DISTRICT / AIMAG
Tselin District
REGION
Altai Krai
Ovsyannikovo
The village of Ovsyannikovo, which emerged in 1834, is the administrative center of the Ovsyannikovsky rural council of the Tselinny district. It is a historical settlement surrounded by rich forests and unique Red Data Book plants.
A historical photograph, village view, landscape, or related heritage object will be displayed here at a later date.
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Tselin District
Altai Krai
Historical background
Founded in 1834, the village belonged to the Kuznetsk uyezd, and from 1882 it grew intensively thanks to Ukrainian settlers. By 1928, Ovsyannikovo was the center of the rural council and had 598 households with a predominantly Russian population. In 1900, the wooden Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built, and in 1901 the first school opened, later occupying the priest's house. In 1942, families of evacuees from besieged Leningrad and Ukraine arrived in the village. The village is the birthplace of People's Artist of Russia M.Ya. Budkeev and architect V.F. Kosonogov.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
Operating in the settlement are a school with the "Nashi istoki" (Our Origins) museum, a library, and a House of Culture with the "Yasnaya Polyana named after A.I. Voytenko" museum. Located on Nagornaya Street is a brick memorial to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, restored in 2020; a historical monument — a mass grave of partisans, and the building of the historical Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in the mid-18th century, have also been preserved.
Natural surroundings
The village is located on the Angurep River, surrounded by birch and aspen groves and lakes, and a colony of red-cheeked ground squirrels has been recorded on the banks of the small Kamyshinka river. In the vicinity rises Mount Kivda, 621 meters high, and on the Karabinskaya hill grow the steppe peony, fragrant orchid, and Maryin koren (anomalous peony), listed in the Red Data Book of the Altai Krai.
Historical and cultural legacy
Operating in the settlement are a school with the "Nashi istoki" (Our Origins) museum, a library, and a House of Culture with the "Yasnaya Polyana named after A.I. Voytenko" museum. Located on Nagornaya Street is a brick memorial to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, restored in 2020; a historical monument — a mass grave of partisans, and the building of the historical Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in the mid-18th century, have also been preserved.
Living culture and memory
Residents maintain traditional holidays, folk song contests, and a "romance evening," while local legends preserve stories about the Mokhovoye swamp and a dangerous quagmire that swallowed a troika of horses.
