Mologino (Tver Oblast)

Mologino is an ancient village founded, according to legend, in the XIII century by immigrants from the Mologa River.

In the XIX - early XX centuries, Mologino was a large trading village on the Rzhev – Torzhok highway. In 1859, in the state-owned village of Mologino, Staritsky district, 60 yards, 487 inhabitants ^[1] . In 1886, in the village of 97 yards, 538 residents; there is a church, a rural school, 4 small shops, a wine and a tea shop, 2 dyes, 3 forges, a wool shop and a shoe shop; volost government (in the Mologinskaya volost of the Staritsky district - 24 villages, 5986 inhabitants) ^[2] .

The Transfiguration Church in Mologino, built in 1815 (destroyed in 1941), in the Mologinsky parish in 1914, the villages of Gorbyl, Kolupaevo, Kresty , Rudnitsa, Mikhailiki, Apolevo , Malinovka, Salkino, Zalkovo , Ozeryutino , Berezka, Florovo - total 4,419 inhabitants (1914 year).

According to the 1920 census in the village of 596 inhabitants. In 1924, the Mologino center of the village council of the Paninsky volost of the Rzhevsky district , in 1929 the Mologino village council became part of the Lukovnikovsky district , since 1935 - in the Kalinin region .

Before the war, in the village there were 144 yards, a collective farm, a timber industry farm, a school, a hospital, a veterinary clinic, a club, a library, post offices, a bakery, shops: selmag, vodka, kerosene, a timber industry farm shop, and a tea shop.

During the Great Patriotic War, Hitler troops entered Mologino on October 15, 1941. Moving away from Rzhev, at the Kresty-Mologino-Apolevo-Frolovo border, Soviet troops tried to stop the German advance on Torzhok. Until October 19, the 178th Infantry Division restrained the onslaught of the enemy at this turn. Mologino was freed on January 1, 1942. Before the retreat, the Germans managed to burn almost all the surviving houses in the village. Mologino was under occupation for 2.5 months, another 14 months in the front line of the Battle of Rzhev .

Teacher Antonin Arkadevich Ramensky lived in Mologin, the author of a hoax about the great cultural and educational significance of his family { the Ramensky Teacher Dynasty }, who allegedly founded a school in the village back in 1763. Numerous falsifications of Ramensky come from Mologin, including fake entries by Pushkin on a book allegedly donated to his ancestor.

After the war, the village (which became a village) was restored, but it did not reach its former value. Gradually, the school, village council, health center, and veterinary clinic ceased to exist.

In 1997, Mologino has 7 households, 8 residents.

The fraternal cemetery of Soviet soldiers who fell in battles with the Nazis, 1941-1943. Date of creation - 1954-1956.

The memorial at the mass grave was arranged at the initiative of the Omsk worker Mikhail Borodulin, he also managed to establish several dozen names of the dead, which are placed on the plaques.

According to the administration of the Rzhevsky District for 2012, there are 2495 buried in a mass grave in the village of Mologino, of which 1135 are identified ^[3] .

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