Duck

The village is located in the eastern part of the Belgorod region, on the left bank of the river called Userdets ( Don basin), at the confluence of the left tributary, a small river called Utochka (Utich), 18 km in a straight line north of the regional center, the city of Biryucha .

Name Origin

In the book "Biryuch" (p. 179) the following legend is given about the origin of the name of the village:

At that time (grounds), five aliens from the central regions of the state settled along the banks of a small nameless river. They lived in abundance and relative calm. According to local tradition, “strangers floated by the river Userdu. They liked the local places, and they asked permission to accept them for residence. After some time, the settlers arrived with their families and belongings, but a deep rivulet blocked their path. They searched ford for a long time, finally finding it, crossed over to the other side. There were many ducks in these places. Therefore, the rivulet was called Utich, and the village with it was called Duck ” ^[2] .

The statistical book "List of Populated Places of the Voronezh Province" testifies that the village of Utochka in 1859 was concomitantly called the settlement of Vasilyevka on the rivers Userde and Utichi. In the village there was an Orthodox wooden church on a stone foundation, lit in the name of St. Basil. Therefore, the village with it was called the settlement of Vasilyevka ^[3] .

Historical Review

The village was founded at the beginning of the XVIII century .

In 1859, the Biryuchenskiy district “Vassilyeva’s owner’s settlement (Utochka) at the rivers Userde and Utichi”, “on the left side of the large postal route from the city of Biryuch to the city of Ostrogozhsk ” - 142 yards, a distillery, an Orthodox church on a stone foundation. The church was consecrated in the name of St. Basil, hence the second “name” of the settlement.

By 1887, in Utochka - 111 yards, a candle factory.

In 1900, in the Biryuchensky district of the Verkhnyaya Pokrovsky volost, the settlement Duck "at the Bolshoi Userd River" - 102 yards, a land plot of 1,114.5 tithing .

In 1927, the Trudovik agricultural commune was organized in the settlement of Utochka: they built a large building (40 rooms) with a common kitchen, a school (4 classes).

Since July 1928, the settlement of Utochka in the Budyonnovsk district has been the center of the Utyansky village council: the settlements of Soldier and Utochka itself, the village of Plyukhino, the village of Korobkin and Urakovo, the village of Zapadny, the commune “Prilepskaya” and the collective farm “Trudovik” (later the “Chervona Plowman”).

During the Great Patriotic War from July 1942 to January 1943 the peasants of Utochka survived the fascist occupation.

In the second half of the 1950s, the Utyansky village council of the Krasnogvardeisky district included the villages of Bolshe-Bykovo, Plyukhino, Soldatka and Utochka itself, the village of Trudovik and the farms of Vysokiy, Dolgiy, Korobkin, Prudnoye and Urakovo.

In 1997, the village of Utochka is the center of the Utyansky rural district: the villages of Bolshebykovo, Plyukhino, Soldier and, in fact, Utochka, the village of Vysoky, Korobkin and Urakovo.

In 2010, the village of Utochka is the center of the Utyansky rural settlement ^[2] .

In 1959, the village of Utochka (settlement Vasilyevka) consisted of yards - 142 with a population of 1003 inhabitants, males - 509, females - 494 ^[3] .

In 1900 - 633 inhabitants (321 men, 312 women).

As of January 1, 1932, there were 917 inhabitants in the settlement of Utochka.

According to censuses in the village of Utochka as of January 17, 1979, there were 398 inhabitants, as of January 12, 1989 - 296 (121 men, 175 women), as of January 1, 1994 - 140 households and 320 residents.

In 1997, in Duck, 135 farmsteads, 313 residents ^[2] .

As of 1995, in the village of Utochka there was a Bolshevik agricultural enterprise, a hospital, a House of Culture, a secondary school (since 1988, in a new two-story building), and a selmag ^[2] .

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