Soldatskoe (Fatezhsky district)

It is located 8 km east of Fatezh on the left bank of the river Usozhi , not far from the confluence of the Ruda River. Altitude - 168 m ^[3] .

Until the 13th century, an ancient Slavic settlement was located on the territory of Soldiersky, which was subsequently destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars during the campaign of Khan Batu to Russia.

The modern village of Soldatskoye arose in the 1st half of the 17th century, during the reign of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich . Initially, there was a ferry crossing through Usozhu, for the protection of which a guard post was organized and soldiers settled, partly transferred from the territory of the modern Ponyrovsky and Zolotukhin districts, and partly from Orel and Krom . From the village of Koronino , Pavlov’s single palaces were relocated here, from the village of Manshino - Luniny, from the village of Prilepy - Gorbunov, from the village of Goryainovo - Volobuev. In total, no less than 20 soldier families were settled here.

In the XVII-XVIII centuries, the village was part of the Usogsky camp of the Kursk district . In 1779 it was included in Fatezh district . Some of the villagers were state peasants, some - landlords. At different times, there were estates of the nobles of the Krivtsov , Makovlev, Kheletsky-Simantovsky, Rapp and others. According to the 9th revision of 1850, the Soldiers' peasants were owned by: Lieutenant Iosaf Stepanovich Shenshin (116 male souls), titular adviser Andrei Simantovsky (9 MD) and Major Semyon Simantovsky (6 MD) ^{[4 ]} . In 1861, the village was included in the Christmas parish . In 1862, there was 61 yards in the village, the population was 870 people (451 males and 419 females), the Orthodox Church of the Intercession was operating (has not survived to this day), which previously stood out from the parish of the Christmas Church in the neighboring village of Shakhovo ^[5] . In 1868, a parish school was opened in the village. The first teacher of the school was Mikhail Alekseevich Afanasyev. By 1877, there were 157 households in the Soldiersky, 983 people lived ^[6] . In the early 1880s, the village was transferred to Dmitrievsky volost . At the Pokrovsky church in the village there were two zemstvo schools, and in 1895 a parochial school was opened here, located in a specially built stone room at the church. More than 80 children were trained with the allocated funds of the parish (45 rubles annually), they had at their disposal a temple library, which consisted of 70 volumes, Russian periodicals and competent tutors.

In 1897, 874 people lived in the village, the entire population of the Soldiers professed Orthodoxy ^[7] .

During the Civil War, during the Orel-Kromsky battle , in the early morning of November 14, 1919, the arrows of the 3rd Latvian brigade on the site of the Soldatskoye village broke through the defenses of the White Guards. With a strong snowstorm, a team of red Cossacks together with the Latvian 3rd Kuban cavalry regiments almost without a fight reached the area of ​​the Lgov railway station ^[8] .

After the establishment of Soviet power, the village became the administrative center of the Soldier's Village Council. In 1924-1928, the Soldier’s was part of the Alisov volost of the enlarged Kursk district. In 1928 it was included in the Fatezhsky district . In 1937 there were 193 courtyards. During the Great Patriotic War, from October 25, 1941 to February 1943, the village was in the zone of Nazi occupation. As of 1955, the center of the Chapaev collective farm was located here. In 1965, the village of Zarechye and the village of Konchanka were attached to the Soldiers' ^[9] .

A soldier’s basic comprehensive school operates in the village ^[12] .

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