The suburban Bryansk village of Belye Berega received one more bridge - Bely. It was built over the weekend. They didn't even ask the state for a nail.

“There are people on Earth who cannot live without creating. These are the Beloberezhsk bridge builders, - this is how the Beloberezhskiy residents told about themselves.

Two weeks ago, they carried out preparatory work for the construction of an arch bridge to the Youth Beach. It was difficult to get only lumber. The inhabitants of the village began to search for beams and boards together.

On Saturday "white ruled". He came out with axes and saws, as usual, both young and old. We worked merrily, even festively, with jokes. The Beloberezhsky residents themselves did not expect such enthusiasm. From morning to evening saws rang and axes knocked. Some piled oak piles, others laid spans of logs, and still others built flooring. The new Beloberezhsky bridge across the groove is almost completed, next Saturday it will be completed. It will be not only beautiful, but also safe.

Sergey Konobeev notes:

- Women and girls took an active part in the construction. Everything was interesting, beautiful, appetizing, sometimes intriguing. The children were happy with eggs and bacon.

Pilaf and a hot bath with an ice-hole became the final chord of the holiday of community labor. In the White Shores, about amazing inhabitants which was already told by the Russian press, they proved that a person lives not by salary and not by foreign cars alone. The joy of such communication is given primarily to children who enthusiastically talked about the day of creation.

Foreword.

I received a letter from Tatyana Podoskina, who, mistakenly believing that I am the administrator of the village's website, asked for assistance in posting a photo. Unable to help her on that site, I invited her to publish her material on the site of the Palace of Culture. Many thanks to Tatiana, she did not refuse my request. Having familiarized myself with the content, I have no doubt that what she wrote will be interesting to everyone who is interested in the history of the village. Tatiana herself determined the form of material presentation, as captions to photographs from her home album. I am posting with gratitude to the author and her family members with the hope of continuation.

My small homeland - White Shores

Photo 1. My mother's family moved from Kashira to the village of Belye Berega in 1937 after the arrest of my great-grandfather Ignat Dmitrievich Zverev. My grandfather Vladimir Ignatievich Zverev, an electrical engineer by education, began to work at the Bryansk State District Power Plant, and my grandmother Praskovya Semyonovna Zvereva was a housewife. The family lived on Lenin Street, building 5, apt. 16. This picture was taken on this street in 1937. It is my mother, Albina Vladimirovna Zvereva (she is 5 years old) with my mother Praskovya Semyonovna (in the picture - on the right) and a neighbor from the 3rd floor, Evgenia Komarovskaya. Between the houses on Lenin Street on the right side (if you look towards the DK) there were small squares with sculptures, like that as shown in the picture.

Photo 2. Mom went to the kindergarten of the BRES, which was located on Proletarskaya Street. The picture taken in November 1938 shows a children's matinee in honor of the 21st anniversary of the October Revolution. My mom is in the front row on the right.

Photo 3. In 1939, my mother went to first grade. In the photo on August 30, 1939 - my mother's class and the teacher. The picture was taken on the territory of the current park named after M.I. Todadze; behind a wooden fence is Proletarskaya Street; behind the monument to Lenin you can see the building kindergarten, which little Alya went to.

Photo 4. November 7, 1939 (XXIIanniversary of the revolution). A rally in front of the building of the recreation center of the Bryansk State District Power Plant.

Photo 5. In the 1939 photo, Alya Zvereva next to the sculpture, the location of which in the village has not yet been established, unfortunately.

Photo 6. My grandfather Vladimir Ignatievich Zverev was a very enthusiastic person. He was always interested in technology. One of the first in the country, in 1939, he assembled a TV with his own hands. My mother recalls that her mother, Praskovya Semyonovna, used to say to her husband, who in the evenings was sitting over assembling the TV: "Take a break from work, go out for a walk in the fresh air, like others." But Vladimir Ignatievich stubbornly pursued his goal, and his TV set started working, although the screen was no larger than a matchbox! The Zverev family and their neighbors could watch some programs from Moscow.

Photo 7-9. May Day festive demonstration in 1940 on Lenin Street.

Photo 10. Behind the building of the Palace of Culture there was a birch grove with a large wooden arbor. The inhabitants of the village were very fond of this resting place. A warm September day in 1940. Mom smiles into the lens, on the bench Vladimir Ignatievich (right) with his wife Praskovya Semyonovna and younger brother Dmitry. Dmitry Ignatievich graduated from the Beloberezhskaya school in 1939, then entered the Moscow Institute of Fisheries, from the third year he was drafted to the front, went through the whole war as a lieutenant in the chemical service, was awarded the Order of the Red Star. After the end of the war, he completed his studies at the university, sailed on the Slava and Aleut whaling fleets, then worked at the fish factories of Novorossiysk and Sevastopol.

