Abandoned houses in a village in the Ryazan region. All Culture in Ryazan region (Russia)

A plant for processing non-ferrous and rare earth metals on the outskirts of Skopin. Stopped working around 2015. In the early fifties, on the outskirts of the small town of Skopin, the construction of a new plant for processing non-ferrous and rare earth metals began. A few years later, the enterprise became the largest of its kind in the USSR. A huge territory on which administrative buildings and workshops are located. As of fall 2019, they are actively demolishing...

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A small factory was engaged in the production and storage of feed for livestock and poultry. Registered in 1992, liquidated in 2003. The entire production includes an elevator, which is available for viewing. Inside the workshops, the equipment and production lines are intact; the plant’s products are scattered, which is why the site a large number of birds. There was no active security on the territory; there were dogs.

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Built in 1782 at the expense of the court councilor S. E. Sulmenev (husband of E. I. Chebotaeva). The church is in a dilapidated state. It is possible to climb to the roof of the temple, but be careful. In some places, floor tiles have been preserved. There is visible destruction inside. The dome is intact.

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The temple was built in 1700. It is in disrepair: headless, deprived of a dome, used for many years as a water pump, worn out by time. The heavy tank of the water pump caused the wall to crumble. The other walls don't inspire confidence either; trees grow through them. The facade decor is painted. In the 30s, the temple was closed; it housed the garage of the Kostino state farm. The head of the temple and the bell tier were also dismantled in order...

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In the south of the Ryazan land, 25 versts from county town Ryazhsk, on the left bank of the Khuptya River, there once existed the village of Nikolskie Gai (Nikolo-Gai). The village got its name from the temple - the first known church, consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, was built here in 1678. However, less than a hundred years later, in 1766, landowner Anna Borisovna Poluekhtova built a new wooden church. A little over a hundred years later in 1889...

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The plant and the forest almost merged into one. Despite the fact that the place has been abandoned by people for quite some time, it is saturated with the smell of carrion due to a huge dump of bones in the northeast of the territory, cattle skins and bags of meat and bone meal remaining in the main building, and spoiled cans of stew in the underground part of the boiler room. Carefully! The smell attracts stray dogs in the warm season

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Remains of a former military unit that ceased to exist in June 2009. Purpose - artillery and missile forces. On the territory there are barracks, headquarters, garages without equipment, an honor board with photographs, a gas station, a boiler room, and a punishment cell. Free access to all buildings. As of May 2018, no guards were seen.

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Information about the village of Vnukovo in the Ryazan region begins to appear in the second half of the 17th century, and already in 1676 the Transfiguration Church, then still wooden, was listed in the village. The church building that has survived to this day was built in 1797 (parish registers that were kept in the parish have been preserved since the 1780s). According to available references in modern sources, the church was built at the expense of the local landowner P. S. Kondyreva. In the 19th century to the parish...

So, we continue to introduce you to the castles of the Ryazan region and the landmarks around the castle along the way.

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Although it is not a castle, it was worth a visit. In front of us is the estate of General Smelsky in the village. Vasilievka, which is not marked on every map, but then suddenly, among the low houses and vegetable gardens, something appears that would rather look harmonious somewhere in St. Petersburg, or at least Kursk or Tambov.


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The manor house is a two-story mansion with 5 projections - risalits of various sizes, with a round corner tower, once completed with a dome, and an open terrace (now lost). The facades of the building are very picturesque and richly decorated. The entire surface of the tower, all corners of the building, window openings are dissected by horizontal relief rustication.


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The owner of the estate, Eleazar Nikitovich Smelsky, by the way, is our fellow countryman, or rather the countryman of my friend Andrei muph Kirnov. He was born in 1800 in the village. Turnip, Voronezh region. The person himself was an interesting one, he graduated from the Voronezh Theological Seminary and the St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy. He worked as a military doctor, was a doctor at the court of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, served as a state councilor with the rank of general, headed the Military Medical Directorate of the War Ministry and was Vice-President of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors.
He was not a hereditary nobleman, but for his services in 1842 he received the right to hereditary nobility. Included in part three of the genealogical books of St. Petersburg and Ryazan province. Here is such a talented general-priest-doctor-state councilor.


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The general's son, Alexander Eliazarovich Smelsky, a full-time state councilor and holder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, continued to develop his father's estate.
After serving for 3 years in the Life Guards of the Semenovsky Regiment, he was appointed an official of special assignments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he served for 20 years. Reached the rank of Actual State Councilor and became a holder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Russian orders, including the Order of St. Anna, 2nd Art. with the Imperial crown. The last owner of the estate was Alexander Alexandrovich Smelsky. All that is known about him is that he held the court rank of chamber cadet of the Court of His Imperial Majesty. The history of the estate ended there.
During the USSR, the estate was nationalized and since 1920 it housed an orphanage. Later, employees of the local MTS lived in it. Recently the house was set on fire by some freaks. At the moment, there is little left of the house.


