Shchetinovka (Belgorod district)

The village is located in the western part of the Belgorod region, on both sides of a small river called Uda (right tributary of the Seversky Donets ), on the border with Ukraine , 18 km in a straight line to the south-west of the district center, the village of Mayskoye .

Origin of title

The village of Schetinovka was founded under Peter the Great . Previously, the village was called “High, Shchetinovo identity” Belgorod parish, Belgorod district . Legends with the name of the village are different. One of them, which is more common among old-timers, is this: “High” because the village is surrounded by forest, which wore and is called High, and “Schetinovo” - because of the stubble, which was sold in the village at fairs and was famous in the district ^{[ 2]} .

Historical essay

In the central state archives in the materials of litigation ("controversial cases") of the 1770s, the following information about the economic history of the village remained:

“The odnodvortsy of the village of Vysokiy (Shchetinov's identity) write that their grandfathers who lived in the mountains Bolkhovtse (Bessonov, Alekhin, Bulovin and others - 31 people), in connection with the shortage of land in this city, land was given in 1684 to ... (unintelligible.) And High wells, where the village of High n ... (unintelligible ) 580 quarters in the field and on that land in 1722 was included in the salary. And in 1729 a part of their land was handed over to the landowner ... Attorneys of the High village write that their land was first seized by the landowner ... and then sold it ... to Count Sheremetev, who settled on these lands (“without waiting decisions from the patrimonial collegium ") Cherkasy (i.e.," immigrants from the Ukraine ")".

The Geographical and Statistical Dictionary of the Russian Empire (v.1, 1863) reports that the village of Vysokoye, Shchetinovo also is located 41 versts to the south-west of Belgorod with the rivers Vysokaya and Udakh , residents of 1882, yards 185, in the village - weekly bazaars and 2 fairs a year. In the Zemsky description of the 1880s, there are such lines:

“The village of High, Shchetinovka identity, Bessonovskoy parish Belgorod district ... The first inhabitants were 12 people. The land he was granted for the service of Peter I. These 12 first borrowers took 13 new people, and thus 25 names were formed in the village ”...

In July 1927, in the village of Schetinov, Belgorod district, a joint tillage company (Krasny Pakhar) was registered. Since July 1928, the village of Schetinovo in the Veselo-Lopansky District has been the center of the Schetinovsky Village Council.

In the hungry year of 1933, entire streets became empty in the village of Shchetinov.

In 1935, the church was dismantled in the village "on bricks".

In August 1943, Schetinovo was freed from German occupation, and a military hospital was opened in the former church gatehouse.

After the Great Patriotic War, 635 children from Shchetinovka and the neighboring villages studied in the Shchetinovskaya seven-year-old school in two shifts. The club is located in a simple village hut; opened a shoe shop.

In 1950, the five Shtetinov collective farms (created back in 1929) were merged into one - the “Bolshevik”.

In the late 1950s, the village of Schetinovo (Schetinovka) in the Oktyabrsky district was the center of the Schetinovsky village council, which still included only the Red Plowman farm.

In December 1962, the Oktyabrsky district was "liquidated", and the village of Schetinovo became part of the Belgorod region.

Life in Shchetinov began to improve after the local Bolshevik kolkhoz joined the famous Frunze collective farm. The production site in Shchetinov quickly achieved the best indicators in terms of yields of grain and industrial crops, and milk yield. Entire streets of newly-built houses with communal amenities appeared in Shchetinov, a new House of Culture was built, a three-storey high school building, a large animal-breeding complex, and mechanical workshops; conducted water supply, summed up the gas.

In 1999, the village Schetinovo - the center and the only settlement of the Schetinovsky rural district.

In 2006, the village of Schetinovo was the center of the Schetinovsky rural settlement (including the village itself and the village of Valkovsky) of the Belgorod District ^[3] .

X revision (census) in 1858 counted in the village of Vysokoye, Shchetinovo tozh, Belgorod uyezd, “894 male male sex souls”.

According to the documents of the census of the autumn of 1884: Belgorod district of the Bessonovskaya volost, the village of Vysokoe (Shchetinovo also) - 385 yards of state-owned quarter peasants, 2,667 residents (1,352 men, 1,315 women), literate 178 men and 10 women from 133 families.

In the early 1900s, in the village of Vysokoe / Shchetinovo, Belgorod district - 518 yards of “former state peasants”, 3,790 inhabitants (1,935 men, 1,855 women), landless yards 8, horseless 159 ...

On January 1, 1932 in Schetinov - 4289 inhabitants.

In 1945, in Schetinov - 539 yards, 2220 inhabitants.

In 1958, in the village of Schetinov - 1200 inhabitants.

According to the population censuses in Shchetinovka, on January 17, 1979, there were 738 inhabitants, as of January 12, 1989, 608 (258 men, 350 women), as of January 1, 1994, 665 inhabitants and 296 farms.

In 1999, the village of Schetinovo numbered 750 inhabitants, in 2001 - 764 ^[3] .

Schetinov School

A school in the village of Schetinov was founded in 1869 “on the initiative of the peasants” and until 1871 it was located in a rented apartment; the school building was built on the edge of the village, near the church and the cemetery. The apartment was a teacher at the school.

Since 1904, Ivan Yegorovich Volnov and Stefan Vasilievich Lomakin began teaching at the Shchetinovskaya school young graduates of the Kursk teacher seminary. The revolutionary movement was gaining momentum in the country, and the students from Shtienov gathered men in the evenings at school - ostensibly to view the “foggy pictures” (transparencies) with the help of the school “magic lantern”.

Proclamations and revolutionary literature Volnov with Lomakin received from Kharkov and Kursk.

On November 12, 1905, the gendarmerie captain Datsevich reported from Belgorod to Kursk:

“... Ivan Yegorov Volnov and Stefan Vasilyev Lomakin, teachers of the village school of the village of Shchetinovo, gathered peasants in the school at the beginning of this November, with whom they learned Dubinushka, spoke to them about the destruction of their bosses, after which they could have taken the land from the landlords, discussed forms of government ... ".

This was followed by a Belgorod prison, a court in Kharkov, imprisonment and exile. Traces with. V. Lomakina lost. Volnov, "after serving his sentence," continued his revolutionary work, was exiled to Siberia . From there he managed to escape abroad.

In 1911, on Capri , having become close to Gorky , he wrote “A Tale about the Days of My Life”.

On the pages of the "Tale ..." you can clearly feel the Shtetinovsky impressions and events, there are a lot of sketches of the local nature, rural customs, beliefs and attitudes. I.Ye.Volnov (1885-1931) became a famous writer, in 1927-1928 a 4-volume collection of his works was published in Moscow, “A Tale about Days of My Life” was reprinted in 1960–1980s ^[3] .

Rural Ethnographic Museum

Shhetinovka has its own rural ethnographic museum, for which many unique exhibits have been collected in the houses of old residents ^[3] .

• Odnodvortsy village Schetinovki. Research work of local lore.

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