Zakobyakino village

The first written evidence of the territory under study dates back to the 17th century and was mentioned in Kostroma scribal books in 1629.

There are several versions of the origin of such an interesting name. According to the first version (less plausible), a highway passed through the village, and numerous pubs were built for those passing through. The village was located a little further away – hence the name "Zakobyakino", that is, "behind the pubs".

According to another version, the name "Zakobyakino" apparently comes from its former owners, the Kobyak boyars, who descend from Kobyak, a noble warrior who came from the Kasimov Tatars.

For a long time, the inhabitants of Zakobyakino have been engaged in trade, fishing, painting, roofing and leather business. Having earned capital and returned to their homeland, the otkhodniks became the ancestors of the merchant dynasties living in the village.

In 1908, on March 10, a hospital was built in Zakobyakino. In 1915, an iron fire tower was built on the roof of the stone shopping malls by the hands of local blacksmiths. There was a fire station below. Now the observers could constantly monitor the fire situation in the village and surrounding villages.

In 1916, at the expense of the community, a monument to Alexander the Second was erected on the site of the current rural park as the liberator of peasants from serfdom. The monument was at full height: in a greatcoat, in one hand he held a cap, in the other – a manifesto.

The 1917 Revolution and the Civil War were associated with considerable casualties here. Part of the population turned out to be among the white‑green opponents of the new government. Security officers were sent to suppress them. On the site of the monument to Alexander the Second in the village, a monument was erected to those who died for the Soviet government in the rebellion. Later, a sign was attached in honor of those who died in the Great Patriotic War.

The landmark of the village of Zakobyakino is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin, which was built in 1848 at the expense of residents. The history of the church in the village begins from 1694-1695, and from that moment Zakobyakino began to be written as a village.

At the end of the 19th century, a bell tower was built according to the design of the Yaroslavl provincial architect Andrei Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (brother of the famous writer). In 1904, a stone chapel was built in the village. Khlestovo.

One of the attractions of Zakobyakino village is the ancient merchant houses:

the house of the merchant Smirnov's son, N. I.;

the house of Fyodor Petrovich Polovinkin;

the house of Nikander Ivanovich Smirnov;

the house of merchant Ivan Romanovich Bryukvin;

the house of the merchant Yefim Grigoryevich Kudryavtsev.

Merchant houses in the village of Zakobyakino are solid, two–storied. The roofs of the houses, according to the old-timers, were covered with iron. Some houses are completely made of stone, with powerful walls, while others are combined. Merchant N. I. Smirnov and his sons owned both stone houses and combined houses. Other merchants had mostly combined houses: the lower floor was made of stone, and the upper floor was made of wood.

In the house where the administration, the house of culture and the library used to be located, before the revolution there was a tea room on the ground floor, and a hotel for visiting guests on the second floor. An inn was built near Pyotr Nikandrovich's house, where coachmen with horses stayed. The visitors spent the night right in the wagons. He was also engaged in hop cultivation. At that time, many villagers were growing hops. Pyotr Nikandrovich bought hops, dried them in a two-story hop factory located behind the house, and sent them to St. Petersburg. There, an agreement was signed with the owners of the breweries. Hops were transported during high water.

In September 2011, the filming of the film "Chapai Passion" took place in the village of Zakobyakino. Filming took place on Kudryavtsev Street. There are former merchant houses located here, which carry the atmosphere of the old time.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a sewing workshop, a bakery, and a cheese factory operated in Zakobyakino. There were also inns, tea shops, and inns here. The village was considered prosperous, Zakobyakins were famous for their business acumen.

It is no coincidence that after the revolution of 1917, some of the locals joined the so-called "gang of the Ozerov brothers." The anti-Bolshevik detachment of the "greens", hiding in the surrounding forests, in some years numbered up to a thousand people. In Zakobyakino itself, the Ozerovites killed the leadership of the local council. The resistance continued until 1924, when one of the organizers of the movement, Dmitry Ozerov, was captured and subsequently shot by the OGPU.

According to the administrative reform in 1923, the Zakobyakinsky volost was formed within the enlarged Danilovsky district. Soon it was decided to give the parish a revolutionary name – Krasnoflotskaya, but the new name did not stick. In 1929, the volost was liquidated, and its village councils became part of the newly formed Lyubimsky district.

In 1947, electricity was installed here. However, Zakobyakino remained cut off from the world by impassability. The Kostroma River, which had its own barge, helped out. Later, aviation helped to maintain contact with the outside world: the cornhuskers carried out passenger transportation and delivered essential goods to the village. The paved road to Zakobyakin (Yaroslavl – Lyubim) was built only in 1985.

Currently, Lyubimsky Potato LLC is engaged in agricultural activities on the lands adjacent to the village of Zakobyakino. The village has its own cultural center, library, school, post office, shops, as well as a general practitioner's office.

Planned tourist events in the village of Zakobyakino: the Kalancha Day Festival, a festival of memory and dreams.