Malkovo
Malkovo
Location: Vikostrov
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 2 (1563), 3 (1678), 3 (1707), 6 (1911).
Initially the village was located on the island of Malkovets. The name of the village comes from a nickname of one of the first farmers settled there – Ivanko Malko.
As early as at the beginning of the XX century several families of the village had the name Malkov. In the XVII c. the village was moved to the mainland and the fertile lands of the island were cultivated. There are several houses of the early and mid-XX c. preserved in the village. The large house of T. Markov built in the second half of the XIX c. is of special interest. While describing his farm it was remarked that a half of his family consisting of 8 people knew how to read and write. Prosperity of the farmer was the ground for his arrest and shooting in 1937.
There was a smithy in the village. It was located far from the houses, in the field.
Behind the village one can see a fenced pasture for cows. Farmers tried to protect fields (crops) from damage by cattle, that is why they fenced them carefully. It was a village-wide matter; every farmer made as many parts of a fence as he had cows. One who was poor made a fence of sloping poles and one who was rich used boulders.