Upper Kurgan

The 2001 All-Ukrainian Census showed the following distribution by native speakers ^[10]

Population dynamics

In Verkhnekurgann, 5 streets ^[22] , the area occupied by the village, 34.5 hectares, in which in 215 yards, according to the village council for 2009, there were 667 inhabitants ^[23] , is connected by bus service to Simferopol ^[24] . In the village there is a kindergarten "Murzilka" ^[25] , previously a comprehensive school of I — III levels worked ^[26] .

Verkhnekurgannoye village is located in the east of the district, approximately 22 kilometers from Simferopol ^[27] and 6.5 kilometers along Highway 35N-509 ^[28] (according to Ukrainian classification C-0-11314 ^[29] ) north of the 35K-003 highway ^{[ 28]} (according to the Ukrainian classification P-23 Simferopol - Feodosiya ^[29] ), the nearest railway station Simferopol is about 25 kilometers. The village is located at the junction of the foothill and steppe zones of the Crimea, in the beam of the Osma stream ^[30] (formerly Asma ^[31] ), the left tributary of the Zui river, the height of the village center above sea level is 269 m ^[32] . The neighboring villages of Dmitrovo are about 3 kilometers higher along the gully and Nizhnekurgannoe 1.5 kilometers lower, the Donskoye 5 and Litvinenkovo ​​of the Belogorsk region 4 kilometers.

The first documentary mention of the village is found in the Cameral Description of the Crimea ... in 1784, judging by which, in the last period of the Crimean Khanate , the Aschaga rychik kadylyk of Akmechet Kimakanstvo was included in the village of Asma ^[33] . After the annexation of the Crimea to Russia (8) on April 19, 1783 ^[34] , (8) on February 19, 1784, by the decree of Catherine II the senate , the Tauride region was formed in the territory of the former Crimean Khanate and the village was assigned to the Simferopol district ^[35] . After the Pavlovian reforms, from 1796 to 1802, it was part of Akmechetsky district of Novorossiysk province ^[36] . According to the new administrative division, after the creation of Taurida province on October 8 (20), 1802, Asma was incorporated into the Kadikoy parish of the Simferopol district.

In the Vedomosti of all the villages in the Simferopol district consisting of the testimony in which the volosts are as many courtyards and souls as of October 9, 1805 , there are two villages: Asma and Ashagha-Asma. In Asma itself, there were 13 courtyards, 70 inhabitants of the Crimean Tatars and 6 Gypsies, and the land belonged to a certain Major Yegorov ^[11] . On the military topographic map of Major General Mukhin of 1817, the Upper Osma is marked with 18 yards ^[31] . After the administrative reform of 1829, according to the Vedomosti of the state-owned volosts of the Tauride Gubernia of August 31, 1829, the Upper Osma was subordinated to the Sarabuz Volost ^[38] . Then, apparently, due to the emigration of the Crimean Tatars to Turkey ^[39] , the village was very empty and on the map of 1842, Upper Osma was designated by the symbol “small village” - that is, less than 5 courtyards ^[30] .

In the 1860s, after the reform of Alexander II of the Zemstvo , the village remained part of the Sarabuz parish that was transformed. In the List of Populated Places of the Taurida Governorate, according to the information of 1864, Yukhary-Asma is an owner Tatar village with 6 yards, 31 inhabitants and a mosque at the source of Kalmu-Kary ^[12] (according to the three- map map of 1865–1876 there are also 6 yards in the village ^[40] ) . According to the “Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1867” , the village of Yukhary Asma was abandoned by residents in 1860–1864, as a result of the emigration of the Crimean Tatars, especially the mass after the Crimean War of 1853–56 , to Turkey ^[41] and remained in ruins ^{[42 ]} . In the "Memorial Book of the Tauride Province of 1889", according to the results of the X Revision of 1887, the village is not mentioned ^[43] .

After the Zemsky reform of 1890 ^{[44], the} village was assigned to the Tabulda parish . According to "... the memorial book of the Tauride province for 1892," in the village of Yukhary-Asma, which was part of the Alekseevskoye rural society , there were 64 inhabitants in 9 households, all landless ^[13] . In the "... Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1902," the village of Yukhary-Asma is already listed as a certain Esipovich, in which there were no resident population and households ^[45] . According to the Statistical directory of Tavricheskaya province. Part II. Statistical essay, issue of the sixth Simferopol district, 1915 , in the Osma villages of Upper and Lower (aka Yukhary and Ashaga-Asma) of the Tabulda volost of Simferopol district there were 17 yards with a mixed population of 170 registered residents and 38 - “outsiders” ^{[14 ]} .

After the establishment of Soviet power in Crimea, by the decision of Krymrevkom dated January 8, 1921 ^[46] the volost system was abolished and the village was included in the newly created Sarabuzsky district of Simferopol district, and in 1922 the counties were called districts ^[47] . On October 11, 1923, according to the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, changes were made to the administrative division of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which resulted in the liquidation of the Sarabuzsky district and the formation of Simferopol and the village included in its composition ^[48] . According to the All-Union Census of the Crimean ASSR on December 17, 1926 , in the village of Osma Verkhnyaya, the Osminsky Village Council of the Simferopol District, there were 36 courtyards, of which 25 were peasant, the population was 175, including 96 Armenians, 74 Russians, 2 Germans , 1 Ukrainian, 1 Jew, 1 recorded in the column “Others”, an Armenian school operated ^[17] . By a resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of June 10, 1937, a new, Zuisky district ^[49] and a village council, together with the village, were reassigned to the new district ^[50] . According to the all-Union census of 1939, 146 people lived in the village ^[18] .

In 1944, after the liberation of the Crimea from the fascists, according to the Decree of the State Defense Committee No. 5984ss of June 2, 1944, the Crimean Armenians were deported to Central Asia ^[51] . On August 12, 1944, Resolution No. GOKO-6372c was adopted “On the resettlement of collective farmers to the regions of Crimea” ^[52] and in September 1944 the first new settlers (212 families) from the Rostov , Kiev and Tambov regions arrived in the area, and in the early 1950s A second wave of immigrants from various regions of Ukraine ^[53] followed. On August 21, 1945, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR , the Osminsky Village Council was renamed Kurganovsky and the village of Osma Kurgannoe ^[54] , while the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR dated May 18, 1948 renamed Verkhne-Kurgano ^[55] .

From June 25, 1946, the Upper Osma as part of the Crimean Region of the RSFSR ^[56] . For 1953, the population was 558 people ^[23] . On April 26, 1954, the Crimea region was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR ^[57] . In 1959, Zuisky District ^[58] was abolished and the village was again reassigned to Simferopol. The time of inclusion in the Krasnokrymsky Village Council has not yet been established: by June 15, 1960, the village was already listed as a member ^[59] . By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR “On the Enlargement of the Rural Districts of the Crimean Region” dated December 30, 1962, the Simferopol District was abolished and the village was attached to Belogorsk ^{[60] [61]} . On January 1, 1965, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR “On Amendments to the Administrative Zoning of the Ukrainian SSR — in the Crimean Region” ^[62] , they were again incorporated into Simferopol. By the decision of the Crimean Executive Committee of July 27, 1962 No. 784, the Krasnokrym Village Council was renamed Donskoy, the center of the council was moved to Donskoye ^[48] , which included Verkhnekurganny ^[63] . According to the 1989 census , 635 people lived in the village ^[18] . Since February 12, 1991, the village was restored in the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ^[64] , on February 26, 1992, renamed the Autonomous Republic of Crimea ^[65] . From March 21, 2014 - as part of the Republic of Crimea of ​​Russia ^[66] .