The best villages of the Vladimir region. The most beautiful villages were named in the Vladimir region

Under the heading "Small towns of Russia" we will go to the most beautiful village in the Vladimir region. Vezhbolovo won this title at a regional competition, leaving behind villages with a population of more than three thousand people. Only six people live there all year round.

The friendliness of the Vezhbolovites is visible even at the entrance to the village. Everyone who turns here off the bumpy road is waving a hand-made smiley from a birch tree. Residents meet guests according to an old Russian custom - a loaf.

Crowded on the only street here only on weekends or holidays. There are only 34 houses in Vezhbolovo, in which 6 people live permanently. The rest are summer residents, mainly urban creative intelligentsia. A plot with a carved gate was recently bought by the Reutov sculptor Yuri Sedykh... Muscovites come to the brick building only in summer. Then the whole village gathers here to sing songs with a guitar.

Tatiana Sedykh, resident of Vezhbolovo: "A famous writer, poetess lives in this house Guseva Tatiana Izosimovna... She writes books, poems, prose, romances, organizes author's concerts. "

Most of the houses in Vezhbolovo are over a century old. Only one new building has appeared in the last few years. The grandchildren of the hero of labor - tractor drivers Valentina Puklina on the site of the grandmother's ruins, a two-story mansion was erected. The dilapidated dwelling of the toiler of the rear remained only in the picture, which was painted by the daughter of the village head Viktor Tarasov

"This picture shows what the road we used to be, even the reeds grew. Thanks to the villagers, we made such a good road with our own money year after year, you can drive a car along the bark at any time of the year."

In addition to improving the road, the residents together removed all the garbage, laid out European lawns, decorated houses, fences, a surviving well, and even opened a mini-wildlife park. A couple in love from pots and an old samovar, as well as wooden figures of fairy-tale characters - the handiwork of Viktor Tarasov. When he has a free minute, he carves sculptures in his workshop.

Victor Tarasov, headman of Vezhbolovo: "It came to me just a year ago. I have never done this. I don't know why, but, as they say, it manifests itself before retirement, probably it happened to me."

Shapoklyak, a monkey and a giraffe Viktor Vladimirovich copied from a book about Cheburashka, which he read to his grandchildren. Now working on a birch turtle. He saw this image in the shapeless hemp from the forest. The next year, when the headman will retire and will not go to work in the neighboring village every day, he wants to cut out a frog for a new playground.

Victor Tarasov, headman of Vezhbolovo: "Well, this is just the beginning. There will be not only a beautiful village in the Vladimir region, but a village - a fairy tale."

For the first place in the competition for the most beautiful villages in the region, which took place at the end of September, the residents of Vezhbolovo received a prize of 100 thousand rubles.

Vezhbolovites spent part of the Grand Prix on their old dream - a monument to fellow countrymen who died in the war. 50 people left for the front of the Great Patriotic War, only 28 returned back. In addition to this obelisk, a large memorial cross is planned to be erected here by Victory Day.

In order to stand out among the other contestants, the artistic council of Vezhbolovo came up with a coat of arms and wrote a hymn.

Vezhbolovtsy praise the herbs not in vain. It is environmentally friendly. There is not a single industrial production 10 kilometers from the village. Therefore, knowledgeable people buy local honey in three-liter cans. The largest apiary in Vezhbolovo near Oleg Shushkin... On his site, 70 bee colonies live in small houses with a gable roof. Oleg assures that this design is best suited for beekeeping. These hives do not need to be hidden from the cold, and they hold twice as much honey thanks to the thick frames. They simplify the work of both the bee and the beekeeper.

Oleg Shukshin, beekeeper: "Here you need to open two of these, cut off the backbone, and here one. And within this framework, it does not worm. For example, autumn comes - you need to download honey. Within this framework, it has redacted - how do you download ?! No way. In these we download faster, and more honey. "

Oleg Shushkin has been engaged in beekeeping for 35 years. This season, his thoroughbred Carpathians, originally from Ukraine, brought two and a half tons of honey. Oleg has already sold most of the products in cans and bottles to regular customers. Not even everyone had enough. Next year he plans to expand the apiary.

Oleg Shukshin, beekeeper:"Birch sap, honey and bee bread - we are making mead. Very useful, tasty, Suzdal far from that. We will live, next year I have already left 350 liters of mead."

Looking at Oleg's successes, Vezhbolovo summer residents also plan to move here for permanent residence from the city. Four families are ready to breed bees and live here all year round, if the district authorities keep their promise and lead gas to the most beautiful village.

As old residents say, Vezhbolov is over 400 years old. The name of the village was given by the first inhabitants of the Meryan tribe. In their language, "vezh" is water, and "bol" is a settlement. Modern residents of Vezhbolov are proud of water from a well and a spring. On it, the hostesses cook delicious viburnum compote and pickle cucumbers.

