Where, where? In Non-Moscow! The village of Labor Armenia

There are many unusual names on the map of the country: for example, the village Freezer and the village Greedy people, and recently we talked about villages Yes Yes и FutureToday we’ll tell you about the farm. Labor Armenia.

Labor Armenia located в Krasnodar region, on the river bank MigutaThe farmstead is part of the Staroderevyankovskoye rural settlement, which is surrounded by other farmsteads with interesting names: Borets Truda (Fighter of Labor), Sladkiy Liman (Sweet Liman), and Ukrainka (Ukrainka). The farmstead has only one street, about 80 houses, and a little over 100 residents.

The settlement was founded in 1930. The district library has preserved the following information about this event: intelligence: “Ninety-six Armenian families arrived in the village of Kanevskaya. The guests were greeted by representatives of the district party committee, the district executive committee, Cossacks, delegations from collective farms, and local residents. A large rally was held at the train station.”.

At first, the newcomers were transported by carts to Sweet Liman, They were allocated land, provided with food and timber for building houses and outbuildings. The district’s collective farms donated 50 horses, 65 cows, 10 pigs, 250 sheep, 10 plows, 10 horse-drawn seeders, 12 cultivators, 25 harrows, 4 rakes, 3 reapers, a thresher, and 10 rollers.

Before the Second World War, the village had a national school and an amateur theatre.

The mass migration of Armenian families to this land was connected with the consequences of the Armenian Genocide, carried out by the Ottoman Empire. According to some sources, the victims of the Genocide between 1915 and 1923 steel up to 1,5 million people. People fled persecution to Transcaucasia, Crimea, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Some of the displaced settled in the Krasnodar Territory, forming several farmsteads.

The name Labor Armenia sounds unusual now, but it was typical for those times and probably arose as a sign of solidarity with the Republic of Soviet Armenia.

A farm with an interesting past has attracted attention twice in recent years: report about the long-awaited gasification and crash Russian A-50U radar aircraft, shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on February 23, 2024. Killed all ten crew members. Local residents this year honored memory of the dead.