Protective (Crimea)

The first documented mention of the village is found in the Cameral Description of the Crimea ... 1784, judging by which, in the last period of the Crimean Khanate, Meit was a member of the Nasyvsky Kadylyk of Karasubazar Kaymakanism ^[13] . After the annexation of Crimea to Russia (8) April 19, 1783 ^[14] , (8) February 19, 1784, by the registered decree of Catherine II to the Senate , the Tauride Region was formed on the territory of the former Crimean Khanate and the village was assigned to Perekop county ^[15] . After the Pavlovsk reforms, from 1796 to 1802, it was part of the Perekop county of Novorossiysk province ^[16] . According to the new administrative division, after the creation of the Tauride province ^on October 8 (20), 1802 ^[17] , Mesit was included in the Taganashminsky volost of the Perekop district.

According to the Vedomosti, about all the villages in Perekop district consisting of an indication in which the volost is the number of yards and souls ... dated October 21, 1805, 19 yards, 130 Crimean Tatars and 2 yassirs were in the village of Mechit ^[5] . On the military topographic map of Major General Mukhin in 1817, the village of Mesit is indicated with 13 courtyards ^[18] . After the reform of the volost division of 1829, Mesit, according to the Vedomosti on the official volosts of the Tauride province of 1829 , was assigned to the Bashkiry volost (renamed Taganashminskaya) ^[19] . On the map of 1842 in the village there are 22 courtyards ^[20] .

In the 1860s, after the Zemstvo reform of Alexander II , the village was assigned to the Baigonchek volost of the same county. In 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, Mesit (aka Kolay-Mesit) is the owner of the Tatar village, with 5 yards, 16 inhabitants and a mosque at the wells ^[6] . On the map of 1865–76, 4 yards are marked in the village of Mesit ^[21] . According to the Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1867 , the village of Mesit was abandoned by residents, as a result of the emigration of the Crimean Tatars, especially the mass after the Crimean War of 1853-1856, to Turkey ^[22] and lay in ruins ^[23] . According to the encyclopedic dictionary “Germans of Russia” , in 1867 Germans Lutherans settled in an empty village, on 988 acres of land ^[24] .

After the approval on July 3, 1871 by Alexander II of the Rules, the device of the settler-owners (former colonists) ^[25] , the village was assigned to the German Eigenfeld parish . In the "Memorial Book of the Tauride Province of 1889" , according to the results of the X revision of 1887, in the village of Mesit there were 9 yards and 71 inhabitants ^[7] .

After the Zemstvo reform of 1890 ^{[26] it was} assigned to the Totanai volost . According to the "... Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1892" , in the village of Mesit, attributed only to the volost, without a rural community , there were 19 inhabitants in 6 households ^[8] . According to the "... Memorial Book of the Tauride Province for 1900" in Mesita there were 121 inhabitants in 18 yards ^[9] , in 1905 - 60 and in 1911 - 78 ^[24] . According to the Statistical Directory of the Tauride Province. Part II. Statistical essay, Issue 5 Perekop Uyezd, 1915 , in the village of Mesit of the Totanai Volost of Perekop Uyezd there were 12 yards with a German population of 54 registered residents and 46 “outsiders” ^[10] .

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 and the Dzhankoy district was created as part of the Dzhankoy district ^[27] . In 1922, counties were transformed into districts ^[28] . 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 liquidated, the Dzhankoy district became the main administrative unit ^[29] 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 Mesit (and Kuremes Mesit ( waqf )) of the Meshensky village council of the Dzhankoy region, there were 22 yards, 20 of them were peasant, the population was 102 people, 92 of them Germans, 9 Ukrainians and 1 Russian ^[12] . In 1926, an elementary school operated in the village; during the period of collectivization, the collective farm “Giant” was created ^[24] . The decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee “On the reorganization of the network of regions of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic” of October 30, 1930, re-created the Biyuk-Onlarsky district ^[30] (previously existed from 1921 to October 11, 1923 ^[31] ), this time as the German national and the village became part of it ^[32] , and, after the formation of the Kolay district ^[29] in 1935 (renamed by decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR No. 621/6 dated December 14, 1944 to Azovsky ^[33] ), it was transferred to a new district. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II , on August 18, 1941, Crimean Germans were evicted, first to the Stavropol Territory , and then to Siberia and northern Kazakhstan ^[34] .

After the liberation of Crimea from the Nazis in April, August 12, 1944, Resolution No. GOKO-6372s “On the Relocation of Collective Farmers to the Crimea” was adopted ^[35] and in September 1944 the first new settlers (27 families) arrived from Kamenetz-Podolskaya and Kievskaya regions , and in the early 1950s a second wave of immigrants from various regions of Ukraine followed ^[36] . Since June 25, 1946, Mesit has been part of the Crimean region of the RSFSR ^[37] . By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of May 18, 1948, Mesit was renamed Zashchitnoye ^[38] . April 26, 1954 the Crimean region was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR ^[39] . On June 15, 1960 the village was listed as part of the May Village Council ^[40] .

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR "On the consolidation of rural areas of the Crimean region" of December 30, 1962, the Azov district was abolished and the village was rejoined by Dzhankoy ^{[41] [42]} . It was liquidated after June 1977, since according to the reference book “Crimean Region - 1977” it was still listed as part of the May Village Council ^[43] .

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• Map of Dzhankoy region of Crimea. Detailed map of Crimea - Dzhankoysky district (Neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . crimea-map.com.ua. Date of treatment April 24, 2015. Archived November 22, 2010.
• Map sheet L-36-94 Nizhnegorsky . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1989. 1998 edition