Where are the abandoned villages. Artist Vladimir Chernyshev talks about why traveling through abandoned Russian villages. Causes that lead to the depopulation of villages
Come and live! This is exactly what city dwellers have been doing lately, faced with the search for an ordinary, seemingly country-house holiday home and caught up with exorbitant prices for this pleasure, but in the end they chose the usual rural abandoned of distant half-abandoned villages. A house with a huge plot for 50 thousand rubles is a reality! An amazing trend has recently arisen among urban residents - to leave for the village away from the noisy insidious city to nature in peace and quiet. But this is where a lot of problems arise, primarily related to the cost of this campaign.
There are more and more abandoned sites with abandoned houses in the half-dead villages of Russia every year. And there are many reasons for this. Some villagers leave in search of work in cities to earn money forever, some even die, leaving their homes and households. In each half-dead village, you can find several abandoned houses with a decent plot and buildings. Buying such an abandoned property is becoming a new trend of recent times, and this is really a profitable investment.
Investments in this project for the purchase of an abandoned building are minimal. The result is your own country house with a huge plot in a real Russian village. What could be better, more romantic and cheaper for a city dweller? The main price of the issue, it is also a troublesome problem - to find documents for this house and land in the place of the Village Council, to issue them again. The owners of abandoned houses, as a rule, have long died and registration of this property will cost you mere pennies, if we are talking about endangered villages, of which there are a huge number in the far reaches of the country.
For example, in the remote villages of the Astrakhan region, in what is called "fish lands" near the Volga and Akhtuba rivers, for only 50 thousand rubles you can find and take ownership of a huge plot of several hundred meters with an abandoned house, a bathhouse and a backyard building. The cost of such abandoned plots with houses varies from 10 to 200 thousand rubles, no more. The main thing is to find documents for this property in the local Village Council or in the regional center.
I visited one such endangered village and see for yourself what abandoned orphan houses look like, which you can buy as a property and bring them into a decent look.
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Abandoned areas are immediately visible. A rickety fence, an ownerless house, an overgrown plot. The beauty! 
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Half-dead villages and villages in the vast expanses of Russia look the same 
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Abandoned houses are also easy to recognize - by the disconnected electricity and boarded up shutters. The farther from the Moscow region deep into Russia - the houses are more alive and their restoration is more real. In the suburbs, abandoned houses look much worse. 
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There is also a real trash old school among the abandoned. But nevertheless, the cost of such a plot with such a house is cheap. Some manage to get such plots with houses almost for nothing, if only someone lived in them. 
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The demand for such houses with plots has been terrible lately. It is understandable. Not everyone can afford to buy a new house with a plot for several million. And for 100 thousand - it is quite real. 
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There are completely abandoned and already ruined areas. But nevertheless, it is also a profitable purchase. 
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You can find a more desirable abandoned. Perhaps the owners died quite recently or left for the city forever, and their house turned out to be useless to anyone. 
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Every old village has such abandoned houses. And their name is legion. 
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In such villages, their infrastructure is still alive, there are roads, shops and even the Internet. 
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Shops in such dead villages are strangely functioning. 
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Come and live for yourself. What is the problem? 
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This house is still in good condition, but also abandoned. There is even a garage. 
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House with a plot. Restoring it will not be expensive, much more budgetary than building a new house. If there are problems with finances, then this house is a very good option. 
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And each abandoned plot has its own house number, cadastral document and all economic documentation. 
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I think such a house with a plot in the Astrakhan village will not cost more than 100 thousand. And by restoring it, you can get a unique architectural ensemble.
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Among the abandoned houses there are quite strong structures with strong frames to load with a huge plot of ownerless land. 
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Abandoned areas are found and very huge, such as this one at least 30 acres. On such a site, you can build a whole palace. 
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Nice abandoned house. Quite a gift. 
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Another house with carved windows. 
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Judging by the not quite peeling paint, this house was recently abandoned. Someone lived here a couple of years ago. 