Of course, in one race we did not get to visit all the participants, but visited only four villages and villages. And in general, this trip, it seems to me, was held under the following motto:

True, I expected that everything would be organized a little differently, that the villages themselves would show us, just those beauties, because of which they entered the competition, but ... the concept of beauty in villages is a little different, as it turned out.
Although no, the first place where we were dropped off in Golovino, for example, was a church - beautiful, albeit newly built.

But Golovino is generally a young settlement, it has existed only since the beginning of the last century, so everything here is relatively new. The playground is also completely new - akurat near the church:

Actually, there, next to the church, is generally the center of life. And not only ... Here, for example, the monument to the fallen is here:

Although besides this place, the village has another center - a cultural one. House of Culture. More precisely a house of culture :)

We were met there bread and salt delicious charlotte ...

And they introduced me to local craftsmen. For example, with those who make wonderful things from birch bark:

There is also a lot of interesting things in the school next to the house of culture ...

And curious :)

Bicycle parking near the school :)

School Museum:

Well, great again. Many are great! :) This is already near one of the local industries:

And there are several industries here. They wanted to drag us through everyone, but there was not enough time :)
Well, in general, you probably guessed that the main decoration of Golovino is people :) No kidding, by the way. The people work, study, try to do everything possible to live well in the village. Very nice to look at.

But in the next settlement, in Moshka, no one was waiting for us. Apparently, everyone was busy, they had no time for us. Although there would just be a story to tell, the village has a rich history. But no, then no: (We wandered ourselves without a goal and a vector.

Institution:

Human houses Moshka:

Bird house:

Again - the church:

Again a monument to the fallen:

Resting place for local residents:

People did not come out to meet us, but at least the animals did not remain indifferent :)

Rustic minimalism:

By the way, there was also an abundance of iron horses: large ...

And smaller:

In Moshka, we also found some reflection of the sad reality of many Russian villages:

For this, we plunged into the bus and went further - to Butylitsy.
And although the name of the village itself is more consistent with the previous photo, in fact it turned out to be a pretty nice place, which personally impressed me with its cleanliness, order and tidiness. And there was also a poem that made my autumn :)

And we ran :) Past the local teachers' school (Misha christened her a light room :)):

Past the next handicraft masterpieces:

Past the director's office and questions to the director himself:

Straight to the lair of the local "maniac"! And he was hiding behind such a cute door:

Everything around was welcoming and distracting:

But for someone the bell was ringing. Or a bell:

For example:

A master taxidermist lives in this house. But since stuffed animals do not cause any positive emotions in me, I went to the garden. Although here I was in for a surprise ...

Nothing so the place equipped itself with a "maniac" :)

But I liked the streets more. Look how clean!

And the local dispensary was also interested - the building is wooden and plastered. Nowadays this is not often the case.

But we didn't see any patients there, although maybe the inhabitants of Butylitsy know some secret of longevity and health? I suspect that it is :)

And finally, the local church:

And again the church - but this is already near the village of Nadezhdino. This time the church is old, connected by history with Ivan the Terrible. It is surprising that it stands in the middle of the forest, away from settlements.This place is called Spas-Zhelezino.

We did not see Nadezhdino as such: firstly, it was getting dark, and secondly, we were intercepted by people with pies and accordion :)

It was possible, however, to capture another monument:

And the local club:

The club is very Soviet:

And at the same time in Russian:

And next to the club is a small recreation center "Nadezhdino". Unexpectedly even cozy and modern.

And this is what I will say: while even in such a relative wilderness people manage to live and create, they will not do anything with our country, they will break off. On such people, which we saw on this trip, absolutely everything is held by us, and we saw quite a few such people. In fact, they are the most beautiful in our villages and villages.

Of course, it's a pity that we didn't see much, but still, I don't consider the day wasted. And for such a walk through places where you just can't get there on your own, thanks to the organizers of the competition and Vasya

In the village of Cherkutino, Sobinsky district, the winners and participants of the competition for the most beautiful village in the Vladimir region were awarded. The Grand Prix and a prize of 150 thousand were awarded to the village of Berkovo, Kameshkovsky district.

In the photo is the village of Berkovo. Provided to the organizers by the participants of the competition

The village of Berkovo is located on the border of the town of Kameshkovo and is part of the Vtorovskoye rural settlement. Berkovo - oldest village in the Kameshkovsky district. Here in the XIV century there was a chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush", and nearby, judging by written sources, a spring gushed, the water in which was considered healing.
In 1382, Berkovo was assigned to the Suzdal Vasilievsky Monastery, and under Catherine II it was presented to one of the Empress's favorites. The village at different times was owned by the steward Roman Trakhaniotov and the state councilor Ivan Levashov.

