Donskoye

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Rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Trunovsky District in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Population: 14,338 (2021 Census).
The village of Donskaya was founded in 1777 and was named after the Donskaya fortress. The Astrakhan governor-General I. V. Yakobi received a warrant from Prince Potemkin to call the village “Donskaya”. In 1777, the Khoper Cossacks were transferred to the village from the Don. From 1801, peasants and working people from the Orel, Kursk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Ryazan, Kharkiv, and Chernigov provinces were settled at the fortress. The local museum has several historical artifacts, including a safe of the Khoper regiment and a blueprint of the Donskaya fortress plan. In 1826, the village of Donskaya was relocated to the border of the Caucasian region and in its place, a new village was formed in 1827. By 1839, the population of the village had grown to over 1,000 people, with the majority of residents professing the Orthodox faith. There was also a community of Old Believers. In 1841, the construction of the Michael-Arkhangelsk stone church was finally completed, although it was later demolished in 1935. The population of the village continued to grow and by 1869 it had reached over 5,000 people. In 1864, a steam-powered flour mill was built in Donskoye. The Donsko-Alexander one-class school was founded in 1872. By 1893, the village had both a parochial school and a school of the Ministry of Education. In 1898, a library was opened at the Donsko-Alexandrovsky School, serving around 180 people a year. In February 1902, a savings bank was opened, followed by a post and telegraph office in 1908. In 1915, the People's House was opened in Donskoye, with a library where concerts and amateur performances were held. In 1922, the Rodnik meliorative partnership was established in the village, followed by the Egorlyk agricultural partnership and the Donskoy Vodoprovod meliorative partnership in 1924. Starting from the first half of the 1920s, Donskoye became the administrative center of the Donskoy Village Council of the Moskovsky District of the Stavropol District. According to the "List of populated places of the North Caucasus Territory" for 1925, the village had 1669 households, with 2 party organizations, 4 elementary schools, and 2 libraries. 25 small enterprises, including 10 forges, 7 mills, and an oil mill, operated on the territory of Donskoye. During the Great Patriotic War, the village was under German occupation from August 3, 1942, to January 21, 1943. On January 19, 1943, the village was liberated from the Nazi invaders. In 1970, the Trunovsky district was restored, and since 1971, the administrative center of the district was the village of Donskoy Village Council.