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And this house seems to have been abandoned for a long time. 
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This site is huge, but there is nothing left of the houses and lands. 
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Decent abandoned house with a huge plot. I think if you bargain, then for 100 thousand you can buy it and live. 
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Brick abandoned houses are being torn apart by local residents. It is understandable. Brick is expensive. Useful on the farm. 
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Abandoned house in the village 
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Neighbors live here all year round. But this house is empty. 
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Among the abandoned and abandoned houses there are houses in very good condition that do not require capital investment. Buy - and live! 
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Abandoned adjacent to residential buildings. 
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Now people live here. 
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And here there is air conditioning and plastic windows in a wooden frame. 
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Abandoned houses require minimal investment. 
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Strengthen the foundation and roof a little, insert plastic windows and raise the fence. 
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Brick abandoned houses are worth their weight in gold. For 200 thousand you can find a decent brick abandoned and put it in order. 
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Until the house is pulled apart brick by brick, we must take the house! 
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But a wooden house is warmer and better if you live in the countryside or come here for the summer. 
A little more sweetness:
New Russian suburbs or the collapse of villages near Moscow, part 2 -
New Russian village -
There are settlements that are prosperous, dying, and there are dead ones. The latter always attract a large number of tourists and adventurers. The main topic of this article is the abandoned villages of the Moscow region. It is very difficult to say how many of them there are in the Moscow region, and indeed in Russia in general. After all, every year there are new abandoned villages. You can also see photos of these villages in this article.
- the problem of Russia
No wonder they say that it is the soul of the country and the people. And if the village dies, then the whole country dies. It is very difficult to disagree with this statement. After all, the village is indeed the cradle of Russian culture and traditions, the Russian spirit and Russian poetry.
Unfortunately, abandoned ones are not uncommon today. Modern Russians increasingly prefer the urban lifestyle, breaking away from their roots. Meanwhile, the village is degrading and more and more abandoned villages appear on the map of Russia, the photos of which amaze with their despondency and longing.
But, on the other hand, such objects attract a large number of tourists and the so-called stalkers - people who are eager to visit various kinds of abandoned places. Thus, the abandoned villages of Russia can become a good resource for the development of extreme tourism.
However, the state should not forget about the problems of the Russian village, which can be solved only by a complex of various measures - economic, social and propaganda.
Abandoned villages in Russia - the reasons for the degradation of villages
The word "village" comes from "tear" - that is, to cultivate the land. It is very difficult to imagine authentic Russia without villages - a symbol of the Russian spirit. However, the realities of our time are such that the village is dying, a huge number of once flourishing villages simply cease to exist. What's the matter? What are the reasons for these sad processes?
Perhaps the main reason is urbanization - the process of rapidly increasing the role of the city in society. Large cities attract more and more people, especially young people. Young people leave for cities to get an education and, as a rule, do not return to their native village. Over time, only the elderly remain in the villages, who live out their lives there, as a result of which the villages die out. For this reason, almost all the abandoned villages of the Moscow region appeared.
Another fairly common reason for the degradation of villages is the lack of jobs. Many villages in Russia suffer from this problem, as a result of which their inhabitants are also forced to go to the cities in search of work. Villages can disappear for other reasons as well. For example, it can be a man-made disaster. Villages can also degrade as a result of changes in their economic and geographical position. For example, if the direction of the road changes, thanks to which a particular village has been developing all this time.
Moscow region - the land of ancient temples and estates
Podmoskovye is an unofficial name. The historical predecessor of this region can be considered the Moscow province, which was formed back in 1708.
The Moscow region is one of the leading regions in terms of the number of cultural heritage sites in Russia. This is a real paradise for tourists and travelers: more than a thousand ancient temples and monasteries, dozens of beautiful estates, as well as numerous places with long-term traditions of folk art crafts. It is in the Moscow region that such ancient and interesting cities as Zvenigorod, Istra, Sergiev Posad, Dmitrov, Zaraysk and others are located.
