Windmill from the village of homestead Dolzhik (the village of Sergeevka)

Short description
The windmill from the village of homestead Dolzhik (Podgorensky district, Voronezh region) was built in 1898, was transported to the village of Sergeevka (Podgorensky district, Voronezh region) in 2017. Smock mill with four sails and one pair of millstones. Log construction. Was used as a flour mill (flour).

Condition	The windmill is conserved
Status	Museum exhibit
Mechanism	Conserved, not restored

The following historical parts of the mechanism have been preserved:


Additional description
Good reports about the mill are here and here. They say that the mill was transported to Dolzhik from the neighboring village of Sergeevka in the 20-s of the 20th century. According to the rules of our database, we believe that we can say that it is on its historical site.

When trying to reach the mill, do not mix up the districts. You need Dolzhik khutor (farmstead) in Podgorensky district. The mill stands to the right of the road to the village.

The mill is in ruins, which is a log construction of four logs and a rotating cap above. There is no roof, covering or even the floor of the ground floor. The broken upper millstone, the runner stone, is lying in the corner. Miraculously the sails parts still inserted in the windshaft have survived.

The mill is a representative of the widespread type of smocks and of still widespread type of Chernozem region smocks. It did not have or hasn't preserved any particularly unique parts. You can see the same but well-kept mills in Kalach Museum or Lomi homestead. However, at such speed of destruction, soon Voronezh region is going to lose all its 6 windmills on historical sites.

Above was written in 2016 year. In 2017 they started working on the windmill! It was transported 5 kilometers South to the park in the center of the village of Sergeevka (interesting fact is that the windmill was working in exactly the village of Sergeevka for the first approximately twenty years, then it was transported to homestead Dolzhik). Windshaft and Brake wheel were preserved during transportation, we are not sure about sails remains and runner millstone. It is important to mention that we don't publish building which are unable to rotate upper part to the wind, however in this case we assume this as part of conservation because all windmill is rebuild from historic material. You can see the result here, during reconstruction here, at night here.

It is inspiring example of windmill preservation!