Nucharovo

Located 10.8 km to the northeast of Ardatov on the left bank of the Nucha River.

In the village there are three small ponds (Barsky, Prikazchik, Poisk ponds).

Near the Barsky pond there is a stone church, in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God (1820), an abandoned water tower. Not far from the Poisk pond there is a cemetery.

It is connected by a gravel and gravel road in the west with the village of Razmazley (4.5 km), and a country road in the southwest with the village of Nucha (4.6 km), in the northeast with the village of Vypolzovo (3 km), southeast with the village Ryazadeevo (6 km).

Old street names - Gatilovka, Long side, Povovka.

For the first time it is mentioned in the Arzamas local acts for 1585 as a village, presented by the king to the Sviyazhsk resident Peter Churkin.

The village was around 1690, when a wooden church was built here in honor of the Archangel Michael (now lost) with a chapel in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The fact that the Mordovian village is spoken by its name, which derives from the pagan name Nouchar (in the Nizhny Novgorod Toponymic Dictionary of N. V. Morokhina - Nachar).

“Local historian” Alexander Bazaev cites another interpretation: “living in Nucha”, suggesting that the founder was from the neighboring village of Nucha.

According to the version of local residents, the guardian of the origin of the name of the village went from the river Nucha and the huge ditch Chara)

It is known that in 1751 Nucharovo belonged to the court counselor Ivan Vasilyevich Tatishchev (455 male souls and 258 female souls lived in the village). In 1784, among the owners of the village - adviser Peter V. Tatishchev, collegiate assessor Afanasy Ivanovich Zimin, Alexander Stepanovich Solovtsov, Mikhail Pavlovich Zhukov. Since 1805, the village was owned by the daughter of Ziminsky - Natalya Afanasyevna Stremoukhova, from 1828 part of the village - behind the princes Gagarins (the Stremoukhovs and the Gagarins owned lands in Nucharov before the revolution of 1917).

The construction of the local stone church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (thrones: the main one is in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the chapels: the right - in honor of the Archangel Michael, the left - the great martyr Barbara), completed in 1820, is associated with the name of Ziminskaya-Stremoukhova.

The main occupation of the population was cattle breeding , pottery ( brick) , blacksmithing ( steam boilers), and agriculture - they sowed rye , wheat , barley , oats, millet, and peas.

The main religious group in the village is Orthodox.