Local residents say that for six centuries there has not been a single fire or flood in the village of Berkovo, and hurricanes do not harm it. The land is allegedly kept by a local shrine - a chapel in honor of the Burning Bush icon. The church was destroyed in the Soviet years, and in 2011 a new one was built on the site where the old chapel stood "by the whole world".

In the nomination settlements with a population of up to 1000 people, the first place is behind the village of Ulovo, Suzdal region. Its residents will receive 80 thousand rubles for landscaping. In the nomination “Inhabited localities with a population of 1001 to 3500 people” a diploma of the first degree and a similar monetary prize went to the village of Sima, Yuryev-Polsky district. Full list winners can be viewed on the website of the regional branch of "Support of Russia".

Most of all SMS messages were sent for the village of Sima, Yuryev-Polsky district and the village of Peski, Vyaznikovsky district. The village of Sima received a cash prize, and a children's playground will soon be installed in the village of Peski. The corresponding certificate was handed over to the representatives of the settlement by Ekaterina Kraskina, Chairman of the Opora Rossii regional branch, and Dmitry Chizhov, a member of the Council of the Vladimir regional branch of Opora Rossii, director of Stiz LLC, who allocated funds for the construction of a children's complex.

In addition to prizes, awards were presented in 12 nominations. In total, 76 settlements took part in the competition for the most beautiful village in the Vladimir region this year.

It is known that all the winners of the competition will receive commemorative plaques for tourists. They contain information that they are located in one of the most beautiful villages in the region. They were made by another partner - the Prospekt printing house.

The beauty contest among the villages and villages of the Vladimir region is being held for the fourth time. Every year, settlements with no more than 3500 people can not only show themselves and look at others, but also win a cash prize. You can spend the winnings for any needs. This year the prize fund of the competition has grown significantly - the Grand Prix has increased by 50 thousand and amounted to 150 thousand rubles.

The next contest "The Most Beautiful Village" was launched in the last year's winner - the village of Vezhbolovo, Sobinsky District. It was Vezhbolovo with a permanent population of 5 who became the best in 2017. The regional branch of Opora Rossii conducts the review.

Decorated with the whole world

The small population of the village increases dramatically in the summer when summer residents and Muscovites come. But at any time the beauty and purity of Vezhbolovo can be envied by many villages and hamlets. Every house - it doesn't matter whether it is rickety or just built - has a smoothly mowed lawn, garden figurines and architectural compositions, a variety of flowers and bushes are planted. Immediately at the entrance to the village, there is a well-groomed pond, through which the locals let plastic swans in the urban manner. For some reason, there are no live swans and geese in the village. And no living creatures at all.

Previously, we determined the weather based on the cow that walked in front of the herd, if the cow was dark, it would rain, ”said local resident Vera Tarasova. - And now no one keeps cattle, only cats and dogs, and there are not many of them.

But it is not the cats and geese that paint the village. Beautification in the urban manner of the locals rallied.

Before, I didn’t even know who lived on the other outskirts, ”said Marina Shushkina. - And as they began to prepare for the competition, everyone became friends. We call each other, celebrate the holidays together, make our Vezhbolovo better. For example, even the children improved the fire pond, so we have no fear that everything that has been done will be destroyed.

Bought a house - cut the lawn!

After winning the competition, Muscovites became interested in the village - they buy houses here. Anyone who wants to become a resident of Vezhbolovo is told the unspoken rules first thing by the locals.

We do not welcome deaf high fences, - shared Marina Shushkina. - As you noticed, very few people have them in principle. Also, if a person wants to put a fence on his site, he must definitely coordinate this with a neighbor. At the same time, a transparent polycarbonate fence is welcomed. Also, a mandatory rule of a resident of Vezhbolovo is to keep the lawn in front of the house neat. If a neighbor mows the lawn, then you need to look up to him and also take up mowing.

The villagers decided to spend the money won in the competition on the continuation of the improvement - they unveiled a monument to the soldiers-villagers who died in the Great Patriotic War, erected a sports ground for children. True, there are not many of them in Vezhbolovo, and even they come only for the summer - there are no schools nearby for a long time, there is nowhere for young people to work.

SPECIFICALLY

The competition among villages and villages for the title of the most beautiful in the Vladimir region will be held until September 25. Applications for participation are accepted in two categories - settlements up to 1000 inhabitants and settlements up to 3500 thousand inhabitants. They will be assessed not only by their appearance and landscaping, but also by the presence of monuments of wildlife and inanimate nature, the unity of architecture, culture, tourism potential, and this year, on the eve of the World Cup, also by the presence of sports grounds and events and other points. ...

In each of the nominations, three winners will be determined, who will receive from 80 to 30 thousand rubles, and the owner of the Grand Prix will receive 150 thousand rubles.

Applications for the competition are accepted no later than July 10 in electronic form to the address: [email protected] or to the address: Vladimir, Gorky st., 34, office 10.