At the same time, the abandoned villages of the Moscow region are also well known to many. There are a lot of them in this region. The most interesting abandoned villages of the Moscow region will be discussed further.
Such objects attract primarily extreme people, as well as local historians and various lovers of antiquity. there are many such places. First of all, it is worth mentioning the Fedorovka farm, the villages of Botovo, Grebnevo and Shatour. These abandoned villages near Moscow on the map:
Khutor Fedorovka
This farm is located 100 kilometers from Moscow. In fact, this is a former military town, so you will not find it on any of the maps. Around the beginning of the 90s, the village of 30 residential buildings completely fell into disrepair. At one time, it had its own boiler house, substation, and also a shop.
Botovo village
The old village of Botovo is located in the Moscow region, near the Volokolamsk station (Riga direction). Once in this area was the estate of Princess A. M. Dolgorukova. The center of this estate was a wooden church, which was built in the 16th century (the church has not been preserved). The last owner of the estate in Botovo, as you know, gave it to the peasants at the beginning of the 20th century.
Of the surviving objects in Botovo, you can see only the ruins of the Resurrection Church, built in the 1770s in the pseudo-Russian style, as well as the remains of an old twenty-hectare park. There are still old birch and linden alleys in this park.
Village Grebnevo
Grebnevo is a 16th-century estate with a rich and interesting history and a rather tragic fate. It is located forty kilometers from the capital, on the Shchelkovo highway.
The first owner of the estate was B. Ya. Belsky, the gunsmith of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, then the Vorontsovs and Trubetskoys owned the estate. In 1781, Gavril Ilyich Bibikov became the owner, it was under him that the estate acquired the form in which it has survived to this day.
Dramatic pages in the history of the estate in Grebnevo are connected with the beginning of the Soviet era. The nationalization of the complex led to the fact that the buildings gradually began to lose their historical appearance. First of all, all the internal interiors of buildings were affected. At first, a tuberculosis sanatorium was located within the walls of the estate complex, then a technical school. And only in 1960 the Grebnevo estate was declared an architectural monument of republican significance.
In the late 1980s, the estate seemed to have received a new impetus for its development and preservation. A cultural center was formed here, and various concerts, events and exhibitions began to be held regularly on the estate. Active restoration work began to restore the complex. But in 1991 there was a huge fire, after which only the frames of manor buildings and structures remained from it. In this state, the Grebnevo estate remains to this day, more and more turning into ordinary ruins.
Shatour village
The old village of Shatour has been known since the 17th century. It is located on poor soils, so the main occupation of the locals has always been hunting. Perhaps it was for this reason that the village fell into decay in the middle of the 20th century.
Today the village is completely deserted. Occasionally, the owners of individual houses visit here (several times a year). Among the abandoned village, the old brick bell tower looks great, towering over the deserted village.
Reminder for the extreme tourist
Despite their gloom and decrepitude, old uninhabited villages and other abandoned places are of great interest to many tourists. However, travel to such objects can be associated with certain dangers.
What should the so-called extreme tourists know?
- firstly, before going on such a trip, you should notify your relatives or friends about your trip, its timing and the route of your movement;
- secondly, you need to dress appropriately; remember that you are not going for an evening walk in the park: clothes should be closed, and shoes should be reliable, durable and comfortable;
- thirdly, take with you the necessary supply of water and food, also in your backpack should be a flashlight, matches and a standard first aid kit.
Finally...
The old villages of the Moscow region amaze travelers with their desolation and picturesqueness. I can't even believe that such objects can be located just a few tens of kilometers from the capital - the largest metropolis on the planet! Getting into one of these villages is like using a time machine. It seems like time has stopped here...
Alas, the number of abandoned is growing every year. Perhaps someday this problem can be solved. But for now, abandoned villages serve only as objects of interest for all kinds of extreme people, stalkers and lovers of gloomy antiquity.
