Rural settlements

Types of rural settlements

For an ignorant person who came from a megalopolis to a rural area, all settlements will be a "village".

Studying the life of ancient people, scientists divide settlements into two types — settlements ("gorodishche") and villages. Villages were not fortified settlements, settlements were fortified. The word "village" is consonant in Russian with the words "dwelling" and "dwelling place". According to V.I. Dahl’s dictionary, a settlement is a city, but in an "enlarged" sense. However, other dictionaries interpret settlements as "the place where the city used to be." Cities in Ancient Russia were called "grads". Most often, the grads were fortresses, and outside of them there were "posad" and "sloboda". Merchants and artisans lived in the townships, and the settlements were places where people of the same occupation lived (gunsmiths, potters, coopers, etc.).

Most often we hear about two types of peasant settlements — a village and a countryside. If you ask an ordinary person what they are accused of, then most often they will tell you that the size. This definition is also given by the dictionary of S.I. Ozhegov: "A village is a peasant village … a countryside is a large peasant village (currently the administrative center of a rural district)." However, back in the early twentieth century, the difference between them was different: the "village" could be very large, but the "countryside" was called only the one where the church was. The concepts of "village" and "countryside" are very old, they are mentioned in documents of the XIV century.

The village, which maintained a communal system, tried to protect itself from unwanted people. It is with them that the word "eviction" (evict) is most often associated. However, many left the village on their own for settlements and farms.

When the word "graveyard" gives many goosebumps, today the word has only one meaning — cemetery. However, in the old days, this was the name of the administrative-territorial unit. The churchyard consisted of a church and several villages. Later, the churchyards were replaced by volosts.

"Eviction" (Vyselki)

"Eviction" (Vyselki) are a type of peasant settlements whose inhabitants have moved from another village or countryside to free land.

In the dictionary of V.I. Dahl, the following explanation of the word "eviction" is given: Eviction, or evictions — new settlements from the nearest immigrants who separated or occupied a wasteland or zapolye.

In the dictionary of F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron, a similar definition is given: "this is the name of small, relatively recently emerged villages, whose inhabitants have mostly moved out of neighboring villages. "Evictions" usually bear the name of the village from which most of the inhabitants have moved out."

The historian P.A. Slovtsov in his work "Walks around Tobolsk in 1830" described the "eviction" of the village of Kugaevsky Tobolsk district in this way: "Three villages in view of the countryside located, are reputed to be "evictions" here. Insufficient peasants earn their food by selling all village products and game in the city, while the well-to-do buy fishing sands in other villages lower down the Irtysh, and prepare seines from themselves so that when winter comes they can get fresh fish from them, which is sent along the first road to Tobolsk, and most importantly to Yekaterinburg, to the Catherine Fair".

In 1904, there were 219 "evictions" on the territory of the Tobolsk province. The three leaders were headed by Tobolsk County (93), Ishim (42) and Yalutorovsky (30).

In Soviet times, the settlements were transformed into towns and villages.

Villages

The village is a peasant settlement in which there is no church.

In the first half of the XVII century, the most common type of settlements were small villages consisting of one or two courtyards. They were located near cities and prisons, near trade routes. The villages of Oleshki and Mikhalka Insekins, Trenki Kulakov, Stepan Molchanov appeared near Tyumen. A resident of Tyumen posad, the Gilev family founded the village of Gilevo. Up and down the Tour there were small stalls of Guselnikov, Pervushki Bukin, Sozonki Bykova and others.

In the first half of the XVII century, the environs of Tyumen and Tobolsk were already sufficiently populated and developed. For example, in Tyumen County in 1623 there was one village and 91 villages, in which there were 146 households.

The name of the village was given by the name or nickname of the first settler, for example, D. Duryninin of the Tobolsk district — from Ivan Duryni, D. Besov (ibid.) — from Lari Besa.

Gradually, the size of the villages and their numbers increased. By the end of the seventeenth century, villages with 10 or more courtyards prevailed. Arable farming developed most successfully on the Ture and Tobol rivers, there were several hundred villages and more than 10 thousand peasant families lived here. The peasants cultivated about eighty thousand acres of land and collected more than a million pounds of grain from them. This made it possible to completely abandon bread imported from European Russia.

In the first half of the XVIII century, peasants actively developed the forest-steppe and steppe zones between the rivers Tobol and Ishim, Ishim and Irtysh. New peasant settlements have appeared. In the second half, 16 villages and the villages of Uktuz, Berdyuzhsky, and Armizonskoye arose in the interfluve of Tobol and Ishim. In 1782, the village of Sladkovo was founded. Thus, by the end of the century, this territory was sufficiently populated and developed, and more bread was collected from it than from arable land on Tur and Tobol.

