Ryasnik (Kursk region)

Located 6 km north-east of Zheleznogorsk on the left bank of the Ryasnik river. Height above sea level - 243 m ^[4] . The village is cut into 2 parts by the Ryasnik beam. From the north, the village is bounded by Kruglik beam, from the south - by the tract Yavilovsky Log. On the bank of the Ryasnik River opposite the village there are summer cottages of the Gornyak Horticultural Partnership and Georgievsky village.

In the XVII century, the peasants of Ryasnik and neighboring villages belonged to the Moscow Danilov Monastery . Until the beginning of the 20th century, local residents called themselves "monastic", and the local area - "monasticism." The location on the then outskirts of the Moscow state, as well as impassable forests, attracted to these places dissatisfied civil and church orders in the capital, as well as criminals who took refuge from justice. Here in the 2nd half of the 17th century, after a church schism , many Old Believers fled, preserving their community until the Soviet era ^[5] .

In the XVII-XVIII centuries, the village was part of the Kromsky district , located on its southwestern outskirts: the Ryasnik river was a natural border between the Kromsky and Sevsky districts ^[6] .

Since 1802, as part of the Dmitrov district of the Oryol province . In 1861, the village was included in the Volkov Volost of Dmitrovsky Uyezd. In 1866, in the former owner's village of Ryasnik, there were 47 yards, 328 people lived (162 males and 166 females) ^[7] . By the beginning of the 20th century, the village was already included in the Dolbenka volost . In 1905, 452 people lived in Ryasnik (213 men and 239 women), of which 3 men and 3 women were Old Believers ^[8] . At that time, a zemstvo school was operating in the village ^[9] . Before the October Revolution of 1917, the population of Ryasnik was attributed to the arrival of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in the nearby village of Volkovo ^[10] .

In 1926, there were 78 households in the village (including 77 peasant type), 376 people (167 males and 209 females) lived, an illiteracy eradication center was operating. At that time Ryasnik was a member of the Trubichensky village council of the Dolbenka volost of Dmitrovsky district ^[11] . Since 1928, as part of the Mikhailovsky (now Zheleznogorsk) district. In 1937 there were 81 courtyards in Ryasnik ^[12] . By the 1940s, the village was transferred to the Volkovsky Village Council . During the Great Patriotic War , from October 1941 to February 1943, the village was in the zone of Nazi occupation. In October 1942, the Germans burned it to the ground. After release, it was rebuilt. As of 1955, the center of the Michurin collective farm was located in Ryasnik ^[13] . In Soviet times, a dairy farm operated in the village.

  historical monument (regional)

In Ryasnik there is a mass grave of 94 Soviet soldiers who died in battles with German troops in February 1943. Located in the garden of a former elementary school. In 1952, a monument was erected over the grave ^[18] .

• The list of the occupied places of the Oryol province according to 1866. - Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior. St. Petersburg, 1871 .-- 237 p.
• Oryol diocesan sheets No. 12 of March 19, 1906. - Printing house of the Provincial Board. Orel, 1906. - 398 p.
• List of settlements of the Oryol province. 1st edition. Dmitrovsky district. - Oryol provincial statistical department, 1927. - 67 p.
• Kursk region. Administrative division on July 1, 1955. - Kursk Book Publishing House, 1955. - 147 p.