Photo 11-12. June 1941 was cold, but children are happy about any weather. Anya and Seryozha Badayevs, children of a good friend Anna Antonovna Badaeva, came from Moscow to visit the Zverevs in Belye Berega. Alya (she is wearing a white cap), Anya and Seryozha are playing and walking together. In photo 11, they are on Proletarskaya Street (in the future, a lake is hidden behind the pine trees). In a few days the war will begin ...

Photo 13. Destroyed BRES. 1943 g.

Photo 14. In 1943, immediately after the liberation of the Bryansk region from the Nazi invaders, Vladimir Ignatievich Zverev returned to Belye Berega and participated in the restoration of the BRES.

Photo 15. The house on Lenin Street, in which the Zverev family lived before the war, was destroyed. In 1943-44 V.I. Zverev, working to restore the BRES, lived in a hostel, the location of which could not be established.

Photo 16. In February 1944, my mother and grandmother returned from evacuation. The family moved to live in Bryansk, but in the summer of 1944 they came to Belye Berega, found a destroyed house in which they lived before the war, and of the things, as my mother recalls, in the ruins there is only an ax without an ax. In the 1944 photo, Alya Zvereva in the village with her cousin Misha Salmin.

Photo 17. For a long time in the village of Belye Berega lived my grandfather's sister Lidia Ignatievna Zvereva with her son Misha. Aunt Lida, an engineer by training, was very fond of literature and theater. In the 1950s. she took an active part in the work of the amateur theater of the Palace of Culture. This significant photograph of 1956 captures the meeting of the drama club members and prominent figures of the village with the famous film actress Lyubov Petrovna Orlova. Almost 60 years later, unfortunately, not all of them were identified:

1. Mamontov Vladimir Stepanovich - at that time the chief engineer of the Bryansk SDPP, and after Tyukin's death in 1963 - the director of the Bryansk SDPP.

2. Tyukin Ivan Dmitrievich - Director of the Bryansk State District Power Plant.

3. Uncle Anna Semyonovna.

4. Uncle Karina.

5. Orlova Lyubov Petrovna.

6. Binkin.

7. Upadyshev Vadim - Head of the Laboratory of Measuring Instruments and Automation of the State District Power Plant.

8. Tamara Matyukhina.

9. Zvereva Lidia Ignatievna.

12. Uncle Svetlana.

13. Uncle Evgeny Ivanovich.

20. Manukhina (Shtakh) Tamara Fedorovna.

25. Binkin.

26. Mitichev Nikolay - mechanic of the laboratory of measuring instruments and automation of the state district power station.

27. Novikov.

Photo 18. My parents moved to Belye Berega at the end of 1957. We lived at st. Vokzalnaya, 17. In fact, the house stands at the intersection of Vokzalnaya and Proletarskaya streets. In the picture I am 1 year old and I am walking along Proletarskaya Street near our house in the early spring of 1960 with my nanny - aunt Dasha (Daria Demidova); on the right is my paternal grandfather Sergei Tikhonovich Kudryavtsev.

Photo 19. My parents worked at BRES. Mom is a senior engineer of the technical department, and dad is the head of the thermal automation laboratory. In the 1966 photo, the employees of this laboratory at a clean-up day on the territory of the BRES:

1. Mitichev Nikolay - locksmith.

2. Buldygin Mikhail Zakharovich - locksmith.

3. Luzhetsky Georgy - locksmith.

4. Luzhetsky Ivan - locksmith.

5. Kudryavtsev Anatoly Sergeevich - head of the laboratory (my father).

6. Kamynin Victor - locksmith.

In 1968 our family moved to Bryansk. But ties with his native village were not interrupted. While we were children, every summer my parents often took me and my sister to the lake and our favorite groove, and now my children and nephews are happy to visit these places that are memorable for us.

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Once, on a warm summer day, I found myself in a small and cozy village in the Bryansk region. This village is famous for the largest artificial Lake Beloberezhsky, as well as GRES, during the construction of which the development of this village began.
A bit of history(from wikipedia):

"The founding date of the present urban settlement is considered to be 1868, when the Belye Berega railway station on the Bryansk-Orel line was opened. But back in the 1700s, 6 km from the present settlement was founded male monastery Beloberezhskaya Pustyn, from the name of which the entire surrounding area began to be called White Beregs (which later gave the name of the station) ...
The status of an urban-type settlement was assigned by the decree of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of November 20, 1932. "

The purpose of the trip to White Shores was the very lake in which I wanted to swim, but while I was getting to it, along the way I came across interesting objects.

