Historical information “Sharya is a city with a kind soul”

Monument to Sharya residents who died in WWII
Sharya station arose in connection with the construction of a section of the Northern Railway between the cities of Vologda and Vyatka. Its construction is associated with the name of a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow University, a friend of N.V. Gogol and A.I. Herzen, F.V. Chizhov, who originally came from Kostroma.

The official opening of traffic along the section took place on November 24, 1906, and two months later a Decree followed on assigning the name “Northern Railways” to the named lines with a total length of two thousand miles.

This is how a station arose, named Sharya after the Sharya River, the name of which has ancient Mari roots.

Railroad station

Sharya

- a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Sharya district of the Kostroma region. Population 29.8 thousand people (2008).

The city is located on the Vetluga River (a tributary of the Volga), 328 km from Kostroma. A large railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The city-forming enterprise is the Timber Industry Complex, PDO Sharyadrev (until about 1990), then a branch of the foreign holding Kronastar (from about 2002).

Among the city's large enterprises: a locomotive and carriage depot, a communications center.

Since 1991, 4 Orthodox churches have been opened in Sharya. Until 1991, the building of the St. Nicholas Church (in the city center) was used for a local history museum. On June 25, 1991, the building of the St. Nicholas Church was returned to the church community.

The adjacent villages are: Vetluzhsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky.

City `s history

Sharya is an urban district of regional subordination, an industrial and cultural center of the northeast of the Kostroma region with a population of about forty thousand people. The city is located on the left low bank of the Vetluga River and covers an area of ​​2530 hectares.

The city of Sharya owes its foundation and development to the railway laid here at the beginning of the last century. On November 24, 1906, the official opening of train traffic took place, and the new railway began to be called Northern, and the station, located 701 km from Moscow, became Sharya, named after the river flowing two hundred meters from the station. From the ancient language of Merya (this people settled here in time immemorial), the word “Sharya” is simply translated as a river. In contrast to the station, later this river began to be called more affectionately - Sharinka.

The station was gradually rebuilt and in 1917 it became a large settlement with a locomotive and carriage depot.

In 1938, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated November 27, the working village of Sharya was transformed into a city with a population of about 12 thousand people. With the formation of the Kostroma region in 1944, Sharya became part of it and was classified as a city of regional subordination.

During the Great Patriotic War, the city was not captured by the Nazis, but 24 thousand residents of the city defended their Motherland with weapons in their hands. Almost 8,000 - one in three - died in battle. Sharya residents are proud of the exploits of their fellow countrymen - Heroes of the Soviet Union: D. Koryazin, who repeated the feat of Gastello; V. Tanycheva, A. Kotegov, I. Bobarykina, V. Dusheina; - full holders of the Order of Glory: S. Gromov, A. Krasnukhin. In the year of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory, grateful residents of the city opened a Memorial complex, where the names of all fallen fellow countrymen are immortalized in bronze and granite. During the siege of Leningrad, trains with trains from besieged Leningrad passed through the Sharya station and stopped in Sharya. Leningraders who died from exhaustion were removed from the train and buried in the Sharya city cemetery. Subsequently, a monument to the residents of Leningrad who died from the siege was unveiled at the cemetery in Kozlovo.

In the 50-70s the city actively developed. PDO "Sharyadrev" from a timber processing plant has turned into the largest city-forming enterprise. Sewing and furniture production appeared, and the number of food industry enterprises increased. Construction was proceeding at a rapid pace in the city, new neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, colleges were growing.

Economy

Today Sharya is a developed industrial city. The modern industry is represented by large forestry and woodworking enterprises, LLC Kronostar and LLC Lesopromyshlenny Kompleks, together with which timber industry enterprises are being revived and furniture production is developing. In the food industry, an enterprise for the production of mineral water arose, and today Sharya Mineral is known throughout Russia. Cellular communications have arrived in the city, trade is actively developing, and construction is underway. Thanks to rich natural resources, a revitalized economy, the availability of qualified personnel, and the gradual development of infrastructure, Sharya is becoming an attractive region for investment.

Transport

Sharya has an advantageous transport and geographical location. It is located at the crossroads of federal highways from north to south and from west to east. Due to the abundance of road traffic, a bypass road was built. Its interchange is a complex engineering structure. The railway junction continues to develop; the railway connecting Moscow and Vladivostok passes through Sharya. Sharya Airport accepts only small aircraft. In the summer, An-2 planes fly from Kostroma to Sharya and Bogovarovo.

Attractions

Almost all the sights of Sharya are connected either with the railway or with religion. Now there are three Orthodox churches in the city. Among them is the wooden Church of St. Nicholas, built in the 19th century. In Soviet times, it was destroyed and a local history museum was built on the remains of the foundation. Then the building was given to the temple, but it was inconvenient to pray in the museum. Already today, local logging entrepreneurs provided building materials, and the church was restored. In addition to Nikolaevskaya, there are Alekseevskaya and Nativity of Christ churches in the city.

Among the cultural institutions, the Sharya Museum of Local Lore is interesting. Its exhibition is presented in 7 sections, telling about the history of the region from the 19th century to the present day, about the indigenous peoples who have lived on this land for centuries, about the flora and fauna of the region. Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00-17:00, Sunday: 9:00-15:00, Saturday - closed.

There are several iconic places in the vicinity of Sharya. The Nikolo-Preobrazhensky Church in the village of Nikolo-Shanga, built in 1806, is complemented by a stone bell tower and a beautiful fence. Nearby is a cemetery with a prayer house. 40 km from the town, in the village of Rozhdestvenskoye, there is a spring of St. Barnabas of Vetluzhsky. Even during the times of the USSR, the flow of believers from all over the country did not stop. Sometimes it was covered with cement mortar, but water still made its way out. Today, the miraculous spring has been updated and restored, and a chapel has been erected nearby. The Lagunin estate is located in the same village. Currently, there is a pond and a park on the estate that are accessible to the public.

Sharya

(Kostroma region)

OKATO code:
34430
Founded:
1906
Urban-type settlement since:
1928
City since:
1938 City of regional subordination
Center:
Sharya district
Urban-type settlements, population as of 01/1/2021

Deviation from Moscow time, hours:
0
Geographic latitude:
58°22′
Geographic longitude:
45°30′
Altitude above sea level, meters:
110 Sunrise and sunset times in the city of Sharya

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Cuisine and restaurants of Sharya

You can have a tasty and inexpensive lunch in one of the local cafes - the complex will cost only 100 RUB. Even cheaper - in numerous nameless canteens and bars. Higher-class establishments are mainly pizzerias, where, in addition to Italian, Russian cuisine is also widely represented. Dinner in one of the city’s restaurants costs about 550 RUB per person.

Inexpensive buffets operate at hotels in Sharya. You can have a hearty dinner there for 250-350 RUB per person without alcohol. Fast food is represented by shawarma and hamburgers.

How to get to Sharya

Sharya is a large railway junction. Every day 3 trains depart from Moscow and stop at a local station. Trains whose final destinations are Khabarovsk, Chita and Abakan depart at 0:35, 13:50 and 23:05, respectively, from the Yaroslavl station. After 11-13 hours they are already in place. Buses run from Kostroma to Sharya: 6 trips per day, starting at 6:00; travel time - 5 hours 40 minutes.

The city is small, but there is public transport - it is represented by 6 bus routes.