Sights of the city of Ryazhsk

K: Settlements founded in 1502
Ryazhsk

- a city (since 1502[2]) in the Ryazan region, the administrative center of the Ryazhsky district.

Population - 21,701[1] people. (2016).

Story

The city was first mentioned in historical documents in 1502 under the name Ryasskoe Pole

[2]. It arose in the north of the Ryassky field as a fortified point that controlled the portage that connected the basins of the Oka and Don rivers. In the 16th-17th centuries it was part of the Great Zasechnaya Line, protecting Russian lands from the attacks of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars. In 1778, Ryazhsk became a[2]district city of the Ryazan governorship, and then the province.

In the second half of the 19th century, the city turned into an important railway junction at the intersection of the Ryazan-Ural and Syzran-Vyazemsk railways. Railway village Novoryazhsky

, built in those days, is now part of the city. In 1906, 12 industrial enterprises operated in Ryazhsk, including flour mills, brick factories, and cereal factories.

During the Great Patriotic War, convoys of cars carrying equipment from evacuated enterprises from the western part of the country passed through Ryazhsk. At the end of November 1941, German troops approached a distance of 15 kilometers from the city. A state of siege is declared in the city and a militia detachment is created, which 3 thousand residents join. German aviation bombs strategically important objects: the railway station, the bridge near the village of Poplevina, Sheremetyevo station. At this time, a train with the 3rd battalion of the 84th Marine Brigade arrives in Ryazhsk. Within one day, Soviet soldiers under the command of General S.I. Rudenko drives the invaders out of the city. Later, in December 1941, the 61st Reserve Army, an assault aviation division under the command of Lieutenant General of Aviation G.P., was deployed near Ryazhsk. Kravchenko, who was covered from the air by air defense units of Aviation Major General P.M. Stefanovsky. For active participation in the fight against the Nazi invaders, several thousand residents of Ryazhsk and the region were awarded orders and medals. At the brotherly cemetery of Ryazhsk there is an obelisk in honor of the fallen soldiers.

Title[ | ]

The primary form of the name is Ryassk

(
Ryaskoe city
,
Ryaskoe fortification
,
Ryaskoi
) was motivated by geographical names with the base
ryas-
.
In the 16th-17th centuries, between the Ranova and Ryasa rivers (Voronezh basin) there was a Ryassky portage
, passing through
the Ryasskoe field
.
This area was named after a group of rivers with the general name Ryasa
(
Cassocks
), which have clarifying definitions (
Stanovaya
,
Moskovaya
,
Yagodnaya
,
Gushchina
,
Rakovaya
, etc.).
The hydronym arose from the popular geographical term ryasa
“wet place, swamp”.

The subsequent weakening of the primary motivation for naming the city by the name of the river led to the emergence of a new semantic connection with the word ryazh

- a defensive structure in the form of a wooden frame, which was reflected in the coat of arms of the settlement, adopted in 1779. This was facilitated by the surviving memory that the town previously played a defensive role on the southern borders of the Russian state.[4]

Official symbols

Hymn

Local government[ | ]

The bodies and officials of local government in the city (formally Ryazhskoye urban settlement) are:

• The Council of Deputies is the representative body of the municipality. Consists of 15 deputies elected for a period of five years. On September 9, 2022, elections of deputies of the 4th convocation took place.

• The head of administration is the highest official. The head of the Ryazhsky urban settlement since 2013 is Nadezhda Vekovishcheva, also the director of the Ryazhsky secondary school No. 2 and a member of the local political council of the United Russia party.

• Administration is the executive and administrative body of a municipality.

• control and audit commission.

Economy

The leading industry in Ryazhsk is food. The largest enterprises: “Ryazhsky cellar”, Ryazhsky dairy plant, “Ryazhskzernoprodukt”, bakery, printing factory, brick and auto repair plants. Ryazhskaya Printing Factory (formerly Goznak) is the largest manufacturer of postal envelopes in Russia. There is a tradition of artistic weaving.

In the Ryazhsky region, grain crops, potatoes, vegetables, and sugar beets are grown. They raise cattle, pigs, and poultry.