One of them turned out to be a former kindergarten "Violet" or even a former elementary school. An awful razor-sharp and ruffled building ...

Elementary school echoes ...






There are wooden outbuildings at the back of the building

Once he was like this .. 1976. (photo from belber.ru)

Very soon I was at the lake. And nearby in the park I could not help but notice the funny benches

In this post I will not show pictures of the lake, they will remain for later :)
Coming back from the lake, I decided to go to the state district power station itself.
A bit of history from wiki:
"On December 22, 1920, at the VIII All-Union Congress of Soviets, the GOELRO plan was approved, according to which it was planned to build 30 regional power plants within 10-15 years, including the Bryansk State District Power Plant.
On April 21, 1927, the Labor and Defense Council adopted a resolution “On the construction of the Bryansk regional power plant”. ...
On October 9, 1931, the first turbine with a capacity of 11 thousand kW was put into operation, and testing of the power plant equipment began. The main type of fuel was peat from the nearest deposits (Paltso, Teploe), delivered by the Beloberezhskaya narrow-gauge railway. ...

In 1961-1964, all 12 boilers for burning natural gas were reconstructed. In 1966, a closed hydraulic ash removal system was put into operation.

The maximum installed capacity of the station was 90 MW.

Since the beginning of 2012, the issue of closing the Bryansk SDPP as a power plant and transferring it to the boiler-house mode is being resolved. "

More information about GRES can be found ->

It is easy to get to the territory of the state district power station, but it is not deserted there. And people constantly go to the dam to hang out, and even swim :)



Now this power plant operates as a boiler house, it has only one working boiler for the village.

We finished the last part on one of the many stairs connecting through a gloomy one (how would you like it in early spring on a steep slope?) private sector the two main streets of the center are Nagorny Lenin Avenue and Kalinin Podgornaya Street. True, there was captured a staircase leading down from the Peter and Paul Monastery, but we went down from the Savior-Grobovskaya Church.

Below you can clearly see the Bryansk Arsenal in the Desna floodplain, and from such scenes blows the Gornozavodsk Ural - an old, more than once specialization plant near the river, which is essentially the center of the Old City. As already mentioned in the first part, Bryansk was distinguished by a unique location - a Russian city at a junction of routes to the west, therefore, in case of war, it was assigned the role of a deep auxiliary rear: even under Peter I, the production of edged weapons was established here, in 1736-37 a shipyard worked, floated to the Dnieper the fleet for the next Russian-Turkish war, and even dry rations for the garrisons were baked near the main station since the end of the 19th century (see the first part). But the culmination of all this was the Arsenal, founded in 1785, which became an important supplier of light artillery for Russia for a century and a half, quickly diverging from here along fortresses and borders. When the enemy came to Bryansk for the first time since the Great Troubles - it was in 1941-1943 - the Arsenal was evacuated to Katav-Ivanovsk and somehow there and disappeared among the defense industries of the Urals. Its old site was restored as the Dormash plant, now one of the main manufacturers of road construction equipment in Russia - and this product, as you know, is in great demand in our country. In 1993 "Dormash" was returned to the old, but no longer actual name "Bryansk Arsenal", and in general, with its fate it reminds me of another giant of the old industry -.

By the way, the reservoir in the last frame is not the Desna, but the Old Woman, as the small old-time lake is called, which limits Old city in the north. There we really didn’t walk, which, however, did it regularly for us. darriuss , to which I am referring again. But even he (not to mention me) did not reach Novaya Sloboda on the slopes behind the Old Woman - and there, by the way, there are Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Lubyanka streets and a very beautiful Tikhvin church (1775) on one of them. The staircase led us to the former trading school of the merchant-timber merchant and the main Bryansk philanthropist Pavel Mogilevtsev (1908-09), now occupied by a drug dispensary. A bright red and white building, as it were, opens up the Old Town on the way from the station:

But it was not very pleasant to go further - the narrow and long Kalinin Street is not inferior to Lenin Avenue in traffic, but at the same time it is sandwiched between the slope of the mountain and the Arsenal fence with the burnt-in smoke of cars. We had to walk in this noise and frenzy for about 15 minutes, but someone has to live here ...

