It is no secret to anyone how wide and immense the vastness of our country. Our country is the largest in the world, is it a joke ?! And therefore it is absolutely not surprising that many settlements with the most diverse and sometimes very unusual names are located on its territory. So, villages were lost on the Russian square, in whose names the word "mountains" appears. How many are there and what is known about these settlements?
Mountain Village
Near our capital, or rather, not far from the town of Orekhovo-Zuevo, for almost a couple of decades, the rural settlement of Davydovskoye has been peacefully existing. It consists of several villages, one of which is the village of Gora. The area is quite interesting, since it has been featured in historical and archaeological documents since the seventeenth century, which means that the village in question claims to be ancient.
History of occurrence
The first information that is known about the place where the village is now located says that initially there was a place called Sunset. However, as far as initially, it is not known for certain - as already mentioned, the first records of this territory date back to the seventeenth century; it’s hard to say how the village and its inhabitants could live before. But the fact that in the nineteenth century the Old Believers lived in the village of Gore is absolutely reliable.
Judging by some reports, they also lived in it in the very recent past - for example, just ten years ago, the Old Believer procession was held in Horus. However, it is not known whether the entire current population of the village belongs to the Old Believers. But it is known that then, two centuries ago, the inhabitants of the Mountain were almost completely engaged in icon painting. By the way, simply the Mountain village was not called immediately after its inception - before it had time to be Yushina Mountain and to bear the name Serebrennikovo.
A little information
In addition to the above, it is worth adding that, according to eight years ago, a little more than a hundred people lived in the village - one hundred and fifteen, to be precise. It should be noted that the population of the village has decreased more than three times since the middle of the nineteenth century - for example, in the fifties of the above century 387 people lived there. The population reached its historical maximum by the mid-twenties of the last century - it exceeded the mark of four hundred people.
And why does this settlement have such a name? The conclusion that he himself asks for a language - that it is a village on a mountain - is not far from the truth. Mountains in this area, of course, no, but there are hills. It is on them that the village of interest to us is located. By the way, before it was called a village: it had a church and a school, and these are signs that just sat down.
Attractions Mountains
Despite the fact that this is a small village, it has something to see. So, there is a lake there (some call it a pond) called Quarry (because there is a sand quarry nearby). Its other name is Golden Sands, and it is popular not only among local residents, but even among vacationers from other places. The main attraction of the village of Mountains is the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built back in the late nineteenth century. For the most part, funds for its construction were raised by the then parishioners. In the thirty-eighth year of the last century, the temple, like many other temples in Russia, was closed. Restoration work and services in it began again only in the early nineties. Another attraction of the Mountains can be called the building of the former parish school. This old building, which has existed since the nineteenth century, is now used as a rural school. In addition, there is a medical center and even a library in Gore.
How many mountains in Russia?
Really, how much? Surprisingly, but quite a lot of areas include settlements with a similar name. Moreover, in Russia there are not just Mountains, but "some" Mountains. But more about that later, but for now statistics: so, Gore in our country is already seventy-two! And these are only “pure” Mountains, without any epithets. The Arkhangelsk region, Perm, and Yaroslavl, and Tver possess their Mountains, but there is nothing to say about Moscow. Some of these villages are briefly described below.
Moscow region
In total, there are six settlements in the Moscow Region called Gora. What to go far: in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky region alone there are as many as two villages with a similar name. About one was described above, the second is the center of the rural settlement of Gorskoye and has only forty-five people (according to ten years ago). Previously, the population in this village was larger; in some years, its number reached even three hundred people. But, perhaps, the fire that happened caused the village to decrease several times both in the number of houses and in the number of people: it destroyed a good part of the settlement, and the newly rebuilt reconstructed houses were called the New Village, which formally refers to the Mountain Nevertheless, it is an independent settlement. Houses in the village of Gore, according to reports, now occupy only two streets.
What else is worth knowing about this Mountain is that it stands on the shore of a small but very picturesque rivulet with the funny name Lyutikha, which divides the two territories - separates the Mountain from its neighbor, the village of Kudykino. It is believed that precisely because of these two villages, or rather, thanks to their names, the stable expression "On Kudykina Gora" appeared.
Vladimir region
But in the Vladimir region there is only one Mountain, and even that historically belonged to the Moscow region - oddly enough, or perhaps not funny, also to the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district. The village began to belong to the vicinity of Vladimir relatively recently, only from the middle of the forties of the last century. In the middle of the nineteenth century, more than a hundred people lived in it, in the tenth years of our century - less than fifty. The village is located near the town of Pokrov, and to the district center - Petushkov - about eighteen kilometers from it.
Kostroma region
In the Cherepovets district of this region there is also the village of Gora, in which, according to the latest information, ... five people live. Such a problem with the population was also not always here: in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the number of inhabitants in the village reached two hundred and fifty people. The landmark by which you can find Kostroma Mountain is the Veksa River.
Perm region
In total, not far from Perm there are three villages with the same name, but one is especially noteworthy - one located in the Perm region. This is a completely small village with a population of eleven people, but it is interesting in two things: firstly, on its outskirts there is the Khokhlovka architectural and ethnographic museum (the river of the same name flows nearby), and secondly, one of the streets in this village is named in honor to John Lennon.
Other Mountains
Among all the villages in our country with this name, there are dead settlements (that is, no one lives in them, although they themselves still exist - as, for example, in the Vologda Oblast), there are absolutely microscopic numbers of inhabitants (and, perhaps, majority), but there are those in which the population reaches up to a thousand people or even exceeds this mark. The latter include, for example, the village of Gora in the Sverdlovsk region, which is located opposite the village of Shamary (Shali city district), near the Sylva river.
Not a thousand, but by the standards of today's villages, too many - two hundred and thirty people - live in one of the Mountains of the Vologda Oblast (there are darkness and darkness there) on the Punduge River. About the same - in the Pskov region, in the Bezhanitsky district.
Leningrad region
Peter cannot boast of the presence of the Mountains, but in this region there are two villages with no less interesting names. About both - further.
Red Mountains
The village with this name is located near St. Petersburg, to be more precise, in the Luga district of the Leningrad region. Its name comes from nearby rocks, in which there is a red tint.
For the first time in documents a village with such a name was found at the end of the eighteenth century. It’s not even a village - Seltso, that’s how it was written at the first mention of this paragraph. At first it belonged to one landowner, then to another; the owners changed, as did the name of the village: Red Hill, Red Mountains, Red Mountain - as soon as it was called. The school that appeared there in the mid-nineteenth century gave the Red Mountains the right to be called a village (the church was there even earlier).
Currently, there is no school in the village, but the church, as well as the post office and the library, remain. On the six streets of the village live a little more than forty people.
Akulova Gora
The village of Akulova Gora, formerly called Okulova Gora and Okulovshchina, is very small - according to two years ago, its population does not exceed seven people.
The village is located in the rural settlement of Alekhovschinsky and dates back to the late seventies of the nineteenth century. At least that is how the first references to it are dated. It is located on the Oyat River, thirty-three kilometers from the nearest railway station.
In Russia, there are many settlements with the most diverse names, strange and funny. The veil of secrecy over some of them is now ajar.