Kolp (Vladimir region)

The village is located 61 km south-east of Gus-Khrustalny on the right bank of the Kolp River , 40 km south of the Zakolpye railway station on the Moscow - Murom line . It is part of the Kupreevsky rural settlement. Located near the settlements: Talanovo village, Krasnaya Zarya village. It is characterized by hilly terrain. The village is located on the Kolp River. A number of buildings from the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries have been preserved.

The village arose in the first half of the 19th century as the Kolpsky Settlement of the Goose-Iron Plant.

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in the village (it burned down in 1949).

Before the revolution, the village was part of the Lavsinsky volost of the Melenkovsky district .

During the years of Soviet power, it was the center of the Kolpsky Village Council, the central estate of the Petrel collective farm.

The word "kolp" is quite common in Russian geographical names. It comes from the Baltic-Slavic word "kolp" meaning swan.

Probably, these beautiful birds were once found in the local district. The village of Rudneva once stood on the Kolp River. It was small.

But in 1783, large Russian breeders and landowners Batashevs, originally from the Tula gunsmiths, built the Rudnevsky Iron Foundry here.

The workers were brought from Gus-Zheleznoy, where the Batashevs belonged, because of the cruelty and tyranny of the master, later nicknamed the "Eagle's Nest".

However, for some reason, the plant was closed in the 19th century, and the peasants had to deal with the extraction of wood, its rafting along the river, the preparation of charcoal and tar coating.

It was impossible to do without tillage. In 1857, there were only 6 yards in Rudnevaya, but its inhabitants were hardworking,

therefore, there was a forge in the village, three tar smelters for extraction of tar and an inn. In 1861, serfdom was abolished, and the Batashev workers began to settle.

Some of them settled on the Pasynkova wasteland near the Rudneva wasteland, and this place was named Kolpsky settlement from the Goose-Iron Plant.

So the settlement Kolp appeared, which after the construction of a wooden church there in the name of St. Nicholas became a village.

Its inhabitants were deeply religious and strictly followed the observance of rites. The church also functioned in Soviet times, but in 1948-1949 there was a big fire in Colpi: half the village burned out, including the church. Fortunately, a significant part of the utensil was saved, and the peasants, along with the icons, kept it home. An obelisk was installed on the site of a burned church in the 60s to soldiers who died in World War II, and therefore, when during the perestroika times the question arose of restoring the parish, the place for a new church also had to be chosen. The choice fell on Verina Gora, next to the local cemetery. In Colpi, there has long been a saying "went to Verina Gora", meaning death.

They built a new church in the name of All the Saints of Vladimir’s land, which, as they say, shone with the whole world, with the active participation of the Dean Father George, and the cutters in Colpi were always excellent. According to eyewitnesses, there were miracles during the construction of the temple: they laid the foundation, they come, but it is warm.

Utensils left over from the old church were gathered home. The old bell, which was placed on the belfry, has also survived.

In 1989, a new church was consecrated, and Orthodoxy began to revive in the village. Teachers who previously stripped crosses from children now go to church themselves. There is also a Sunday school at the temple. Rector of the church Priest Andrei Shein, who lives here, considers his main goal to teach children visiting her to love their native land, God, mother and father. Therefore, children go past the temple - they will necessarily cross themselves.

In the village are SPK Burevestnik, a secondary school, a kindergarten, a club, a feldsher-midwife station, a post office, and a branch of Sberbank of Russia.

In the village is the wooden Church of All Saints of Vladimir Land (1989).

Monument to the soldiers who died in World War II

• On the site "Virtual Vladimir"