Toploye or Toploe ( Russian: То́плое) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in

Maloserdobinsky district Maloserdobinsky District (russian: Малосердо́бинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #774-ZPO and municipalLaw #690-ZPO district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the obl ...

, Penza Oblast, Russia. There is an object of cultural heritage of the Penza Oblast — the . The population was 513 ( 2010 census).

Geography

It is located 10 km south of

Malaya Serdoba Malaya Serdoba (russian: Ма́лая Сердоба́) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Maloserdobinsky District, Penza Oblast, Russia. Population: Geography It is located in a forest steppe area on the an ...

and 90 km south of Penza, near the border with the

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, in a steppe area.

History

The village was founded by General on land granted to him by decree of Empress Catherine II in 178. In 1800 it was inherited by his daughter

Yekaterina Gagarina Yekaterina Petrovna Gagarina (russian: Екатерина Петровна Гагарина; May 25, 1790—February 27, 1873), maiden name Soymonova (), was a wife of a Russian diplomat Grigory Gagarin, Prince Grigory Gagarin and th ...

. The first settlers were transported by Soimonov from the Nizhny Novgorod and

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governorates. In 1811, the village was called Soymonovo, Yekaterinino. The first street was built at the lake Tyoploye (), so from the 1820s the village began to be called by its current name. In 1834, a stone church was built and consecrated in the name of the Descent of the

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with a chapel in the name of the Archangel Michael (now it is an architectural monument). In the autumn of 1905, the village was burned down by a militant group of

peasants who had long-standing accounts with the Gagarins, who, according to their belief, seized their land, granted to the ancestors of the peasants in 1699 by

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

. The rich Gagarin's archive was destroyed by fire.

Description

In the village on January 1, 2022 - 210 households, a 300-seat house of culture, a 150-seat primary school, a paramedic-obstetric station, a school stadium, a shop, historical and cultural monuments: a monument to fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War, a monument to the victims of the famine of 1933, the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church, 4 ponds. 7 streets: Zazhigina (central), Kuzyatovka, Chuvarleyevka, Kozina, Orlovka, Mira, Molodezhnaya. On April 18, 2020,

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presented by Tele2 appeared for the first time in the village.

Incidents

As a result of the shooting that occurred on May 8, 2019, 2 people were killed, two more were injured.

Notable people

(1925-2001) is a

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of the Soviet Army, participant of the World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Toploye Populated places in Maloserdobinsky District