Spassk (Ryazan Oblast)

Spassk village is located on the Oksko-Don plain on the right bank of the Kermis River at the mouth of the Kevlya River, 34 km southeast of the town of Shatsk . The distance from the village to the regional center of Shatsk by road is 54 km.

From the west, south and east, the village is surrounded by large forests. The nearest settlements are Kermis village and Lvivka village, as well as Nikolaevka village, Tarkhany village and Nadezhdino village ( Tambov region ).

The version of Mikhailovsky local historians I. Zhurkin and B. Katagoshchin, deriving the name of the village from the name of the landowner Spassky , does not find confirmation. As a rule, settlements with such names are mostly named after the Spassky churches located in them. However, this locality always had the status of a village , and there was no church in it ^[2] .

According to local legend, the village got its name from the surname Burmistra Spassky ^[3] .

Until the beginning of the 20th century. the village bore a double name - Spasskaya, Pechinki identity.

Spassk village arose in the early 1830s. as a settlement from the village of Pechiny at the initiative of its then owner, the cavalry general, Prince Peter Ivanovich Trubetskoy (1798-1871). In total, 7 families were resettled in a new place, in a forested marshland on the banks of the Kermis River, which was replete with game, the descendants of which later began to bear the names of the Kolesovs, Makhonins, Solomatins, Biryukovs, Shashurins, Shorins and Potekhins ^[3] .

The new settlement was initially called Pechinki and consisted of only 13 peasant households. The village received its second name, according to legend, by the name of the managing director of the princes Trubetskoy burmeister Spassky.

After the abolition of serfdom , at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the Trubetskoy estate in Spassk passed into the hands of the merchant Ledencov, who built a distillery here. The plant employed many peasants from the surrounding villages, as well as teenagers 12-14 years old. He also owned a forest and potato fields in the vicinity of the village, a mill ^[3] .

Among the peasants, more prosperous families of the peasants Presnov, Makhonin, Kolesov, Baklanov stood out. The kulak family of the Kolesovs owned 18 dess. land in the vicinity of the village. The Presnov and Makhonin families were the first to build brick houses in the village. They rented land near the Kermis River from the side of the hill, where clay was mined, and built a brick factory here. Directly on the hill itself, where the clay quarry, was another brick factory of Mikhail Sevostyanovich Baklanov. Many houses in the village were built from local bricks ^[3] .

By 1911, according to A.E. Andrievsky , Spasskaya village, Pechinki identity, belonged to the parish of the Christ Church of the village of Kermis and there were 80 peasant households in which 250 male and 300 female souls lived ^[4] .

The main cargo and passenger transportation is carried out by road.

• Philip Fedorovich Makhonin (born 1929) - graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, corresponding member of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts.