Novoduginsky district

It borders with the Kholm-Zhirkovsky , Vyazemsky , Gagarinsky and Sychevsky districts, and also the Tver region . The area is 1935 km².

XIX century

The first mention of the existence of the village was made in a document dated December 3, 1887 , in which the head of the Smolensk postal and telegraph district, talking about malfunctioning roads and bridges, also calls the Dugino station. The origin of the name of the station is due to the fact that the road connecting the two district towns of Vyazma and Sychevka pressed into the direction of the estate of Prince Meshchersky with an arc.

In 1887, a wooden train station, two traveling booths and a barracks were built at the station, in which traveling walkers, craftsmen and foremen lived. Somewhat later, the brick factory of Prince Meshchersky began to work. Near the station was a forest store. Moiseenko Street was home to the merchant Bobikhin, who bought up land plots from the landlords and supplied wood and firewood to Moscow , Rzhev , Torzhok and other cities. The merchant kept a tavern and an inn. From Novodugino , hay, brick and linen were also delivered to the market.

XX century

Manors, parks, churches were built by the hands of peasants. The oppression, inequality, exploitation by the landowners made themselves felt more and more. The peasants actively entered the struggle against the landlords, especially peasant anger and discontent manifested themselves during the revolution of 1905-1907.

The Great October Revolution laid a new page in the annals of the village of Novodugino and its environs. In November 1917, the peasants of the villages of Sliznevo, Ryabinki, Izosimikha, Semenchikha in the village held a rally of solidarity for the victory of the socialist revolution. A council was created in the village of Novodugino. On June 1, 1929, in the village of Lipetsy, an organizational congress of Soviets of the Lipetsk and Tesov volosts was held, at which a decision was made to merge these volosts into a single Novoduginsky district . The first chairman of the executive district committee was Pelageya Nikolaevna Krylova, old-timers of the district spoke warmly about the first chairman of the executive committee of the district council, which did a lot to create and strengthen collective farms, to build and improve the village.

During the years of Soviet power, and especially after the formation of the district, the face of the village of Novodugino unrecognizably changed. Administrative buildings , healthcare and cultural institutions, residential buildings were built. However, the peaceful labor of the Soviet people was interrupted by the treacherous attack of the Nazi invaders on our country. On the day the war began on June 22, 1941, a session of the district council was held in Novodugino, at which the total spring sowing was discussed. On August 16, 1941, the Nazis dropped the first bombs on the village. On October 7, the Nazis broke into the village. During the occupation, the village was almost completely wiped off the face of the earth. The damage caused to the village exceeded 500 thousand rubles, about 400 civilians were burned and killed. Before the war, 129 348 people lived in the region, at present a little more than 14 thousand. In 1941, 7643 people left the Novoduginsky District. Over 5 thousand soldiers and partisans from Novoduginsky and the Andreevsky district, which became part of it, did not return home. This is stated in the "Book of Memory", it lists all the names who gave their lives in the fight against the Nazi invaders for the freedom and independence of their homeland.

District Churches

About churches on Novoduginskaya land - especially. Unforgivable mistake was the closure of temples, their plunder and destruction of values. After all, the temple is not only religion, it is also faith, purification of the soul, moral symbols of the people. Probably, in no other region of the Smolensk region there were as many churches as in Novoduginsky.

Under Boris Godunov, in 1600, in the village of Lipetsy, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built. Under Tsar Alexei, the father of Peter I , in 1660 the Grigoryevsky Church was erected in Sliznev. Under Elizaveta Petrovna in 1760, the St. Nicholas Church was built in Milyukov with a chapel in the name of the Apostle John the theologian, a fence with gates and towers. In the reign of Catherine II, the Church of the Savior was built in Tesov in 1777 . In 1793, also during the time of Catherine, the Ascension Church was built in Torbeev, and in 1795 - the Transfiguration Church in Spas on the Dnieper . In the 80s of the 18th century , the Church of the Holy Spirit was built in Zilov. In 1800, under Paul I , the Assumption Church was built in the village of Pobukha (Pobukhovo Vysokovsky). In the 30s of the XIX century , the Hodegetria Church was erected in Ilyushkin. In the middle of the XIX century , the Transfiguration Church was built in Molgino: in 1858, under Alexander II , the Transfiguration Church was built in the village of Spas; and under Alexander III , in 1888 - Pokrovskaya in Knyazhino. In 1913, the Kazan Church was built in Izvekov.

