Gorki (village, Kameshkovsky district)

The village is located 19 km north-east of the center of the village of Vtorovo and 7 km south of the regional center Kameshkovo .

At the beginning of the XVII century, the village of Gorki was granted by Tsar Vasily IV Ivanovich Shuisky “for the Moscow siege seat” to the estate of the nobleman Tikhon Ivanovich Trakhaniotov . In 1724, the village of Gorki became the property of N.P. Vilboa . In 1721, in honor of the conclusion of the Nishtad peace , Vilboa received the rank of captain of the first rank and was awarded for his excellent service by the name in the village of Gorki with surrounding villages. From 1763 - Gorki became the property of V.I. Chelishcheva , from 1782 - the Levashevs . In Gorki the landowner estate of the Levashevs was located. The peasants of the village of Gorki during the Patriotic War of 1812 joined the ranks of the 3rd foot Cossack regiment of the Vladimir militia, where they served for more than two years. The population of the village increased rapidly throughout the 17th and 19th centuries. After the reform of 1861, temporarily liable Gorky peasants for a long time paid a quitrent of 10 rubles in silver from the revision soul. From 1864 to 1896, Gorki was the center of the Gorkinsky volost of the same name, which was then combined with the Eden volost of the Kovrov district . Part of the peasants of the village of Gorki traded in trade; they went with peddlers to sell goods in remote places. Local peasants transported bread to Vladimir and Kovrov . At the expense of the workers, the population of almost all the villages and villages of this region increased significantly. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the village was a fairly significant shopping center. In 1882, a zemstvo primary public school was opened in Gorki. The duties of the lawmaker there were performed by priests of the local Trinity Church. At first, 60 people studied at the school, by 1915 - 74 people. In 1916, with a zemstvo at the expense of residents from the best materials, a school was built in the village. The school in Gorki survived the Soviet era, but was closed in 2009 due to unprofitability.

In 1934, the Sverdlov collective farm was formed. At first, there were only 5 people on the collective farm, only one horse. Then there were more people, they began to buy equipment. Later, a horse farm of 25 horses appeared on the collective farm. Since 1940, Gorki has been part of the Kameshkovsky district of the Vladimir region.

In the Great Patriotic War, the inhabitants of the village of Gorki helped the military in the rear. In 1941-1943, from the south side on the outskirts of the village of Gorki, on a hill, soldiers built a dugout, then a tower was installed and an anti-aircraft gun was brought in, which was served by girls in uniform. It was here, on the edge of the village of Gorki from Mishnev’s side, that an air route of flights of German planes to strategic military facilities of the cities of Kovrov , Dzerzhinsk , Gorky and the junction station Vtorovo passed. Residents of the village of Gorki sewed military clothes.

In the years of Soviet power until 1998, the village was part of the Volkovoinovsky village council .

In 2005, the villagers made gas available in Gorki. The clubhouse, built in the 60s, has several circles. A handwritten archive has been preserved.

In the village is the active Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (1801).

The wooden church in the village of Gorki in honor of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity was built in 1679. At the expense of the landowner’s estate of Alexander Ivanovich Trakhaniotov. By 1738, the church became extremely dilapidated and was replaced by a new wooden church. Until the 19th century, almost all temples were wooden. The widespread construction of stone temples in Vladimir land began in 1800. Almost every year new temples were erected and consecrated. The stone church in the village of Gorki was built in 1801 at the expense of parishioners. In 1864, a warm stone church was attached to it, and in 1891 it was combined with a cold one. There were two chapels here: in honor of the icon of the Korsun Mother of God and in honor of the Holy Great Martyr Dmitry Solunsky. The church owned a cemetery wooden entrance chapel, built in 1889, as well as a gatehouse where the Zemstvo public school was located. The temple kept copies of metric books from 1802, confessional paintings from 1829, an inventory of church property. The church was closed in 1938, opened in November 1946. The temple, the bell tower and the fence are fully preserved ^[11] .