Steblev

The village is located 16 km from the district center, the city of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky (by road), to the regional center of Cherkasy - 70 km.

Steblev is located in the southeastern part of the Dnieper Upland above the Ros River, which flows through the village, also at this place its two tributaries Borovitsa and Khorobra flow into the river.

Ancient Russia

Steblev has a long history. On its territory, settlements of Tripoli culture were found , the remains of two settlements of the Scythian time ^[2] and the early Slavonic settlement of Chernyakhov culture were also preserved. Nearby to the settlement the ancient settlement of times of a princedom ^{[ what? ]} Old Russian state . ^[3]

In 1036, Prince Yaroslav the Wise visited the site of the future Steblev fortress, ^{[4] [ specify the link (already 1282 days) ]} which was part of the Poros defensive line in the south of Kievan Rus. ^[5] Later the fortress was destroyed by the Tatar-Mongols .

Commonwealth

At the time when Steblev was a member of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in Kiev Voivodeship ), he was granted Magdeburg rights .

In 1616, 100 petty-bourgeois and 400 Cossack families lived in Stebliv. Together with the surrounding farms, the town entered the Korsun eldership .

In 1638 a detachment of Karp Skidan entered Steblev. Many steblevtsy joined him.

Hetmanate

From 1648 Steblev became the hundredth town of the Korsun regiment .

During the uprising led by Vasily Drozd in 1664, Steblev was surrounded by the 20,000 Polish punitive detachment of Stefan Charnetsky , who acted in conjunction with the 15,000th Tatar army. After fierce resistance, the punitive broke into the city and destroyed it.

After the Andrusovo truce of 1667 between the Russian kingdom and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Steblev annexed the latter (however, not a single hetman of Ukraine recognized the fact of this annexation until 1709).

From 1685 to 1712 the city was part of the Boguslavsky regiment in the status of the hundredth. The Boguslavsky regiment itself was created by hetman Ivan Mazepa .

In 1702, a rebel army led by Colonel Zakhar Iskra freed Steblev from the Polish authorities, and later it was announced that the town, together with the entire Right-Bank Ukraine , was transferred to the Hetmanate of Ivan Mazepa.

According to the Prut Peace Treaty of 1711 between Turkey and Russia, the town again departed of the Commonwealth.

Russian Empire

After the second section of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1793, Steblev became part of the Russian Empire ^[6] .

Since 1837 the city is part of the Shenderovsky parish of the Kanevsky district of Kiev province .

In the first half of the XIX century, industry developed in Stebliv. The cloth factory, built in 1818 in the village of Velikiy Pritski , was transferred by the landowner Golovinsky to Steblev in 1845. The company employed about 500 people. In 1844, a sugar refinery was founded. From 1888, a metal workshop started working, which later became a iron foundry.

In the 19th century, the town of Steblev was part of the Shenderovsky parish of the Kanev district of the Kiev province . In the village was the Transfiguration and Nicholas Church ^[7] .

On May 1, 1906, workers of the cloth factory and mills went on strike in Steblou. The strike was suppressed, and its organizers, headed by T. Rudenko, were arrested and sentenced to hard labor in Siberia .

At the beginning of the 20th century, a small hospital operated in Stebliv, which was located in a private house. She had two wards - male and female, each for 5 beds, a small pharmacy and served 50 villages. At the hospital worked one doctor and medical assistant . ^[8] There was a parochial school . Since 1900, a single ministerial school has opened, which has 15 children. In the town there were 13 taverns.

UNR and Medvinskaya Republic

In January 1918, Soviet power was established in Stebliv. However, according to the Brest Agreement between the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) and the Central Powers , German - Austrian troops were brought into Ukraine and in March the town was occupied by the German army.

In August 1919, Steblev was taken over by the troops of General Denikin .

In December 1919 the town was again captured by the Bolsheviks.

In 1920−1921, part of the population participated in the formations of the so-called Medvinskaya Republic , recognizing only the legitimate power of the UPR.

Soviet power

In April 1923, Steblev belonged to Shenderovsky district, and in November of the following became the center of Steblevsky district. In 1925, the cloth factory was completely rebuilt. It was decided to liquidate the sugar and iron foundries as unprofitable . At the same time, rabid anti-Orthodox propaganda began, which ended in barbaric destruction of Steblev churches.

In 1926, eight joint land cultivation partnerships were established: Brave, Zarosyanskoe Unity, Poor Man, Vygoda, Klyuch, Optovik, Radkivka, which included 17–20 peasants farms In Stebliv there was a hospital, in which 2 doctors, 2 paramedics, 2 midwives , 3 nurses , 4 nurses worked. In the seven-year labor school, 13 teachers taught 515 children.

In 1928, the first agricultural artel "Engine" was organized in Stebliv, a year later four more: "Perestroika", "them. Chapaeva "," 12 years of the Red Army "," Udarnik. " They numbered 297 horses, 170 oxen, 439 cows, 183 pigs. Subsequently, artels were converted into collective farms .

In 1931, the construction of a small hydroelectric power station (HPP) began in Steblou on Ros, which strengthened the economy of the region.

In 1932, the Steklyovskaya machine-tractor station (MTS) was opened. In parallel, a massive food withdrawal began in Steblou.

As of 1936, a hospital with 5 departments operated in Steblou: surgical, therapeutic, gynecological, maternity, and infectious. Patients were served by 23 medical workers. Opened children's sanatorium , a home for the elderly. In middle and seven-year schools there were 38 teachers, 800 children studied. When MTS were organized nurseries.

During World War II from July 29, 1941 to February 16, 1944, Steblev was under German occupation . February 16, 1944 Steblev was liberated by the 861st rifle regiment of the Red Army.

In March 1944, six-month training courses for tractor drivers and electricians for collective farms began. During 1944−1945 began to build a machine-tractor station, a mill and oil mill, a cotton factory, collective farm premises for animals.

In 1950, the “Dvigatel”, “Perestroika” and “Udarnik” collective farms were united into one “Path to Communism” farm, which in 1959 was joined by the “It. Chapaeva.

In 1952, the Steblevskaya HPP was restored.

In 1953, an open vocational school was opened, which trained electricians, electricians and telecommunications workers, and specialists in the mechanization of livestock farms.

In October 1960, Steblev received the status of an urban-type settlement.

In 1968, the opening of the literary-memorial house-museum of I. S. Nechuy-Levitsky took place.

As of 1971, the village had 12 shops, 3 canteens , 8 buffets, a restaurant, a bakery, and 3 consumer services workshops.

In January 1989, the population was 4,763 people ^[9] .

As of January 1, 2013, the population was 3,636 people ^[10] .

In the village there is a memorial museum of the writer Ivan Nechuy-Levitsky. Also here is the Transfiguration Convent of the Savior, and since 2009 the Church of St. Levitsky has been reconstructed.

The village has a mill, an oil mill, squeezing sunflower oil , a textile factory, a small hydroelectric station on the Ros River. There is also a vocational school. ^{[ what? ]} .

The distance to the railway station Korsun-Shevchenkovsky - 20 km.

• Korkishko, Nikita Vasilyevich (1908–?) - Soviet military leader, guard colonel.
• Nechui-Levitsky, Ivan Semenovich - writer, publicist ^[7] .

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