I propose to get acquainted with the most picturesque villages located relatively close to Solikamsk along the path of the old Cherdyn tract (Perm Territory). It should be noted that the currently existing asphalt road to Cherdyn and Krasnovishersk is located not along the old tract, but only in the same direction. In some places it runs parallel to it, in some places it crosses, and only in separate, small sections it coincides.
The first settlement, which I propose to look into, will be the village of Tatarskaya, which is located 43 km north of Solikamsk.
The Tatarskaya village was first mentioned in 1623. Then it was a tiny village, located at the source of the Talitsa River, with only two courtyards, but at the same time with its own mill.
The village was developed only in the 19th century, and quite quickly: at the beginning of the century there were 4 households, and in 1884-1889 there were 17 households, in 1909 - 26 households with 162 inhabitants. Tatarskaya in those days was famous for its blacksmiths: there were 4 forges, and peasants of all nearby villages used their services.
Empty houses in Tatarskaya village
In the archaeological literature, Tatarskaya is known for numerous finds of ancient things, axes, lances and other things. Here in 1949 V.F. Gening received from the locals a copper dish made in the Volga Bulgaria in the 13th century. There is also a message about the discovery of another ancient bronze vessel (jug) with a lid.
There is also an interesting assumption about the name of the village, which, however, according to many, does not fully correspond to reality. Journalist-local historian A.K. Sokolkov wrote that during the raid on Solikamsk, detachments of the Siberian Khanate made a stopover (overnight) at this place. And already from here they went to Moshevo and Solikamsk. Later, when a settlement appeared here, it was called Tatarsky.
Currently, the only attraction of the village is a wooden chapel. There are quite a few monuments of wooden architecture of the past centuries in the Solikamsk region, and there is only one chapel.
The date of construction of the chapel is not exactly known, most likely it refers to the 19th century. It is sheathed with a vertical board, there is a quadrangle with a vestibule, above which a ringing tier is placed. It was closed no later than the 1930s, the dome near the chapel was broken and it is in a rather deplorable state.
However, with a strong desire, you can still climb the bell tower and view the village from a height, which we did. Before we had time to go upstairs, we heard the desperate cries of a local grandmother - the only resident and old-timer of the village. With sadness in her eyes, she told us that there was no one left in the village at all, only she lives here now without electricity and water. She protects the chapel, put icons in it, and drives away uninvited guests who come here in search of treasures and stir up old floorboards.
On the bell tower of the chapel (photo by Vladislav Timofeev)
View from the bell tower
The only inhabitant of the Tatarskaya village
The road towards the village of Chigirob: on the left is the house of the only inhabitant of the village Tatarskaya, in the center - a resident of the village and her goats
She also told us about the village of Chigirob, the next point of our journey: it is now inhabited mostly by wealthy people from Solikamsk, who have built modern houses for themselves and come there to rest and hunt. In addition, in the church of the village there is a small iron box-safe, in which one of the former residents began to carefully collect information about the village. Well, we'll see with our own eyes!
Chigirob was first mentioned in written sources also in 1623, as was the village of Tatarskaya. Then it was a village with 5 yards, but the village itself clearly appeared earlier: next to it, archaeologists found the remains of a Russian settlement of the 16th century. The census of 1647 calls Chigirob a graveyard, that is, at that time there was already a church here, and in 1909 there were already 43 courtyards with 274 inhabitants.
The village was never considered rich, most of the inhabitants lived on purchased bread. Chigirob was famous for his woodworkers. So in the Cherdyn Museum of Local Lore, a unique icon of the 17th century is kept from a peasant hut in the village. On a board 29.5 high, 21.3 wide and 2.5 centimeters thick, an eight-pointed cross was carved and painted. And the interior of the local temple was also distinguished by a large number of wooden sculptures.
The name Chigirob comes from two words: shigir - "hilly", "convex" and o, yb - "field". That is, "hilly field" or "field on the hills."
