Kesova Mountain. Short review

Despite the fact that now in the yard of the 21 century, on the Russian land you can still find places that time can not. Kesova Mountain is an example of a very real Russian outback, with wooden houses and quiet streets that do not know traffic jams and crazy traffic.

Where is?

The oldest settlement of the Tver region - Kesova Mountain - is located in the east of the region. The urban settlement borders on the Yaroslavl region - with Uglich and Myshkinsky districts. For the settlement of Kesova Mountain, the map of which will tell in more detail about the terrain, the Bezhetsky, Kashinsky, Sonkovsky and Remeshkovsky areas begin.

general information

On the northern outskirts of the village flows the river Kashinka (the left tributary of the Volga), in honor of which the neighboring region is named. The settlement itself has a small territory, according to the 2012 census, it is home to about 3.8 thousand people.

Historical reference

Settlement Kesova Gora (Tver region) is the oldest settlement of Tver. It is mentioned in the annals of 1238, although in those days it was called the Kiasova mountain. According to local history studies, the village was named in honor of the Tatar prince Kias, who then lived nearby in his residence. Later the settlement became a part of the Gorodets village of Bezhetsky district, and then the whole Kesogorovo region was transferred to the Kashinsky district. In its composition, Kesova Mountain remained until 1929. The flourishing of commercial activity in the village came in the middle of the 17th century, when more than 770 souls lived in it in 300 yards. Later, the settlement became part of the territory of the Tver governorate, and after 1796 - part of the province.

As is known from the chronicles, this area belonged to the princely family of Prozorovsky almost until the middle of the 19th century. The last owner of the Kesovaya Mountain was Varvara Yurievna Trubetskaya. Since 1929 the village belongs to the Bezhetsk District of the Moscow Region, and since 1935 it has been a part of the Tver Region.

Sights of Kesovaya Mountain

All the ancient buildings of the village were destroyed as a result of a catastrophic fire in 1740. After many architectural monuments were rebuilt, but it was not possible to completely restore the historical sights.

Until now, only the Nikolsky Temple of the year 1800 has been preserved, which, by the way, still works. Local residents call it the Nikola-Grachi temple, since it is located at the junction of two streets - Sovetskaya and Rooki. Unfortunately, two churches (Ioana Predtecha and Spaso-Preobrazhensky) were destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.

Not far from the village you can see the parks that have survived from the manor estates - Troitsky and Baikovsky.

In the middle of the 20th century the village received two additional streets, and in 1950 the number reached 20. The reason for this expansion was the massive exodus of peasants from the villages. Somewhat later, in Kesova Mountain, 15 more streets with wooden buildings were built. The automobile road passes on the main Moscow street, which connects two small areas. There are local government buildings, a bus station, a club, the ROVD and monuments to the heroes of the Second World War and Lenin.

In the center of the village are preserved old wooden two-story houses, which convey the atmosphere of that time. Even now in this Russian outback you will not find buildings above three floors.

Kesova Mountain Today

The village has several industrial enterprises. On the territory of Kesovaya Mountain there is own bread-baking plant, a dairy plant, a meat processing plant and an agricultural plant. Moreover, even its own flax works here, which is not so much today.

You can get to the village either by motorway or by train. In the late 19th century, a railway service was opened. Now you can get to the Kesova Mountain station by the Moscow-Rybinsk train. In addition, from the bus station of the village there are suburban buses and minibuses, where you can get to the nearby settlements.

From cultural institutions in the territory of this village there is a museum of local lore and a regional House of Culture. There is also a registry office, a hotel and a hospital.

The weather in Kesovoi Mountain corresponds to the climate Neighboring Russian regions - warm and humid summers, snowy, cold winters. In summer the temperature reaches 20-25 degrees, in winter there are frosts up to -16. The greatest amount of precipitation falls in the middle of summer.

Studying the history of Russian outbacks is a very necessary and interesting activity. But only after visiting there, you can plunge into the atmosphere of Russian antiquity and feel the color of life of the local population.