Borok (Demyansk district)

The village is located on the Valdai Upland , in the southeast of the rural settlement, south of the administrative center of the rural settlement - the village of Zhirkovo .

Monuments of archeology of the VIII — X centuries testify to the ancient settlement of these places. located near the village - the hill, located 0.5 km south-west of the village, on the left bank of the Krasavka and the village located south-east of the hill ^[1] .

In the list of populated areas of the Demyansky district of the Novgorod province for 1909, the village of Borok, which is indicated on the land of the Borkovsky rural society, was on the territory of the Polish Volost ; the number of inhabitants of the village - 286, the number of yards - 50, in the village then there were: a small shop, chapel and a bread store ^[5] . At the request of citizens at the beginning of 1918, Borok was transferred from the Polish volost to the Lutsk volost ^[6] . According to the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on April 3, 1924, the Lutsk volost was abolished, and the village of Borok became part of the newly formed Demyansk volost ^[6] . The population of the village of Borok according to the census of 1926 is 315 people ^[7] . Then, from August 1927, the village of Borok as part of the Tarasovsky Village Council of the newly formed Demyansky District of the newly formed Novgorod District as part of the renamed North-West to Leningrad Region ^[7] . By order of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of July 23, 1930, the Novgorod District was abolished, and the district became directly subordinate to the Leningrad Executive Committee. The population of the village of Borok in 1940 was 312 people ^[7] . German occupation - from August 1941 to January 1943 ^[7] . By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 5, 1944, the Novgorod Region was formed and the Demyansky District became part of it ^[6] .

During the failed all-Union reform on dividing into rural and industrial areas and party organizations, in accordance with the decisions of the November (1962) plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU "on the restructuring of the party leadership of the national economy" from December 10, 1962, a large Demyansky rural area was formed, and the administrative Demyansky the area of ​​February 1, 1963 was abolished. Tarasovsky Village Council then became part of the Demyansk rural area . The plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, held on November 16, 1964, reinstated the former principle of party leadership in the national economy, after which, by a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of January 12, 1965, rural areas were re-transformed into administrative areas and by decision of the Novgorod Oblast Executive Committee No. 6 of January 14, 1965, the Tarasovsky Village Council and Village in Demyansky district. ^[6]

After the termination of the Tarasovsky Village Council in the early 1990s ^[8] , the Administration of the Tarasovsky Village Council, which was abolished in early 2006 and the village of Borok, was the administrative center of the municipality , the Tarasovsky Village Settlement of the Demyansk Municipal District ( local government) ), according to the administrative-territorial structure, it was subordinate to the administration of the Tarasovsky rural settlement of the Demyansky district ^[9] . Since April 12, 2010, after the abolition of the Tarasovsky rural settlement, the village became part of the Zhirkovsky rural settlement ^[10] .

National composition

According to the 2002 census , 54 people lived in the village of Borok (91% Russians) ^[3]