In the following time, the development of Siberian lands continued. New villages appeared, old settlements grew. In addition, after the abolition of serfdom, hundreds of thousands of landless peasants rushed to Siberia for a better share.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, villages with up to a thousand inhabitants were a frequent occurrence. The villages had schools, blacksmiths, trading and wine shops, watermills and windmills.

In 1904, 3,304 villages were registered on the territory of Tobolsk province, most of them were located in Tobolsk County (693), Kurgan (434), Ishim (465) and Yalutorovsky (394). There were 226 coutrysides marked. The largest number of them were in Tarsky uyezd (50), Tobolsk (36), Ishim (34) and Tyukalinsky (33). There were 128 arrests, of which 44 in Tarsky Uyezd, Ishim — 36, Kurgan — 18.

Zaimka

Zaimka is a peasant settlement, usually single-family, on the territory occupied by the right of first possession.

In the dictionary of F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron, "Zaimka is the occupation and appropriation of ownerless lands, and then the land itself, occupied on this basis (in Siberia, a place occupied for a farm with a hut and so on, a cottage, a farm, a farmstead, a manor).

Russians rom the Russian North — Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, Totma and other cities — were the first Russian settlers of Siberia. Russian settlers settled in places not occupied by the Tatar population: "on the flat log", "on the erik", "at the swamp", etc. Many villages and villages of Siberia originate from the locks.

The word "zaimka" also referred to separate settlements — hunting, fishing.

Churchyard

A churchyard is an administrative-territorial unit in Russia.

In Ancient Russia, churchyards were places where peasants paid the fee (a certain amount of tribute) for their prince. During the spread of Christianity, churches were built in churchyards. Over time, this word began to denote a settlement with a church and a cemetery. At a later time, the churchyard is a few small villages with a parish church and a cemetery. The villages assigned to the parish of this temple were defined as "that churchyard village".

In the first half of the XVII century, the surroundings of Tobolsk were already sufficiently populated and developed. In addition to villages, there were two churchyards in Tobolsk County — Preobrazhensky and Rozhdestvensky (Kugaevsky). The first one was located on Abalak, 20 versts from Tobolsk, it had 4 courtyards of the clergy and 16 courtyards of posadsky, arable and tilled peasants. The second churchyard with the church in the name of the Nativity of Christ lay at the Irtysh down from Tobolsk 10 versts; this churchyard consisted of 3 yards of the clergy and three yards of arable and tilled peasants.

In the XVIII century, the term "churchyard" continued to be used in the meaning of a church parish.

Countryside

In ancient times, settlements of farmers were called countrysides (the name comes from the Proto-Slavic word "countryside" - arable land). In Ancient Russia, this was the name of princely country estates. At a later time, this was the name of a landowner’s estate or a peasant settlement with a church.

The names of many countrysides traditionally end in -o, for example: Bulashevo, Bronnikovo, Karachino. In the terminology of the XVIII — early XX centuries, there were endings in -oe, for example, Abalak (Abalakskoe), Kashtak (Kashtakskoe), Kugaev (Kugaevskoe).

The countryside was the center of a church parish, which united up to several dozen villages. For example, in the parish of the Transfiguration Church of the Countryside of the Transfiguration of the Abalaksky parish of Tobolsk County in 1917, there were 34 settlements in which there were 956 courtyards and 7,302 inhabitants (3,669 m., 3,633 w.).

In Soviet times, countrysides became the centers of districts or village councils.

Sloboda

Sloboda is a type of settlement in the Russian state of the XI-XVII centuries, the population of which was exempt from taxes and duties imposed on the draft population (sloboda from the word "freedom" (svoboda in Russian). The population of the settlements carried a certain type of service.

The slobodas occupied an intermediate position between the city and the countryside. In the seventeenth century, they became widespread. They contained the courtyards of serving people, clergy, artisans and part of the peasantry. The names of the slobodas spoke for themselves — "Cossack", "Yamskaya" and so on.

In 1601, by decree of Tsar Boris Godunov, the first post office in Siberia was established in Tyumen. 50 coachmen were sent here from the European part of the country, who were charged with the chase from Tyumen to Tobolsk and Turinsk. At first, the coachmen lived in the posad, and in 1605 they moved across the Tyumen River. Yamskaya Sloboda appeared there.

Kularovskaya Sloboda was one of the first to be built on the territory of Tobolsk District. In 1640, 14 peasants lived in it, in 1645 — 16.

The slobodas were thoroughly fortified and were administrative and religious centers. Some of the slobodas later grew into cities, for example, Korkina settlement, founded in 1670, became the city of Ishim.