In 1837, an Orthodox prayer house was built in the village, which was consecrated on March 12, 1839, by the blessing of Bishop Jacob of Tsaritsyn and Saratov as a temporary church in the name of Archangel Michael. This wooden building was cold and had a bell tower. In 1847, the Kvasnikov parish had 209 households, 612 men, and 648 women. In 1850, thanks to the efforts of the parishioners, a new cold single-altar wooden church dedicated to Archangel Michael was built on the site of the prayer house, complete with a bell tower. The village was located on the road from Saratov to the Astrakhan province, and on the eve of the abolition of serfdom, 811 men and 891 women lived in 230 households. After the peasant reform, Kvasnikovka, with one community of former state peasants, entered the Uzmoretsky volost of the Novouzensky district of Samara province, having 10,246 desyatinas of arable land, 1,755 of non-arable land, and 187 desyatinas of forest. In the mid-1880s, the village had 512 households, 1,213 men, and 1,097 women, of whom 306 men and 25 women were literate, and 81 boys and 22 girls studied at the zemstvo public school opened in 1868. In 1891, a women's church school opened in Kvasnikovka. By 1897, the village had 541 households, 1,455 men, and 1,360 women, and there were functioning church, two schools, a water mill, and 15 windmills. The Archangel Michael church could accommodate a thousand worshippers but was already noticeably dilapidated. In 1898, it was painted inside with oil paints, and a reconstruction of the old narrow bell tower was planned. Instead, it was decided to build a new stone church within the churchyard, made of stone with wooden grilles. In October 1898, the village assembly decided to build a brick factory, and in 1902, diocesan architect T. S. Khilinsky took charge of the construction of the new church.
In 1935, the church was destroyed, and a cultural house was built on its foundation.
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