Novikovka (Chuvashia)

The village is located 4 km east of the district center, Alatyr . The nearest railway station is Alatyr in the same place. The village is located on the right bank of the Abyss River ^[2] . Near the village passes the highway Alatyr - Batyrevo . The center of the settlement is 11 km by road to the north.

The village was formed in the 1760s at the sawmills of the Moscow merchant of the first guild A.I. Novikov, whose name was given the name. At two sawmills built on the site of his own distillery and mill, there were 14 serfs that laid the foundation for the village. The villagers were Russians. Since the beginning of the 1870s, the Orlov distillery was operating in the village. In 1875, the plant burned down, was sold to the landowner Desarno and worked until 1883.

According to the home census of 1911, 16 families of former specific peasants lived in the village of Novikovka, 11 of them rented 29.5 acres of arable land and 67.7 acres of mowing, there was no allotment land. There were 11 adult horses and 6 foals, 14 cows and 17 calves (as well as 4 units of other cattle ), 31 sheep and goats and 14 pigs. The soil was predominantly sandy, sowed winter rye and spring oats , as well as wheat. There were no agricultural implements. Many were engaged in crafts, for example, 11 people - logging, 7 were carpenters and 6 - rafters ^[3] .

In 1927, the village officially became a village. In 1930, the Krasny Bor collective farm was created in the village. After enlargement, the united collective farm was called the “Banner”, until 1997 the collective farm was in Novikovka (now the center of the collective agricultural enterprise “Banner” is located in the village of Anyutino ) ^{[2] [4]} .

Administrative affiliation

Until 1927, the village belonged to the Alatyr volost of the Alatyr district , later to the Zasursko-Bezdninskiy (Zasurskiy in 1935-1939) village council of the Alatyr district ^{[2] [5]} . In 2004, the Zasursko-Bezdninsky village council was included in the Altyshevskoye rural settlement.

Number of households and residents:

• 1859 - 11 courtyards, 30 men, 35 women.
• 1897 - 14 yards, 44 men, 47 women.
• 1911 - 16 households, 47 men, 32 women, a total of 14 literate and students ^[3] .
• 1927 - 31 yards, 69 men, 59 women.
• 1939 - 82 men, 96 women.
• 1979 - 58 men, 72 women.
• 2002 - 27 households, 47 people: 21 men, 26 women, Mordovians (66%) and Russians (34%) ^[7] .
• 2010 - 11 private households, 17 people: 7 men, 10 women.

Living Mordovians (Erzya), Russian ^[2] .

• V. M. Shishkin, M. M. Trifonova. Novikovka (neopr.) . Chuvash Encyclopedia . Date of treatment January 2, 2017.

• Site of Altyshevsky rural settlement