Kozlovka (Pilninsky district)

The village is located on the high picturesque left bank of the Sura River. There are three orders in the village: "Old Street", "Podgorka", "New Order". Officially, there is one street - River. The entrance is year-round, in the village there is gas, water, electricity.

The copses around the village are mixed with the predominance of oak, hazel, aspen. There is a pine forest. A lot of blackberries, wild raspberries, currants, wild strawberries, field strawberries. Mushrooms are mainly: honey agarics, russula, valui (for example, the etymology "Grandfather Mikitka"), brown boletus, chanterelles.

Most of the land for personal subsidiary plots is black soil with a slight sandy loam.

The rivers Sura, Piana, lakes, within walking distance. The area is ecologically clean.

Near the village of Bortsurmani, in the village of the Assumption Church, in which the relics of the holy righteous Alexy Bortsurmansky (peace. Alexy Gneushev) rest.

The anthropological type is predominantly mixed Slavic - Mordovian (Erzya), there are Chuvashs, Armenians. Russian language, mixed dialect (linguistic analysis required), there are archaisms - shabra (neighbor), etc.

Surnames bear a double connotation (the first part is official, the second nickname)

Semenov-Kostylev,

Semenov-Molyushkin,

Noskov-Vankov,

Noskov-Isaevs,

Andreev-Yashanov.

There is no autochthonous population, all immigrants are mostly old-timers, but there are also new settlers, as well as summer residents.

Employment: SEC "Country Defense", work in Pilna. Individual farms: gardening, truck farming, animal husbandry, beekeeping. Engaged in fishing, hunting, gathering.

Due to the extremely favorable location and access to biological resources, the assumption of earlier settlements is allowed, both from the Finno-Ugric tribes, and from the Volga Bulgars. Tales tell of Great Sarah, of Babyn Hill, of the camps of Novgorod Ushkuyniki, of the Kazan campaign of Tsar Ivan 4 “Terrible,” of the uprisings of Stepan Razin and Emelka Pugachev. Additional source study is required.

The first indicative information about the village of Kozlovka dates back to the end of the 17th century, probably 1696, when the landowner of the village of Androsovo in the modern Gaginsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, possibly Brekhov Mikhail Stepanovich transferred the families of the serfs Shulaevs and Semenovs to a new settlement in Kurmyshsky uyezd. The village was called Kozlovka. Most presumably, this toponymic name was assigned to the village in connection with the sawmill from the word Kozly - a wooden machine for sawing wood, since soon the peasants of the village of Kozlovka by decree of Peter 1 were assigned to the admiralty for the purpose of sawing and transporting oak. The second likely name is associated with KozloVki. many lower carum carvi plant, caraway seeds, gunba. (See V.I. Dahl), which is the least likely. The patronym is also doubtful.

The village was part of the Kurmysh district of Simbirsk governorate, since 1796, as part of the Simbirsk province, according to the words of local historians on the will of Brekhov Kozlovka in 1847, it was transferred along with the fortresses to the Mariinsky Institute of Noble Maidens (it is unlikely since the institute was opened only in 1852) , since 1921, a village in the Sergach district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, at present the village is part of the Bortsurmansky village council of the Pilninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region .

In 1930, after the dispossession of Semenov D.N., Semenov N.F., Noskov V.I., the collective farm "Krasnaya Gorka No. 2" was organized under the chairmanship of Petr Dmitrievich Shulaev, a member of the CPSU since 1928. In 1951 or 1952, by decision of the general meetings of the collective farmers, five collective farms merged: "The Defense of the Country", "Bolshevik", "Red Hill No. 2", "Defense of the Revolution" and "14 Years of October" into one collective farm "Defense of the Country", Currently, SEC "Country Defense".

Residents of the village of Kozlovka participating in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945:

Dobrolyubov Nikolay Ivanovich, was born in 1908 in the village of Kozlovka. It is called up in 1941. Lance Sergeant. He was awarded the medals "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.", "For courage . " After the war he worked on a collective farm.

Noskov Vladimir Vladimirovich, was born in 1910 in the village of Kozlovka.

It is called up in 1941. Private. He participated in the battles for the liberation of Warsaw and for the capture of Berlin. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Courage" and two medals "For Military Merit" . After the war, he worked as an ordinary collective farmer. He died in 1995, was buried in with Bortsurmany.

Noskov Ivan Semenovich, was born in 1912 in the village of Kozlovka.

It is called up in 1941. Twice wounded. Disabled person of World War II. After the war, he worked as an ordinary collective farmer.

Shikhrankin Nikolai Ivanovich, born in 1918 in the village of Kozlovka.

It is called up in 1941. Disabled person of World War II. After the war, he worked as a seller.

Shulaev Petr Vasilievich, was born in 1919 in the village of Kozlovka.

It is called up in 1939. Personnel military, served in intelligence. He was awarded the medal "For Courage" and others. Disabled person of World War II. After the war, he worked as an ordinary collective farmer.

Currently, the village of Kozlovka is one of the promising places for recreation (lat. Recreatio - restoration).

• OKATO in the Nizhny Novgorod region