Year founded: 1933
Malgobek celebrates the city day on
the 1st Sunday of September
.
In 2022,
this date is
September 4
.
Malgobek - City of Military Glory (Photo: malgobek.ru)
Malgobek
– Russian city in Ingushetia, administrative regional center. Located in the Ciscaucasia, on the southern slope of the Tersky Range in the Alkhanchurt Valley.
The city was founded in 1933
. In those years, new oil fields were actively being developed on the site of former Chechen villages. It was with the discovery by oil workers of well No. 13 on the Tersky Range that the history of Malgobek began, whose name is associated with the Magial-Bek tract, according to the title of the owner of these lands at that time.
The city was rightfully considered an achievement of the first five-year plans of the Soviet era. Experts from different fields came from all over the union: first of all, oil workers, engineers, and builders. Active development of Malgobek began. A railroad was built, various social institutions were built, houses, shops, and new oil derricks were built. Residents of the city are still proud of this powerful all-Union achievement: in the 30s, it was here that a drilling rig 5 kilometers deep was installed and launched. Already in 1941, Malgobek oil workers produced more than 1 million 300 thousand tons of oil, rightfully receiving the title of “The best drilling company in the Soviet Union.” But the Great Patriotic War began.
During the war years, many residents went to the front, and those who remained continued to extract oil, supplying the country with fuel for aircraft. In 1942 the city was besieged. For Germany, the capture of the Caucasus with its oil deposits was of the utmost strategic importance. Hitler’s plans included the capture of three most important points: Malgobek, Grozny, Baku. In this regard, the significance of the Malgobek defensive operation becomes clear. Soviet troops stopped the enemy, preventing him from approaching Grozny and Baku and thus transferring military forces to Stalingrad, although they paid a high price for this. About 120 thousand soldiers defending the city died in battle. And on January 3, 1943, the city of Malgobek was liberated from fascist troops.
The IS-3 tank is a monument to the soldiers of the 52nd Tank Brigade, the defenders of the city of Malgobek (Photo: wikipedia.org) For the courage, fortitude and heroism shown by the soldiers at the walls of the city, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation
in 2007, Malgobek was awarded the honorary title “Military City glory
.
At the entrance to the city you can see a monument to the soldiers of the 52nd Separate Guards Tank Brigade. In total, about 30 monuments, steles and obelisks at mass graves remind of the heroic past of Malgobek; there are also 120 military graves on the territory of the city.
In Sergo Ordzhonikidzhe Park there is a memorial complex “Glory” and a museum of military and labor glory of Malgobek. There is a monument with the graves of 800 Soviet soldiers, a stele and a plaque of honor; in honor of the fallen soldiers, the Eternal Flame is always burning in the park. In the museum you can get acquainted with the labor history of the city associated with the development of oil wells. At one time, famous oil workers worked here - Heroes of Socialist Labor Marina Yakovlevna Pauk, Fyodor Lvovich Kolesnikov, Alexander Ivanovich Levshin, Akhmed Biberdovich Lologaev and others.
The city is home to more than 39 thousand inhabitants (2020), the bulk of the population are Ingush.
Day of the city
celebrated on the first Sunday of September.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the urban district of Malgobek is a circle, in the center of which, along the vertical axis against the background of the Caucasus mountains, is a stele erected in honor of conferring the title of city of military glory on the city of Malgobek. On the left side of the stele is Table Mountain (“Matloam”), on the right is Mount Kazbek (“Bashloam”) Above the mountains and the stele there is an image of the rising sun, from which seven straight rays diverge upward, symbolizing the revival of the city. The image of the inner circle below is framed by ears of wheat symbolizing fertility. Between the large and small circles there is an inscription: at the top – “MALGOBEK”, at the bottom – “CITY OF MILITARY GLORY”. The inscriptions are separated by asterisks. The white color on the coat of arms symbolizes the purity of thoughts and actions characteristic of the residents of the city of Malgobek. Blue is the color of the sky, space; green - represents nature, abundance and fertile lands, as well as a symbol of Islam. The color red is a symbol of the blood shed on the battlefields on the outskirts of Malgobek. Yellow is the color of the Sun, which gives life to man and nature, the color of rebirth. Brown is the color of the scorched earth of battlefields.
Climate[edit]
Malgobek has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfa
).
| Climate data for Malgobek | |||||||||||||
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | October | But I | December | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 0,5 (32,9) | 2,0 (35,6) | 7,4 (45,3) | 15,9 (60,6) | 22,0 (71,6) | 25,8 (78,4) | 28,1 (82,6) | 27,7 (81,9) | 22,4 (72,3) | 15,6 (60,1) | 8,1 (46,6) | 3,0 (37,4) | 14,9 (58,8) |
| Daily average °C (°F) | −3,3 (26,1) | -2,2 (28,0) | 2,8 (37,0) | 9,8 (49,6) | 15,8 (60,4) | 19,6 (67,3) | 22,1 (71,8) | 21,6 (70,9) | 16,4 (61,5) | 10,2 (50,4) | 4,0 (39,2) | -0,7 (30,7) | 9,7 (49,4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −7,1 (19,2) | -6,4 (20,5) | -1,7 (28,9) | 3,8 (38,8) | 9,7 (49,5) | 13,5 (56,3) | 16,2 (61,2) | 15,5 (59,9) | 10,5 (50,9) | 4,9 (40,8) | 0,0 (32,0) | −4,3 (24,3) | 4,6 (40,2) |
| Average precipitation, mm (inches) | 26 (1.0) | 27 (1,1) | 35 (1,4) | 55 (2,2) | 85 (3,3) | 106 (4,2) | 83 (3,3) | 69 (2,7) | 50 (2,0) | 40 (1,6) | 36 (1,4) | 31 (1,2) | 643 (25,4) |
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Malgobek
I wanted to see this city! But when I drove into it, I realized that I wouldn’t look... At all the intersections there were military men in bulletproof vests and with machine guns. Either someone came, or something happened. It was scary to even get out of the car, let alone take pictures! There were no people on the street at all...
Malgobek is an ordinary Russian city. Not rich and decent, looking like a worker who knows his worth and was unlucky enough to become an oligarch. The city is multinational, a hard-working city. Malgobek is the second city in the Republic of Ingushetia in terms of territory and population. About 42 thousand people live in Malgobek, most of whom are children and youth. The city is located on the southern slope of the Tersky Range and smoothly flows into the Alkhanchurt valley. It is called the city of oil workers. The founding day of the city of Malgobek is considered to be August 24, 1933. It was on this day that a powerful gush of oil erupted from well No. 13 from a depth of 1085 m, drilled by Kabir Taizetdinov’s team, with a debit of 600 tons per day. Every year more and more oil rigs appeared.
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On February 6, 1942, the Malgobek fishery was awarded the highest state award - the Order of Lenin.
On September 3, 1942, Nazi troops began the assault on Malgobek. Fierce fighting raged for 4 months. Malgobek changed hands 14 times, but survived. It was on the territory of the city of Malgobek that the advance of fascist troops in the south of the USSR was stopped. This city is called “Caucasian Stalingrad”.
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In the 70s of the last century, Malgobek oil workers increased oil production to 7 million tons per year, which was a record for oil production in the USSR. Also during these years, records were set for high-speed and deep subsoil drilling. According to our plan, we were going to have lunch in Malgobek. About the cafe, and how they “fed” us, Zhizhig-galnash wrote partially and incompletely in the council.
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