The stone Church of the Epiphany, built in 1773, has been preserved in the village (it replaced the wooden one of 1628). The church consists of a vast temple, a five-sided apse, a refectory and a limit. A bell tower towered over the entrance to the church, but it, like the head of the temple, has now been destroyed. The outer walls of the temple are decorated with large profiled kokoshniks over large semi-circular windows. And the cornice of the cube is a jagged belt of curved bricks.
Ruins of the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Chigirob
On the bell tower of the church in former times there was an ancient bell weighing five pounds, with an inscription in Latin letters and the casting date - 1642. But, unfortunately, it is lost.
The church was closed in the mid-1920s; in Soviet times, it housed a grain warehouse.
Treasured box in the church with a description of the history of the village of Chigirob
Map-scheme of the village of Chigirob according to the memories of residents
Photographs of residents of the village of Chigirob from Soviet times
Treasures were also found in the vicinity of Chigirob. So, in one hoard, buried in the 12th century, a Kyiv silver ingot weighing about 1.4 kg, a fragment of a vessel with Arabic script and a blank for minting coins with Chinese characters were found.
At the entrances to the village of Dubrova
At the entrances to the village of Dubrova: you are on the right track!
The first mention in written sources of the village of Dubrova dates back to 1579, when there was a pochinok (small new settlement) Gar. In 1647, Dubrova was already listed as a churchyard (village). The first wooden temple was built here in 1628. This fact has long been surprising to researchers, since the construction of the temple is very burdensome for the parishioners in material terms. There is an idea that the Orthodox Church initially made a concession: a temple was being built in the center of a small village, but at the same time, the priests allowed the pagans to arrange their place of worship on the outskirts - in the field, away from the village, a chapel was built. This is how the Balvansky field appeared (from the name of the pagan gods - blockheads).
Today, on the site of the former village on a hill, the church of Dmitry Solunsky stands alone. It was built in 1773 (simultaneously with the church in the village of Chigirob) thanks to Arkhip Ivanovich Selivanov, a resident of the village of Kuznetsov. The Church of Demetrius of Thessalonica is the only one in the northern Kama region dedicated to the patron saint of warriors and princes, Demetrius of Thessalonica. It has a small temple part, a refectory and an altar apse, connected along one axis by single-arched openings and covered with closed vaults. At the same time, the bell tower is notable for its considerable height. Above its slender volume with a high tier of ringing, there is a spire with a small cupola and a cross. The temple is crowned with one dome with a beautiful iron cross, the curly ends of which are decorated with complex floral ornaments. The year of manufacture is indicated on it - 1773.
Church of Demetrius of Thessalonica in the village of Dubrova
It is also worth noting that at the beginning of the 17th century, seven villages in this area were called Dubravy. To distinguish them, the name of the first settler was added to the common name: there were Sergievskaya, Vakorina, Lukinskaya, Denisova, Zlygosteva, Fotiyevskaya, Penyakhinskaya Oak forests. Northern Oak forests are groves not from oak thickets, but from aspen and birch forests. Subsequently, the common name of the villages remained only with the main settlement of the district - a graveyard, a village.
Currently, there are quite a lot of well-maintained houses in the village, but no one lives here permanently.
Houses and plots of the village of Dubrova
How to get to the villages of Tatarskaya, Chigirob, Dubrova
By car along the Solikamsk tract from Perm, after Solikamsk towards Cherdyn and Krasnovishersk:
Tatarskaya and Chigirob - a lapel to the village of Tatarskaya 40 km from Solikamsk, Tatarskaya (3 km) and Chigirob (10 km), respectively, Dubrova - a lapel to Kuznetsovo 54 km from Solikamsk, another 5 km to Dubrov.
Used sources of information:
Gennady Bordinskikh. Solikamsk region. Guide to historical places. 2010, - 146 p.
