Lopatino (Penza Region)

The village is located 85 km southeast of Penza , near the Uza River, a tributary of the Sura River.

The village is named after the name of one of the founders: the merchant Lopatin. Lopatin served in the XVII-XVIII centuries on the defensive lines of the Penza region.

The village arose between 1718 and 1730. On the land card of the Penza province, it was marked as a significant settlement (1730). Before the construction of the railway through the city of Petrovsk, the Saratov province is a large shopping center of the region. In 1780, there were 121 courtyards in Lopatin with a population of about one thousand people.

It is based on land that was denied in 1698-1699 to the stolichnik Klimenty Melenin. His dacha extended from Swan Lake at the mouth of the Elshanka River to the Chardym River and from the modern village of Lopatino to the village of Lipovka. After his death in 1704, the estate went to numerous side relatives of Melenin. In 1717, the village of Nikolskoye, Lopatino identity, landowners Solovtsova, Arbuzov, Zhedrinsky, Ivins. In the days of the “Kuban pogrom” 32 peasants were taken prisoner, and the village was burned.

From 1780 - as part of the Petrovsky district of the Saratov province , until the 1870s as part of the Kozlovsky volost, from the 1870s - the volost center. During the general land surveying of 1782-97, the landowners were K. D. Tolstoy, the guarantor M. S. Lupandina, the foreman A. S. Isakova, Motorin, Major P. S. Ermolaev, the titular adviser M. V. Sumarokov; in the village there were 232 yards. From the middle of the 19th century until the February Revolution, it was the center of the 2nd police camp of Petrovsky Uyezd.

Until the end of the 19th century it was called Nikolsky (according to the church) (this church is in the form of a cross, you can see it if you look from above). St. Nicholas Church was built in 1763, the new one was built in 1888.

Also called Novo-Lopatino or Lopatino. The mention of the village as Novo-Lopatino suggests that its population could have been from the village of Lopatino, Gorodishchensky district , founded earlier.

One of the sights of the village is the old bridge over the Uzu River. It was built in 1912 and continues to be operational (including for the passage of vehicles). The symbolism of this bridge is present on the coat of arms and flag of the village of Lopatino.

In March 1918, the volost Council took power. In 1921, the village was affected by famine - several dozen people died. In 1926, there was a seven-year school in Lopatino (522 students, together with an elementary school, of which 66 pioneers, 20 Komsomol members), a library, a reading room, a people's house, a red corner, 1 radio. During collectivization (1930–1932), unorganized peasant protests against its violent forms took place.

Until 1928, Lopatino was the volost center of the Petrovsky district of the Saratov province , since 1928 the district center of the Lopatinsky district of the Volsky district of the Lower Volga region (since 1939 - in the Penza region ).

In the late 1930s. there is a power station, MTS, a sawmill, artels: sewing, Metalist, leather, fulling, food. In the 1980s - the central estate of the state farm "Wrestler".

In the late 1990s, the main industrial enterprises: mechanized forestry (lumber, round timber), JSC “Milk” (dairy products), PMK, Mayakskoye agricultural partnership (since 1992, based on the Borets state farm), district hospital, high school, 2 libraries, district cultural center, music school. Two religious communities - Orthodox and Muslim Monument to fellow soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War. 3 architectural monuments: a former merchant house with a bench, a bridge across the river. Uzu (1912), the current St. Nicholas Church (1892).

• On the site "Penza region: cities, towns, people"
• On the portal "Suslon"
• Lopatino - District Center of the Penza Region