Ksenievka (Omsk region)

The village of Ksenyevka, Isilkulsky District, Omsk Region, was founded in 1895 along with the village of Ukrainka, who came from the village of Vasyutino, Zolotonoshsky Uyezd, Poltava Province. ^[2]

Here is what the Ksenievka Atlas of Asian Russia reports in 1914:

“Akmola region, Omsk district, Ukrainian volost, the village of Ksenievsky. Postal operations are carried out at the Ukrainian volost board through the Isil-Kul station. Residents of the village of Ksenievsky ask the treasury to build their own temple from them, in order to stand out in a new independent parish. The parish consists of the village of Krasnaya Gorka and the village of Ksenyevsky in 18 miles. Parishioners in them have a male gender of 877 souls and 792 souls of a female gender.

The church in this village began to be built in 1907 at the expense of the fund named after Emperor Alexander III, and partly at the expense of parishioners. The building is wooden on a brick foundation. There is only one throne in the name of the Holy Martyr Queen Empress Alexandra. The church is poor in utensils. There are special cemeteries in the villages of Ksenyevka and Sharovka of the Ukrainian Volost and the village of Platovo in the Poltava Volost.

The parish consists exclusively of immigrants from the Poltava, Chernihiv, Kherson provinces and the Region of the Don army.

In the village of Ksenievsky there are 3 Lutheran families (19 souls of both sexes).

In the village of Ksenyevka there is a one-class school of the Ministry of Education, in which the local priest teaches the Law of God, receiving 100 rubles a year.

All arable land is leased at 1 ruble per tithing. There are few hay lands. For heating, firewood is purchased from the Kyrgyz, 12 rubles per cubic fathom of birch firewood.

At Easter, there are no walks with holy icons, but there are walks in all the houses of parishioners with a holy cross. Religious processions in the fields occur annually after sowing, but there are no prayers at home.

The average sowing time for the prosperous is up to 30 acres, in the middle - 20; They sow wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat. Oats are kept only for their own needs. Dairy farming is not developed. There are two small shops in the village.

The population uses drinking water from the lake. Water of good quality. There are no wells.

The fare for a pair of horses is 6 kopecks per mile.

Isil-Kul from the Kyrgyz "Captain's Lake".

Ksenievka was on state lands in use of the Kyrgyz and other nomadic peoples. Along the entire border, between the resettlement plots and lands used by nomadic peoples, Cossack lands were located: from the Caspian Sea - Uralsk - Orenburg - Orsk - Troitsk - Pavlodar - Semipalatinsk - the Narymsky ridge. " ^[3]