Above is the Gorne-Nikolskaya Church, to which we will still climb:

We passed the current, extremely dull outwardly, but sparkling with brand new repairs, the checkpoint of “Arsenal”, and another 5-10 minutes later we went to its old site, which was given over to development a few years ago. They break (hopefully, at least "with the preservation of the facade") the once very picturesque carpentry-arc and assembly shop of the early twentieth century:

But the main ensemble of the plant further down the street is inviolable - it is the Liteiny Dvor, which has been preserved since the founding of the plant, that is, since the 1780s. Along the street there is the former Liteiny House, further the factory management under a sharp roof (on "Dormash" there were a factory recreation center) and a long building of public services. All this, of course, has long changed its functions and has a clear touch of Stalinism, obtained during the restoration after the war - but looking at such buildings, you understand that Stalin's classicism is not so different from Catherine's.

Initially, the Liteiny Dvor was a square of buildings, two of which away from the "red line", including the ruins from the picture before last, were completely replaced in the 19th century:

Basically, the old site has been cleared and is waiting for the developer. In principle, it is a normal practice in the world (especially since the new site continues to work properly), and when I see the ruins of the assembly shop, I immediately remember the "Luther quarter", where almost the same shop was turned into a multi-storey parking lot. However, the project is clearly delayed, and so far there are no buildings or a plant - just ugly wastelands with a lonely water tower. There is a very good page about Arsenal with a description of the individual workshops.

From here we decided to go upstairs - but not yet to the avenue, but to the Petrovskaya Hill hanging over the Arsenal:

The top of which is now occupied by the possessions of the Bryansk diocese ("priests and traders" - this is how the population of Bryansk in Bezhitsa was characterized a hundred years ago). The Bishop's House (1870) is perhaps the most beautiful example of a pre-revolutionary Bryansk woman:

Now there is a whole monastery, based on the Gorno-Nikolskaya Church (1751), both in age and location (hanging over the plant) reminiscent of the temples of the Old Urals. But the Ural churches do not have an Old Russian past, and this church, known in wood since the 14th century, "became famous" for the fact that in 1340, following a popular gathering on its porch, the local prince Gleb Svyatoslavovich was killed by an angry crowd - history is silent). Previously, there was also the Nizhne-Nikolskaya church, demolished, if I am not mistaken, during the Soviet expansion of the plant.

From here, through the old barracks of the Kashirsky regiment, now occupied by the administrations of the diocese, a stone's throw to the Pokrovskaya Gora and, accordingly, standing on the next slope of the Intercession Cathedral (1698) - oldest building Bryansk. In 1500-1798, it was a cathedral, then it was reduced to a regimental church, but in general, and now it is just a parish church:

And opposite the cathedral (in the background - the very ex-barracks and the street we came across) is a very interesting house, obviously from the 18th century. For some reason, it is popularly known as the "governor's house", but what kind of governor is in a county town? This is the house of the general director (that is, not the general director, but the general, as I understand it) of Bryansk Arsenal, built together with the plant. However, the Oryol governors may have been here during their visits to their main district town.

The cannons seem to be replicas of the first arsenal products:

They heal in an unexpectedly neglected square (this despite the fact that there are several very decent parks in Bryansk!), At the other end of which stands the stele of Combat and Labor Valor (1985), which the people of Bryansk call it only without "five to two" for the characteristic position of the hands of the maiden crowning him. The hero on horseback is none other than Alexander Peresvet, a monk-warrior who fought on the Kulikovo field with a duel with the Tatar Chelubey and died after defeating the enemy. In Bryansk, this semi-legendary hero is considered their own, although God forbid they began to "settle" him here in the 19th century. Next to the hero is the storyteller Bayan from "The Lay of Igor's Campaign", he comes from the Chernigov principality, where Bryansk was at that time.

We descend from the mountain and continue along Kalinin Street, among the houses of the turn of the 18-19th centuries. The long building in the background is the same Arsenal public services. In the foreground, apparently also arsenal buildings of the 18th century (not counting the silicate fire of clearly completely different times), the house on the right under the Soviets changed roles from the Metalist club (meaning a metalworking worker, not a hairy one) to a factory medical unit.

Kalinin Street leads to the spacious, but at the same time very loose in architectural terms, Slavyanskaya Square - however, in the city no one calls it that, Bryan residents know it as the Embankment, and I showed the Desna bank itself with a pontoon bridge to the former Bryansk-Gorod station in the first parts:

Before the revolution, the square was completely Cathedral, since on it stood the Novopokrovsky Cathedral (1862-97), built in turn on the site of the Spaso-Polikarpov Monastery, whose church was cathedral since 1798. The cathedral burned down during the war, the ruins were broken down already in 1968.

