Toploye or Toploe (Russian: То́плое) is a rural locality (a selo) in Maloserdobinsky district, Penza Oblast, Russia. There is an object of cultural heritage of the Penza Oblast — the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church [ru]. The population was 513 (2010 census).
Toploye
Топлое | |
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village | |
Location of Toploye ![]() | |
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Coordinates: 52°21′45.0″N 45°1′39.7″E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Penza Oblast |
Administrative district | Maloserdobinsky |
Founded | 1800![]() |
Population | |
• Total | 513 |
Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK ![]() |
Postal code(s)[3] | |
OKTMO ID | 56644410116 |
It is located 10 km south of Malaya Serdoba and 90 km south of Penza, near the border with the Saratov Oblast, in a steppe area.
The village was founded by General Pyotr Alexandrovich Soymonov on land granted to him by decree of Empress Catherine II in 1787. In 1800 it was inherited by his daughter Gagarina Ekaterina Petrovna.[4]
In the village on January 1, 2022 - 210 households, a 300-seat house of culture, a 150-seat primary school, a paramedic-obstetric station, a school stadium, a shop, historical and cultural monuments: a monument to fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War, a monument to the victims of the famine of 1933, the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Church, 4 ponds. 7 streets: Zazhigina (central), Kuzyatovka, Chuvarleevka, Kozina, Orlovka, Mira, Molodezhnaya. On April 18, 2020, cellular communication presented by Tele2 appeared for the first time in the village.[5]
As a result of the shooting that occurred on May 8, 2019, 2 people were killed, two more were injured.[6]
Ivan Zazhigin [ru] (1925-2001) is a Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.