Obraztsovo (Tver Oblast)

In 1859, 5 versts from the city of Rzhev, on the Rzhev – Torzhok trade route, by the Kholinka river, the owner’s estate Fedyaevo (Novopetrovskoye) with 24 inhabitants was listed ^[1] . The owners of the estate in 1858 are Alexander Svechins , Vladimir and Peter Alekseevich. The estate also included the villages of Galakhova, Polunina, Ramene, Chentsova.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Fedyaevo was the owner’s estate, after the October Revolution, the village of Fedyaevo, Timofeevsky Volost of the Rzhevsky Uyezd at the place of the estate, the estate (village) disappeared in the 1930s.

During the Great Patriotic War , all the surrounding villages were destroyed. Around the neighboring village of Polunino in 1942, perhaps the most bloody battles in the history of the Second World War took place. After the war, villages began to revive. Near Polunino, just south of the former Fedyaevo estate, a new village called Obraztsovo arose. In 1964, the village council center was transferred to Obraztsovo from Polunin, and in the 1980s, the central estate of the state farm “25 years of Komsomol” was transferred from Zelenkino (within Rzhev). At this time, 10 single-family cottages, 20 two-, four- and twelve-apartment houses were built.

In 1997, in Obraztsovo 73 households, 199 residents; administration of the rural district, the board of the 25 years of Komsomol LLP, livestock farms, mechanical workshops, a kindergarten, a club, a first-aid post, a dining room, a bathhouse, a shop.

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