Debra

The village of Debra is located on the Oka-Don Plain , on the right bank of the Alenka River, 23 km northwest of the town of Shilovo . The distance from the village to the regional center of Shilovo by road is 36 km.

To the south of the village are the tracts Sterligovo and Ryasskie Vyselki (former settlements), to the southwest - the tract Yeremeyevka (former settlement) and Laski ravine , to the northwest - a large pond on the Studenets river. The nearest settlements are the villages of Muratovo and Ryassa .

According to the 2010 census, 3 ^[1] people live permanently in the village of Debra.

According to the "Explanatory Dictionary" by V. Dahl , the wilds - w. is old. lair, valley, split, hollow, log, ravine; wooded, densely overgrown valley, blackwood along the expanse. Derbina - w. thicket, thicket. Derby - to clear a small thicket under arable land, with uprooting. Derben - m. sackcloth, gunny, the thickest linen canvas of ostits; tvr psk. nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, rubbish ; yars. A clumsy, rude, baggy person. Pounding - ryaz. vggd. tear, scuff, scratch ^[2] .

E. M. Murzaev in the Dictionary of Popular Geographic Terms (1984) noted that the wilds are impenetrable dense forest, thicket. Dr. Rus wilds, dams, dybs, wilds - “valley”, “gorge”, “hillside”; “Forested slope”; “Forest”, “flow into the gorge”, “moat”. Derba - virgin land, subsection, neglected reservoir; in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda region shrubbery, light forest, intended for cleaning and arable land. Debra is a wide depression occupied by meadow vegetation, sometimes a wide dry valley without a river. To tear, to scoop - to scratch, scrub, pull. Debr - “swamp”, “swamp covered with forest”; “Thicket”, “slum with deadwood”; "Swampy hummocky place", "bush", "aspen". ^[2]

Ryazan local historians L. A. Kononenko and A. A. Nikolsky wrote that the same names as the rivers Debra, Deberka, Debrik, the ravine Debr, Debrinsky, etc. are repeatedly found in the toponymy of Pochia. Such names are associated with the popular geographical term debris , which not only “dense, impassable forest” is designated, but also “valley, hollow, ravine, wooded valley, ravine overgrown with forest and shrubs, etc.”. The word debris is found in the Ryazan letter of the first half of the XVI century. Debra's form corresponds to the toponymic model in s. In dialectic speech, in some words, fluctuations in the pronunciation of [ry] or [ri] are noted. ^{[2] [3]}

I.I. Prokhodtsev testifies that the village of Debra was formed in 1861 by the landowner Sterligov, as the settlement of peasants from the village of Sterligovo. In the "List of Populated Places of the Ryazan Province" for 1906, the village is listed as the Sterligov Debri. By this time, there were 23 yards in it and 179 people lived. ^[four]