Kipeshino

The village was founded in 1776. In 1926, the village of Kipeshnoye had 384 households and a population of 2,374 (1,133 men and 1,241 women); the ethnic composition was predominantly Russian; a first-stage school operated; administratively, the village was the centre of the Kipeshinsky selsoviet in Bolshe-Rechensky District, Biysk Okrug, Siberian Krai. As of 2021, the population of the entire Kipeshinsky selsoviet was 452. A notable figure is Pakhom Kirillovich Fomin, born in 1905 in Kipeshino; as brigade leader of the passers at Mine No. 2-3 ("Chertinskaya") of the "Kemerovoshahtostroy" trust, for outstanding success in coal mine construction, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 28 August 1948, and later received a second Order of Lenin. Also mentioned is Stepan Yegorovich Ognev, born in 1918 in Kipeshino; a blacksmith by trade, he served in the 63rd Guards Tank Brigade and participated in combat operations from the beginning of the war; he was awarded the medal "For Courage," the Order of the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st class, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, and the medals "For the Capture of Berlin," "For the Liberation of Prague," and "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945."