Derben (Tambov region)

The name of the village may come from the ancient word "derben". It is a synonym for the nouns “burlap, derbouzhin”, the verb “derby”, which means: scratching, tearing, pulling. In ancient times, the miller was called the derbenics (Vyatsk.) ^[2] . One of the meanings of the word “derben” is the hut of the miller ^[3] .

In favor of the name-oikonym it is also said in B. B. Wagner's toponymic-local history dictionary “The Map Tells” ^[4] .

The first documented mention of the village of Derben was found in 1891 in documents on the inheritance of the Boratynsky descendants, in particular, the niece of the poet Varvara Rachinsky, as well as in the directory of the administrative division of the Tambov province for 1904 ^[5] .

In the diocesan information of 1911 on the church parish of the village of Maryinka, to which the inhabitants of the village of Derben belonged, it is said that there were 39 peasant households in the village, 139 people with a male population, 117 ^[ female ^] women ^[6] .

The second version of the origin and name of the village is put forward by the researcher of antiquity V.F. Konovalov ^[7] : part of the village of Vyazhlya was donated by Peter I to Major General Ivan Ilyich Dmitriev-Mamonov, who gave the village its name - Derben, as it participated in a military campaign to capture Dagestan fortress Derbent (Iron Gate). The Russian name is Derben. According to old-timers, Derben began to belong to the Mamonovs precisely after the war ^[8] .

A native of the village of Derben V.F. Konovalov also contacted the administration of the Kirsanovsky district informing that the village where the poet Boratynsky was born ^[9] , Lesnaya Street 50, is located in the village of Derben. These data were refuted by the Office of Culture and Archival Affairs of Tambovskaya area ^[10] .

Geographical position

Located at the river. Knitting , tributary of the river Crow .

Street network

There is one street in the village - Lesnaya.

Distance to ^[11]

• the district center of Kirsanov 12 km.
• the regional center of Tambov - 87 km.
• the capital of Moscow - 494 km.

Climate

Moderately continental, average annual temperature +5.3. The annual rainfall is 550 mm ^[12] .

Famous residents

• Mikhail Sergeevich Dmitriev-Mamonov, the last landowner of the village of Derben, a Russian emigrant.
• Alexandra Fedorovna Boratynskaya (Cherepanova), daughter of the commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg, mother of the famous family, landowner and owner of the village of Derben.
• N. A. Pushkin, the grandson of the poet A. S. Pushkin , visited Derben several times, and perhaps sometimes lived there with his family. The tract "Pushkin corners", on the way to the village of Inokovka, was named so thanks to the grandson of the great poet.
• Milonov Vladimir Egorovich, Lieutenant General, was born in the village of Derben on October 27, 1922, a participant in the Great Patriotic War , a pilot. On the famous IL-2, he made a heroic feat with landing his plane on the territory captured by the enemy and saved the crew of the aircraft. In the 1970s, he served as chief of staff of the USSR long-range military aviation.

Residents of the village are served by a post office located in the village of Maryinka ^[13] , and children from the village of Derben ^[14] also study there. Residents of the village are engaged in cattle breeding on farmsteads, maintain subsistence farming, and maintain vegetable gardens where fruits and vegetables are grown. The village has a library branch, organizes cultural leisure

The region has regular intercity public transport ^[15] . The closest railway connection is the Inokovka station, 55.8 km away ^[16] .

• Derben ( No. 0064926 ) / Register of names of geographical objects on the territory of the Tambov region as of December 6, 2018 // State catalog of geographical names. rosreestr.ru.