It makes no sense to hide the fact that abandoned villages and other settlements are the object of research for many people who are passionate about treasure hunting (and not only) people. There is also a place for lovers of attic search to roam, and “ring out” the basements of abandoned houses, explore wells, and more. etc. Of course, the likelihood that your colleagues or local residents have visited this locality before you is very high, but, nevertheless, there are no “knocked out places”.
Causes that lead to the depopulation of villages
Before starting the enumeration of the reasons, I would like to dwell on the terminology in more detail. There are two concepts - abandoned settlements and disappeared settlements. Disappeared settlements - geographical objects, today, completely ceased to exist due to military operations, man-made and natural disasters, time. In the place of such points, one can now observe a forest, a field, a pond, anything, but not standing abandoned houses. This category of objects is also interesting for treasure hunters, but now we are not talking about them.
Abandoned villages just belong to the category of abandoned settlements, i.e. settlements, villages, farms, etc., abandoned by the inhabitants. Unlike the disappeared settlements, the abandoned ones for the most part retain their architectural appearance, buildings and infrastructure, i.e. are in a state close to the time when the settlement was abandoned. So people left, why? The decline in economic activity that we can see now, when people from the villages tend to move to the city; wars; disasters of a different nature (Chernobyl and its environs); other conditions that make living in this region inconvenient, unprofitable.
How to find abandoned villages?
Naturally, before heading headlong to the search site, it is necessary to prepare a theoretical base, in simple words, to calculate these very supposed places. A number of specific sources and tools will help us with this.To date, one of the most accessible and sufficiently informative sources is Internet:
The second fairly popular and accessible source These are conventional topographic maps. It would seem, how can they be useful? Yes, very simple. Firstly, both tracts and non-residential villages have already been marked on the fairly well-known maps of the General Staff. It is important to understand one thing here, that the tract is not only an abandoned settlement, but simply any part of the area that is different from the rest of the surrounding area. And yet, there may not be any village on the site of the tract for a long time, well, nothing, walk around with a metal detector among the pits, collect metal debris, and then you look and get lucky. With non-residential villages, too, not everything is simple. They may turn out to be not entirely uninhabited, but used, say, as dachas or may be inhabited illegally. In this case, I see no reason to do anything, no one needs problems with the law, and the local population can be quite aggressive.
If we compare the same map of the General Staff and a more modern atlas, we can notice some differences. For example, there was a village in the forest at the General Staff, a road led to it, and suddenly the road disappeared on a more modern map, most likely, the inhabitants left the village and began to bother with road repairs, etc.
The third source is local newspapers, local population, local museums. Communicate more with the natives, there will always be interesting topics for conversation, and in the meantime you can ask about the historical past of this region. What can the locals say? Yes, a lot of things, the location of the estate, the manor's pond, where there are abandoned houses or even abandoned villages, etc.
Local media is also a fairly informative source. Especially now even the most provincial newspapers are trying / trying to get their own website, where they diligently post individual notes or even entire archives. Journalists go to many places on their business, interview, including old-timers, who like to mention various interesting facts in the course of their stories.
Do not hesitate to go to provincial local history museums. Not only are their expositions often interesting, but a museum employee or guide can also tell you a lot of interesting things.
