Kurilovo (Mordovia)

Kurilovo (E. Kurilova ) - the village, the center of the rural administration in the Romodanovsky district . The population of 206 people. (2001), mostly Mordovian-Erzya.

Village
Kurilovo
A country	Russia
Subject of the federation	Mordovia
Municipal district	Romodanovsky district
History and geography
Timezone	UTC + 3
Population
Population	↘ 147 [1] people ( 2010 )
Official language	Mordovian , Russian
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Located on the river. Amorde, 12 km from the district center and 13 km from the railway station Red Uzel. In the “List of Populated Places of the Penza Province” (1869), Old Kurilovka is a state-owned and owning village of 74 yards (469 people), and Novaya Kurilovka is an owner`s village of 45 houses (316 people) of the Saransk uyezd . Name-characteristic: both settlements were located on the shore of a large lake, over which in the summer time there was often a foggy mist (the lake “smoked”). In 1890, the Tikhvin Kurilovsky Convent was opened. In 1913, there was a local school, 3 windmills and 2 forges in Novy Kurilov. In 1924 a school for peasant youth opened in Kurilov. In 1929 the collective farm “Yakster Sokitsya” (“Red Plowman”) was formed, since 1951 - the enlarged collective farm named. Michurin, 1969 - State Farm "Romodanovsky", since the late 1990s. - LLC Agrofirm "Kurilovskaya" ". In the modern infrastructure of the village there are a secondary school, a House of Culture, a library, a consumer services center, and a first-aid station; a monument to soldiers-countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War. Since 1994, the monastery has been restored with a home church in the name of the holy pre-Seraphim of Sarov. Kurilovo is the birthplace of writer N. Erkaya, journalist V. V. Bazhanov. In Kurilovskaya rural administration included with. Boltino (207 people), Kozlovka (72) and Sabanovo (33 people).