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This is such an epic destruction.


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Outbuilding. There are people living here who looked at me like I was a fool with a camera. It seems that there are very, very few tourists here, or rather, they are simply absent.


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Not far from the estate is the Church of the Epiphany, and Vasilievka, by the way, has the second name Epiphany. The wooden church was built in 1677. In 1764 a new one was installed. What we see now is a stone church built in 1819 at the expense of the landowner, State Councilor Mikhail Vasilyevich Izmailov. A unique artifact was kept with her - the Altar Gospel, published in 1688.


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At the moment nothing has survived. Even murals.


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Let's move on. On the way we found this church. This is the Kazan Church. Alexandrovka.


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The Kazan wooden church in the village of Aleksandrovka was built in 1868 at the expense of parishioners. In 1913, on the site of a wooden one, such a temple was erected.


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And here’s something else about which there was a long debate. I say that this is an estate, they tell me that this is a wretched Soviet building. However, history tells us that this is still an estate. Koshelev's estate in the village of Pesochnya.


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This is what the Internet writes to us: “The village of Pesochnya from 1835 to 1883 became the place of residence and work of a public figure, liberal, reformer, organizer of cultural and economic activities of the Sapozhkovsky district, merchant Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev. Converted in Soviet times into an agricultural technical school, the estate has long been in disrepair "


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Koshelev's house-estate, which is surrounded by an ancient park, is located in the northwestern side of the village on a high bank. But, despite its dilapidated state, even today the building gives the impression of harmony between the structure and the garden and park ensemble. The park near Koshelev's estate becomes unusually picturesque in spring, when anemones, violets, corydalis, and lilies of the valley bloom.
There was nothing left of the park except a few semblances of flower beds, everything was overgrown with nettles and other nasty things. As a result, all my legs were covered in nettles, but I took these shots.


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Here's what else we managed to dig up.

“In 2005, the reconstruction of Koshelev’s house-estate began, in which local schoolchildren also take part, to the best of their ability, during the days of work in the labor camp. In 2006, in two weeks, the flower beds were put in order, flowers were planted on them, benches were installed, the square was beautified, adjacent to Koshelev's house-estate. Regional authorities support the children's initiative, recognizing the work of local schoolchildren and students of Ryazan universities with certificates and monetary rewards."
It seems that this remains on paper. Currently, the estate has been turned into overgrown ruins.


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Remains from cassettes. Apparently there was a stage here.


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I don’t want to waste any more of your time on this object, let’s move on.


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Before us is Sasovo. Yes, this is a city, but what is this, not a city? And this? Not a city? In general, to be honest, it’s a big village, but Ilyich proudly stands tall. By the way, even an anti-cartoon was made about Sasovo.


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Another stele with Lenin.


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Well, actually the most interesting thing is this “castle”. It's true that someone circumcised him. Damn Soviet Jews XDDD). Apparently there was another floor and there was something beautiful and interesting at the top, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any old photographs anywhere.


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This is such a majestic facade. Straight from a fairy tale. It looks like both The Witcher 3 and Dragon age 3; in short, imagine which game you like. So, a little history. Unfortunately, the history of this wonderful palace is vague (if there is one, post it).


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The estate was built at the beginning of the twentieth century in the pseudo-Gothic style. It belonged to the merchant Sergei Postnikov, who owned a local rope factory.

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In 1917, the building was taken away from the landowner and this is what happened there, as evidenced by the memorial plaque.


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Since the 1920s, the building housed a school known as School No. 84. In 1991, the school was closed, and the building began to fall into disrepair. Now the building has been sold to someone and it seems that they are going to restore it.


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Unfortunately, the interiors have not been preserved and instead of the expected copies of locations from the games, there is such a destruction inside, which does not resemble the game Stalker.


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Actually, that’s probably all, wait for the continuation of the report. I’ll be sure to write soon when I have time.


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The third and final post about Pasha and I pavleg and Pasha dibazollll a trip to the east of the region.

1. In Akaevo Pasha pavleg I liked the well-preserved temple. He told about the church rotunda and altars, of which there are 3 (the cold main one, in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and two warm ones - St. Basil and St. Martyrs Florus and Laurus).

However, who is E.I. Postelnikov, with whose funds this church was built in 1809, I think even Pasha did not know. Even more so to me) She didn’t say anything about it and the information was that she was the aunt of a certain prince V.I. Kushsheva:D

There are a lot of strawberries growing around the church. You can't see it here, but it's there)

2. You can climb the bell tower. After the revolution, like many places, the temple was closed. Now it has been reconsecrated and “renamed” from the Nativity of the Virgin Mary to Trinity. It’s not clear who they did it all for. There are not very many people around: there are about 5 residential buildings and a dozen residents left in the village.