Brown coal deposits, discovered at the beginning of the 18th century near the village of Petrovo, marked the beginning of the exploration and development of the future Moscow Region coal basin). Today, in addition to coal, mineral dyes, crushed stone, clay and construction sand are mined here.

Attractions

South of Ryazhsk is the village of Bolshaya Aleshnya, the former patrimony of the Kikin boyars. The estate has preserved a manor house with the Church of the Virgin Mary (1805) and a landscape park of the 19th century.

35 km from the city is the village of Zaborovo, the former family estate of the hero of the Russian-Turkish War (1877-1878) General M.D. Skobelev. Skobelev himself and his parents are buried in the Spasskaya Church-Mausoleum, built in 1764. In the same village in 1809, the spiritual composer Mikhail Vinogradov was born into the family of a priest.

See also: Church of the Nativity (Ryazhsk)

Transport[ | ]

Ryazhsk I station
Ryazhsk is a major transport hub. Ryazhsk has bus and rail transport.

Railway

Main article: Ryazhsk I

Ryazhsk I

- junction railway station of the Moscow Railway in the city of Ryazhsk, Ryazan region. It is part of the Ryazan center for organizing the work of railway stations DTS-2 of the Moscow Traffic Control Directorate. In terms of its main use it is a local service, and in terms of the volume of work it is classified as class 2.

The station houses the city's central railway station, serving both commuter and long-distance trains. There is also a fire train at the station.

Automotive

From the city bus station, buses go to Belgorod, Vladimir, Volgograd, Lipetsk, Moscow, Ryazan, Voronezh, Tambov.

Air

In the western part of Ryazhsk there is an abandoned airfield, which until the end of the 1990s housed the 127th training aviation regiment (UAP) of the Borisoglebsk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, and then the Tambov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, which was closed in 1995.

Notable natives

• Arkadyev, Dmitry Vasilyevich (1900 - 1954) - head of the Department of Railroad and Water Transportation of the NKVD-MVD of the USSR, Major General.
• Dubrovin, Yuri Dmitrievich - Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia
• Elmanov Valery Ivanovich - Russian science fiction writer, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation
• Bolshakov, Kirill Andreevich (1906-1992) - scientific chemist, academician
• Novikov, Boris Kuzmich (1925-1997) - Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
• Okayomov, Alexander Ivanovich - singer (high bass) and vocal teacher, first performer of the song “Eaglet”
• Serebryakov, Andrei Mikhailovich (1913-1942) - Soviet tank driver, Hero of the Soviet Union (1940)
• Struchkov, Viktor Ivanovich - surgeon, Hero of Socialist Labor

Education[ | ]

Ryazhskaya secondary school No. 1.
The city has 10 kindergartens and 4 secondary schools. Additional education is provided by the Ryazhsk Children's Music School and the Ryazhsk Children's Art School[30].

In 2022, two educational institutions merged: Ryazhsky Road and Ryazhsky Technological Colleges into a single educational institution, Ryazhsky College named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.M. Serebryakova. The college provides education in the following specialties: tractor driver, seamstress, construction and operation of highways and airfields, welder, cooking and confectionery, hairdressing technology, economics and accounting, maintenance and repair of engines, systems and components of automobiles, technical operation of hoisting and transport , construction, road machinery and equipment.

Notes

1. ↑ 123
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   THE USSR. Administrative-territorial division of the union republics on January 1, 1980 / Compiled by V. A. Dudarev, N. A. Evseeva. - M.: Publishing house "Izvestia of the Soviets of People's Deputies of the USSR", 1980. - 702 p. — P. 209.
3. [ryazhsk.ru/index.php/sovremennyi-ryajsk/o-gorode/29-2013-04-15-05-47-39 Anthem of Ryazhsk on the unofficial website of the city.]
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   [www.MojGorod.ru/rjazansk_obl/rjazhsk/index.html People's encyclopedia “My City”. Ryazhsk]. Retrieved June 21, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6QUvhb9DL Archived from the original on June 21, 2014].
5. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus59_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1959. The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender] (Russian). Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6GDOghWC9 Archived from the original on April 28, 2013].
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10. www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b05_14t/isswww.exe/stg/z/ryazan-1.htm Cities of the Ryazan region (number of inhabitants - estimate as of January 1, 2005, thousand people)
11. [www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B09_109/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/tabl-21-09.xls Number of permanent population of the Russian Federation by cities, urban-type settlements and districts as of January 1, 2009]. Retrieved January 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6MJmu0z1u Archived from the original on January 2, 2014].
12. [ryazan.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/ryazan/resources/090fe1004fa3853290b698ca6ff6f188/11.+Population+of+Ryazan+region%2C+urban+districts%2C+municipal+districts%2C+urban+and+ rural+settlements.htm All-Russian population census 2010. 11. Population of the Ryazan region, urban districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements]. Retrieved December 10, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6Lkv122fy Archived from the original on December 10, 2013].
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Population[ | ]

