Wet Orlovka

The village is located in the western part of the Belgorod region (near the border with Ukraine ), on the left bank of the Vorsklitsa River , 9.4 km in a straight line to the west-north-west of the district center, the city of Grayvoron .

Name Origin

It arose in the middle of the XVII century and was originally called: the village of Wet. The name comes from a tributary of the Vorsklitsa river - a swampy stream called Wet Well, on the banks of which the village appeared.

In the 1720s, the family of the landowner Savva Orlov purchased “up to 400 quarters of the land” from the village of Mokroy Akinshina, Antsiferov, Knyazev, Piskpov and Osetrov from the same family and settled the new village of Orlovka on these lands. Later, two neighboring villages merged into the village of Wet Orlovka ^[2] .

Historical Review

A document dated July 4, 1681 has been preserved - a tzar’s diploma granted to Metropolitan Misail of Belgorod and Oboyansk on land ownership and peasants in the Khotmyzh district :

"... Between the local lands, and between, and the faces of the villages of Dobry and Wet and the village of Spodoryukhina, the landowners and between the living borders of the Rusty and Skorodny wells ..." ^[2] .

In 1838, the village of Wet Orlovka became a village and entered the Dorogoshchansky volost ^[3] .

In November 1927, in the village of Wet Orlovka in the Grayvoron County , a partnership for joint cultivation of land (TOZ) “The Way to Collectivization” was registered.

Since July 1928, the village of Wet Orlovka in the Grayvoronsky district has been the center of the Mokro-Orlovsky village council, which included Wet Orlovka itself and the village of Rozhdestvenka ^[2] .

In 1932 a collective farm was formed. The first chairman was 25 thousandth Ustin Grigorievich Zharikov ^[4] .

During the Great Patriotic War, during the occupation of the Grayvoronsky district by fascist troops, the headquarters of the partisan detachment “Miner Flame” was located near Mokra Orlovka.

In 1958, the Mokro-Oryol village council of the Grayvoronsky district consisted of three villages: Wet Orlovka, Rozhdestvenka and Spodaryushino.

In December 1962, the Greyvoronsky district was "liquidated", and the Mokroorlovsky village council (the same 3 villages) moved to the Borisovsky district .

In October 1989, the Grayvoronsky district was restored - with the Mokroorlovsky village council in its composition.

In 1997, the village of Wet Orlovka in the Grayvoronsky district was the center of the Mokroorlovsky rural district.

Since 2010, the village of Wet Orlovka is the center of the Mokroorlovsky rural settlement (the same 3 villages) in the Grayvoronsky district ^[2] .

In the documents of the Grayvoronsky district of the second half of the 1800s, two villages of the same name are described, or, more precisely, the same village is divided into two neighboring volosts.

X revision in 1858 : in the village of Orlovka (Wet identity) of the Dorogoshchansky volost - “12 male souls. sex ”, in the village of Mokroe (Orlovka, identity) of the Greyvoron volost - 298 souls.

According to the documents of the "local study of August and September 1884 ": the village of Orlovka (Wet identity) of the Dorogoshchansky volost 11 miles from Greyvoron - 4 yards of "peasants of the sob. b. Cherkasovs ”, 20 inhabitants (9 men, 11 women), 24 tithes of land; the village of Mokroe (Orlovka tozh) and the village of Krasnoye Podgornoye of the Greyvoron volost - 155 yards of peasants of state showers, 919 residents (450 men, 469 women), 20 literate husbands. of 20 families and 19 student boys from 18 families.

In a document of 1890 - "Wet Village of the Graivoronsky Volost" - 12 versts from the county town - 1353 residents (709 men, 644 women) ... As of January 1, 1931, there were 2740 inhabitants in Wet Orlovka.

On January 17, 1979, in the village of Wet Orlovka, there were 714 inhabitants, on January 12, 1989 - 627 (273 men, 354 women).

In January 1994, there were 612 residents in Wet Orlovka; in 1999 in the village of Wet Orlovka - 620 inhabitants, in 2001 - 625, in 2002 - 622, in 2006 - 615, in 2007 - 594, in 2008 - 602, in 2009 - 598, in 2010 - 600 inhabitants ^[2] .

As of 1995, in Wet Orlovka there were: a closed joint-stock company Niva, 2 farms for the production of grain, a medical center, a House of Culture, and a secondary school ^[2] .

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