Mordovo is a workers' village in the Tambov region, the
administrative center of the Mordovian region and the Mordovian
municipal council. Located in the southwestern part of the region,
80 km from Tambov, on the banks of the Bityug River. Railway station
Oborona on the line Gryazi - Povorino.
It was located on the
right bank of the Bityug River. The settlement of the left bank
began in the 19th century, accelerating after 1879, when the
Gryaze-Tsaritsinskaya railway was built there.
The main attraction of Mordovo is the Michael-Arkhangelsk temple,
built on public funds in 1859-1909. It is made in an eclectic style in
the form of a ship, symbolizing salvation in a quiet haven of lost and
lost souls. The approval of the project of the temple was carried out by
officials of the Construction Department of the Provincial Government:
the provincial architect, state councilor, Alexander Fedorovich
Mirolyubov and the junior architect, court councilor, Theophil
Alexandrovich Svirchevsky. The architecture of the temple has much in
common with the projects of the temples of the Voronezh provincial
architect Alexander Antonovich Cui in the city of Zadonsk: the Temple of
the Ascension of the Lord - the cathedral church of the Mother of
God-Tikhonovsky (Tyunin) convent and the Cathedral of the Life-Giving
Trinity of the former Tikhonovsky Trinity (Sorrowful) monastery, perhaps
he is the author of the project temple. The throne was consecrated in
honor of Michael the Archangel, the southern chapel was consecrated in
honor of Florus and Laurus, the northern one - in honor of Pitirim of
Tambov (until 1945 - in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of
God). The unique ceramic iconostasis was delivered in 1890 from the New
Jerusalem Monastery near Moscow. The temple can accommodate about 5,000
people, which makes it one of the largest in the region.
Monument to
soldiers-internationalists.
Memorial complex in memory of the
inhabitants of the district center who fell during the Great Patriotic
War.
It is located in the southwestern part of the region, 80 km from
Tambov, on the banks of the Bityug River. Oborona railway station on the
Gryazi-Povorino line.
It was located on the right bank of the
Bityug River. Settlement of the left bank began in the 19th century,
accelerating after 1879, when the Gryase-Tsaritsinskaya railway was
built there.
On the map of the Voronezh province (1724, surveyors
Korney Borodavkin and Nikita Somarokov) it is designated as a
settlement with a church.
Mentioned in documents of the 2nd
revision (1744).
The village was inhabited mainly by service
people and peasants, one-yard villagers.
In the documents of
1782, the village of Mordovo is mentioned as the volost center of
the Usman district of the Tambov province with a population of about
4,000 people.
In the 19th century it became a local trade
center; a fair, a bazaar, 2 mills, and a public school operated
here.
Initially, the village was located on the right bank of
the Bityug River. The settlement of the left bank began after the
construction of the Gryaze-Tsaritsyn railway.
In 1873, Nasser
ad-Din Shah Qajar visited the station, who got out of the carriage
to look at the locomotive during his maneuvers at the station.
In 1893, the station ranked third in the Russian Empire in terms
of the volume of livestock dispatched.
By 1913, Mordovo
became one of the largest villages in the Usmansky district, with
1320 households and 8250 residents.
In 1921, the workers of
the railway, the sugar factory and the Red Army men, in a battle
with Antonov's detachments, managed to defend the lands of the
railway.
In 1932, the Mordovo station was renamed the Oborona
station.
In 1928, the Mordovian region was formed.
During the Great Patriotic War, the region sent 12,340 people to the
front. 6850 soldiers did not return from the battlefields. Mordovo
accepted 1430 refugees and evacuees.
In 1968, Mordovo
received the status of a working village.
In 1993, Patriarch
of Moscow and All Russia Alexy visited the Archangel Michael Church
and celebrated the Divine Liturgy there.