List of urban-type settlements in Russia by population. Abandoned villages near Moscow. Photo, map of interesting facts about the settlements of Russia
For a long time, the Russian village was unreasonably forgotten. During this period, many rural settlements were completely abandoned or disappeared from the face of the earth. Since 2014, an association has appeared, the object of which is the most beautiful villages in Russia. Localities that meet certain criteria can participate in the competition. The natural landscape, historical value, appearance and population, which should not exceed 2 thousand people, are considered. There are at least 10 villages in Russia that can compete for the status of the most beautiful and culturally interesting.
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One of the most beautiful villages in Russia is located in the Murmansk region. has almost six hundred years of history and is an adornment of the Kola Peninsula. In the center of the settlement is the Assumption Church, which was built at the end of the 17th century without the use of nails. This building is a historical and cultural heritage, which is recognized as a monument of wooden architecture. In addition to the historical value, the village is famous for its tourism activities. Atlantic salmon migrate along the Varzuga River, and you can get permission to catch them and have a good rest in the bosom of nature. The village has long been chosen by the British for tourism.
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A settlement in the Kaluga region can rightly be called one of the most beautiful villages in Russia. Once it was a dying place with a small number of inhabitants. Thanks to the architect Vasily Shchetinin, Nikolo-Lenivets village turned into a creative gallery, in which every wall and fence is handmade from natural materials. This idea was picked up by compatriot followers and foreign architects. Currently, the village hosts an annual festival called "Arch-Standing". Picturesque houses harmoniously fit into the original Russian landscape.
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The Kamchatka Territory has a harsh climate, but this does not affect the life of a beautiful and happy Russian village. is located in a fertile place where thermal springs are beating from the earth. They are used for heating houses, as well as for healing purposes in a local sanatorium. The village is separated from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky by 600 kilometers. The absence of civilization in the usual sense makes it possible for folk art to develop. Songs and dances can be seen and heard on national and rural holidays. The local Rotary Club handles the settlement's pressing issues and has ties to a similar organization in Alaska.
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In the Vladimir region, 10 kilometers from the city, there is Bogolyubovo village leading its history from the 12th century. By the number of Christian shrines and their architecture, the settlement can be called one of the most beautiful villages in Russia. The basis for the settlement was laid by the Kiev prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, who made this picturesque corner his fiefdom. The remains of the foundation of the ancient castle have been preserved to this day. The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God is built on a hill and during the flood it is surrounded by water. In this village, a boat is not a luxury, but a means of transportation in the spring.
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This pearl of Russian architecture is located in the Tver region and can rightfully be recognized as the most beautiful village in Russia. The atmosphere of this settlement brings people back to the pre-Mongolian period, when the domes of churches sparkled here and there, and the green meadows were virginally fresh. Of particular beauty is the Nativity Church, which was built in the 15th century and is still active. Once the Tver principality claimed primacy in a dispute with Moscow, and then it turned into a periphery of a great state. Its originality is preserved not only in the annals, but also in Gorodnya village.
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In the Altai Territory, the settlement was lost, in which the famous writer and actor of our time Vasily Shukshin was born. can be safely called the most beautiful village in Russia, since it is here that you can see real expanses covered with meadow grasses and grain crops. The village is considered to be the birthplace of the Polovtsy, with whom the Russian princes and their squads fought so bravely. The Shukshin Museum is located in Srostki. Literary readings and even a film festival are held in honor of the famous countryman. The Katun River looks very picturesque, and the houses located on its banks are harmonious.
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Moscow and the Moscow region are famous for their higher standard of living than the regions more distant from the center. Zhukovka became the most glamorous settlement in the entire country. Its streets have been turned into neighborhoods with fashionable boutiques, and houses abound with expensive and beautiful things. A professional architect Grigoryan worked on the appearance of the village, who created comfortable conditions not only for the local population, but also for fashion brands. Zhukovka has become so popular relatively recently, but why not the most beautiful village in Russia, especially since it is in favor with many wealthy and respected people.
