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Yuzhnyi

District: Chernskiy
Province: Tula
Country: Russia
 
In 1989, seventy five Doukhobors from Georgia settled in the village of Yuzhnyi (Южный) in the Chernskiy district of Tula province, Russia. The name is descriptive and means “southern” in Russian. There they formed the Kolkhoz Lev Tolstoy ("Lev Tolstoy Collective Farm") on lands formerly belonging to the Tolstoy family. [53.4769° - 37.2614°]
 

 

 

 
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