Strigun

The village of Striguny is located in the western part of the Belgorod region, on the Vorskla River , a little higher along its bed relative to the Borisovka district center (practically adjoining from the north-east).

Origin of title

The village of Moschenskoye, as the Striguns were originally called, arose long before the appearance of Borisovka, Grayvoron , and Golovchin . It was the first significant Russian settlement of Hotmyzhsky district on the Crimean side of Vorskla.

People sowed rye, wheat, bred cattle, including foals, who were called Strigunks - this is one of the versions of the name of the village Striguny.

The Sheremetevs bought up land, including the Moshchensky, arable lands became more and more, and there was no one to cultivate them, so the Sheremetevs settled Ukrainian settlers on these lands - Cherkas , while the number of descendants of Russian employees was reduced at the same time. The Russians used to do this: cut their hair from time to time. Cherkasy allegedly nicknamed the local population as a snowmoon - this is the second version of the name of the village ^[2] .

Historical essay

Documents from 1714-1715 and subsequent years were preserved in the archives of the capital, in which the village of Striguny is often mentioned in the “patrimony of Count Sheremetev”.

In 1861, a school was opened in the village of Striguny.

Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus - Efron ( 1899 ): “Striguns are a village of Graivoronovsky county, 32 versts from the county town. Residents 3460. Trade, fair, rural bank ".

The reference book "Russia ..." ( 1902 ): "From Tomarovka to the south-west, on the left side of Vorskla , downstream, there is a postal road to the district city Grayvoron . ... a significant village on this road - the village of Striguny, 10 versts from Tomarovka, has up to 5,500 inhabitants, a volost government, a school, a poorhouse, shops, 18 windmills and 2 fairs. In the era of the liberation of the peasants, this village belonged to Count D.N. Sheremetev, who owned with him 4,600 tithes . "

After the victory of the October Revolution, the peasants received the land. The landowners', church and kulak lands were distributed among the peasants. Got the right to land and women. On average, the family began to have somewhere in the 2-5 dessiatinas ^[3] .

On October 10, 1929, the first collective farm was organized in Striguny, the name of which was given to “Revival of the village”.

In the fall of 1941, the troops of Nazi Germany occupied the Striguns.

In July-August 1943, the Nazi invaders were defeated at the Belgorod-Kursk Bulge , which brought liberation from the Nazi occupation.

In 1994, commissioned low pressure gas pipeline on the street. Komsomolskaya - 2.5 km. The installation of gas equipment in 60 apartments. Launched natural gas in 10 apartments. The construction of a low-pressure gas pipeline of 300 m to an 18-apartment residential building and 1.1 km of a high-pressure gas pipeline to a hydraulic fracturing facility for the workover complex are underway. On February 8, 1995, a kindergarten for 90 places was commissioned ^[4] .

According to the “patrimonial repatriation of the day of October 1764”, “the male’s souls are shown in p. Strigunov 518 ... " ^[5] .

On January 1, 1932, there were 2,317 inhabitants in the village of Striguny 1, and 1794 in the village of Striguns 2nd ^[5] .

• Since ancient times, the village of Striguny and the surrounding villages have been famous for the cultivation of onions and garlic ^[7] . Samples of the Strigunov bow were at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1904 , where he received worldwide recognition and was awarded the “Big Gold Medal”, which was kept by the volost elder ^[3] . In Soviet times, almost the entire population of the village worked on the Lenin collective farm, one of the best farms in the region. The collective farm specialized in the cultivation of onions, an old craft of local residents ^[8] .

• Historical background on the Strigunovsky rural settlement

• Osykov B.I. Belgorod villages. Encyclopedic publication / Belgorod: Constant 2012.