Tashilka

Located on the banks of the Tashelka River, 30 km north of Togliatti , 45 km south of Dimitrovgrad and 80 km north-west of Samara .

The local road Dimitrovgrad - Tashelka - Tolyatti passes through the village, in the village there are roads leading to Verkhniy Suskan and Sosnovka .

The name comes from the Turkic "tash" - stone, "tashly" - stony. So usually called the river with a stone bed.

The village appeared on the lands of the Stavropol Kalmyk army, leased in 1776 to Russian peasants for 60 years. The first mention of the village dates back to 1794.

Since the founding of the village was inhabited by the palace peasants (since 1797 - specific peasants ). Next to the lands of the Taselk rural community were the estates of the Counts Orlov-Davydovs .

In 1800 a wooden church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was built in the village. In 1852, an open female single-class folk school, and in 1867 a Zemskaya school was opened. In 1904, instead of a wooden church, a stone church was built, one of the largest in the Stavropol district .

Villagers took part in the revolution of 1905-07. It is known that on December 9, 1905, they participated in the defeat of the estate of the landowner Yarovsky in Zelenovka : they burned down the landlord's house, and brought bread and equipment to Tashelka.

In 1910, the village became the center of the Tashlinsky volost of the Stavropol district of the Samara province . In August of the same year, an epidemic of cholera began in the village.

Before the revolution , the main occupation of the peasants of the village was numerous handicrafts - blacksmithing, shepherds, wheeled, carting, hunting, and construction. Among the peasants were also sawyers, scribes, carpenters, plowmans, tailors, beekeepers, korchevshchiki, painters, millers, Sherstobita, shoemakers, syromyatniki, coachmen ^[2] .

In March 1918, Soviet power was established in Tashelka. In the summer of 1918, the village was occupied by White Czechs - in the Stavropol district a battalion of White Czech legionnaires was located. St. George In October 1918, units of the Red Army entered the village.

In the 1920s, the church was closed and looted.

Before the Great Patriotic War, a seven-year school opened in the village.

In 2008, a monument to soldiers killed in the Great Patriotic War was destroyed in the village. The village administration explained the demolition of the monument by the construction of a new school. ^[3] .

• Victor Mikhailovich Remnev - a veteran of World War II , full gentleman of the Order of Glory .
• Pyotr Matveyevich Butaev - excavator, Hero of Socialist Labor.

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  St. Menzhinsky

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  Memorial to the dead fellow villagers

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  Kindergarten

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  Rural houses