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Locality Big Kunaley is located in Buryatia on the banks of the Kunaleyka river. The village appeared at the beginning of the 18th century and since then it continues to exist and live its own life. Its population is just over a thousand people. Surprising in the Big Kunaley are the houses, which are all, as if by choice, painted red with blue windows and green fences. The appearance of the settlement resembles a cheerful children's fairy tale. Bolshoi Kunaley can claim the title of the most beautiful and unusual village in Russia. And local residents are happy to support the unusual image of their native village.
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There are a lot of bright and original settlements in Buryatia and Desyatnikovo village belongs to this category. All houses look very exotic because they are painted in bright colors. The surrounding nature is also inimitable: endless expanses, green hills and high blue sky are perfectly combined with the work of human hands. In the category of the most beautiful villages in Russia, the village of Desyatnikovo can take its rightful place. Residents preserve not only the appearance of their picturesque place, but folk traditions and crafts.
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In 2019 Vyatskoye village was officially recognized as the most beautiful village in Russia. The locality managed to pass the competition according to all criteria and win this worthy title. Vyatskoye is located in the Nekrasovsky district of the Yaroslavl region. On its territory you can see 10 museums of various kinds and architectural historical monuments. Local residents constantly take part in various competitions and become their winners. Vyatskoye is not only a historical and cultural complex, but also a developing tourist destination in the region.
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And today we offer to visit several Moscow villages, which somehow miraculously survived inside the Moscow Ring Road and still retain their flavor.
Surprisingly, only a kilometer or two from each of them, sometimes even further from the center, there are densely populated and often very expensive areas. And in the village ... as in the village - everyone is friendly, the dogs sleep in the middle of the road, courtyards and houses, peace and grace.
Take a walk through several ancient villages, which turned out to be inside Moscow and remained untouched —>
To begin with, we will go to the area of Nizhniye Mnevniki Street. Here, before the construction in 1984 of the Krylatsky bridge and the extension of the street. Lower Mnevniki was a complete dead end, and, despite being included in the borders of Moscow, the village of Terekhovo lived its own patriarchal life. There was a state farm, greenhouses and fields. True, according to the recollections of local villagers, they were not particularly eager to work at the state farm - they found work in the city, since the bus still runs here, or, in extreme cases, they traded flowers near the metro.
For the first time, the village of Terekhovo was back in 1646. The census book indicates that at that time there were 6 households and 11 people lived here. By the end of the 18th century the number of households increased to 25, and the number of residents to 156.
House of peasant Egorov, late 19th century
Approximately in 1865, Ivan Sergeevich Egorov, a peasant from Terekhov, decided to organize a paper-dye enterprise in the village. Things went well, and in 1874 he rented an additional half a dozen more land to expand production. The factory consisted of two log houses and one stone building, which housed the dye house itself, a dryer, a pack room (rooms where packs of goods intended for sale were stored) and the owner's apartment. 10 to 20 people worked here. The owner himself managed the production. The factory processed and dyed paper yarn (up to 20-30 pounds per day). All work was done by hand, and only for pumping 600 buckets of water into the tank was a horse-drawn drive. Workers worked here 17 hours a day with a short break for a pay of 6 to 10 rubles a month (for men).
Walking through the streets of the village, it is hard to imagine that the tires of the highway are rustling very close (not even the Moscow Ring Road, which is relatively far from here), and further beyond the village the towers of the Krylatsky district rise.
Life is like in the distant suburbs
Especially for publication, KIA provided us with an all-wheel drive car, but it never came in handy. The roads in the village, unlike many houses, are good and do not require repairs. Here, after all, Moscow, and the authorities are obliged to maintain roads and carry out repairs according to a citywide plan. This is a striking contrast with the elite settlements near Moscow, where palaces often stand in the middle of broken roads and dirt. Here it's the other way around.
Meanwhile, village life goes on in the countryside.
Here and there new districts rise in the background. Moscow is getting closer and closer. Why aren't they building here? The fact is that this territory of the Moskvoretskaya floodplain was classified as a nature protection zone, and any capital construction without complex permits and approvals is prohibited here.