Now on the site of the cathedral there is a chapel, for some reason in the "Carpathian" style (not counting the plowshares, of course):

There is also a Philharmonic (1985):

Spider-like fountain "Friendship":

And the local "Potemkin Stairs" of Gagarin Boulevard, along the uppermost pedestrian section of which we walked in the last part. We will climb it a little later:

And first, let's walk a little more along Kalinin Street, this "reserve" of the past life of the district factory Bryansk:

Here (in the male gymnasium) in 1882-87 Vasily Rozanov taught:

A block from the square is the chapel of the Holy Warriors (20002-06, in memory of those who died in local wars) and another recreation center (in Bryansk, the question "Why so many?" Is brewing rather quickly), in this case the Soviet district:

But I must say - one of the most beautiful in the city:

Well, now let's go back to the Embankment and go upstairs:

Alas, along the front staircase there are wretched ruins and gloomy alleys:

Although not all over:

And this is where this staircase leads (which, by the way, was in 1979?):

Ahead is Karl Marx Square (before the revolution, Red), or Round Square - I mentioned them several times in the last post. This is the "very center" between the Upper and Lower C ravines at dock, and from Lenin Avenue this square is separated by only a few tens of meters. Nevertheless, she would not fit into the last post, since this is the most interesting ensemble of Bryask. Even in the plan - the circle of the square, inscribed in the building square:

Let's go around it from the bottom (that is, from the end of the stairs) counterclockwise. To the left of the entrance is the Bryansk Regional Duma (1955) and the women's gymnasium (1907), which was a city committee under the Soviets, and now occupied by various state institutions:

On the right is the so-called Wine Castle, in fact, a banal distillery "Snezhet" in buildings of the 19th century. His own red wall with the slogan in the pose the second before last, as well as the grandiose project of the Stalin-era "gate" in its place, on both sides of the main staircase, which has not yet been implemented, can be seen in Darriuss's post about the square and its surroundings.

In general, Bryansk is so industrial that there is a plant right on the main square - in my opinion, even the Urals did not think of this:

On the next corner there are two more monuments of the Bryansk province of the 1920s, by the way, forming a single quarter with the former House of Banks and Industry from the previous part built at the same time. On the right is the House of Communications (1931), belated to the cancellation of the province, on the left is the polyclinic (1927), past which Gagarin Boulevard just goes to Lenin Square:

All over the square there are very beautiful lanterns, equipped with loudspeakers near the House of Communications, creating a relaxed background of some popular radio on the square:

On the next corner (on the right, pay attention to the turret of the House of Banks and Industry - this is about how close the places from the last post are) for the third era - the Chernigov hotel (1946-47; and in Chernigov, it seems, there is a Bryansk hotel) ) and the regional library of course named after Tyutchev (1955), all the more so the square named after him adjoins it from the other side:

And finally, the already familiar female gymnasium - the most impressive example of a pre-revolutionary woman in Bryansk, closing the circle:

And along the street you can go past it to the oldest model - the Bryansk customs, founded here under Peter I (the building itself, however, seems to be the end of the 18th century):

Opposite across Fokina Street, between Stalin's towers - entertainment center"City Hall", the former cinema "October", best known in Bryansk for the fact that on April 25, 1959 fell on the audience during a show - according to official data, 47 people died then, but since the investigation was strictly classified, the locals believe that there were hundreds and hundreds of deaths, and in general, apart from the war, this was the largest tragedy in the history of Bryansk (however, the theater was built by captured Germans, and there is a legend that some structural defects were their revenge). A lot has been written about this tragedy and its participants (), but I was told a story about how one worker of the Dormash got his bearings during the collapse, promptly took his boss out of the rubble (!), And received permission from him to drive him to the plant for some departmental equipment, and this technique saved a lot of people. But in general, in each big city There is probably such a place - somewhere a collapse, somewhere a fire, somewhere a crush or a bus falling into a river, somewhere a terrorist attack - only the figure almost always fluctuates in the region of fifty lost lives.

Details of the stalinkas in the neighborhood:

Yes, constructvist houses from the times of the Bryansk province down the slope:

In general, with Bryansk itself, this is ALMOST everything - in the next part there will be a combined hodgepodge of sights of the city (Mounds of Immortality and Chashin Kurgan) and the surrounding area (Svensky Monastery, a miracle church in Tvorishichi). And then two more about Bezhitsa, which seems to be a part of Bryansk, but "by eye" a completely isolated city.