Zhelezovo (Vladimir region)

The village is located 8 km south of the center of the village of Nebylye and 37 km southeast of the district center of the city of Yuryev-Polsky .

In the first quarter of the 17th century, Zhelezovo was the estate of Prince Ivan Shuisky , from the 30s of the 17th century to the 40s of the 19th century, the surnames of the Przorowski princes belonged, and at the end of the 19th century, to Count Apraksin . The church of the village of Zhelezov in the books of the patriarchal order was recorded under 1624 as the church of Kozma and Damian. In 1730, the Kozmo-Damian church in Zhelezov burned down, the owner of the village Alexander Nikitich Prozovsky built a new wooden church in honor of the same holy silver pieces of Kozma and Damian, this church existed until 1846, when it was demolished due to dilapidation. In 1798, the owner of the village, Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovsky, initiated the construction of a stone church with a bell tower in honor of the Nativity of Christ, which was consecrated in 1805. In 1846, a chapel was built in it in honor of the holy silver pieces of Kozma and Damian, instead of the destroyed Kozmo-Damian church. In 1848, at the expense of the new owner of the village, Count Apraksin, another chapel was arranged in it in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. In 1865, with the permission of the Diocesan Authorities, another warm stone church was laid, construction was completed in 1867, and in the next 1868 the church was consecrated in honor of the Presentation of the Lord. The parish consisted of the village and villages of Alekseevka and Chuvashino. Since 1883, a parish school existed in the village ^[2] . During the years of Soviet Power, both churches were destroyed.

In the late XIX - early XX centuries, Zhelezovo was part of the Chekovsky volost of Vladimir district . In 1859 ^[3] there were 65 yards in the village, in 1905 ^[4] - 102 yards.

Since 1929, the village was part of the Chekovsky village council of the Stavrovsky district , from 1935 to 1963 as part of the Nebylovsky district , from 1965 - as part of the Yuryev-Polsky district . Since 2005, the village is part of the Nebylovsky rural settlement .