Vasilyevka (Stavropol district)

Vasilievskaya Sloboda was founded in the late 1740s. Its first population was arable soldiers, more than half of the population were Kalmyks.

In 1797, the settlement became the property of the department. In the XIX century, the village was part of the 6th Stavropol specific estate.

The settlement belonged to the arrival of the Stavropol Trinity Cathedral . In 1898, the single-throne wooden Michael-Archangel Church was built, which was consecrated in 1900 by Bishop Guriy .

In 1910, the population of the village was 1,485 souls in 360 yards. During the Stolypin reform, 177 owners were allocated to cuts and bought 1967 hectares of land. The rural community owned 2672 hectares of arable land.

In 1915, the population was 1784 people, of whom only 144 were literate.

In March 1918, Soviet power was established in the village. However, during the rebellion of the Czechoslovak corps, the village was captured. Some residents were shot, some, like P. Ye. Shcherin, a delegate to the I and II All-Russian Congresses of Soviets, fell into the "death train." Soviet power was restored in October 1918.

In 1919, the village population was 1147 people in 356 yards. In September 1919, Fedorovskaya volost was renamed Vasilyevskaya.

In 1920, there were 1 mills in the village, two mechanical mills. During the famine in the Volga region , 987 children and 732 adults were among the starving in the village. Three canteens were opened for help by the ARA and one canteen was opened by the Russian-American Committee for Helping Children.

In 1922, four agricultural communes were created in the village.

In 1923, the Stavropol district was liquidated. Vasilievka also entered the enlarged Stavropol volost.

On December 15, 1923, a church burned down in the village. For the needs of believers, the village council house was given up.

In the 1920s, an oil processing enterprise, two forges, a shoe shop, two felting shops, a sewing workshop, three private and one cooperative shops, a reading room, a library at the village council for 1,500 books operated in the village.

In 1928, the agricultural peasant Red Peasant was established, with an area of ​​sown land of 1000 hectares, in 1929 there appeared artels named after Chapaev and Lenin's Way. In 1930, the cooperatives merged into the collective farm “Lenin's Way”. The collective farm of the Nizhne-Sancheleevskaya MTS was serviced.

During the construction of the Kuybyshev hydroelectric station in 1950-1953, 267 families were resettled from Vasilievka from Kuneevka, Zelenovka, and Fedorovka .

In 1956-1958 the collective farm “The Way of Lenin” was enlarged by joining the Iskra collective farm (the village of Dawn) and the collective farm named after them. Khrushchev (village Zelenovka). In 1958, a high school was built.

On August 10, 1958, the village was visited by Nikita Khrushchev. He examined the corn fields and delivered a speech to the collective farmers, after which the government delegation was fed vegetables and fruits from the collective farm lands, as well as various dishes prepared from agricultural products. According to the correspondent of the newspaper Pravda, Khrushchev said: “It's nice to see with our own eyes how prosperous our collective farmers live now!”

In 1967, the four rebels who died in Vasilievka in 1918 were reburied. Their ashes were transferred to the center of the village, where an obelisk was erected.

In 1992, the ashes of a native of the village, Hero of the Soviet Union , Evgeny Nikonov , who died in 1941, were brought and solemnly reburied in Vasilievka.

• Evgeny Nikonov (1920-1941) - a sailor tortured into captivity during the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Fyodor Larin (1923-1943) - gunner who died during the Great Patriotic War.
• Valentina Savinova (1937-1996) - foreman of the integrated brigade of finishers, Hero of Socialist Labor , deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .
• Viktor Denisov (b. 1948) - Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the USSR and the Russian Federation, commander of the military transport aviation of Russia.

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  Collective farm board

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  Winter street in the village

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  House

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  Porch of a residential building

• Official site of the rural settlement Vasilyevka
• Vasilievka (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Archives Office of the Togliatti City Hall (2011-7-22). Date of treatment September 5, 2011. Archived on May 16, 2012.