Nekrasovo (Saratov Region)

Named along the Norka River. It was also known as Old Mink and under the German name Weygand ^[2] .

It was founded by German immigrants on August 15, 1767 . Founders - 212 families arrived from Isenburg and the Palatinate . Until 1917, the German colony was first the Nork colonial district, and after 1871 the Nork volost (later became part of the Splavnushi volost) of the Kamyshin district of the Saratov province ; volost village of Nork volost ^[2] .

The village belonged to the evangelical parish of Nork, formed in 1768 among the first 11 Protestant parishes.

At dawn, according to the Statistical Committee of the Saratov Province (1891) in the village of Norka:

there were 727 households, 5202 men, 4,998 women, total: 10,200 people of both sexes. Norka is located on a hill on the Norka River, in close proximity to springs with excellent water. The church they have now is new, wooden with a metal roof, consecrated in 1881. The administration building was opened in 1864, the paramedic point - in 1834; a church school - since the colony was founded, a Russian school - in 1868, the Zemsky Yamsky station has 3 horses. In 1894, there were 713 buildings, including: the building of the volost council, the building of the village administration, pastoral, 3 schools. 27 buildings were brick, 319 - wooden, 382 - of stone; 29 had metal roofs, 642 had thatched roofs. In 1894, there were 5,302 men and 5,216 women, total: 10,518 people of both sexes. These are mainly farmers, in addition, 10 blacksmiths, 7 joiners, 12 chariots, 10 shoemakers, 6 tailors, 4 stove makers, 2 bookbinders and 250 sarpinka people. The land is divided as follows: 259.8 acres is occupied by farmsteads, 12,463.3 acres is arable land, 829.9 acres is a bush, 737 acres is a forest, 517.1 acres is a meadow, 2,367.2 acres is a pasture and 4,294 , 1 tithing - uncomfortable land, total: 21,468 tithing.

The church was built in 1881. Some residents of the Baptists ^[2] . Since 1810, a weaving factory has been operating. in 1834 the medical assistant point was opened, in 1868 - a private school. In the village there were windmills, creameries, tanneries, carpentry, shoemakers, tailor shops, forges, and Zemsky Yamskaya station ^[2] .

The village survived the famine in the Volga region . So, in 1921, 307 people were born, and 437 died ^[3] .

In the Soviet period, it was part of the Karamysh district of the Golo-Karamysh district of the Labor commune (Region) of the Volga Germans , and since 1922 - the Golo-Karamysh (since 1927 Balcer) canton of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the NP . The administrative center of the Nork Village Council ^[2] . In the 1930s there were MTS, 4 collective farms, a hospital, a secondary school, an orphanage, a nursery, and a library ^[3] .

On August 28, 1941, a Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces on the resettlement of Germans living in the Volga region was issued. The German population was deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan, the village is included in the Saratov region.

The village is located in a forest-steppe , within the Volga Upland , which is part of the East European Plain , in the upper reaches of the Nork River ^[4] . The height of the center of the village is 211 meters above sea level ^[5] . Chernozems are common in the vicinity ^[6] .

By road, the distance to the regional center of Saratov is 110 km, to the regional center of Krasnoarmeysk - 38 km. The administrative center of the rural settlement is the village of Splavnukha, located 14 km south of Nekrasov ^[7] .

Climate

The climate is temperate continental (according to the Köppen classification of climates - humid continental climate (Dfb) with warm summers and cold and long winters). The long-term rainfall is 434 mm. Most precipitation falls in June - 49 mm, the least in March - 22 mm. The average annual temperature is positive and amounts to + 5.5 C, the average temperature of the coldest month of January is −11.0 C, the hottest month of July +21.2 C ^[5] .

Timezone

• Minks // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.