Ivanteyevka

Ivanteyevka stands on the Chernava in the steppe east of the Volga. Local history dates its beginnings to 1768. By 1813 a ferry on the Malykovka–Maryevka postal road served a small settlement of eleven timber houses, occupied by ferry workers and earlier arrivals from Smolensk province. Residents gardened, fished and cultivated small plots of rye, barley and oats.

In August 1813 eleven families from Kozlov district arrived and began the riverside settlement called Kozlovka, sowing rye that autumn. Further arrivals in the 1820s formed neighbourhoods named for their places of origin, including Ryazan and Tula. Migrants from Moscow province included people from another Ivanteyevka, whose name eventually spread to the combined village after 1830. New settlement and requests for additional farmland then faced restrictions. A wooden church dedicated to the Archangel Michael was built in 1836, as the separate immigrant neighbourhoods grew into a larger village on both banks.