1829, as a result of administrative reform, the Taganashminsky volost was liquidated, and the village, according to the Vedomosti on the official volosts of the Tauride province of 1829 , was attached to the Bashkiri volost (renamed Taganashminsky) ^[41] . Taganashmin, apparently empty due to some of the numerous emigrations of the Crimean Tatars to Turkey in the 19th century ^[42] and two Taganashmins — Biyuk and Kuchuk — are marked on the 1842 map, both with the symbol “a small village of less than 5 yards” ^[43] .

In the 1860s, after the Zemstvo reform of Alexander II , the village was assigned to the Baigonchek volost . According to the “List of Populated Places of the Tauride Province according to the Information of 1864” compiled according to the results of the VIII revision of 1864, Toganash-Ming is an owner-owned Tatar village with 12 courtyards and 33 inhabitants with wells and a note that there are two separate sections on the military topographic map: Biyuk -Toganash-Min and Kuchuk-Toganash-Min ^[11] , and, according to the Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1867 , the village was abandoned by residents, due to the emigration of the Crimean Tatars, especially the mass after the Crimean War of 1853-1856, to Turkey ^{[ 44]} and remains in ruins ^[45] . Soon settlement with immigrants from Ukraine began and the Toganash Min farm with 1 yard was already marked on a three-verst map of 1865–1876 ^[46] . According to the Memorial Book of the Tauride Province of 1889, there were already 33 yards and 219 inhabitants in the village ^[12] .

After the Zemstvo reform of 1890 ^[47] Taganashmin was attributed to Ak-Sheikh volost . The census of 1897 recorded 610 residents in the village, of which 548 were Orthodox ^[13] . According to the "... Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1900" in Aleksandrovka, aka Taganashmin, there were 507 inhabitants in 35 yards ^[14] . In 1914, a zemstvo school operated in the village ^[48] . According to the Statistical Directory of the Tauride Province. Part II. Statistical essay, Issue 5 Perekop Uyezd, 1915 , in the village of Novo-Aleksandrovka (also Taganashmin) of the Ak-Sheikh volost of the Perekop Uyezd there were 90 yards (all with their own land) with a Russian population of 658 registered residents and 93 - " strangers ”(390 men and 361 women), who owned 35,470 tithes of comfortable land and 100 tithes of inconvenience and had 732 horses, 412 oxen, 250 cows, 175 foals and calves and 2800 small livestock ^{on the} farms ^[15] .

After the establishment of Soviet power in Crimea, according to the resolution of the Krymrevkom of January 8, 1921 No. 206 "On changing administrative borders", the volost system was abolished, Perekop district was renamed Dzhankoysky, in which Dzhankoysky district was created ^[49] . In 1922, counties were transformed into districts ^[50] . On October 11, 1923, according to the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the administrative division of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was amended, as a result of which the districts were abolished and the Dzhankoy district became the main administrative unit ^[51] and the village was included in its composition. According to the List of settlements of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic according to the All-Union Census on December 17, 1926 , in the village of Taganashmin, Taganash village council of the Dzhankoy district, there were 163 households, 142 of them peasant, the population was 834 people, of which 789 were Russians, 31 Ukrainians, 5 Greeks, 2 Estonians , 1 German, 1 Bulgarian, 1 Czech, 4 are written in the column “other”, a Russian school was operating ^[17] . The resolution of the Presidium of the Crimean Central Executive Committee “On the Formation of a New Administrative Territorial Network of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic” dated January 26, 1935 ^[52] created the Kolay district ^[53] (by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on December 14, 1944 renamed Azov ^[54] ) and Taganashmin with the village council, reassigned to the new district ^[55] . According to the All-Union Population Census of 1939, 618 people lived in the village ^[18] .

In 1944, after the liberation of Crimea from the Nazis, on August 12, 1944, Resolution No. GOKO-6372c “On the Relocation of Collective Farmers to the Crimea” was adopted ^[56] and in September 1944 the first new settlers (162 families) arrived from Zhitomir in the Azov region of Crimea. region , and in the early 1950s a second wave of immigrants from various regions of Ukraine followed ^[57] . Since June 25, 1946 Taganashmin as part of the Crimean region of the RSFSR ^[58] . By a decree of the Presidium of May 18, 1948, Taganashmin was renamed Velikoselye ^[59] . April 26, 1954 the Crimean region was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR ^[60] . The time of inclusion in the Kovrovsky village council has not yet been established: on June 15, 1960, the village was already in its composition ^[61] .

In 1962, according to the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR “On the enlargement of rural areas of the Crimean region”, dated December 30, 1962, the Azov region was included in the Dzhankoysky ^[62] , and on January 1, 1965, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR “On amendments to administrative zoning of the Ukrainian SSR - in the Crimean region ”, the Nizhnegorsky district was re-formed, which included Velikoselye ^[63] . In 1974, Chkalovsky ^[20] was allocated from the Kovrovsky Village Council, to which Velikoselye was assigned ^[64] . Since February 12, 1991, a village in the restored Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ^[65] , on February 26, 1992, was renamed the Autonomous Republic of Crimea ^[66] . Since March 21, 2014 - as part of the Republic of Crimea of ​​Russia ^[67] .

• Chkalovsky Village Council // Cities and villages of Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The city of Sevastopol. Historical and local history essays. - Glory of Sevastopol, 2009.
• Administrative-territorial transformations in the Crimea. 1783-1998 Handbook / Ed. G. N. Grzhibovskoy . - Simferopol: Tavria-Plus, 1999 .-- 464 p. - ISBN 966-7503-22-4 .

• from Velikosіll Avtonomna Respublika Krim, Nizhnyogirsky district (Ukrainian) (inaccessible link - history ) . Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Date of treatment October 5, 2015.
• Map sheet L-36-94 Nizhnegorsky . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1989. 1998 edition
• Nizhnegorsky district. Map: old and new names