Popovo (Pestovo rural settlement)

In the list of populated areas of Ustyuzhensky district of the Novgorod province for 1909, the village of Popovo is listed as belonging to the Okhotsk volost (2nd camp, 4th land plot). The population of the village of Popovo , which was then on the land of the Popovsky rural society - 157 inhabitants: men - 73, women - 84, the number of residential buildings - 59. ^[4] . Then from June 10, 1918 until July 31, 1927 as part of the Ustyuzhensky district of the Cherepovets province , then the center of the Popovsky village council of the Pestovsky district of the Cherepovets district of the Leningrad region . The population of the village in 1928 was 139 people ^[5] . After the abolition in November 1928 ^{[6] of the} Popovsky village council - Popovo as part of the Pestovsky village council. By decision of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of July 23, 1930, the Cherepovets district was abolished, and the district became directly subordinate to the Leningrad Executive Committee. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 5, 1944, the Pestovsky District was transferred from the Leningrad Region to the newly formed Novgorod Region. During the failed all-Union reform on dividing into rural and industrial areas and party organizations ^[7] , in accordance with the decisions of the November (1962) plenary session of the CPSU Central Committee "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 re-transformed into administrative districts and by decision of the Novgorod Oblast Executive Committee No. 6 of January 14, 1965, the Pestovsky Village Council and the village is again part of the Pestovsky district. By the decision of the Novgorod Oblast Executive Committee No. 20 of January 15, 1973, the center of the Pestovo Village Council approved the village of Russian Pestovo ^[8]

With the adoption of the law of July 6, 1991 "On Local Self-Government in the RSFSR", the Administration of the Pestovsky Village Council (Pestovsky 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 authorities and local authorities in the Russian Federation »The activities of the Pestovsky Village Council were terminated ahead of schedule, and its powers were transferred to the Administration of the Pestovsky Village Council. According to the results of the municipal reform , since 2005, the village has been part of the municipality - Pestovskoye rural settlement of the Pestovskoy municipal district ( local government ), and is subordinated to the administration of the Pestovskoye rural settlement of the Pestovskiy district according to the administrative-territorial structure ^[9] . 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 Pestovsky Village Council of the Pestovsky District ^[10] .