DISTRICT / AIMAG
Kalman District
REGION
Altai Krai
Shilovo
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The selo of Shilovo is located in Kalman District, Altai Krai; it was founded in 1725. In the 1868 “List of Populated Places of the Russian Empire” it is mentioned as the factory village Shilova of Barnaul Okrug, Tomsk Governorate, on the Kalmanka River, with 48 households and 305 residents. In 1893, in the village of Shadrinsk Volost, there were 175 households and 800 residents, and a drinking establishment operated; by 1911 the selo Shilovskoe had 600 households and 5,718 residents, with a church, a Ministry of Public Education school, a literacy school, shops, three butter-making plants, a state wine shop, and a bazaar. In 1926 there were 672 households and 3,490 residents; the selo was the centre of the Shilovsky selsoviet of Chistyunsky District, Barnaul Okrug, Siberian Krai. In 1882 a land dispute occurred among peasants of the selos of Kalmanka, Shilovo, and Ust-Aleyka; in 1905 the population exceeded 3,000 and an underground revolutionary organization was created, headed by Yakov. After the February Revolution residents took part in the struggle against the Kolchak regime; on 12 December 1919 Soviet power was established. After the revolution the kolkhoz Krasnoye Znamya was formed; in 1961, after reunification with the settlements of Altai and Ivanovka, the Ob sovkhoz was formed, and in 1981 the Shilovsky sovkhoz. According to the 2002 census, Russians made up 95%; as of 1 April 2026, the population was 420.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
The selo has a secondary general school, a kindergarten, a midwife-obstetric station of the branch of KGBUZ “Kalmanskaya Central District Hospital,” a house of culture, and a library. At 9 Shkolnaya Street there is a memorial to soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War, erected in 1975; it is a six-meter trapezoidal reinforced-concrete slab finished with marble chips and additional slabs with surnames, bearing the inscription “Eternal memory to those who fell in battles for the Motherland.” At 13a Shkolnaya Street there is a memorial plaque “Eternal memory to those who fell in battles for the Motherland in 1941–1945,” created in 1975; at 9a Shkolnaya Street there is a memorial plaque honoring Komsomol members and teachers of the Shilovo school who fell at the fronts, created in 1968; on Shkolnaya Street there is a mass grave of insurgents from 1919. The selo has a prayer room consecrated on 25 January 2024 in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God; the service was led by Priest Ioann Yurchenko, rector of the Church of Michael the Archangel in the selo of Kalmanka.
Natural surroundings
The selo lies in the central part of Altai Krai, in the forest-steppe zone, within the northeastern part of the Priobskoye Plateau, on the left bank of the Malaya Kalmanka River, about 17 km in a straight-line west-northwest of the selo of Kalmanka; its absolute elevation is 175 m above sea level. 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 secondary general school, a kindergarten, a midwife-obstetric station of the branch of KGBUZ “Kalmanskaya Central District Hospital,” a house of culture, and a library. At 9 Shkolnaya Street there is a memorial to soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War, erected in 1975; it is a six-meter trapezoidal reinforced-concrete slab finished with marble chips and additional slabs with surnames, bearing the inscription “Eternal memory to those who fell in battles for the Motherland.” At 13a Shkolnaya Street there is a memorial plaque “Eternal memory to those who fell in battles for the Motherland in 1941–1945,” created in 1975; at 9a Shkolnaya Street there is a memorial plaque honoring Komsomol members and teachers of the Shilovo school who fell at the fronts, created in 1968; on Shkolnaya Street there is a mass grave of insurgents from 1919. The selo has a prayer room consecrated on 25 January 2024 in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God; the service was led by Priest Ioann Yurchenko, rector of the Church of Michael the Archangel in the selo of Kalmanka.
Living culture and memory
Orthodoxy is widespread in the selo; Orthodox and state holidays of the Russian Federation are celebrated. For weddings, anniversaries, and memorial meals all residents gather, events are held in the club building, and meals are prepared together; kindness and mutual aid are called the main traditions. On 10 August 2013 the selo widely celebrated its 250th anniversary. Among notable figures Nikolai Vasilievich Gorshkov (1906–1976), a Soviet figure in public education and chairman of the Novosibirsk Radio Committee in 1946–1949, is mentioned. Russian cuisine is represented in the food culture.
