Chizhovo is a village in the Bezhetsky district of the Tver region. It is part of the Porechievsky rural settlement .
| Village | |
| Chizhovo | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Tver region |
| Municipal District | Bezhetsky |
| Rural settlement | Porechievskoe |
| History and Geography | |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | ↘ 77 [1] people ( 2010 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | 171953 |
| OKATO Code | 28204837034 |
| OKTMO Code | |
It is located 25 kilometers northwest of the regional center of Bezhetsk , on the Bezhetsk- Porechye highway.
The village is located on a hill surrounded by river valleys. 3 km to the south-west is the Mologa River , even further south is Lake Verestovo on it. On the other hand, the village is surrounded by rivers of the Mologa system, successively flowing into the previous ones: Autumn (1 km to the west), Mogocha (1.5 km to the north) and Uyvesh (2 km to the east).
The population according to the 2002 census is 85 people, 43 men, 42 women.
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History
In the XVII century, Chizhovo belonged to Prince Yu. Sheleshov, then to the Moscow Simon Monastery , in 1764 it was assigned to the state department. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the large village of Bezhetsk Uyezd , the center of various crafts (boot, toboggan, etc.).
According to the List of Populated Places of the Tver Province of 1859 [2], the state-owned village of Chizhovo has 140 yards, 727 inhabitants, an Orthodox church, a fixed apartment here. In the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries, the village was the center of the same volost and parish of Bezhetsky district. In 1887 there were 180 yards in Chizhovo, 913 inhabitants; a zemstvo school , 4 small shops, an inn, 2 mills, an oil mill, a dyeing shop, a shoe shop, 3 crushes and 3 forges [3] .
According to the 1920 census, there are 1,158 inhabitants in Chizhovo.
In the 1930s and 70s, the village was the center of the Dubrovsky Village Council of the Bezhetsky District of the Kalinin Region .
During World War II , 50 natives of the village died [4] .
In 1989, there were 133 residents in Chizhovo, FAP, shop, MTF of the collective farm “New Way”. In 1997 - 55 farms, 114 residents, the village was part of the Potesovsky rural district.
Population
| Population | |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 2010 [1] |
| 95 | ↘ 77 |
Famous People
The natives of the village of Chizhovo:
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Le Dantoux (1891-1917), Russian artist. His father, the doctor V.V. Le-Dantu, was arrested as a people's commander , and exiled to the village of Chizhovo.
- Alexey Petrovich Ivanov (1904-1982), Soviet opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR . His father served as a deacon in a local church and at the same time taught in a parish school.
- Nikolai Dmitrievich Motorin (1899-1942), the first chairman of the collective farm in Chizhovo. In the forefront he went to war, went missing on the Sinyavinsky heights near Leningrad. His wife Anna Ivanovna Motorina (1900–1946) was the chairman of the collective farm throughout the war instead. Died in 1946
Attractions
- The bell tower of the Vladimir Church (1833, the church itself was not preserved).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 2010 All-Russian Population Census. Settlements of the Tver region
- ↑ Tver province. The list of settlements according to 1859. SPb. 1862
- ↑ Collection of statistical information on the Tver province. T. 6, no. 2: Bezhetsky district. - 1891.
- ↑ Book of memory. Tver region (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 17, 2013. Archived October 9, 2011.