As of January 1, 2022, in terms of population, the city was in 648th place out of 1,116[28]cities of the Russian Federation[29].

Excerpt characterizing Ryazhsk

- Oh, here she is! – he shouted laughing. - Birthday girl! Ma chere, birthday girl! “Ma chere, il ya un temps pour tout, [Darling, there is time for everything,” said the countess, pretending to be stern. “You keep spoiling her, Elie,” she added to her husband. “Bonjour, ma chere, je vous felicite, [Hello, my dear, I congratulate you,” said the guest. – Quelle delicuse enfant! “What a lovely child!” she added, turning to her mother. A dark-eyed, big-mouthed, ugly, but lively girl, with her childish open shoulders, which, shrinking, moved in her bodice from fast running, with her black curls bunched back, thin bare arms and small legs in lace pantaloons and open shoes, I was at that sweet age when a girl is no longer a child, and a child is not yet a girl. Turning away from her father, she ran up to her mother and, not paying any attention to her stern remark, hid her flushed face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla and laughed. She was laughing at something, talking abruptly about a doll that she had taken out from under her skirt. – See?... Doll... Mimi... See. And Natasha could no longer speak (everything seemed funny to her). She fell on top of her mother and laughed so loudly and loudly that everyone, even the prim guest, laughed against their will. - Well, go, go with your freak! - said the mother, feigning angrily pushing her daughter away. “This is my youngest,” she turned to the guest. Natasha, taking her face away from her mother’s lace scarf for a minute, looked at her from below through tears of laughter and hid her face again. The guest, forced to admire the family scene, considered it necessary to take some part in it. “Tell me, my dear,” she said, turning to Natasha, “how do you feel about this Mimi?” Daughter, right? Natasha did not like the tone of condescension to childish conversation with which the guest addressed her. She did not answer and looked at her guest seriously. Meanwhile, all this young generation: Boris - an officer, the son of Princess Anna Mikhailovna, Nikolai - a student, the eldest son of the count, Sonya - the count's fifteen-year-old niece, and little Petrusha - the youngest son, all settled in the living room and, apparently, tried to keep within the boundaries of decency the animation and gaiety that still breathed from every feature of them. It was clear that there, in the back rooms, from where they all ran so quickly, they were having more fun conversations than here about city gossip, the weather and Comtesse Apraksine. [about Countess Apraksina.] Occasionally they glanced at each other and could hardly restrain themselves from laughing. Two young men, a student and an officer, friends since childhood, were the same age and both were handsome, but did not look alike. Boris was a tall, fair-haired young man with regular, delicate features of a calm and handsome face; Nikolai was a short, curly-haired young man with an open expression on his face. Black hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nikolai blushed as soon as he entered the living room. It was clear that he was searching and could not find anything to say; Boris, on the contrary, immediately found himself and told him calmly, jokingly, how he knew this Mimi doll as a young girl with an undamaged nose, how she grew old in his memory at the age of five and how her head was cracked all over her skull. Having said this, he looked at Natasha. Natasha turned away from him, looked at her younger brother, who, with his eyes closed, was shaking with silent laughter, and, unable to hold on any longer, jumped and ran out of the room as quickly as her fast legs could carry her. Boris didn't laugh. - You seemed to want to go too, maman? Do you need a carriage? – he said, turning to his mother with a smile. “Yes, go, go, tell me to cook,” she said, pouring out. Boris quietly walked out the door and followed Natasha, the fat boy angrily ran after them, as if annoyed at the frustration that had occurred in his studies. Of the young people, not counting the countess's eldest daughter (who was four years older than her sister and already behaved like a grown-up) and the young lady's guest, Nikolai and Sonya's niece remained in the living room. Sonya was a thin, petite brunette with a soft gaze, shaded by long eyelashes, a thick black braid that wrapped around her head twice, and a yellowish tint to the skin on her face and especially on her bare, thin, but graceful, muscular arms and neck. With the smoothness of her