Two Historic Parish Schools to Be Auctioned in Rostov Region
The Dom.RF agency will auction two historic parish school buildings in the stanitsa of Yelizavetinskaya. They are nearly 200 years old and in unsatisfactory condition.
Jan 31, 2026 0
The island location of Yelizavetinskaya makes it prone to periodic flooding, as seen in recent years.
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The Dom.RF agency plans to auction two former parish school buildings in the Rostov Region. Both objects are located in the stanitsa of Yelizavetinskaya, which in the past was one of the largest Cossack stanitsas.
The male parish school building, constructed in 1836, is among the properties to be auctioned.
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The first building is a male parish school with an area of about 225 square meters, built in 1836. After the revolution, the building was taken from the church and transferred to a secular school, where it was used as a dormitory, and from the 1970s, it housed training workshops.
The female parish school, founded in 1836, requires restoration due to its cultural heritage status.
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The second object is a female parish school, also a one-story brick building without utilities. Its foundation was laid on June 10, 1836, on the initiative of Cossack Stepan Sidorenkov and his wife Ekaterina, and the consecration was performed by Archpriest Vasily Dikov. In 1903, the building was rebuilt with community funds.
Historic buildings in Yelizavetinskaya face auction with obligations for preservation and restoration.
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The starting price for both lots has not yet been set. The auction for the male school is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026, and for the female school for the third quarter of the same year.
Both buildings have the status of cultural heritage sites, so the new owner will be obliged to restore their original historical appearance. The land plots under the buildings are intended for educational and enlightenment purposes.
In the same stanitsa, in the fourth quarter of 2026, a house of the deacon and prosphora baker, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, will be put up for auction.
Stanitsa Yelizavetinskaya is one of the oldest settlements on the Lower Don, originating as a Scythian camp in the late 6th to early 5th century BCE. Later, a fortified settlement grew here, which in area was twice the size of the ancient Tanais, but was destroyed by the Sarmatians no later than the 60s of the 3rd century BCE.
The modern stanitsa was founded in 1753 by settlers from the lower reaches of the Don and until 1807 was called Shchuchiy due to the abundance of fish in the water bodies. In 1913, Emperor Nicholas II visited Yelizavetinskaya, where Cossack Nikolai Kedrov treated him to fish soup, for which he later received a gold medal and a letter of gratitude.
On the eve of the Civil War, the population of the stanitsa was approximately 10,000 people, but according to the 2010 census, only 102 people lived here. The stanitsa is located on an island and periodically suffers from floods; the last major flooding with ice formation occurred in February 2021.
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