There were other churches in the territory of our region: in Grigoryevsky (manor buildings, a park, a church were also preserved there), in Bolshevo, in the High Church of the Virgin Tikhvinsky designed by the famous architect N. Benois, and others, because there were 55 churches in Sychevsky Uyezd ( 21 of them are wooden). Now in our area there are 6 active churches: in Lipetsy, Knyazhino, Tesov, Milyukov, Spas, Izvekov. In 1996, a parish house was opened in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Novodugino, in the former building of the Museum of History and Local Lore. Currently, a temple is being built in the village.

The Law of Smolensk Region dated May 28, 2015 No. 71-z ^[11] , transformed, by combining them, the Kapustinsky and Tesovsky rural settlements into the Tesovsky rural settlement with the administrative center in the village of Tesovo.

Since 2015, in the Novoduginsky district, 218 settlements as part of five rural settlements:

The main branches of agricultural production are crop production and animal husbandry.

Sown areas for the 2007 crop on farms of all categories occupied 19 thousand ha, of which 17.4 thousand ha were in agricultural enterprises. The main producers of grain are 4 enterprises: Federal State Unitary Enterprise Plemzavod Rassvet, Vostok LLC, Rus OJSC, and Municipal Unitary Enterprise Hvoshchevatoe.

At the beginning of 2008, there were 5,224 cattle in all categories of cattle farms, including 2,696 cattle. Compared with the beginning of 2007, there was a decrease in the number of cattle by 252 animals.

The road network is represented by the regional highway R-134 "Smolensk - Vyazma - Zubtsov". The distance from Gagarin to Smolensk is 216 km.

On the territory of the district there is a network of cultural and leisure and library institutions. In August 2018, a fitness center was opened in the district (in the village of Novodugino)

The churches and manor buildings that were defeated, plundered by compatriots and fascist hordes still amaze with beauty and grandeur, each building is unique in its architecture, because famous architects and artists were invited to influence them.

• In Lipetsk, on the estate of N. A. Khomyakov, the outbuilding of the manor palace, a well, a park, the Church of the Transfiguration are still intact. The Khomyakovs belonged to a wealthy landowner nobility. In the past, Lipetsk and the surrounding villages belonged to the famous public figure, writer, theorist of Slavophilism Alexei Stepanovich Khomyakov. And even earlier, Lipets belonged to the Griboedovs . In Lipetsy, nowhere is this perpetuated.
• In Alexandrino, on the estate of D. A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, the manor house, park, ponds, and church survived.
• And in Vysokoye - the estate of Count A. D. Sheremetyev, where the nobleman I. I. Deibel was the main manager, the palace, the “house of the old countess”, the church, the stud farm, a dairy farm, and barns were preserved.
• In Tesov, many lordly buildings, a pond, and a church have also been preserved.

Heroes of the Soviet Union

•   Vasiliev, Anatoly Nikolaevich (Zakharovo village)
•   Danilov, Alexey Ilyich ( Koptevo village)
•   Egorov, Vasily Vasilievich (Podsevo village)
•   Ivanov, Nikolay Vasilievich (Yurkovo village)
•   Nikolaev, Vasily Nikolaevich ( Voyeykovo village)
•   Tyrin, Georgy Mikhailovich (Zamoshye village)
•   Ivanov, Fedor Ivanovich ( Leonovo village)

Full Knights of the Order of Glory

•   Vasiliev, Mikhail Vasilievich ( Nikolskoe village)
•   Bubbles, Pyotr Alekseevich ( Sychevo village)

Heroes of Socialist Labor

•   Alexandrov, Nikolai Alexandrovich (Aleksandrovskoe village)
•   Gorlanova, Zinaida Fedorovna ( Burtsevo village)
•   Ilyina, Anna Ivanovna (Sementsovo village)
•   Korochkin, Alexey Timofeevich (Kamenetz village)
•   Kotov, Pavel Grigoryevich (Matveykovo village)
•   Morozov, Ivan Vasilievich (Konnoe village)

Knights of the Order of Lenin

•   Argunov, Nikolay Emelyanovich (Kuroshi village, now the Dnieper rural settlement )
•   Kazakov, Mikhail Alexandrovich ( Rzhavets village)
•   Starikov, Alexey Georgievich ^[13] (Kobylikha village)

• Official site of Novoduginsky district
• Monuments of architecture of Novoduginsky district