LIST OF ABANDONED VILLAGES IN RUSSIA - FOR THOSE WHO COULD NOT DECIDE TO LEAVE THE CITY. DECIDE NOW! Many people say that they do not know where to start, where to go, where to try if there is not much money. So the best option is to gather a few people to make it more fun (preferably at least one with experience, handy, who you can learn from), and go to an abandoned village. There you can either buy a house for a penny (30-100 tr.), or rent it, or just live for nothing, because often the owners cannot be found. Traveling to an abandoned village is the easiest first step when moving out of the city to the land. This is almost a turnkey farm, because in many places there are houses already with a story for cattle and with various outbuildings. And this immediately saves on the entire infrastructure - 3-10 million, if you build everything from scratch in an open field. And everything is already there and is here and now. It remains only to come, buy cattle and start working. From our thread on abandoned villages, we have collected all the information and sorted it for your convenience by region. Here they are - SPECIFIC PLACES WHERE YOU CAN GO ALREADY TOMORROW AND START ACTION! And we need to start now in order to have time to settle down and prepare for the sowing season by spring. FINALLY TAKE THE FIRST STEP! PLAN YOUR TRIP AND SET THE DATE TODAY! May God help you! HERE IS A LIST OF ABANDONED VILLAGES (and this is only a few dozen people left the coordinates of villages, there are hundreds of thousands of such villages in the country!): SAMARA REGION Samara region, Klyavlinsky district, with. Podgorka, I think there are 4-5 people left at home, around 400 hectares, at home there in the village council or with the secretary, they allocated it almost next to me under the OKRM program. Near water and fields. Evgeny Solychev https://vk.com/barankin_140 KOSTROMA REGION 1. Kostroma region, Kologrivsky district. Located 600 km northeast of Moscow. with its settlements stretches along the Unzha River. most of them are empty or sparsely populated. the city of Kologriv is located in the central part of the district. its population is just over three thousand people. buildings and houses are mostly wooden and mostly one or two storeyed. the city, like the entire region, has not yet been gasified. the roads, as well as throughout the Zakostroma part of the region, are, to put it mildly, very bad, and the communication is exclusively by land, that is, by road. the nearest railway station is 120 km away in the town of Manturovo. the region itself has no transit communication. the road to it is a branch from the highway to Perm, Syktyvkar or Arkhangelsk. There is a station, but there are no trains. There is an airport, but planes do not fly. there is a berth, but steamboats do not go .. This is the truth of Kologriv. all this was, but went into oblivion along with the union of Soviet republics. the reason for the migration of the local population is the lack of any jobs. Apart from logging, there are no enterprises. well, one and a half collective farms in addition. and the houses are empty. but for the last five years there have been more and more Moscow and St. Petersburg numbers on the killed roads of the region. strange, right? the village flees to the city, and the city to the village .. this is how the reclamation of villages takes place quietly and quietly by those who were once cut off from them in one generation or another ... What else is poor and rich in Kologrivsky Krai. probably the absence for many, many kilometers of all kinds of industries, factories, mines, military units, zones, dams, hydroelectric power stations, nuclear power plants, etc. ... the presence of one of the few places on the ball, near the city, where in the spring from different places on the planet, even from Japan , migratory geese-swans flock and make a multi-day stop. "Kologrivsky forest" is a state nature reserve. the forest itself is very rich in everything that a real living forest should be rich in. even the reindeer runs here to throw off their antlers, not to mention Bigfoot, who has chosen these places. The Unzha River is winding, not very deep, with rifts. and not very wide, somewhere under 100 meters. originates from the Riphean mountains. and since it flows from its source through the Kologrivsky region between forests and semi-abandoned villages, the water in the river is exclusively drinking. nothing, but the local ecology is at a high altitude. which was recently confirmed by an expedition of ecologists visiting the village of Chermenino, saying that in the entire western part of Russia, right up to the Urals, the Kostroma region is the cleanest, and in the Kostroma region the most eco-friendly, there is the Kologrivsky district and swan geese confirm this. . only the roads are not in suit. ..by the way, the ancient, that is, the original Kologriv, is located behind the last populated village of Chermenino. in ancient times, for well-known reasons, as well as many ancient Russian cities such as Ryazan, it was moved. 