This is how Terekhovo lives. In the early 1990s, Mayor Luzhkov, with the participation of Tsereteli, solemnly promised (to their considerable displeasure) to resettle the residents, and here to equip the "Park of Miracles", an analogue of Disneyland, but only on the basis of Russian fairy tales. But the matter did not go further than promises, and the inhabitants, as they lived, continue to live here. And they are not going to move.
Village farms
There is no hot water supply and sewerage, there are operating columns on every corner. The water is delicious.
Many old columns that have long been inactive
Somewhere in the back of the village
There are stables in the village, on weekends people come here to ride horses, but more often the horse keepers themselves go to ride children in nearby city parks.
A lot of Kyrgyz work at the stables, something, and horse breeding is a traditional occupation for many of them. Back in the mid-2000s, there were a lot of illegal workers in Terekhovo, but then the market on Nizhniye Mnevniki Street was closed, and everyone went to other places
Many houses are very run down
Others look pretty decent too.
Residents who can afford it build high fences.
A typical country road immersed in greenery
Bus stop. Transport runs on schedule, about once an hour.
People come to these quiet places to fish
Former state farm fields
Back in the 1970s, everything was sown here, and students came “from the city” according to the order
A water tower is still preserved here, with the help of which irrigation was carried out.
Inside the tower, however, completely burned out.
Local historians Dmitry Yakovsky and Denis Romodin.
The former greenhouses of the former state farm are still standing, but they strongly resemble the landscapes of Pripyat.
And we, meanwhile, will go to the village of Glavmosstroy, located very close by.
But there's nothing left here
Only if the remains of a Stalinist residential building, on which OMON officers train today.
At the entrance to the village of Glavmosstroy, an abandoned YUKOS gas station has been preserved, with the name and logo shamefully pasted over
The palace village of Troitskoye has been known since at least the 16th century, and it was located away from the high bank of the Moskva River. Then there was a wooden Trinity Church in it. At the beginning of the 17th century, Vasily Shuisky, becoming king, granted the village to Prince B.M. Lykov, from whom the second name of the area came.
There is no nature protection zone here, so life is in full swing
Lots of old signs
There are also new houses with new cars
Although there are also many abandoned and old artifacts
Inscriptions in an unknown language
Gypsies live en masse in one place
The genuine decoration of the village is the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, which is now being restored, built in 1698-1703. in the estate of the steward Martemyan Kirillovich Naryshkin and by his order
Almost a whole settlement with cows and birds has already formed at the church. It was allowed to shoot the church and on the territory only after long negotiations and assurances of good intentions.
And we will end our journey in the area of metro Timiryazevskaya, where several yards of the former Straw Gatehouse are still preserved.
The area got its name from the thatched house of the watchman who guarded the grounds of the first higher agricultural educational institution in Russia - the Petrovsky Forest and Agricultural Academy. To cover the costs of building and equipping the Petrovsky Academy, its administration in the early 1860s widely practiced the sale and long-term lease of land plots for summer cottages and vegetable gardens. The dacha settlement created in the southern part of the academic estates was named Petrovsky-Razumovsky, but among the people it was called the Straw Gatehouse.
Here, among the greenery of Timiryazevsky Park, small residential houses are lost
In addition to village houses, there is a former house and workshop of the sculptor Vuchetich (as well as a street named after him)
Near Vuchetich Street at the entrance to Timiryazevsky Park, there is probably the largest statue of Lenin in Moscow. Lenin's head is located on the territory of the former workshop of the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich.
Lenin blocks the metal shield. Just behind the trees you can see the building of the former district executive committee (now the prefecture). In the “stagnant” Soviet years, by decision of party functionaries, it was decided that it was not worthwhile for the bust of the holder of party card No. 1 to turn its back to power. “Shame” was covered with an iron “fig leaf”
Here you can also see a copy of the most famous sculpture of Vuchetich - the Motherland from Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd.
And also to evaluate the real scale of the statue by only one head, presented here in full size
This is only an incomplete list of villages on the territory of Moscow, there are many outside the Moscow Ring Road, and individual houses in dense residential areas have been preserved, but we will have another story about this.
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