Petersburg - The most boring walk is in winter. St. Petersburg, Russia - Kuyalovo village.
Channel: IVAR MALDEIKIS
Date: 2023-01-06

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Winter walk not far from St. Petersburg in the village of Kuyalovo.

Kuyalovo in the translation "Yards". The origin of the name Kuyalovo - kuya - yard, barnyard.

EARLY INFORMATION
       The first mentions in the memoirs (Aisekainen) refer to the Swedish time. Then these desert lands were populated. Kuyalovo was originally divided into 4 parts by the first settlers. Great-, great-, great-, great-grandfather of Sulla Andreevich and took one of the 4 parts. Since then, the Aizekainens have been living in Kuyalovo.
      
AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF 1917
       The villagers participated in a stormy revolutionary life. Aisekainen's maternal grandfather Liukkonen David Matveyevich, who came from Kuyalovo, served in the northern garrisons before the revolution, and after the revolution he asserted Soviet power here.

collective farms

   In the 1929-30s there were various programs to turn farms into exemplary villages. This idea reached Kuyalovo in 1939. They cut the streets, and everyone who had houses scattered all over these Kuyalovo hills said: here is your place, here is your place, here is yours ...
       For example, Eino Ivanovich Kurhinen was born in the village of Audio in 1927. Then they decided to make a pioneer camp there, the family of Eino Ivanovich was evicted from Audio to the Kuyalovo region. His house was left in Audio, and they were given the house of the evicted Finns from the training ground. And they put this house on a hill nearby, 400 meters from here. They originally settled in farms. And then they began to unite the farms into collective farms, their house was moved 400 meters to the side, to the place where he and his family now live. “They were thrashed, because these are bourgeois manners,” recalls Eino Ivanovich's wife Maria Matveevna.
       Ella-Dogmar Ivanovna Khaigonen tells a similar story: "In 1940, there was a resettlement of farms. The house from Kheilozi was dragged to Mezhevaya, 2 (where I live now). The houses were transported without a foundation." The people dismantled their former houses, in which they lived for centuries, and transported everything to new places. Who managed to line up well, and who did not have time: the war of 1941 broke out.
       Therefore, Kuyalovo was not quite a village. On the site of Kuyalovo, a state farm was created, called "Meyden voita" (We will win). When all the men were taken away, Khaigonen Ida Abramovna led the state farm. State farmers donated all their livestock to the army aid fund: cows, sheep.

AFTER THE WAR
       The village of Kuyalovo was small. There were few houses, the houses were old.
       Ida Abramovna Khaigonen led the village even after the war. The former inhabitants began to return in the 50s, collected money, bought something (chickens, calf) for each other. Mowing was divided fairly. It was very touching.
    Haigonen was a just person. She said: "This is not yours, this is our clearing, we will share equally with everyone both a clearing with good grass and a clearing with bad grass."
       Here, all the houses and fields were rented by the subsidiary farm of Vera Slutskaya's factory (for the production of fabrics).
       In 1955, everyone worked on the subsidiary farm of Vera Slutskaya. There were few former villagers. Few Finns have returned yet. Only Salaka, Aizekainen, Haigonen, Liukkonen. There were many Russian families, from the Novgorod region, for example. 3 families lived in the house.
       D.I. Ekimova says: “When I returned to Kuyalovo, I didn’t like it, I asked my mother:“ Let's go back. And then I got attached.

Here are Ella Ivanovna's poems about Kuyalovo:

Against the background of Kuyalovo I walk through the fields, over the hills and forests.
I look at my village.
What a circle - beauty, silence!
You are so dear to me
The memory of those who lived and built you.
You seemed to be sleeping
Since the thirty-eighth year.
Someone's life was cut short.
And in forty-two the houses were empty,
How devastated bird nests remained.
The years have passed
When people could
But not all,
bow down to the earth
And return home
And burst into tears.
And life took its course -
Surprising with its silence, beauty.
At the mowing in Kuyalovo But a disaster happened:
perestroika came here too.
I look at my village
And I can't find out.
How wounded is all beauty
Silence -
That was so dear to the heart.
New people, houses, names.
You seem to have outlived your
my village.
All that's left of you is the earth
which they walked
my ancestors
Yes, and I.
1993.

“Every time, wherever I went, I felt a magnet for the village,” says Ella Ivanovna.
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