30-40 km downstream, where it still stands today. Local people are basically kind and sympathetic people. although they were knocked down by the Green Serpent and the habit of walking in formation. Well, in general, if there is a pleasant craving for village life in non-civilization, health, money, a bright and sober little head, then you are here, in Kologrivsky Krai. in short everything. https://vk.com/id224648021 2. Kostroma region, Chukhlomsky, Soligalichsky district. Already on the way there (200 km from Kostroma) there are many abandoned villages right by the road. There is no need to say what is further from the road. Around the forest, many small rivers. There are also many abandoned fields of former collective farms. It is better to ask the head of a particular settlement for exact information about hectares and their cost. Alexey Plotnikov https://vk.com/ariystokrat STAVROPOL REGION Stavropol Territory, Izobilnensky district, farm Kozlov. Living 4-6 houses. I don't know how much land, but it's a lot for sure. https://vk.com/daud_1 PERM REGION 1) Perm Territory, the village of Pozhva. 2) lives according to data for 2010 - 3131 people, now even less. 3) Almost all lands are empty, except for a small number of small farms of 1 cow. 4) a lot of houses are abandoned, some more are for sale. More detailed information is available on Wikipedia "Pozhva village Perm region". Igor Demidov https://vk.com/id13765909 LENINGRAD REGION 1. Leningrad region, Volkhovsky district, Vyndinostrovsky administrative settlement, Khotovo village 2. 3 people have a residence permit, 10-15 people live, about 30 people live in summer with summer residents. 3. there are empty lands in the village itself and in neighboring 4. yes abandoned houses In the village, a temple is being restored, at which an Orthodox farm is planned. Oleg Merkulov https://vk.com/merkulov_o KIROV REGION 1. Kirov region. Podosinovsky district, the villages of the empty sea, you can’t list everything. Specifically, I know where houses are sold - the village of Prichalino, the Utmanovsky village council (we ourselves have a house there, we use it as a summer cottage), the most beautiful places, near the river, forest, mushrooms, berries, fish. I also know for sure about the village of Okulovo, Yakhrensky village council, also not a bad place, the river is a little further, but mushrooms and berries are nearby. Let people come! Alexander Vorobyov https://vk.com/id133994347 2. We have a lot of abandoned villages in the Kirov region. Indescribable landscapes, clean air, no one cares, everything is overgrown. If anyone is interested I can show you. Sergei Zlobin https://vk.com/id63022118 TVER REGION 1. Tver region, d. Nikita Solovyov https://vk.com/id226975029 2. Tver region Sonkovsky district. There are many non-residential villages, even more where 2-3 residential buildings remain! Sergei Pletnev https://vk.com/id156314601 3. Tver region, Torzhoksky district, Lunyakovo village. Abandoned. 1 summer resident. Around 80 hectares of land I own. Around the forest, a stream flows through the site, electricity along the border. Wholesale sale at cadastral value. They took the land for themselves, but while they brought everything to mind, they managed to settle in another area of Tverskaya. More details with plans and photos on the website - http://www.agronavt.ru/zemli.htm Tatyana Lokshina https://vk.com/id108644159 UDMURT REPUBLIC Udmurt r. Glazovsky district of the village of Vasilievka. The houses are still dilapidated, no one lives the status of the village as long as there are fields in the district of 400 hectares, a clean stream, a well with soft water, springs. Mikhail Pak https://vk.com/id168526518 PSKOV REGION 1. Pskov region, Porkhov district, the villages of Rystsevo (about 30 houses), Zarechye (1 person lives, 10 houses are abandoned), Spasskoe district, Medveditsa. The last house was bought there 7 years ago for 30,000, the villages are all one after another, 360 km. from St. Petersburg to Rystsevo there was a bus service from Pskov and Porkhov. Wild boars, I am silent about mushrooms and berries - they always took away blanks in buckets, there is a lot of land, there is a small river (through all the villages). She had not been there for 15 years. Irina Kalinkina https://vk.com/id1233040 2. We are from the Pskov region ... we lived in Opochka ... but it was crowded ... we left for the Plyussky district of the village of Zayanye ... Chic places ... a maximum of 70 houses and mostly summer residents ... 200 km to St. Petersburg . We have already acquired poultry, grown a crop of very good potatoes and everything else from the ridges ... Now we are also planning to breed rabbits for ourselves ... a goat or a cow in the outline ... We bake bread ourselves ... there is a convent in the village .. .they also have their own farm ... Sergey Skomoroshkin