Moving from Ukraine to the Rostov region: life in a coal mine

Zverevo: A short history or a word about our city

We live in a small but cozy and picturesque mining town of Zverevo in the Rostov region. Our city was founded in 1819 as a village; in 1989 it received city status. Population is about 30 thousand people. The main occupation is coal mining. In our city there is the largest mine in Europe - OJSC Obukhovskaya, where the best coal is mined - coke. Our city is a working city, a city with heroic glory - military and labor. Strong and brave people, hardworking and loving their land, live and work here. They say about such people that the Earth rests on them. According to the 2002 census, 30,089 people live in our city of Zverevo. Nationally, about 60 nations are represented. We are neighbors at home, we are friends at school, on stage, on the sports field. We have common aspirations, we have a common future. We are one big family. The stingy but beautiful steppe, called Provalskaya, which to this day in some places has retained the appearance of a wild field a thousand years ago. The endless hilly steppe in the lazily rolling waves of the vast feather-grass sea, among which red steppe mounds rise like islands. Here, in the steppe, our town, Zverevo, grew up. These lands once belonged to the landowners, the Zverev brothers. The brothers, having given the green light to laying a railway through their lands, wished that the station that arose here would bear their name, thereby perpetuating their memory. And so it happened. The first residents of the station village were former serfs from the central provinces and Ukraine who moved to the Don. They lived in dugouts, huts, built from sleepers, dug deep into the ground. Gradually, trading shops, taverns, an inn, and warehouses for receiving peasant grain began to appear. On the site of the wooden station that burned down in 1894, a new building was built, which has survived to this day. At that time it was a fairly busy railway junction that connected three roads. Up to 500 freight train cars were formed here per day, and passenger trains were also serviced. In the station building, in the 3rd class waiting room, there was a large iconostasis where services were held. Here, at the station, there was a telegraph and post office. The village grew slowly: at the end of the 19th century there were four unnamed streets with 50 houses, 5 shops, a pharmacy, a bakery, a timber exchange, a wine store, and a police station. However, the population grew. Already in 1905 there were 2 railway primary schools, each with one teacher. During the first Russian revolution, the Zverev railway workers did not stand aside: due to a strike at the station in October 1905, the work of the South-Eastern Railway was suspended. Cossacks arrived in the village to quell the unrest. 1918 Civil War. At Zverevo station, a red detachment was organized to defend the village. It consisted of an armored train, two drawing boards and a platform. And after the Civil War - the restoration of the railway junction, the destroyed economy, the elimination of illiteracy... The Great Patriotic War - our village was under occupation for seven months. Basically, the liberation of Zverevo fell on the shoulders of the 137th Guards Regiment of the 47th Guards Division. In the summer of 1943, it was decided to equip a front-line airfield near the village of Zverevo. Ivan Arkhipovich Dokukin flew from this airfield with his crew. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 8, 1943, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the courage and heroism shown, Ivan Arkhipovich Dokukin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 833). In the summer of 1943, Ivan Dokukin fought over the Mius River and in the skies of Donbass. On July 8, 1943, he was killed in an air battle. He was buried in the city of Zverevo. A city street is named in his honor. According to 2005 data, the city occupies an area of ​​11.89 thousand square meters. m, population – 27.9 thousand people. On the territory of the city there are 5 schools, 8 kindergartens, a Children’s Art School, a Children’s and Youth Sports School “Olympic”, a House of Children’s Creativity, 2 Palaces of Culture, libraries, 2 markets, Rodionovo branches operate -Nesvetaevsky branch of Sberbank; LLC “Donskoy Narodny Bank”, “Promsvyazbank”. The most important wealth of our city is coal. In 1731, it was discovered by the son of a serf peasant, Grigory Kapustin. However, more than 100 years passed before specialists became interested in these deposits. Today, the Open Joint Stock Company Mine Administration “Obukhovskaya” is a city-forming enterprise for the town of Zverevo, which employs about 3 thousand people. The mine construction project was developed by the Rostovgiproshakht Institute in Rostov-on-Don in April 1994. The project provides for the development of the K2 seam with a thickness of 1.0-1.4 m, with a dip angle of 8-140, with a mine production capacity of 2,000 thousand tons per year. In the names of streets, cities and towns, a person tries to perpetuate and preserve everything that is dear to him. The name of the street is not just the name of a person, it is a trace of time, the history of human memory: street 47 of the Guards Division, Malysheva, Ostashenko, Obukhov, Makarenko, Sholokhov, Dokukin Square and Street, Cosmonauts, Kolesnikov, Rizhskaya, Chekhov, etc. The pride of the city is our fellow countrymen Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Kuzmenkov - Honorary Citizen of the city of Zverevo. Foreman of the Komsomol youth brigade of miners at the first mining site of the Mine named after the “60th anniversary of the Lenin Komsomol”, winner of the All-Union competition for the challenge prize in 1986. Maria Tikhonovna Strizhakova – Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, Honorary Citizen of the city of Zverevo. Moskalenko Nikolai Nikolaevich - Director of the children's art school, honorary citizen of the city of Zverevo. Babakov Vitaly Viktorovich – Born on September 28, 1972 in Zverevo. Graduated from secondary school No. 5. Participated in hostilities in Chechnya. He graduated from the Higher Military Command School in St. Petersburg as an external student. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vitaly Viktorovich Babakov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism. Golubev Konstantin Alekseevich - At the beginning of 1943, he volunteered to go to war. He graduated from the Moscow School of Communications and was sent to the 1st Belorussian Front in the 2nd Tank Division. He ended the war in Berlin. He was awarded the orders of the Patriotic War, the Red Star, Glory -3 degrees and many medals. In Leningrad he graduated from a music school in the “Accordion” class and the Academy of Arts. In 1972 he came to Zverevo. For a long time he worked as an artist at the Mayak cultural center. Currently, Konstantin Alekseevich is an honorary veteran of Municipal Educational Institution Secondary School No. 5. Our land gives birth to such people. Very close to the town of Zverevo towards the town of Kamensk there is a natural monument - Kalinovaya Balka. The beauty of the untouched steppe amazes the eye. The steppe plays under the gusts of wind. Visit Kalinovaya Balka. Seeing this pristine beauty, you will understand that, after all, this is where fairy-tale heroes and pagan gods fought. Maybe the steppe accumulates in the inexplicable hiding places of its ravines, gullies, rivers and tart grass the memory of everything that rustled over the steppe, and it’s worth listening, looking closely, how it all pours into the soul... I want to end my story about my native land with hundreds of poems from M .Voloshina: Blue expanses, fogs, Feather grass, and wormwood, and weeds... The vastness of the earth and the heavenly mold! The Pontic Wild Field, the Dark Cimmerian Steppe, spilled and unfolded freely.

www.zverevo-city.ru. Smirnova Lyudmila Alexandrovna

Economy

The following organizations are represented in the city: Grain collection point “Zverevskoe”, LLC “Bytovik”, OJSC “Selkhoztekhnika”, Company for the production of secondary polymers LLC “Rostpoliplast”, OJSC “Agrokhimservice”, atelier “Gracia”, LLC “Cascade” and others.

Coal mining is carried out by OJSC Obukhovskaya Mine Administration.

Notes

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