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Zhurnal istoricheskih issledovaniy
Journals / Zhurnal istoricheskih issledovaniy / Volume 11 Issue 3 / From a railway periphery to an urban locality: the formation of Murynovka in Kursk, 1870s–1972
UDC 93/94 CSCSTI 03.23 UDC 94

FROM A RAILWAY PERIPHERY TO AN URBAN LOCALITY: THE FORMATION OF MURYNOVKA IN KURSK, 1870S–1972 From a railway periphery to an urban locality: the formation of Murynovka in Kursk, 1870s–1972

Published in Zhurnal istoricheskih issledovaniy · Volume 11, Issue 3, 2026 · Pages 70–75 · Rubric: National history
Received: 25.09.2026 Accepted: 19.10.2026 Published: 19.10.2026
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Ilya Shpakov
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ABSTRACT
The article examines the formation of Murynovka, a historical locality of Kursk that developed beyond the railway east of the Yamskaya Sloboda. Using archival records of the State Archive of the Kursk Region, statistical and local-history publications, maps, newspapers, and recent scholarship, the study reconstructs the transformation of the area from suburban fields in the 1860s to its incorporation into the city in 1972. Murynovka is shown to have originated not as an autonomous administrative settlement but as a vernacular toponym for the railway-side periphery. Its spatial structure was shaped by the railway, warehouse and commercial activities, sanitary facilities, workers’ settlements, and collective-farm production. Particular attention is paid to the domestic Bogoroditskaya church, the infectious-disease barracks operating in 1916–1921, the Vladimirsky workers’ settlement, the administrative changes of 1934–1935, and the street renamings that followed the 1972 annexation. The novelty lies in combining microhistorical, spatial, and source-critical approaches; the article proposes a periodization of Murynovka’s development, distinguishes Murynovka from the neighboring Yamskaya settlement and Vladimirsky settlement, and clarifies the role of the 1972 administrative act in transforming a rural locality into part of the urban address system. Murynovka survives today as a vernacular district whose historical boundaries do not coincide with current municipal borders.
KEYWORDS
Kursk, Murynovka, Yamskaya Sloboda, railway, urban periphery, vernacular district, urban history
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