Black Spur

The village of Black Otrog is located about 80 kilometers from Orenburg and 29 kilometers from the administrative center - the village of Saraktash .

Previously, there was a line of fortresses that protected the Russian borders from raids by nomads. Initially, the tract Black Otrog was given to the Cossacks of the Prechistenskaya fortress on the Sakmara River. The village of Black Otrog itself was founded relatively recently, in 1827 ^[2] on the banks of the Sakmara River by Voronezh peasants - immigrants who came from the villages of Korotoyak Uyezd (the village of Levoe, etc.) ^[3] . In the early spring of 1827, 149 males left their homeland, heading for Siberia, in the Petropavlovsk district of the Omsk region, but due to the distance of the road, they remained wintering in the Prechistenskaya fortress, and then completely went to the nearby tract where they settled.

The events of the peasant war under the leadership of Yemelyan Pugachev , described in Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's novel Captain's Daughter, unfolded in these places. In 1840, all the lands along Sakmara and the Urals became part of the territory of the Orenburg Cossack army . Joining the Cossacks obliged the villagers to carry out many years of service, subordinated their whole life to the rules of a military settlement. Orenburg Cossacks were involved in foreign wars.

Black Otrog is one of the recognized centers of knitting in the Orenburg region, specializing in the manufacture of warm Orenburg down scarves . The role of puff knitting in the life of the village is evidenced by the fact that the puff knitting artel was opened in the village earlier than the collective farm, that out of 280 yards in 1926, 235 were engaged in the manufacture of scarves. The works of black-masters' craftswomen are kept in the collection of many museums in Russia and exhibited abroad. ^[four]

In 1934, the Black Otrog became the district center of the educated Gavrilovsky district. On April 3, 1959, in connection with the reform of the Gavrilovsky district, the Black Trog Village Council was formed. The newly created municipality in the Saraktash region today includes the villages of Black Otrog, Ablyazovo, Izyak-Nikitino, Nikitino, Studensy, the village of Sovetsky and the station of Black Otrog. The population of the Black-Trog village council is 3735 people, the area occupied by the municipality is more than 33 thousand hectares.

• Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (9 Centralnaya Street). The temple was erected with the direct participation of Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin in 1996. The consecration of the temple on September 6, 1996 was performed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II . In 2005, the temple was painted by icon painters from the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra ^[5] . In 2007, the temple was visited by Metropolitan of Kaliningrad and Smolensk, Cyril , the current patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia. The worshipers of the temple are the Chernomyrdin family. The temple attracts pilgrims from many large cities with its extraordinary beauty and Christian shrines located in it. In 2006, an ark with 78 particles of relics of the Kiev-Pechersk saints, an icon with particles of the relics of the holy noble princes Daniil of Moscow and Alexander Nevsky , an icon with particles of the relics of the Optina elders was transferred to the temple. ^[6] .
• Baptismal Church of the Parish of St. John the Evangelist (23 Leninsky Street) The church was built in 1848-1849 and consecrated on November 2, 1850 ^[7] . There is a Sunday school at the temple.
• Monument to fellow soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War (Central Street).
   

  The fellow villagers - the black men who fell in battles for their homeland in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
• Historical and Memorial Museum of Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Central Street, 7-b). The museum was founded in 2011, the opening of the exhibition is planned in 2015.

• Municipal educational institution "Chernotrozh Secondary School named after V. Chernomyrdin"
• State educational institution “Black-Urozh Special (Correctional) General Boarding School”
• Municipal pre-school educational institution "Chernotrozhsky kindergarten" Sun "of a general developing type with priority implementation of the physical development of pupils."
• Autonomous non-profit organization Children's health spiritual-patriotic camp "Svetoch".
• Municipal institution of continuing education for children "Saraktash children's art school" (branch).

In the Black Spur, the ex-chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Viktor Chernomyrdin, was born ^[8] .

• Black Spur // www.orenburg-gov.ru (inaccessible link)
• Native village - Black Spur / P. G. Gusev, I. F. Pryadkin, N. I. Rakhimova, M. G. Trofimova; [Repl. ed. N. I. Rakhimov]. - Orenburg: Printing House "Dimur", 2007. - 512 p. - ISBN 5-7689-0134-5
• Native village - Black Spur / P. G. Gusev, I. F. Pryadkin, N. I. Rakhimova, M. G. Trofimova. / Ans. ed. N. I. Rakhimova; ANO "Museum of V. S. Chernomyrdin." - Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. / with the participation of A. A. Sorokin. - Orenburg: ANO "Museum of V. S. Chernomyrdin", 2012. - 576 p., Ill. - ISBN 978-5-905681-02-8