Nikolskoye (village, west of Moscow)

Dynamics of the population of the village Nikolskoe:

The village was located on the Moscow Region's Namorodinka River (Smorodinovka or Selyatinka), on the territory of the modern Western Administrative District of Moscow . On the east side, the village adjoined Koshtoyants Street , and on the south side - Lobachevsky Street .

The settlement appeared in the second half of the XVII century. Then, after the epidemic of pestilence of 1655, which swept through the surrounding villages, Slavs of Belarusian-Polish origin were settled here. For some time the village of Nikolskoye was in the possession of the patriarch, then passed into the ownership of the state ^[6] .

According to the historian I. Ye. Zabelin , in the second half of the 17th century, the village was also referred to as the village of “Nikolskoye, which was formerly Telyatino, on the Selyatinka river, as the river Ramenka began to be called in this village”. On the maps of the 18th century, Nikolskoe is already designated as a village; there was built the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, after which the village later got its name (the church stood on the spot where Yukhnovskaya street passed in Soviet times; before the entry of the Nikolskoye village into Moscow, Yukhnovskaya street was called Moscow Street). On Yukhnovskaya street, part of the route of the 120th bus of the Moscow city transport passed.

At the end of the XIX century, the village was again referred to as the village “Nikolskaya” (the eighth detachment of the Golenishchevskaya volost), “near the Borovskoy road near the rivers Ochakovo and Ramenka”, “five versts from the Smolensk highway”. The peasants were not rich, mostly planted orchards for sale in Moscow. Traces of their gardens are still visible, bushes of randomly growing horseradish are found throughout the park.

After 1917, the village of Nikolskoye became the center of the Nikolsky Village Council, which also included the village of Nikulino ^[5] . A collective farm was organized in the village.

In August 1960, Nikolskoye and adjacent territories were included in the line of Moscow , first in Leninsky , and in 1968 in Gagarinsky district of Moscow. The streets of the village became known as Yukhnovskaya, Staronikolskaya and Novonikolskaya. The Nikolskoye settlement as part of Moscow was served by the 454th liaison office (117454 or В-454), which today is located at 33 Koshtoyants street.

By the time the Olympic Village was built in 1979-1980, Nikolsky’s rural buildings had been almost completely demolished. By that time, about 500 people lived in Nikolsky and there were 157 houses. Now, the existence of the former village is reminiscent of preserved old apple and pear trees near Lobachevsky Street and near the ponds of the Olympic Village.

• The territory of the village of Nikolskoye as part of the city of Moscow