Popovka (Pestovsky district)

The village was transferred by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of May 29, 1958 ^[4] from the Forest District of the Kalinin Region to the Pestovsky District of the Novgorod Region. During the failed all-Union reform on dividing into rural and industrial areas and party organizations ^[5] , in accordance with the decisions of the November (1962) plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU "on the restructuring of the party leadership of the national economy" from December 10, 1962 was formed, among others, a large Pestovsky rural area on the territory of Dregelsky , Pestovsky and Khvoyninsky districts, and on February 1, 1963, the administrative Pestovsky district was abolished, among others. The plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, held on November 16, 1964, reinstated the former principle of party leadership in the national economy, after which, by a decree of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of January 12, 1965, rural areas were reorganized into administrative districts and, by decision of the Novgorod Oblast Executive Committee No. 6 of January 14, 1965, the village and village council again as part of the Pestovsky district. ^[4] .

With the adoption of the law of July 6, 1991 “On Local Self-Government in the RSFSR”, the Administration of the Semytinsky Village Council (Semytinsky Village Administration) was formed, then by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1617 of October 9, 1993 “On the reform of representative bodies of power and local self-government in the Russian Federation” »The activity of the Semytinsky Village Council was prematurely terminated, and its authority was transferred to the Administration of the Semytinsky Village Council. According to the results of the municipal reform , since 2005 the village has been part of the municipality - Pestovsky rural settlement of the Pestovsky municipal region ( local government ), the administrative center of which is the village of Russian Pestovo ; according to the administrative-territorial structure, it is subordinate to the administration of the Pestovsky rural settlement of the Pestovsky district ^[6] . In 2012, the Novgorod Regional Duma (Decree No. 50-5 OD of 01.25.2012) decided to notify the Government of the Russian Federation of the abolition, among others, of the Semytinsky Village Council of the Pestovsky District ^[7] .