DISTRICT / AIMAG
Slavgorod Municipal District
REGION
Altai Krai
Veseloye
The village of Veseloye, founded in 1909, is a settlement of the Slavgorod urban okrug of the Altai Krai.

A historical photograph, village view, landscape, or related heritage object will be displayed here at a later date.
Historical background
Founded in 1909 by settlers from the western and central governorates of Russia, the village had about 200 households with 8 windmills and 2 horse-drawn mills by 1913–1915. In 1919, a volunteer partisan detachment was organized in the settlement, which entered a battle at Cherno-Kurya during the Civil War. By 1928, the settlement consisted of 86 households, serving as the center of the Veselovsky rural council, where 382 people lived, predominantly Ukrainians. In 1929, the "Zavet Ilyicha" collective farm was organized in the village, which began receiving its first tractors. In 2012, the territory of the village was included in the municipal formation of the "city of Slavgorod". According to 2013 data, the number of residents decreased to 36 people.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
On the square near the school, a wooden monument to the fallen partisan Vasily Sviridov was erected in 1922, replaced in 1953 by a stone obelisk with a five-pointed red star. The village also had a primary general education school, which was liquidated in 2016.
Natural surroundings
Near the village are the lakes Maloye Yarovoye and Belenkoye, and above the settlement, there is a mountain with a stone triangle at the top.
Historical and cultural legacy
On the square near the school, a wooden monument to the fallen partisan Vasily Sviridov was erected in 1922, replaced in 1953 by a stone obelisk with a five-pointed red star. The village also had a primary general education school, which was liquidated in 2016.
Living culture and memory
In local folklore, there is a legend about a pine tree guarded by spirits, under which a treasure is allegedly buried. There is also a lore about two brothers and a witch's daughter, as well as stories about a mountain with mushroom spots called "Triangle" and mysterious phenomena, such as a cloud in the shape of a man's face.

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