Voskresenskoye — formerly a village, now a rural-type settlement in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the administrative center of Voskresensky District.
Located on the right bank of the The Vetluga River, 67 km to the northeast of the Semyonov railway station on the Nizhny Novgorod — Kotelnich line.
Its municipal composition includes: the village of Kalinikha and the village named after Mikheyev.
Population: 6,031 people (2010).
History
The first mention of Voskresenskoye dates to 1614. At that time the village of Voskresenskoye also retained another name — Ilyinskoye. At this time it belonged to the Lapshanga volost of Galich Uyezd. The Lapshanga volost occupied the space of the middle Povetluzhye from the Varvazh River in the north to the mouth of the Usta River. Today part of Voskresensky, Varnavinsky and Krasnobakovsky districts occupy this territory. It was the center of the "Ilyinskoye newly-settled hamlets." The settlers had been brought from the territory of the present-day Vetluzhsky District, from the "Voskresenskoye black settlement," when this territory, by the tsar's grant, became the property of Prince Mstislavsky. The village was given a new name — Ilyinskoye, but the settlers themselves kept their old name as well — Voskresenskoye. The village had two names: Ilyinskoye — Voskresenskoye. The latter, the more native and dear to the settlers, remained in use and became officially recognized.
In 1646 the lands of the The Vetluga River-The Lyunda River interfluve, including the village of Voskresenskoye, were transferred for almost two subsequent centuries into the possession of Nikifor Sobakin, an okolnichy of the tsar's court, and afterward to the heirs of a powerful boyar family.
In the second half of the 19th century the village of Voskresenskoye was already a major trading center of Povetluzhye with its own fair.
But, as before, "the forest is the sole provider and nourisher of the local peasant," as the writer A. Potekhin aptly noted. Among the well-known timber merchants of that time were the Voskresenskoye-based merchants Belyayev, Shagin, Zelenov, Vilkov and Shurtygin.
In 1961 Voskresenskoye received the status of a rural-type settlement.
Interesting Facts
- The Razin movement in the Trans-Volga region. The main events unfolded on the territory of the Lapshanga and Voskresenskoye settlements of the Vetluga volost of Galich Uyezd, under the leadership of a group of Cossacks who had arrived to organize an uprising and "gather... people in Kozmodemyansk for the siege." Command of the detachment was entrusted to the experienced Razinite ataman Ilya Ivanovich Ponomarev. With the defeat of the main Razinite forces at Shanga and Rozhdestvenskoye, the uprising of the Vetluga peasants came to an end. The second half of December 1670 and the whole of the following January were a time of brutal reprisal against the rebels.