Ustvazha volost

Ustvazha volost was located in the north of Shenkur district, on the banks of the rivers Northern Dvina and Vaga .

Ust-Vaga was one of the possessions of Novgorodians in Zavolochye back in the XI - XII centuries ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} . Then the Ustvazhsky volost was part of the Ledsky camp of the Shenkur quarter of the Vazhsky district . Since 1780 - as part of Shenkur County .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Ustvazhsky specific order was formed, which included the Ust-Vazhskaya, Korbalskaya, Rostov , Shilengskaya, Prilutskaya, Osinovskaya, Slobodskaya, Ust-Vaenga, Esipovskaya, Bereznitskaya, Pyandskaya and Chazhestrovskaya volosts ^[5] . The peasants of the Ustvazhsky specific order prepared for the Arkhangelsk port in 1826 15 thousand quarters of charcoal, 2 thousand arshin fathoms and 50 three-arshin fathoms by contracts ^[6] . In 1837, Ustvazhskaya volost became part of the second police camp of the Shenkur district. In 1863, the Ustvazhsky specific order was transformed into a volost, and the volosts that were part of it were transformed into rural societies. In 1885, the volost government of the Ustvazhsky volost was transferred from Ust-Vagi to the village of Semenovskoye (now Bereznik ). In 1903, Ustvazhskaya volost became part of the third camp of Shenkur district. In 1918-1919, the volost was captured by the troops of the interventionists . The decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee "On the administrative division of the Arkhangelsk province" of June 9, 1924 , during the first stage of the enlargement of volosts, the Shilingo-Prilutskaya volost was included in the Ustvazha volost ^[7] . On January 1, 1926, there were 6 village councils in the Ustvazhivsky volost. October 4, 1926 issued a decree of the Central Executive Committee on the enlargement of volosts ^[8] . According to this decree, during the second stage of the enlargement of volosts, the territory abolished by the Vlasyevsky volost ( Morzhegori ) was included in the Ustvazha volost ^[9] .

In 1929 , after the liquidation of the provincial-district-volost administrative division, from the northern part of the Shenkur district (Ust-Vazhskaya volost (without the Morzhegorsky and Kalezhsky village councils that left to the Yemetsky district ), the Kurgominsky volost and the Kitsky rural council of the Shegovarsky volost ) the Bereznitsky district was created in the Arkhangelsk District of the Northern Territory .

Nowadays, the territory of the former Ustvazhsky volost occupies the northern part of the Vinogradovsky district of the Arkhangelsk region , being part of the Bereznikovsky city and Osinovsky , Ust-Vaengsky , Morzhegorsky rural settlements.

In 1785, 807 people lived in Ustvazhsky volost. In 1918 in the Ustvazhsky volost there were 2920 people of both sexes. According to the 1926 census , 8,396 people lived in the Ustvazha volost.

• Zarubin L. A.: Vazhskaya land in the XIV — XV centuries - History of the USSR