movements, the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and her somewhat cunning and reserved manner, she resembled a beautiful, but not yet fully formed kitten, which would become a lovely little cat. She apparently considered it decent to show participation in the general conversation with a smile; but against her will, from under her long thick eyelashes, she looked at her cousin [cousin] who was leaving for the army with such girlish passionate adoration that her smile could not deceive anyone for a moment, and it was clear that the cat sat down only to jump more energetically and play with your sauce as soon as they, like Boris and Natasha, get out of this living room. “Yes, ma chere,” said the old count, turning to his guest and pointing to his Nicholas. - His friend Boris was promoted to officer, and out of friendship he does not want to lag behind him; he leaves both the university and me as an old man: he goes into military service, ma chere. And his place in the archive was ready, and that was it. Is that friendship? - said the count questioningly. “But they say war has been declared,” said the guest. “They’ve been saying this for a long time,” said the count. “They’ll talk and talk again and leave it at that.” Ma chere, that’s friendship! - he repeated. - He is going to the hussars. The guest, not knowing what to say, shook her head. “Not out of friendship at all,” answered Nikolai, flushing and making excuses as if from a shameful slander against him. – Not friendship at all, but I just feel a calling to military service. He looked back at his cousin and the guest young lady: both looked at him with a smile of approval. “Today, Schubert, colonel of the Pavlograd Hussar Regiment, is dining with us. He was on vacation here and takes it with him. What to do? - said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking jokingly about the matter, which apparently cost him a lot of grief. “I already told you, daddy,” said the son, “that if you don’t want to let me go, I’ll stay.” But I know that I am not fit for anything except military service; “I’m not a diplomat, not an official, I don’t know how to hide what I feel,” he said, still looking with the coquetry of beautiful youth at Sonya and the guest young lady. The cat, glaring at him with her eyes, seemed every second ready to play and show all her cat nature. - Well, well, okay! - said the old count, - everything is getting hot. Bonaparte turned everyone’s heads; everyone thinks how he got from lieutenant to emperor. Well, God willing,” he added, not noticing the guest’s mocking smile. The big ones started talking about Bonaparte. Julie, Karagina’s daughter, turned to young Rostov: “What a pity that you weren’t at the Arkharovs’ on Thursday.” “I was bored without you,” she said, smiling tenderly at him. The flattered young man with a flirtatious smile of youth moved closer to her and entered into a separate conversation with the smiling Julie, not noticing at all that this involuntary smile of his was cutting the heart of the blushing and feignedly smiling Sonya with a knife of jealousy. “In the middle of the conversation, he looked back at her. Sonya looked at him passionately and embitteredly and, barely holding back the tears in her eyes and a feigned smile on her lips, she stood up and left the room. All Nikolai's animation disappeared. He waited for the first break in the conversation and with an upset face left the room to look for Sonya. – How the secrets of all these young people are sewn with white thread! - said Anna Mikhailovna, pointing to Nikolai coming out. “Cousinage dangereux voisinage,” she added. “Yes,” said the countess, after the ray of sunshine that had penetrated into the living room with this young generation had disappeared, and as if answering a question that no one had asked her, but which constantly occupied her. - How much suffering, how much anxiety has been endured in order to now rejoice in them! And now, really, there is more fear than joy. You're still afraid, you're still afraid! This is precisely the age at which there are so many dangers for both girls and boys. “Everything depends on upbringing,” said the guest. “Yes, your truth,” continued the Countess. “Until now, thank God, I have been a friend of my children and enjoy their complete trust,” said the countess, repeating the misconception of many parents who believe that their children have no secrets from them. “I know that I will always be the first confidente [confidant] of my daughters, and that Nikolenka, due to her ardent character, if she plays naughty (a boy cannot live without this), then everything is not like these St. Petersburg gentlemen.