Neighbor (Penza region)

The village is located 24 km west of the district center - the village of Bashmakovo . Railway station on the Penza - Ryazhsk line .

It was founded on the lands of General Lev Aleksandrovich Naryshkin in the first half of the 19th century as part of the Morshansk district of the Tambov province . First mentioned in the document under 1853 as a village at r. Shushla and the top of the Dubovoy stream, 46 yards, 411 residents, there was a brick factory. The peasants were transferred by the landowner from the neighboring village. Loud. According to legend, the first settlers left the neighboring village of Naryshkino, where there was an office of the estate manager, hence the name Neighbor (neighboring village). Before the abolition of serfdom, the village of Sosedka was shown to Emmanuil Dmitrievich Naryshkin, 190 peasants' revision souls, 95 tyhol (corvée), peasants 46 yards on 70 tithes of manor land (including 28 dessiatines under hemp trees), 570 dessiatins. arable land, 96 dess. hayfields, common pasture, the landowner has 834 dess. convenient land, including forests and shrubs 47 dess., in addition, 30 dess. inconvenient land (Appendix to the Works, t.3, Morsh. at., No. 54).

In 1874, rail traffic began. In 1887, the nobleman Pavel Ivanovich Markov (one of the contractors for the construction of the Morshansko-Syzran railway) had here 782 acres of arable land, 137 acres of haymaking; farmyard, 12 permanent workers, 53 working horses, 28 cows, 41 heifers, 40 bulls, 136 sheep, 43 pigs. In 1881, peasants (541 people) had arable land of 3 tithes per revision soul, 172 working horses (8 horseless yards), 88 cows, 390 sheep, 84 pigs, 5 beekeepers (45 decks). In 1881, peasants in 86 households had 582 tithes of allotment land, 156 dessiatines. rented, there were 172 work horses, 88 cows, 390 sheep, 84 pigs, in 5 yards were engaged in beekeeping (45 hives), there were no gardens. In 1897, the estate of P.I. Markova (32 inhabitants) was shown at the village of Sosedka, and the house of G.N. Shestakova (9 inhabitants). In 1881 there was a tavern in the village, in 1888 - a parish church, in 1913 - a zemstvo school. In 1913, the economy of Pavlina Ivanovna Markova, a parish school, was shown in the village.

In 1928 - 1959 - the district center of the Neighborhood district of the Central Black Earth region , since 1939 - as part of the Penza region .

In 1934 - the central estate of the collective farm "Red Ear". In 1936, an incomplete secondary school was opened. In 1955 - the collective farm named after Kirov. In 1993, an agricultural partnership (355 workers) arose on the basis of the Sosersky state farm, specializing in the production of sugar beets, grain, and cattle rearing. In the same year, 35 employees of the railway lived in the village. There was a hospital with 40 beds, a secondary school (205 students), a cultural center, a library, a consumer services center, a post office, and a cafe.

The dynamics of the population of the village:

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