Villages and villages are perhaps the smallest settlements. Moreover, a village in Russia is an actual unit, which means that even a lonely house can be called a village. But what is the difference between a village and a village?
Church
One of the main differences between rural and rural is the Church. A village or village can only be a village if the Church was built there. This rule was unshakable until the advent of the Bolsheviks. However, those that we know have destroyed a large number of Churches.
Now this rule has been remembered again, so churches are being restored. It was not possible to restore all the churches, and in the villages there were so few people that there was no one to restore. But it is the presence in the village of the Church that makes it a village.
Territory and size
As for the village, it can be used to designate any territory where people live on an ongoing basis. If on a small territory there are several settlements with the sizes of several families, this can be called a village. Dozens of families live in villages, and hundreds of families live in large villages. There are villages with streets, while villages (even large ones) do not have more than three streets.
The word village comes from the term "yard", which on a linguistic level proves that at least one house is enough for a village. The village is a settlement on whose territory there are not only courtyards, but also manufacturing enterprises. For example, a sawmill, land, land, or even processing companies.
Also in the villages there are public places, including clinics, schools, clubs and others. Of course, all this is difficult to compare with the city in scope, but still there are several places for spending leisure time in the villages. There is not even that in the village - the students have to go to the nearest villages in order to study.
An important point: a couple of major differences - in the villages there is a cemetery and, if possible, a place to stop rail transport.
How do villages turn into villages?
Villages in Russia usually appeared at the junctions of several small villages located not far from each other. That is, there were 4-6 villages, and one of them (usually the largest) took up the creation of infrastructure. This led not only to an increase in population, but also to the fact that many villagers nearby came to the village. As a result, several villages can be combined into a village.
Today, the difference between villages and villages is rapidly declining, as are the names and number of streets in these populated punts of the tsarist regime. The presence of one or several public places is also a determining factor, but the outflow of the population has so reduced the population of rural areas that there are now far fewer people than in the countryside.
