Maksimovo (Vladimir region)

The village of Maksimovo is located at the border of the Melenkovsky and Gus-Khrustalny districts, 5 kilometers (in a straight line) from the village of Butylitsy . One and a half kilometers south of the village, the Ushna River flows, which originates several kilometers southwest in the forest.

The village was first mentioned in salary books in 1676 as part of the Butylitsky parish ; then it contained a courtyard of landowners and 15 peasant courtyards ^[2] .

In the XIX - first quarter of the XX century, the village was part of the Butylitsky volost of the Melenkovsky district , since 1926 - as part of the Murom district . In 1859 ^[3] there were 129 yards in the village, in 1905 ^[4] - 137 yards, in 1926 ^[5] - 382 yards.

Since 1929, the village was the center of the Maksimovsky village council of the Melenkovsky district , since 2005 - as part of the Butylitsky rural settlement .

In the village is located Maksimovsky Murom branch of the Gorky Railway . Thanks to the railway, you can get to Moscow, Murom and other cities. There is also a bus service to the district center.

On the territory of Maksimovo there are mobile operators:

• Beeline ;
• MegaFon ;
• MTS ;
• " TELE2 ".
• " Yota "

Until 2007, there was a high school, now it is closed (unknown persons set fire to it). There is also a club, library, post office of Russia. A monument to those killed in the Great Patriotic War was erected.

st. Kamanin (named after Kamanin Nikolai Petrovich )
st. Red Army
st. Moscow
st. May Day
st. Soviet
st. Khorpunova
st. School
st. Engels
Krasnoarmeyskaya Street is the longest in the village.

• Levin Mikhail Konstantinovich (1918-1985) - Soviet artist; participant of the Great Patriotic War ; Since 1965 - Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR .

A migrant from Maksimovo, a peasant Kruglov, is one of the founders of the neighboring village of Dobryatino . The outstanding Murom historian Yepanchin A. A. writes about this in his book “Toponymy of Murom and its environs” by Murom, 2000.

In November 2011, on the southern outskirts of the village, near Ushna , in a small backwater pond called the locals of Seca, were discovered traces of a snowman , there were also eyewitnesses who saw a humanoid creature covered with wool.

In May 2012, a wave of attacks on livestock and chickens swept across the region, and an opinion was expressed that Chupacabra was active ^[8] .

• Yepanchin A. A. "Toponymy of Murom and its environs" Murom, 2000
• Dobronravov V. “Historical and Statistical Description of the Churches and Parishes of the Vladimir Diocese”, Vladimir, 1897. Fourth edition. Melenkovsky, Murom, Pokrovsky and Sudogodsky counties.