Wanchur

The village of Vanchur is located on the Oksko-Don plain on the stream Vanchur (a tributary of Tarnitsa ) 10 km east of the village of Shilovo . The distance from the village to the regional center of Shilovo by road is 17 km.

The village of Vanchur is surrounded by forests and has long been famous as a favorite place for mushroom pickers. To the west of it flows the Tarnitsa River and the tract Chisty Forest is located. The nearest settlements are the villages of Berezovo , Borovoye, Irita and the village of New Life .

According to the 2010 census, 29 ^[1] people live permanently in the village of Vanchur. (in 1992 - 107 people ^[2] ).

According to the dictionary of “Popular geographical terms” by E. M. Murzaev “van” , “van” - a forest, a tree (other Iranian). In the Armenian language, van is a village, village, place of residence, inhabited place. “Ur” is a mountain, a hill, a bump, a watershed (Mans.).

N.P. Milonov deduced the name of the village of Vanchur from Erzya-Mordovian "sur" - a finger.

Mikhailovsky local historians I. Zhurkin and B. Katagoshchin and Shilovsky local historian A.P. Gavrilov noted that the village was named after the Sukhoi Vanchur stream, on which it is located.

A.P. Gavrilov cites two local traditions, according to one of which the name of the village came from the name of the hero Vanchur, who was killed nearby. According to another legend, there lived two brothers Van and Titia, Tatar princes. Van served as a Russian prince, and Titia was an evil sorcerer. After his death, Van was buried in the village he had been granted, and Titu was buried on the Bald Mountain, which they began to call Titina. ^[3]

In the "Lists of populated places of the Russian Empire" for 1862, the village is mentioned with a double name - Nikitina, Vanchur identity, at the Vanchur river. ^[3]

By 1891, according to I.V. Dobrolyubov , the village of Nikitina, Vanchur identity, belonged to the parish of the Nikolskaya church in the village of Berezovo and there were 68 yards in it. ^[four]

An indicator of the growth of social contradictions in the Russian outback on the eve of the October Revolution of 1917 was the case that occurred in the village of Vanchur in the autumn of 1917: local fists punished the laborer, widow Akulina Demina, who took flour from the owner's barn for hungry children - she was taken around the village with a sheet iron on the neck, periodically beating. The unconscious bloodied woman was thrown at the threshold of her own home. ^[5]

On August 28, 2013, on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the hill in the center of the village of Vanchur a worship cross was erected and consecrated.

The main cargo and passenger transportation is carried out by road and rail. From the village of Vanchur there is an exit to the north-west motorway of regional significance P125 : "Ryazhsk - Kasimov - Nizhny Novgorod". On the southern outskirts of the village there is a stopping point " Vanchur " of the railway line "Ryazan - Pichkiryaevo" of the Moscow railway .