Lysogorskaya Stanitsa, Russia

 

Lysogorskaya is a village in the Georgievsky district (urban district) of the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation. The village is located 17 km west of the city of Georgievsk at the foot of Mount Lysaya (height 739 m), from which the name of the village comes from. The relief is plain. Natural resources are represented by fertile soils. Near the village there is a forest, which is part of the Debri nature reserve. The length of the village is 7 km. Located near the Pyatigorsk - Georgievsk highway. The Vinogradnaya railway station is 17 km away.

 

History

The village of Lysogorskaya arose about 200 years ago. It was founded by settlers from the villages of Aleksandriyskaya and Podgornaya in a picturesque place on the left bank of the Podkumka - where now every summer a sea of ​​ripe ears, boundless by the eye, is agitated.

Previously, the road from Georgievsk to Pyatigorsk passed here, to the north of it stretched the fields of the Alexandrian Cossacks, and on the right bank of the Podkumka, just where the village is located today, there was a huge swamp. Its remains have survived to this day in the form of small reservoirs-mochaks.

To the south of the swamp and on the slopes of the mountain, a dense deciduous forest rustled, but no trees grew on the top, so the mountain seemed bald from afar, for which it received its name.

M. Yu. Lermontov, heading from Georgievsk to Pyatigorsk, described these places as follows: “The first mountain located on this path from Georgievsk is Lisya, or, as they call it here, Bald .... Opposite Lisya Gora, on this side of the river, there is a Cossack post. One hut, enclosed by a wicker fence with a thorn top, serves as protection for several Cossacks. The sentry on the stage, standing with a gun, watches in all directions ... ".

Now the former Cossack post is reminiscent of only solitary, almost completely embedded in the ground, crosses. Here, in memory of the glorious Cossack past, an Orthodox cross was erected. By the way, Mount Lysaya is a laccolith (a failed volcano), its height is 723 m.

From Lysa, 4 cities are immediately visible - Pyatigorsk with Zheleznovodsk and Mineralnye Vody with Georgievsk.

But the main charm of the landscapes that open from the Lysogorsky slopes is the snowy chains of the Caucasus, headed by the two-headed giant Elbrus. From Mount Lysoy in clear weather, other mountains are clearly visible - laccoliths of the KMV: Golden Kurgan, Yutsa, Dzhutsa, Mashuk, Beshtau, Zheleznaya, Razvalka, Bull and Zmeyka.

But it was not the picturesque area that prompted the Cossacks to settle here, but a great need.

Back in 1836, a detachment of highlanders from the village of Babukov, which was located on the right bank of the Podkumka opposite the village of Nezlobnaya, raided the villages of Alexandria (the old name of Alexandria) and Podgornaya.

The highlanders attacked on a dark rainy night, and the Cossacks were taken by surprise. The villages burned like big fires, and by morning many residents were left without shelter and property. The fire victims, whose fields were near Mount Lysaya, preferred to move closer to their allotments. Among them were the families of the Rusanovs, Evsyukovs, Bessalovs, Potapovs, Frolovs, Tolstovs.

So by the autumn of the same year, a small Cossack settlement was formed on the left bank of the Podkumka.

But in the new place, a serious inconvenience was discovered - the lack of fresh water. Therefore, in 1860, the villagers began to move from the left bank of Podkumka to the right, to the foot of the mountain.

By that time, the swamp had almost dried up, and fertile soil remained in its place, suitable for laying orchards. This circumstance was very attractive to the poor Cossacks, who dreamed of increasing their incomes. They were not even afraid of malaria, which often affected those who moved to the right bank.

Cossacks Lysenko, Naydenov, Markov, Barmashov began to plant gardens. Houses were built by choosing drier and better places, so the streets in this part of the village are crooked. When a wealthy merchant by the name of Onorov moved to Nizhnyaya Lysogorka (settlements formed on the right bank), the name Onorovka was assigned to it by the people. And Upper Lysogorka was called Medvedevka, after the name of another merchant, rich and very merciful to orphans, widows and the poor, who gave loans, but did not demand repayment of the debt.

The resettlement from Verkhnyaya Lysogorka to Nizhnyaya continued for several decades. Some villagers in their memoirs say that it basically ended by 1892, others call 1897, and still others claim that it lasted until the revolution itself. One way or another, but the settlement on the left bank ceased to exist, and only the old cemetery with gravestones, crosses carved from stone, on which inscriptions have been preserved in some places, has survived to this day.

to natural attractions. Lysogorskaya must be attributed to the sources of mineral waters. Two of them - thermal and narzan - are located on the slope of Mount Lysaya. And the most famous is “Useful”, discovered back in the 19th century - in the steppe, northeast of Mount Lysaya.

The main attraction of st. Lysogorskaya is the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The church began to be built in the 1870s

designed by an unknown author by specially invited craftsmen from Voronezh. The church is wooden, which is unusual for our region, from wooden beams fixed in grooves - not a single nail was used during construction.

The most famous memorial complex of the village is the Monument to the inhabitants of the village of Lysogorskaya, who died during the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, the Alley of Memory and Glory. The monument is included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of the Stavropol Territory.

The modern village of Lysogorskaya is a multinational settlement. After the Russians, the second largest group of the population are Armenians. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the appearance in the village of an unusual for the Cossack culture, but characteristic of the culture of Armenia, “Khachkar”. This is a memorial place, the “Holy Stone”, on which the cross appears in relief. Nearby are comfortable tables and benches for rest and commemoration. Khachkar was installed in 2007.

In 2008, the Heraldic Commission approved the symbolism of the village of Lysogorskaya: coat of arms, flag and banner. The coat of arms of the municipality is a golden shield under a scarlet top with four teeth on an azure lowered, truncated pyramid, seated with a scarlet guard tower, a silver clawed cross. Under the shield on a gold ribbon there is a scarlet lettered motto: "For each Cossack there is his own river, and the Fatherland is one for all!"

 

Religion

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
The wooden church in the village was built by Voronezh craftsmen without a single nail in 1875-1877 on the “skin of a ram”: a thin cord was cut from a well-made skin and girded around the place that now occupies the churchyard.
Cossacks-villagers saved the temple from destruction in 1937, revived it during the Great Patriotic War, achieved the status of a historical monument in the midst of the Khrushchev "thaw" (1960-1965), when another wave of struggle against religion began. To this day, the temple has been preserved almost in its original form.

 

Monuments

The grave of the communists P.M.Borshchakov, E.V. Vodobshin and the OGPU representative Bosch
Monument to V.I.Lenin. 1965 year
Mass grave of soldiers who died during the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. 1969 year

 

Education

Kindergarten No. 17 "Crane". Opened February 14, 1963
Kindergarten No. 22 "Rainbow". Opened December 31, 1968
Secondary school No. 15
Children's art school. Opened in 1969 as a children's music school. In 1985 a new building of the music school was built. Since 1992, the current name.

 

Economy

SPK-collective farm "Podkumok"
Mass media
The newspaper "My Village - Lysogorskaya". Founded in 2006, published monthly, distributed. Hasn't been released since 2017.

 

Infrastructure

Rural house of culture. Opened December 31, 1961 (according to other sources October 22)
Rural library. Opened March 15, 1927
Hospital
On the left side of the highway Georgievsk - Pyatigorsk, 150 m from the fork to the village of Lysogorskaya, there is an open cemetery with an area of 55,155 m². Within the boundaries of the village there is another open cemetery with an area of 49477 m² (the site is located about 1 km from the landmark in the southwest direction)