Widitten was founded no later than 1540, when it is mentioned as Weyditthen. Around 1542 it was called Widitthen, after 1563 Widiten, and after 1785 Wieditten.
In 1785 Widitten was classified as a royal village (königlich Dorf) with nine households. The village belonged to the Amt of Kaporn (Spasskoye) in the Kreis of Schaaksen / Schakenschen (Nekrasovo). By 1818 it already had 10 households.
In the 19th century Widitten was a village which from 1818 formed a rural municipality in the Amt of Kaporn (Spasskoye) in the Kreis of Fischhausen / Fischhausen (Primorsk), which in 1939 was merged into the Landkreis of Samland (Samland). Until 1929 the village belonged to the parish of Medenau / Medenau (Logvino), and from 1929 to the parish of Gross Heydekrug / Groß Heydekrug (Vzmorye). In 1831 the municipality of Widitten owned 453 Morgen of land, rated as "sandy". There were two farming estates in the village, one of which was put up for sale in 1820 for 304 thalers. In 1840, 1852 and 1858 Widitten had 10 residential houses.
In 1871 Widitten still consisted of the same 10 residential houses, home to 21 families. On 13.06.1874 the rural municipality of Widitten was incorporated into the newly established Amtsbezirk of Zimmerbude (Svetly).
In 1885 the municipality of Widitten owned 231 ha of land, of which 93 ha were arable, 44 ha meadow and 15 ha forest. In 1885–95 the village had 12 houses and 22 households.
On 09.03.1892 the municipality of Widitten was transferred to the Amtsbezirk of Kondehnen (Slavyanskoye; from 1931 the Gutsbezirk of Gross Blumenau / Groß Blumenau, Kremnevo). On 17.05.1887 the school in Elenskrug (Bobrovo) was transferred to the municipality of Widitten from the forest Gutsbezirk of Kobbelbude (Bobrovo).
In 1905 the village had 14 residential houses and one public building (the school). These houses were home to 26 families and one person living alone. Property tax receipts per hectare amounted to 9.84 marks, almost 13% below the average for the municipalities of the Kreis of Fischhausen.
On 17.10.1928 the rural municipalities of Widitten (Izhevskoye) and Marschenen (Volochayevskoye) were merged into the new rural municipality of Widitten. On 01.10.1929 the municipality of Elenskrug (Bobrovo) was incorporated into the municipality of Widitten.
The merged municipality owned 580.7 ha of land; as of 1925 it had 45 houses, and the population consisted of 74 families. In 1939 the municipality of Widitten had 83 households.
On 15.04.1945 Widitten was taken by troops of the 43rd Army, supported by armoured boats from the lagoon.
On 17.11.1947 Widitten was renamed the settlement of Izhevskoye. Initially the settlement was part of the Vzmorye village council of Primorsk District. From 1954 it belonged to the Logvino village council. In 1955 the settlement had 17 houses. From 1963 it belonged to the Volochayevskoye village council.
In 2001 a Lukoil oil-loading terminal was built near Izhevskoye on the bank of the canal. A railway branch line was laid through the settlement at the same time. The settlement also has a hotel complex today.
Population trend: 1818 – 92, 1831 – 93, 1840 – 126, 1852 – 114, 1858 – 112, 1864 – 100, 1867 – 109, 1871 – 114, 1885 – 109, 1895 – 114, 1905 – 136, 1910 – 122, 1984 – 40, 2002 – 250, 2010 – 287, 2012 – 296 inhabitants.
Population trend of the municipality of Widitten: 1818 – 92, 1867 – 109, 1871 – 114, 1885 – 109, 1905 – 136, 1910 – 122, 1925 – 295, 1933 – 352, 1939 – 350 inhabitants.
Composition of the population of Widitten in 1871: all 114 Protestants, children under 10 – 29, literate – 76 (90%).
Composition of the population of the municipality of Widitten in 1939: men – 178, women – 173, children under 6 – 48, children aged 6–14 – 72, aged 14–65 – 197, over 65 – 33; employed in agriculture and forestry – 143, in industry and crafts – 44, in trade and transport – 45; self-employed – 49, assisting family members – 56, civil servants and white-collar employees – 15, workers – 291.
Structure of farms in the municipality of Widitten in 1939: 0.5–5 ha – 14, 5–10 ha – 5, 10–20 ha – 10, 20–100 ha – 4, over 100 ha – none.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
