Mesyagutovo (Bashkortostan Mәsәғүt) is a village in the Yanaul district of Bashkortostan, the center of the Mesyagutovsky village council.
In 1798, the villages of Mesyagutovo, Sikiyaz, Sarty, Ozero were
founded, all under one agreement given by the Bashkirs of the Tyrnaklin
volost to the state peasants of the Krasnoufimsky district of the Perm
province.
“September 1798, on the 6th day of the Orenburg
province of the Ufa and Troitsk district of the Tyrnaklinsky volost, the
undersigned foremen, assistants and all our volost noble and ordinary
worldly people gave this receipt of the Perm province of different
districts (i.e. counties) and volosts to residents of the Orenburg
province of the Ufa district in the newly settled four villages called
Krasnopolskaya (i.e. Ozerskaya, later simply Lake), Sikiyaz,
Masagutovskaya and Sartova, state peasants centurion Eftikhey
Trapeznikov, elected Alexei Popov, attorney Savin Mikhlyaev with worldly
people that, as before, so now according to to our peaceable agreement
on both sides, we, the Bashkirs, gave them, the peasants, for their
residence under the court in the eternal settlement of the land on the
long road along the Ayu River twenty-five, and across twenty miles with
all arable, hay, forest and water lands. For this land they took money
from them, the peasants, before this four hundred rubles, until this
September 6th, two hundred rubles. To live for them, the peasants, to
produce haymaking and be content with all the land, and we with them
rubbish, fights and harassment in them, the peasants, do not ask for
repairs in any government places, in which we sign: Abdul Chukrakov,
Galin Abdullin, Nigmatulla Ibragimov, Emantai Balykchin, Abdulmezit
Safarov, Kulbeyt Sultavov, Rakhmatulla Aksanov, Yavul and Khalit Ibraev,
Tair Timyashev, Seifulla Saraev, Abdulkhair Yuguslyanov.
On April
10, 1810, the Bashkirs of the Tyrnaklinsky volost of Ufa (7th Bashkir
canton) and Troitsky (4th Bashkir canton) counties (villages of
Mesyagutovo, Lagerevo, Sheryakovo, Mukhametovo) gave a new contract to
the inhabitants of the same 4 Russian villages due to Bashkirs from the
village of Kadyrovo "oppress the state peasants." Subsequently, these
peasants were allotted land plots at the rate of 15 acres per man (based
on the land law of 1832).
It is noteworthy that in the contract
entry of 1798, approved by the county authorities at the beginning of
the 19th century, there is the following expression: "As before, so now
according to our peaceful agreement." It turns out that all 4 villages
of Russian Perm peasants were founded in 10 years. Foreman of the
Tyrnaklinskaya volost Khasan Chuvashev for 19292 rubles. 15 kop. under
an agreement dated June 16, 1789, the peasants Efim Teplykh, Grigory
Botkin and comrades from 50 families were allowed to go to the volost
patrimony in the region of the Kuyazhskaya and Kataevskaya steppes,
which occupied a length of 25, across - 20 miles. Thus, in 1798, the
second group of peasants was admitted. At the same time, the peasants
themselves always referred to the treaty of 1798 as the main land
document.
The development of the village of Mesyagutovo can be
judged by changes in the population (table).
The inhabitants of the
villages were aware of all branches of the economy and individual
crafts. In Mesyagutovo (“Iskakovo identity”), arable fields were located
around the village, divided into 298 male souls. On the fenced fields, a
three-field system was practiced, and on the rest - an unsystematic crop
rotation. The manuring of the fields began only in the late 1970s. 19th
century There were 30 threshers and winnowing machines in the village.
In 1842, there were 300 horses, 400 cattle, 685 sheep, 55 goats and 50
pigs per 100 households. At the end of the century, out of 253
households with land, 4 were cattleless. The villagers did not have
enough food for their livestock.
There were 4 forges, 2 carpentry
workshops, there were saddlers (2), tailors (2), shoemakers (3). Bazaars
were held on Mondays, fairs were held twice a year, 20 shops were open.
In 1875, a ministerial one-class school was opened, where in the
early 90s. 19th century There were 49 boys and 22 girls. In 1907-1918.
the first rural women's gymnasium in Bashkortostan operated here with 5
classes, in which 147 people studied in 1910, and 187 people in 1915.
The parishioners of Mesyagutovo and Sartov built a stone church at
their own expense, however, according to Bishop Dionisy, who surveyed
the churches of three counties in 1893, the inhabitants of these
villages “are not very diligent in the temple of God, not everyone
attends confession and Holy Communion due to their laziness” .
Today, 10 thousand people live in the district center of Mesyagutovo.
Geographical position
Located on the river Gareika.
Distance to:
district center (Yanaul): 41 km,
nearest railway
station (Yanaul): 41 km.
There are a basic school (a branch of the secondary school in the village of Yamada), a feldsher-obstetric station, a cultural center, and a library.
According to the VII revision of 1816, 80 people lived in
12 courtyards, in 1834 - 131 Bashkirs.
The 10th revision of 1859
registered 290 votchinniks with 42 yards.
In 1870 - 42 households
and 307 residents (158 men and 149 women), Meshcheryak.
In 1896,
in the village of the Kyzylyarovskaya volost of the VII camp of the
Birsky district - 65 households, 363 inhabitants (189 men, 174 women), a
mosque, a grain store.
In 1906 - 347 inhabitants, a mosque (built
in 1891), 2 water mills.
In 1920, according to official data,
there were 89 households and 435 inhabitants (205 men, 230 women) in the
village, marked by Bashkirs, according to the household count - 425
Tatars, 7 Russians and 6 Orthodox in 89 households.
In 1939 the
population was 434 people, in 1959 - 265 inhabitants.
In 1982 the
population was about 210 people.
In 1989 - 228 people (105 men,
123 women)
In 2002 - 209 people (97 men, 112 women), Bashkirs -
92%.
In 2010 - 177 people (84 men, 93 women)