Summer Yokangsky pogost | place with historical importance, ghost town

 place with historical importance, ghost town

Yokangsky churchyard (Iofkuy-siyt, Lapp) - one of the oldest settlements on the coast, the first mention of the churchyard in pistsovyh books Alay Mikhalkov and deacons Basil Martemyanovicha refer to 1611.

In 1658 Ponoysky and Yokangsky churchyard stood vezh 80 and 127 people.
In 1822 Yokangu visited Fyodor Petrovich Litke, which was first described in detail Yokangskie island, shore, life and the life of local residents. From the description churchyard suggests that it consists of 11 vezh, in whom dwells 60 shower Lapps of both sexes.

In June 1854 a joint Anglo-French squadron, consisting of 7 ships, following the White Sea to the throat, completely burned and looted Yokangsky churchyard, killing almost all the inhabitants. Since then Yokangsky churchyard was moved a few miles up the river.

At the end of June 1894 the Minister of Finance S. Witte, to whom Nicholas II commissioned to find a non-freezing port, which could build a great Navy, visited the area adjacent to Svyatonosskomu bay, and landed on the largest of the islands Yokangskih - Unnamed. Later cartographers ME Zhdanko and VN Morozov the island was renamed in about. Witte (in honor of the visit, Minister).

Documents show that from 1611 to 1916 in Yokange little has changed. And in the intervening years, depriving the inhabitants reached the highest limit. Deer herds have been totally destroyed interventionists. Only with the advent of Soviet power, life in Yokange slowly begins to establish.
In 1924, in Yokange a point to eradicate illiteracy. In 1926, consumer-created commercial cooperative. In 1929, in Yokange was created first, native council, composed of three Saami.
In 1930, established reindeer herding collective farm «Auto-varre» ( «Best way»), became the first president of Yefim I. Logunov. By 1932, the majority of reindeer herders joined the collective farm. By this time in Yokange already been built and operated: a hospital, a library, a nursery-school, post office, bakery.

In February 1935, the decision of the Leningrad oblast executive committee on the partial disaggregation of certain areas of the Leningrad region and the change in the administrative division of the Murmansk Region, Ponoysky district was renamed the Sami. Center area with Ponoya moved from the village Yokanga. The composition of the area include Village: Sosnovsky, Ponoysky, Lumbovsky, Yokangsky, Semiostrovsky, Chapmny - Varaysky and village Drozdovka.
In 1935 - 1936 of the collective farm was allocated to 33.7 thousand rubles for the purchase of breeding cows. From 1936 to Yokange began to grow potatoes, cabbage, reputation, turneps.

In 1941, residents Yokangi with their reindeer, sledge, light chumami engage in olenetransportnye squads. During the first months of the war at the front sent more than 5 thousand deer.

The restoration economy after the war worked with great tension forces. Already in 1949 the collective farm was 700 thousand net income for 1963, the kolkhoz herd numbered 108 cows.
But despite rapid growth, due to the remoteness from the main village and the lack of roads from the outflow of able-bodied population of the village and in 1963 published a government decree on liquidation of collective farm.

In 1968, the village had left the last inhabitant. In subsequent years, almost all homes have been cannibalized for use as construction material in the construction of air defense (BAM).
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