But 100 years ago, the church parish had 517 households in 10 villages (or 3,300 people, including not only Russians, but also Mordovians and Tatars)

3. This is what the larger volume of the building looks like. The room under the dome is locked. I don’t know if services are held there

4. Several small bells hang on the bell tower. I wonder if they remained from old times or were they hung already in the 90s, when the temple was rededicated?

In general, bells in such places seem to be something unusual and beautiful. For some reason I imagined a church in gray, foggy weather. You spend the night in a village house and wake up from a ringing sound. Outside the windows is the silhouette of a church in the fog, drizzling rain and ringing, making the picture immediately more mysterious and colorful

5. Near the temple, in the thickets, the wooden remains of a parish school have been preserved. General form For some reason I didn’t take it off, but inside the coat of arms of Saransk immediately attracted my attention - a fox with arrows.
The fox is a symbol of insight and cunning, the arrows are masculinity and determination.

6. An abandoned house nearby. Apparently the ivy feels great without its owners. Colorful)

7. We knock, no one is there. Let's go inside. Everything is rummaged and a mess

9. Nearby is a former street with the same abandoned houses.
Yes, by the way, the name of the village comes from the name of the first owner, and not from the surname of the former president of Kyrgyzstan)

These lands were granted to the Tatar Murza Akai Aituganovich Kugushev along with the peasants in 1639 “for the baptism of the Orthodox Christian faith”

10. The most famous natives of the village are the Ostroumov brothers, children of the rector of the temple Andrei Nikolaevich. Their house (or ruins) should have been preserved somewhere, but we couldn’t find it.

Philosopher Mikhail Andreevich (1847-1892), inspector of public schools and local school teacher Alexey Andreevich (1852-1932) and Andrei Andreevich (1856-1924) - breeder and author of the "Akaevskaya Beauty" apple variety

There is no point in hiding that abandoned villages and other populated areas are the object of research for many people who are passionate about treasure hunting (and not only). There is a place for those who like attic searching to roam, to “ring through” the basements of abandoned houses, to explore wells, and much more. etc. Of course, the likelihood that your colleagues or local residents very high, but, nevertheless, there are no “knocked out places”.

Reasons that lead to the desertion of villages

Before starting to list the reasons, I would like to dwell on the terminology in more detail. There are two concepts - abandoned settlements and disappeared settlements.

Disappeared settlements are geographical objects that today have completely ceased to exist as a result of military actions, man-made and natural disasters, time. In place of such points one can now see a forest, a field, a pond, anything, but not standing abandoned houses. This category of objects is also of interest to treasure hunters, but we are not talking about them now.

Abandoned villages precisely belong to the category of abandoned settlements, i.e. towns, villages, hamlets, etc., abandoned by residents. 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 locality was abandoned. So people left, why? A decline in economic activity, which we can see now, as people from villages tend to move to the city; wars; disasters of various types (Chernobyl and its environs); other conditions that make living in a given region inconvenient and unprofitable.

How to find abandoned villages?

Naturally, before heading headlong to the search site, it is necessary to prepare a theoretical basis, saying in simple words, calculate these most likely places. A number of specific sources and tools will help us with this.

Today, one of the most accessible and fairly informative sources is Internet:

The second quite popular and accessible source- these are ordinary topographic maps. It would seem, how can they be useful? Yes, very simple. Firstly, both tracts and uninhabited villages are already marked on fairly well-known maps of the Gentstab. It is important to understand one thing here: a tract is not only an abandoned settlement, but simply any part of the area that is different from other areas of the surrounding area. And yet, on the site of the tract there may not be any village for a long time, but that’s okay, walk around with a metal detector among the holes, collect metal garbage, and then you’ll get lucky. Not everything is simple with non-residential villages either. They may not be completely uninhabited, but may be used, say, as summer cottages, or may be occupied illegally. In this case, I don’t see any point in doing anything, no one needs problems with the law, and the local population can be quite aggressive.

If you compare the same map of the General Staff and a more modern atlas, you can notice some differences. For example, there was a village in the forest on the General Staff, a road led to it, and suddenly the road disappeared on a more modern map; most likely, the residents left the village and began to bother with road repairs, etc.

The third source is local newspapers, local people, local museums. Communicate more with the natives, interesting topics there will always be someone to talk to, and in between you can ask about the historical past of this region. What can locals tell you about? 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. Moreover, now even the most provincial newspapers are trying to acquire their own website, where they diligently post individual notes or even entire archives. Journalists travel a lot on their business and interview, including old-timers, who like to mention various interesting facts during their stories.

Don't hesitate to go to provincial local history museums. Not only are their exhibitions often interesting, but a museum employee or guide can also tell you a lot of interesting things.