Bolshebobrovo

It is located 17 km east of Zheleznogorsk at the confluence of the Muravelnik stream in the Bobrovka river. Altitude - 190 m ^[3] .

In the XVII-XVIII centuries, the village was part of the Rechitsa camp of the Kromsky district ^{[4] [5]} . Since 1802, as part of the Dmitrov district of the Oryol province .

In the 19th century, the village was referred to as Big Bobrovo to distinguish it from Small Bobrov : both settlements were located on the territory of Dmitrovsky district of the Oryol province .

In 1860, Prince Peter Ivanovich Trubetskoy in Bolshebobrovo and neighboring villages owned 1309 peasants and 34 male yards - a total of 289 serf yards ^[6] .

In 1866, in the former owner's village of Bolshebobrovo, there were 46 yards, 524 people lived: 251 males and 273 females; operated the Orthodox Trinity Church, mill and oil mill ^[7] . By 1877, the number of households increased to 105, residents - up to 588 people. A zemstvo school and a trading shop were opened in the village ^[8] . From 1861 to 1923, Bolshebobrovo was the administrative center of the Bolshebobrovsky volost of the Dmitrov district of the Oryol province. According to 1916, a post office operated by the volost clerk operated under the Bolshebobrovsky volost government. At that time, in the county zemstvo, the vowel from the 1st election meeting was the nobleman Bolshebobrov, a retired captain of the guard, Pyotr Nikolaevich Shamshev ^[9] . According to the information of the same year, a teetotaler society operated in the village, headed by priest V. P. Bogdanov, who, ironically, had previously worked as an excise official ^[10] .

Soviet time

In 1926, there were 154 households in the village (including 151 peasant type), 823 people lived (373 males and 450 females), there were a first-level school, an illiteracy eradication center, a reading room, a red corner, and a state trade institution of the IV category, 2 cooperative trading establishments of the III category. At that time, Bolshebobrovo was the administrative center of the Gorodnovsky village council of the Volkovskaya volost of Dmitrovsky district ^[11] . Since 1928, as part of the Mikhailovsky (now Zheleznogorsk) district. In the 1st half of the 1930s, the village became the administrative center of the Bolshebobrovsky village council ^[12] . During collectivization, in the early 1930s, collective farms “Victory” and “May 1st” were created in Bolshebobrovo. In 1937, there were 119 yards in the village, and a machine and tractor station operated ^[13] . During the Great Patriotic War, from October 1941 to February 1943, it was in the zone of Nazi occupation.

In 1950, the “May Day” collective farm was annexed to the “Victory” ^[14] . The chairman of the enlarged artel in 1950-1954 was A. G. Grinev. In 1954-1959, the collective farm was led by a native of the village of Razvetye, Yakov Ivanovich Dolgov. Under him, “Victory” came to the forefront in the area. After the early death of Ya. I. Dolgov in 1959, the collective farm was headed by Nikolai Vasilyevich Bogatyrev. In 1965, the Victory collective farm was renamed Drummer, and S. I. Burkov was elected the new chairman. In 1967-1973, the chairman of the collective farm was Viktor Stepanovich Martynenko. In 1973, Drummer was annexed to the Rodina collective farm, the central estate of which was located in the village of Kopenki .

In the 1980s, Bolshebobrovo fell into decay. After the abolition of the Bolshebobrovsky village council in 1986, the village became part of the Kopensky village council . In 2017, the Kopensky village council was abolished, Bolshebobrovo became part of the Gorodnovsky village council .

An Orthodox church has existed in Bolshebobrovo, at least since the beginning of the 18th century. The parish of the Trinity Church included the village of Bolshebobrovo and the villages of Gorodnoye , Korovino , Tishimlya and Tolbuzevo ^[15] .

In 1865, the churchwarden of the Trinity Church, Terenty Fetisov, was awarded a commendation sheet for “useful and diligent service of the church” ^[16] . In 1866, the priest of the church, Dmitry Morozov, was awarded a plait ^[17] . In the same year, the sexton of the church John Borshensky died ^[18] . On November 23, 1866, deacon John Smorodintsev burned down a chamber with a kitchen and a canopy ^[19] .

In the 1920s, priest Nikolai Ivanovich Frolov served in the Trinity Church. He was accused of disrupting grain procurements and sentenced to 8 years in the camps. Having been released early, N. I. Frolov got a job as an accountant in an agricultural cartel in the Kaluga Region. He was again arrested on a denunciation and shot on November 30, 1937. Together with him, his son Lev, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Ivdellag camp in the Sverdlovsk region only because he was the son of a priest, was also on trial. ^[20] In Soviet times, the temple was closed and then destroyed. The State Archives of the Oryol Region contains the only surviving metric book of this church - for 1883 ^[21] .

In the village of 7 streets: ^[28]

  historical monument (regional)

In Bolshebobrovo there is a mass grave of soldiers of the Red Army who died during the Great Patriotic War in February 1943. 329 people were buried, surnames of 54 people were established. In 1952, a sculpture was erected over the grave ^[29] .

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• The list of the occupied places of the Oryol province according to the data of 1866. - Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior. St. Petersburg, 1871 .-- 237 p.
• Volosts and the most important villages of European Russia. Issue 1. Provinces of the central agricultural region. - Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior. St. Petersburg, 1880 .-- 413 p.
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• The memorial book and the Address calendar of the Oryol province for 1916. - Moscow. "The book on demand", 1916. - 400 p.
• People without vodka: travel essays. - Printing house of M. Merkushev, 1916 .-- 310 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.

• Zheleznogorye: historical and local lore blog of S. A. Surguchev. Village Bolshebobrovo