Pokrovka (Abdulinsky District)

The village is located 330 kilometers from the regional center and 30 km from the city of Abdulino .

Pokrovka was founded in the 20-30s of the XIX century by immigrants from the Tambov and Voronezh provinces. According to the "Lists of populated places ... in 1859 in the village. Pokrovka had 232 yards, 2,254 inhabitants. By 1886, the number of peasant yards had reached 467, and the number of inhabitants was 3,481. The amount of allotment land was: convenient - 8339 acres, uncomfortable - 756 acres By 1910, in Pokrovka there were 551 peasant families and 3724 people lived in them. In Pokrovka, a church opens, with it a parish school. One mechanical and two windmills were built, a Sunday bazaar operated. By 1928, the agricultural artel “Smychka” was created. The new farm was headed by twenty-five thousandth Soloviev, who worked as a locksmith in the Abdulinsky depot.

In May 1930, by decision of the Buguruslan District Collective Farm Union, it was decided to open in Pokrovka the deepest point for filling grain and in 1931 two warehouses were built for 5,000 and 2,000 poods.

January 1, 1931 by decision of the Middle Volga Regional Executive Committee and the tractor center to service the northern zone was organized by MTS them. Molotov with the center in with. Pokrovka. Not far from the village began the construction of a tractor station made of stone quarried on the outskirts of the village. For construction work, stone barns of dispossessed fists from Pokrovka, Gorelovka, Malyi Surmet were dismantled. Workshops, warehouses, offices, stables, garages were built. A residential village appeared near MTS. In Pokrovka, tractor driver courses were organized. On these, by 1956, more than 2,000 tractor drivers were trained. In MTS them. Molotov organized 20 tractor brigades; during the war, female tractor brigades were organized. In 1958, MTS was reorganized into the RTS. RTS to agricultural machinery. In 1954, Pokrovka was completely electrified. According to the 1989 census, 549 households are located in Pokrovka (with Artamonovka) and 1392 people live.

As of 01.01.2005, 887 people live in Pokrovka, 105 in Artamonovka.

• Pavlov, Pavel Prokopyevich (1923, Pokrovka of the Abdulinsky District of the Orenburg Region - 1963, ibid.) - Hero of the Soviet Union (1944).