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Toploye

Coordinates: 52°21′45.0″N 45°1′39.7″E / 52.362500°N 45.027694°E / 52.362500; 45.027694
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Toploye
Топлое
village
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Toploye is located in Russia
Toploye
Toploye
Location of Toploye
Toploye is located in Penza Oblast
Toploye
Toploye
Toploye (Penza Oblast)
Coordinates: 52°21′45.0″N 45°1′39.7″E / 52.362500°N 45.027694°E / 52.362500; 45.027694
CountryRussia
Federal subjectPenza Oblast
Administrative districtMaloserdobinsky
Founded1800Edit this on Wikidata
Population
 • Total513
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[2])
Postal code(s)[3]
442807Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID56644410116

Toploye or Toploe (Russian: То́плое) is a rural locality (a selo) in Maloserdobinsky district, Penza Oblast, Russia. There is an object of cultural heritage of the Penza Oblast — the St. Michael's church [ru]. The population was 513 (2010 census).

Geography

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It is located 10 km south of Malaya Serdoba and 90 km south of Penza, near the border with the Saratov Oblast, in a steppe area.

History

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The village was founded by General Pyotr Soimonov [ru] on land granted to him by decree of Empress Catherine II in 178. In 1800 it was inherited by his daughter Yekaterina Gagarina.[4]

The first settlers were transported by Soimonov from the Nizhny Novgorod and Simbirsk governorates. In 1811, the village was called Soymonovo, Yekaterinino. The first street was built at the lake Tyoploye (lit.'warm'), so from the 1820s the village began to be called by its current name. In 1834, a stone church was built and consecrated in the name of the Descent of the Holy Spirit with a chapel in the name of the Archangel Michael (now it is an architectural monument).

In the autumn of 1905, the village was burned down by a militant group of Malaya Serdoba peasants who had long-standing accounts with the Gagarins, who, according to their belief, seized their land, granted to the ancestors of the peasants in 1699 by Peter the Great. The rich Gagarin's archive was destroyed by fire.

Description

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In the village on January 1, 2022 - 210 households, a 300-seat house of culture, a 150-seat primary school, a paramedic-obstetric station, a school stadium, a shop, historical and cultural monuments: a monument to fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War, a monument to the victims of the famine of 1933, the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church, 4 ponds. 7 streets: Zazhigina (central), Kuzyatovka, Chuvarleyevka, Kozina, Orlovka, Mira, Molodezhnaya. On April 18, 2020, cellular communication presented by Tele2 appeared for the first time in the village.[5]

Incidents

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Employees of the SOBR on the roof of the shed in Toploye

As a result of the shooting that occurred on May 8, 2019, 2 people were killed, two more were injured.[6]

Notable people

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Ivan Zazhigin [ru] (1925-2001) is a Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  3. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  4. ^ Poluboyarov, Mikhail Sergeevich (2014). Малосердобинская энциклопедия (in Russian). Penza: Общественная организация «Малосердобинское землячество». ISBN 978-5-906589-03-3.
  5. ^ Official portal, Government of the Penza Oblast. "В малых населенных пунктах Малосердобинского района появилась мобильная связь". Правительство Пензенской области.
  6. ^ "Стрельба и поножовщина в Малосердобинском районе: двое погибли". PenzaInform.ru (in Russian). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  7. ^ "Зажигин Иван Степанович". warheroes.ru. Retrieved 2023-09-16.