It's no secret how wide and vast expanses of our Motherland are. Our country is the largest in the world, is it a joke?! Therefore, it is not at all surprising that on its territory there are many settlements with the most diverse and sometimes very unusual names. So, villages, in whose names the word "mountains" appears, were lost on the Russian square. How many of them and what is known about these settlements?
Gora Village
Near our capital, or to be more precise, not far from the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, the rural settlement of Davydovskoe has been peacefully existing for almost a couple of decades. It includes several villages, one of which is the village of Gora. The area is quite interesting, since it has been featured in historical and archaeological documents since the seventeenth century, which means that the village in question is quite claiming to be an old one.
History of occurrence
The first information that is known about the place where the village is now located says that originally there was a place called Sunset. However, how original it is is not known for certain - as already mentioned, the first records of this territory date back to the seventeenth century; it is difficult to say how the village and its inhabitants could have lived before. But it is absolutely reliable that in the nineteenth century Old Believers lived in the village of Gora.
According to some reports, they lived in it also in the very recent past - for example, just ten years ago, an Old Believer procession was held in Gora. However, whether the entire current population of the village belongs to the Old Believers is unknown. But it is known that then, two centuries ago, the inhabitants of the Mountain were almost completely engaged in icon painting. By the way, the village did not begin to be called simply Gora immediately after its appearance - before it managed to stay Yushina Gora and vilify such a name as Serebrennikovo.
Some information
In addition to the above, it is worth adding that, according to eight years ago, just over a hundred people lived in the village - one hundred and fifteen to be exact. It should be noted that the population of the village has decreased by more than three times since the middle of the nineteenth century - so, in the fifties of the above century, 387 people lived there. By the mid-twenties of the last century, the number of inhabitants reached its historical maximum - it exceeded the mark of four hundred people.
Why does thislocality is the name? The conclusion, which itself asks for language - that this is a village on a mountain - is not far from the truth. Of course, there are no mountains in this area, but there are hills. It is on them that the village of interest to us is located. By the way, earlier it was called a village: it had a church and a school, and these are signs of a village.
Mountain Attractions
Despite the fact that this is a small village, it has a lot to see. So, there is a lake there (some call it a pond) called the Quarry (because there is a sand pit nearby). Its other name is Golden Sands, and it is popular not only among local residents, but even among vacationers from other places. The main attraction of the village of Gora is the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built at the end of the nineteenth century. For the most part, the funds for its construction were collected by the then parishioners. In the thirty-eighth year of the last century, the temple, like many other churches in Russia, was closed. Restoration work and services in it began again only in the early nineties. Another attraction of the Mountain is the building of the former parochial school. This ancient building, which has existed since the nineteenth century, is now used as a village school. In addition, Gora has its own first-aid post and even a library.
How many mountains are there in Russia?
Really, how much? Surprisingly, but quite a few regions have settlements with a similar name. Moreover, in Russia there are not just mountains, butMountains "any". But more on that later, but for now, the statistics: so, Horus in our country is already seventy-two! And these are only "pure" Mountains, without any epithets. The Arkhangelsk region, and Perm, and Yaroslavl, and Tver regions have their own Mountains, but there is nothing to say about Moscow. About some of these villages in brief - below.
Moscow Region
In total, there are six settlements in the Moscow region called Gora. Why go far: in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district alone, there are two villages with a similar name. About one was described above, the second is the center of the rural settlement of Gorskoye and has only forty-five people (according to ten years ago). Previously, the population in this village was larger, in some years its number even reached three hundred people. But, perhaps, the fire that happened was the reason that the village decreased several times both in the number of houses and in the number of people: it destroyed a good part of the settlement, and the rebuilt restored houses were called New Village, which, although formally belongs to Gora, however, is an independent settlement. Houses in the village of Gore reportedly now occupy only two streets.
What else is worth knowing about this Mountain is that it stands on the banks of a small but very picturesque river with the funny name Lyutikha, which separates two territories - it separates the Mountain from its neighbor, the village of Kudykino. It is believed that precisely because of these two villages, or rather,thanks to their names, a stable expression "On Kudykina Gora" appeared.
Vladimir region
But there is only one Mountain in the Vladimir region, and even that historically belonged to the Moscow region - oddly enough or, perhaps, not funny, also to the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district. The village began to belong to the vicinity of Vladimir relatively recently, only from the mid-forties of the last century. In the middle of the nineteenth century, more than a hundred people lived in it, in the tenth years of our century - less than fifty. The village is located near the town of Pokrova, and the regional center - Petushkov - is about eighteen kilometers away.
Kostroma region
In the Cherepovets district of this region, there is also a village of Gora, in which, according to the latest information, … five people live. Such a problem with the population here was also not always: in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century, the number of inhabitants in the village reached two hundred and fifty people. The landmark where you can find the Kostroma Mountain is the Veksa River.
Perm region
There are three villages with this name not far from Perm, but one is especially noteworthy - the one located in the Perm region of the region. This is a completely small village with a population of eleven people, but it is interesting for two things: firstly, on its outskirts there is the Khokhlovka architectural and ethnographic museum (the river of the same name flows nearby), and secondly, one of the streets in this village is named after honor of John Lennon.
Other Mountains
Among all the available villages in ourIn a country with such a name, there are dead settlements (that is, no one lives in them, although they themselves still exist - as, for example, in the Vologda Oblast), there are with an absolutely microscopic number of inhabitants (and perhaps the majority of them), but there are also those in which the population reaches a thousand people or even exceeds this mark. The latter include, for example, the village of Gora in the Sverdlovsk region, which is located opposite the village of Shamary (Shalinsky urban district), near the river Sylva.
Not a thousand, but by the standards of today's villages, there are also quite a few - two hundred and thirty people - live in one of the mountains of the Vologda region (there are plenty of them there) on the Punduga River. Approximately the same number - in the Pskov region, in the Bezhanitsky district.
Leningrad Region
Peter cannot boast of having Mountains, but in this region there are two villages with no less interesting names. About both - further.
Red Mountains
A village with this name is located near St. Petersburg, to be more precise, in the Luga district of the Leningrad region. Its name comes from the nearby rocks, in which there is a red tint.
For the first time in documents, a village with such a name is found at the end of the eighteenth century. Not even a village - a village, that's exactly how it was spelled out at the first mention of this item. At first it belonged to one landowner, then to another; the owners changed, as did the name of the village: Krasnaya Gorka, Krasnye Gory, Krasnaya Gora - as soon as it was called. appeared there inin the middle of the nineteenth century, the school gave the right to the Red Mountains to be called a village (there was a church there even earlier).
Currently there is no school in the village, but the church, as well as the post office and the library, remained. A little over forty people live on six streets of the village.
Akulova Gora
The village of Akulova Gora, formerly called Okulova Gora and Okulovshchina, is quite small - according to two years ago, its population does not exceed seven people.
The village is located in the rural settlement of Alehovshchinsky and dates back to the late seventies of the nineteenth century. At least, this is how the first mention of it is dated. It is located on the Oyati River, thirty-three kilometers from the nearest railway station.
In Russia, there are many settlements with a wide variety of names, strange and funny. The veil of secrecy over some of them is now ajar.
