Apple tree (Saratov region)

The village is located in the steppe , south of the large and branched ravine Yablonya, stretching from the northwest to the southeast in the direction of the Miuss river valley. In the vicinity of the village there are many small ponds: to the south - the Perevalka pond and, further, the Solyony pond, to the north-west - the Barsky pond and, behind it, the Kalmyk pond, to the north-east - the Akast pond. A little to the west of the village is the irrigation canal Komsomolsky.

The nearest settlements with which the village of Yablonia is connected by country roads: in the south-west - the village of Telman and the village of Polevodino ( Fedorovsky district ); in the southeast - the village of Kovelinka ( Ershov district ); in the northeast - the villages of Koptevka and Dmitriyevka (also the Ershov district); in the north - the village of New Yeluzan ( Balakovo district ); in the northwest - the village of Red Star ; in the west - the village of Zarya . Thus, Yablonia is the most eastern settlement of the Marx district ^{[3] [4]} .

The immediate predecessor of the modern village of Yablonya was the farm of the German colonists “Wright” ( German: Rait, Raith , also Raid ), founded in 1831 on the own land by members of the Wright family ^[5] . Probably, in the same years north of Wright Farm, also on the slopes of the ravine, Fink Farm was founded - representatives of the German family of the same name. The Wright and Fink families were in kinship relations, and according to some sources, the land on which the farms were located was bought together ^[6] .

At the same time, the toponym “Apple” may have already existed at the time of the founding of German farms (there is such an interpretation according to which the Wright and Fink families purchased the Yablonya farm , which was later divided between surnames). The farms had both a short German name and an expanded Russian-German name - “Apple-Wright” and “Apple-Fink” ^[6] . Perhaps the toponym-ancestor for the Russian prefix to the German name of the farm was the name of the ravine on whose territory the land was acquired.

Fink (also called Fink-Jablonny, German: Fink-Jablonja , or simply Yablonnoy ^[7] , commonly used in the Finnish Farm ^[6] ) and Wright were part of the Upper Karamansky, Mius volosts of the Novouzensk district of the Samara province . During the existence of the Labor Commune of the Volga Region Germans , it was a part of the Upper Karamansky District . During the existence of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, it became part of the Fedorov canton . Since 1935, after the disaggregation of the Fedorov canton, they belonged to the Gnadenflur canton ^[5] .

Despite the fact that in Soviet times, farms were considered in a single framework under the general name "Apple Tree" (see map of the Fedorovsky Canton of 1923), by the mid-1930s, this name became official for a larger settlement - Wright Farm (in the first years of Soviet power marked a noticeable increase in the population of the settlement, see below), Fink retained the original name ^[8] .

The village of Yablonia at that time was located on the lands of the state farm "Spartak" ^[9] . In addition to the Fink farm, in the Yabloni area there were several more small steppe settlements located in rugged terrain: in the south - Rostyshi , in the south-west - Basel (east of the Klein-Basel hill ) and Riga (north of the top of Riga ). In the northeast, behind the Yablonia ravine, the Yablonovsky hill was towering, southwest, near the village - Mount Yablonia , in the northwest, behind the Fink farm - the peaks of State Farm No. 2 and Fink No. 2 ^[8] .

After the liquidation of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans in 1941, Yablonia entered the Pervomaisky district of the Saratov region. All these neighboring settlements, as well as the Fink farm, do not exist today.

According to the 2010 census , the national composition of the village was as follows:

• Russians - 56.1%;
• Kazakhs - 35.2%;
• others - 8.7% ^[10] .

According to the 2002 census , 379 people lived in the village (190 men and 189 women). The national composition of the population was as follows:

• Russians - 53%;
• Kazakhs - 35%;
• others - 12% ^[11] .

Demography in the late XIX - early XX century

The balance of births and deaths in 1921 was 18 by 14 people, respectively. At least according to the data of 1920 and 1926, the farm was mononational - 100% of the population in these years were Germans ^[5] .

• Basic comprehensive school ^[13]
• First-aid post ^[14]
• Yablonevskaya rural library, branch number 34

Earlier south of the village of Yablonya a sheep-commodity farm was located ^[3] .

• Monument to fellow villagers who died during the Great Patriotic War ^{[15] [16]} .