Ludyana (village)

Historically, the village had a double name. This is due to the fact that 5 km is a village with a similar name (the village of Ludyana-Yasashinskaya). Initially, the village had the name Ludyana Monastyrskaya. The first part of the name comes from the nearby Ludyana River, from the Mari “ludayu” - “meadow river”. The second part of the name reflects the history of the village. After the Manifesto on Secularization, the former monastic lands were ruled by the College of Economy and the peasants were declared "economic." As a result, the village became known as Ludyana Economic. Although since the 1970s the village has been simply called Ludyana, the inhabitants of the village and the inhabitants of the entire Nolinsk district still use the historical name widely. The name Ludyana Bolshaya is also used unofficially (and Ludyana-Yasashinskaya, respectively, as Malaya).

Before the appearance of the Russians, a small Mari population lived in these places, the traces of the Mari stay were reflected in the local toponymy. From the 16th to 17th centuries, the active settlement of Russians began, which was greatly facilitated by the colonization policy of the Vyatka Assumption Trifonov monastery , which in 1595, according to a letter from Fedor I, was transferred to the possession of the local land. The formation of Russian settlement took place by distributing land to clergymen and transferring peasants to empty lands from the northern native Russian Vyatka counties - Slobodsky, Orlovsky and others. As well as as a result of free peasant migration, they supplied a considerable number of immigrants from Kazan county. In 1665, the free peasants Agafon Buysky and Nikifor Redkin (Mikiforka Retkin) built a log church on the Ludyana River, which received a letter of land ownership from the Kazan governor for this in 1666 ^[1] . This can be considered the beginning of the foundation of the village. A long-standing lawsuit began with the Vyatka Trifonov monastery, as a result of which Ludyana in 1669 became part of the Kazan district. Since 1796, as part of the Nolinsky district of the Vyatka province. A commercial highway passed from the village from Nolinsk to the cities of Orlov and Yaransk.

The population in 2012 was 251 people (123 for men and 128 for women).

Until the beginning of the 21st century, the main branch of the local economy was agriculture. Currently, the economically active population is engaged in logging and primary processing of wood. In the village there are several small sawmills .
There are social and cultural facilities: a school, a library, a House of Culture, a post office, as well as retail enterprises.

In the center of the village is the abandoned building of the Transfiguration Church, built in 1808, which is an object of historical and cultural heritage of the Kirov region ^[2] .

• http://www.kirovreg.ru/power/local/mo.php?rajon=26
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202713/http://kirovstat.kirov.ru/perepis10/documents/chisl.zip
• Description of the parishes of the Vyatka diocese
• Settlement of the Suna volost
• Information on the history of administrative divisions