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The village is located in the western part of the Belgorod region, on the Vorsklitsa River , 10 km in a straight line north-west of the district center, the city of Grayvoron . In the north, Dorogoshch borders the lands of the villages of Smorodino and Pochaevo , in the south - the river Lysenok and the lands of the village of Moschenoe, in the west - the lands of the village of Dunayka , in the east of the village of Kosilovo.

Name Origin

The name Doroshch is Old Russian, long out of use. The village was named after the name of the stream, on the banks of which it is partially located. The second part of the name is deciphered - "thicket, thin." According to some sources, this is a place of trade, according to others - a forest, thicket. The village also has a second name - Kamysheha, apparently related to the nature of vegetation along the banks of shallow reservoirs.

Historical Review

The date of the foundation of the village is 1641 ^[2] .

In an archive document of 1643, Doroshchish was mentioned in connection with the distribution by the governor of the fortified city of Khotmyzhsk by Fedor Tolstoy to arable lands to regimental Cossacks.

Document 1780 on Dorogoshchi:

"Yards 88, 292 husband. and 303 wives., manor (land) 98 acres, arable land 2120, hayfields 154, forest 1021, inconvenient 124 ... Vorsklitsa rivers on both sides, Sankovka and Doroshcha streams flowing into the Sankovka river ... with a large highway road lying from the city of Sumy to the city of Zolochev . Church wooden st. Dmitry Solunsky. Two manor houses, wooden with orchards. On the rivers Vorsklice and Dorogoshchi there is one mill, each with two sets. The earth is clayey ” ^[3] .

A school in Dorogoshchi was opened in 1870, in the academic year 1883-1884, 47 boys and five girls studied in three groups in her only classroom. From the reference book "Russia ..." ( 1902 ):

“The village of Dorogoshch (Kamyshikha) at 12 versts to the north-west from the city (Grayvoron), it has 1800 inhabitants, rural municipality, school, shops, 16 windmills and 2 water mills. ”

The Dorogoshchansky volost of Grayvoronsky district included 7 villages, a settlement, 10 villages and 2 farms.

In the early 1930s, the Dorogoshchansky village council in the Grayvoronsky district consisted of the village of Dorogoshchi and the Dorogoshchansky state farm.

During the Great Patriotic War, the village of Dorogoshch suffered a 22-month occupation and was liberated on August 7, 1943 .

In the 1950s, in the Dorogoshchansky village council of the Greyvoron region, the villages of Dorogoshch and Sankovo; after December 1962, the village council, like the entire Greyvoronsky district, was transferred to the Borisov district .

Since October 1989, the village of Dorogoshch - the center of the Dorogoshchansky village council in the Graivoronsky district.

In 1997, the village of Dorogoshch - the center of the Dorogoshchansky rural district (2 villages) in the Grayvoronsky district ^[3] .

The document of 1692 reports that there are already 43 yards in the village.

In documents of the X revision (1857-1859), “564 male souls” were rewritten in Dorogoshchi, and the local landowners Kurmakova and Bochkareva were also mentioned.

According to the census of 1884 in the volost village Dorogoshch - 221 yards (220 huts), 1,401 residents (704 men, 697 women), literate 31 men and 22 student boys.

In 1932, there were 3034 inhabitants in Dorogoshchi.

As of January 17, 1979, there were 944 residents in Doroshchi, and as of January 12, 1989, 793 (354 men, 439 women).

In 1997, the village of Dorogoshch had 341 households, 831 residents ^[3] .

On October 28, 1967, a new two-story rural House of Culture was opened in Dorogoshchi with an auditorium with 300 seats, an entrance hall, a room for artwork, a movie camera, specialist offices, a ticket office and a spacious library.

In 1975, in the center of the village, a two-story building of the board of the Ilyich Ilyich collective farm was built, which currently houses the administration of the Dorogoshchansky rural settlement and the management campaign of Grayvoron-Agroinvest LLC.

In the village of Dorogoshch there is also a Zaychik kindergarten, a feldsher-midwife station, a branch of the House of Mercy, a branch of Sberbank, a branch of the Russian Post, 4 shops, a hairdresser, two rural tourist estates - Lebedushka and a sheep farm, a rural park named after Imeni Gaulle ” ^[2] .

In the early 1990s, Dorogoshch was the center of the Ilyich collective farm (in 1992, 362 collective farmers) engaged in crop production and animal husbandry. At the end of 1996, Dorogoshch - the center of JSC named after Ilyich, in the village there is a house of culture, a secondary school, a kindergarten, a hospital serving residents of six villages: Dorogoshchi, Dronovki, Kosilovo, Pochaevo, Sankovo ​​and Smorodino ^[3] .

• In 1692, 43 courtyards appear in the construction book of Khotmyzhsk and a complete list of village residents is given. Among them were: Bruyevs, Mikhalevs, Bakhaevs, Lunyovs, Nozdrins, Mitrofanovs, Dezhkins. Most of the names on the list of that year have survived to our days, which means that among the current Dorogoshchans there are many direct descendants of the first settlers ^[2] .

• According to archival data in Dorogoshchi already in 1656 there was a wooden church of Dmitry Solunsky. In 1835, it was rebuilt anew and was located on the territory of a modern veterinary site. The current stone church is the third in a row. It was built under the guidance and at the expense of the landowner Ivan Dmitrievich Surin in 1903-1910 ^[2] .

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