Gordeevka

The village was founded in 1846. In 1926, the village had 383 households and a population of 2,293 (1,129 men and 1,164 women); the ethnic composition was predominantly Russian; the village was the centre of the Gordeyevsky selsoviet in Bolshe-Rechensky District, Biysk Okrug, Siberian Krai. As of 1 December 2025, the population is 91. In 1903, the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God was built in Gordeevka; it stood on an elevation in the centre of the village, near the village cemetery; the church was built by the entire community, everything done by hand; the main icon of the church was the miraculous icon of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God. In August 2017, local resident Nikolai Fyodorovich Baryshnikov found a fragment of a mammoth femur head in the Bolshaya Rechka River (near the village of Gordeevka); the find was transferred to the Troitsky District Local History Museum; the bone's attribution to a mammoth was confirmed by Marina Pavlovna Grisyuk, a research associate of the Altai State Local History Museum. A notable figure is Nikolai Mitrofanovich Gavrillin (1917–1979), commander of the 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 212th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 75th Guards Rifle Division of the 60th Army of the Central Front, Guards Senior Lieutenant; he distinguished himself particularly during the crossing of the Dnieper River on 29 September 1943 near the village of Glebovka in the Vyshgorod District of Kyiv Oblast: his battalion was the first in the regiment to cross the river, carried all weapons and ammunition across, broke into enemy battle formations, and secured a defensive line; by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 17 October 1943, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union; he was also awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals; in the post-war years, he worked as a party official, a newspaper employee, and headed the DOSAAF district committee in Aleysky District; he died on 29 September 1979 and is buried in the city of Aleysk; one of the lanes in Aleysk bears his name, and a memorial plaque is installed on the building of the Aleysk DOSAAF Motor School.