DISTRICT / AIMAG
Kalman District
REGION
Altai Krai
Panfilovo
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The selo of Panfilovo is located in Kalman District, Altai Krai; it was founded in 1875 by settlers from Tula, Tambov, Penza, Ryazan, and other provinces after the 1861 reform. In 1893 it was mentioned as the village Novo-Panfilova of Shadrinsk Volost, Barnaul Uyezd; in 1911 as the selo Panfilovskoe with 205 households and a population of 1,494, where a church, a Ministry of Internal Affairs school, and a butter-making plant operated. In 1926 there were 390 households and 2,173 residents; a first-stage school, a reading hut, and a consumer society shop operated. In 1929 a commune headed by Semyon Dorokhov was formed; in 1931 it was reorganized into the kolkhozes Krasny Sveklovod and Stepan Razin. In 1918 Kolchak troops passed through the selo; at the end of 1919 many residents joined Mamontov’s partisan detachment, and the first communists—Yakov Kuznetsov, Semyon Dorokhov, Kuzma Kiryasov, and Yakov Abramov—and the first Komsomol member Pavel Chernikov led the struggle against Kolchak forces and kulaks. On 2 April 1957 the Lenin sovkhoz was organized on the base of the Kalmanskaya MTS; in 1972 it was divided, leaving the selos of Novoromanovo, Panfilovo, and Aleksandrovka. In the late 1990s a two-story school, a club, an office, a garage, livestock buildings, and a sawmill were built, and paving of Ryazanskaya Street began. As of 1 April 2026, the population was 238; according to the 2002 census, Russians made up 91%.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
The selo has a primary general school, a house of culture, and a library. At 11a Penzenskaya Street there is a memorial to soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, created in 1975; it has regional significance, registration number 221610468200005, and was placed under state protection by Resolution No. 94 of the Altai Krai Soviet of People's Deputies dated 2 April 2001. At 4G Oktyabrskaya Street there is the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.
Natural surroundings
The selo is located in the central part of Altai Krai, in the forest-steppe zone, within the northeastern part of the Priobskoye Plateau, about 28 km in a straight-line to the north-northwest of the selo of Kalmanka. The climate is temperate and sharply continental; the average January temperature is −17.7 °C, July is +19.6 °C, and annual precipitation is 350–400 mm.
Historical and cultural legacy
The selo has a primary general school, a house of culture, and a library. At 11a Penzenskaya Street there is a memorial to soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, created in 1975; it has regional significance, registration number 221610468200005, and was placed under state protection by Resolution No. 94 of the Altai Krai Soviet of People's Deputies dated 2 April 2001. At 4G Oktyabrskaya Street there is the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.
Living culture and memory
Orthodoxy is widespread in the selo; Orthodox and state holidays of the Russian Federation are celebrated. Penzenskaya, Ryazanskaya, and Tambovskaya streets preserve the names of the provinces from which settlers arrived. In 2025 the selo celebrated its 150th anniversary: residents were awarded, artists from neighboring selos performed, guests were treated to Russian karavai and tea from an old samovar, and a photo zone styled as an old window and an exhibition of old photographs operated. Since 2002, literary readings in memory of the poet Nikolai Cherkasov, born in Panfilovo, have been held in Kalman District; the selo was the birthplace and childhood home of RSFSR artist Alexei Ivanovich Parkhomenko and writer Nikolai Mikhailovich Cherkasov, a member of the Writers' Union and laureate of the V.M. Shukshin Literary Prize. The house of culture has the theatre collective Fantaziya; Russian cuisine is represented in the food culture.
