Bolshiye Saly
Bolshiye Saly or Greater Sala (Russian: Большие Салы, Armenian: Մեծ Սալա) is a rural locality (a selo) in Myasnikovsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
History
The Greater Sala was founded in 1779 by Armenians who moved there from the Crimea under the decree of Catherine II. The founders of the Greater Salov moved from the Crimean village of Sala.
The legend of the founding of the village of Bolshie Saly has been transmitted orally passed from generation to generation. The Armenians - settlers who arrived on the Don land in 1779, chose the right bank of the Tuzlov River, near Nesvetay, as a justification point. In the first days of their settlement by the river, a girl drowned. After that, the adults decided to move to the source of the shallow river Temernik, which was closer to the drinking springs. The Armenian Church of the Holy Mother of God was built in this area between 1860 and 1867.
Thanks to AP Chekhov, the glorious Mariam Kundupyan (Kirpiyan), baptized and married in the local church, became world-famous. A young writer from the village of Bolshie Saly made a great writer of one of the heroines of her story "Beauties."
Simon Vratsyan in his book "On the roads of life" describes the history of the migration of Armenians from Crimea to the Don. He noted that the village of Bolshie Saly, among the other villages of the district, was the richest and cheerful and cultured village. The houses are built of stone, brick, and thick boards, while the roofs are covered with roofing iron or tiles.
Two wooden bridges across the Temernik River connected two blocks. In the village square there were: a vodka store, Melkon Ahai hairdresser, Mikita's grocery, "who can forge frogs" (heurbakha nalokh). Hardly in the side were the office (zborn, that is, the village council) of the village elders - odomana. They were his uncle Mikishka, who had one policeman Cholakh Martin and scribe Ivan. Near the bridge was the forge of another Ivan.
At the beginning of the 20th century two stone, arched bridge forms were built on the river. During the war, the fascist invaders smashed them, but the foundations of the bridges remained.
In the deep girder Temernichki in abundance grew black elder. In 1932-1933 the river behind the village was blocked and a deep lake was formed to the very bridge. Now it has turned into a wide swamp.