Big Zhirovo

The village is located 16 km south-east of Fatezh and 23 km north-west of Kursk on the federal highway M2 “Crimea” . The height of the village above sea level is 244 m ^[2] . Near the village is the highest point of the Fatezh-Lgovskoy ridge, whose height is 266 m above sea level ^[3] .

The village of Zhirovo emerged as a border guard post in the XIV-XV centuries. Fasting played an important role in the history of the Kursk Territory, since it was on the route of the Mongol-Tatars attacking Russian cities. The first inhabitants of the village were service people (archers and Cossacks), as well as descendants of the nobles. The first written mention of Zhirovo dates back to 1615. In that year, the Kursk landowner Akim Ivanovich Chernyshev received a letter of import on the estate in the Usogsky camp of the Kursk district of 150 quarters in the village of Zhirov on the Demine well, according to which the peasants had to "listen to him and plow him to plow" ^[4] . In 1623, Zhirovo was already mentioned as a fairly large village. At that time, there was a "watchman" - a military patrol guarding the southern borders of the country.

In 1782, Zhirovo came under the jurisdiction of the Fatezhsky district of Kursk governorship . At that time, 482 male peasants and about two hundred landowners lived in the village. In Big Zhirovo there were the possessions of the landowners Lukyanchikovs, Bantysh, Semenovs, Chuchkovs, Shevelevs. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the village was part of the Bolshezhirovsky volost of Fatezh uyezd and for a short time was part of the Sdobnikovsky volost ^[5] .

During the Great Patriotic War, from October 28, 1941 to February 1943, the village was in the zone of Nazi occupation.

It occupies the fourth place in the region, second only to the city of Fatezh (5999 ^[6] ) and the villages of Verkhny Lyubazh (1674 ^[1] ) and Khmelevoe (548 ^[1] ).

In the village there is a Bolshezhirovskaya secondary school. The stone school building was built in 1901 and was intended for volost management. After the October Revolution, cooperation was located on the ground floor of the building. On the second floor was a executive committee. In 1923, an elementary school was opened here ^[7] .

•   Lukyanchikov, Leonid Vasilievich (1924-2006) - participant of the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
• Chaplygin, Alexei Mikhailovich (1936-2016) - driver of the technological transport vehicle of the Mikhailovsky GOK . Hero of Socialist Labor.