DISTRICT / AIMAG
Tselin District
REGION
Altai Krai
Step-Chumysh
The village of Step-Chumysh in the Tselinny district of the Altai Krai, founded in the mid-18th century, developed on the banks of the Chumysh River as an agricultural settlement.
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Tselin District
Altai Krai
Historical background
Settlement began in the spring of 1750 with the arrival of the Bukin family on the floodplain meadows of the Chumysh River. By 1928, the village had become the center of the Stepno-Chumyshsky rural council and had 271 households with a Russian population. The first school opened in 1903, and in the 1960s a House of Culture, a canteen, a boiler house, and residential buildings were erected in the settlement. The wooden Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1837, was closed in 1936, and later a village club was opened on its site. As of March 2026, 129 people live in the village.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
Located in the village are a House of Culture, a library, a school, and a monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, erected in 1970.
Natural surroundings
The settlement stands on the Chumysh River, whose valleys are covered with picturesque floodplain meadows with lush grasses and small shrubs, and the waters are rich in fish.
Historical and cultural legacy
Located in the village are a House of Culture, a library, a school, and a monument to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, erected in 1970.
Living culture and memory
Local legends tell that the village was founded by refugees from the Tomsk ironworks, and a popular folk legend also speaks of the warrior Tom-Chumysh and his brothers, whose struggle symbolically explains the emergence of local rivers.
