Kuldym

Kuldym is a village, the center of the village administration in the Staroshaigovsky district . Population 336 (2001), mainly Mordva Moksha.

Village
Kuldym
A country	Russia
Subject of the federation	Mordovia
Municipal District	Staroshaigovsky
History and Geography
Timezone	UTC + 3
Population
Population	↘ 241 [1] people ( 2010 )
Official language	Mordovian , Russian
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It is located 22 km from the district center and 60 km from the railway station Saransk. Hydronym name: based on the Kuldym River. In written sources mentioned from the beginning of the 17th century. - petition resident K. Parkin with his son about the side of the groomed (1605). In 1732, the peasants of Kuldym were assigned to the Pochinkov potash office, in 1760 to the Pochinkov Life Guards Horse Regiment. In the "List of Populated Places of the Penza Province" (1869) Kuldym - a state-owned village from 145 yards of the Insarsk district . In 1853 the church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was opened. In 1912, a zemstvo school, 2 grain stores, a water mill, a steam mill and 11 windmills, 4 oil churns and quenchers, 4 wool combs, and 3 forges operated in the village. In the late 1990s. former collective farm to them. Kuybysheva was joined to the Novofyodorovsky agricultural production complex. In modern Kuldym, there is a store. Kuldym is the birthplace of the composer G.I. Suraev-Korolev. In Kuldymsky rural administration is included with. Lemdyaysky Maidan (92 people).