Rare Dubrava

The German name is given by the maternal colony Gnadenheim. The name Rare Dubrava, according to residents, came from the small river of the same name, according to another legend, because of the rare forest around the village ^[2] .

It was founded in 1908 by immigrants from the Black Sea region. Until 1917, the Mennonist village of the Oryol volost of the Barnaul district of Tomsk province . The fraternal Mennonite community was part of the Schumanovka-Kleefeld community. Before the revolution, there was a house of worship, a school worked ^[2] .

In 1926-1928, 23 families (144 people) left the Redkodubravsky Village Council for America. In 1931, the Margiz collective farm was created. In 1950, the merger of collective farms. Blucher (village of Ravnopol), "Margiz" (village of Redka Dubrava), "New Land" (village of Otradnoe), named after Kaganovich (village of Podsnezhnoye), named after Polina Osipenko (the village of High Mane). The center of the new collective farm named after K. Marx was Rare Dubrava. During the period of collectivization and enlargement of collective farms, the inhabitants of neighboring farms and villages: Kleefeld, Friedensfeld, Ebensfeld, Libenthal (Catholics) and others were relocated to Rare Dubrava. Since the fall of 1957, the teaching of German as a native language was resumed ^[2] . In 1971, in connection with the elimination of “unpromising” villages, residents from the villages of Podsnezhnoye , Otradnoye and Rovnopol were relocated to the central estate ^[3] .

In 1991, the village became part of the German National District . Since 1992, the collective farm has become a pedigree breeding cattle of the red steppe breed (at present the K. Marx agricultural-pedigree breeding farm) ^[2] .

The village is located within the Kulundinskaya plain , belonging to the West Siberian plain, at an altitude of 145 meters above sea level ^[4] . The terrain is flat. The village is surrounded by fields ^[5] . Southern chernozems are widespread ^[6] .

By road, the distance to the district center of the village of Halbstadt is 10 km, to the regional center of Barnaul - 400 km. The nearest town, Slavgorod, is located 47 km southwest of the village ^[7] .

Climate

The climate is temperate continental (according to the classification of Köppen-Geiger climates - type Dfb ). The average annual temperature is + 1.6 ° C, the average temperature of the coldest month of January is 17.5 ° C, the hottest month of July is + 20.2 ° C. The long-term rainfall is 315 mm, the highest rainfall in July is 56 mm, the smallest in March - 13 mm ^[4]

Timezone

National composition

In 1995, Germans made up 39% of the village population ^[2] .

The village has a secondary school, a kindergarten, a culture house, a library, a center for German culture, a church, a public service center, a sports complex, an art school, shops, a hairdresser, and a cafe ^[2] .