Kirzhemany - the village, the center of the rural administration in the Bolsheignatovsky district of Mordovia . The population is 519 people. (2001), mostly Russians.
| Village | |
| Kirzhemany | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Mordovia |
| Municipal district | Bolsheignatovsky district |
| History and geography | |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | ↘ 429 [1] people ( 2010 ) |
| Official language | Mordovian , Russian |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | 431683 |
| OKATO code | 89213825001 |
| OKTMO code | 89613425101 |
Located on the river. Mene , 14 km from the district center and 51 km from the Ardatov railway station. Name-anthroponym: from the pre-Christian name of the first settler Kirzheman . Mentioned in the General Census of the Mordovians of Alatyr County (1624). According to A.A. Heraklitov, Kirzhemany - “an exhibition from the village of Bayeva ... settled until 1614.” In the "List of Populated Places of Simbirsk Governorate" (1863), Kirzhemany is a specific village of 138 yards of Ardatovsky district . Till April 20, 1924 - the volost center.
In 1930, the collective farm "Red Flag" was formed, in the early 1990s. - Skhpk "Banner of Labor." In the village - high school, library, medical center, shop, bakery; a monument to the soldiers who died in World War II. Near Kirzheman are the kurgans of the Abashevskaya and Balanovsky cultures of the Bronze Age (researched by V.N. Shitov in 1982). The village of Krasnaya Niva (194 people; the birthplace of the head of the department of anatomy, physiology, and valeology of Ryazan Pedagogical University, V. V. Endolov) is part of the Kirzhemanskaya rural administration.
Kirzhemany - the birthplace of the teacher A. S. Islamova.
Literature
- Heraclites A.A. Alatyrskaya Mordva. - Saransk, 1938; Big Ignatovo. - Saransk, 2000.
Source
- Encyclopedia of Mordovia , R. N. Buzakova.
- ↑ Number and location of the population of the Republic of Mordovia. Results of the All-Russian Population Census 2010 . The date of circulation is January 19, 2015. Archived January 19, 2015.