Krivoshchekovo

Bolshoye Krivoshchekovo was a village on the left bank of the upper Ob. Its founder, a Tomsk serviceman known as Krivoshchek Krenitsyn, is identified in a report written in 1716 by the officer of Berdsk fort. The village also appears in Gerhard Müller’s description of the Kuznetsk district in 1734. It belonged to a group of rural settlements along the river, whose inhabitants cultivated land on the Siberian plain.