Berdsk, Russia

Berdsk is a city in the Novosibirsk region of Russia.

Included in the Novosibirsk agglomeration. The city of regional significance, forms the urban district of the city of Berdsk.

Located south of Novosibirsk on the banks of the Novosibirsk Reservoir, the second largest city in the Novosibirsk Region - 102,850 people (2021).

One of the oldest cities in the Novosibirsk region. Its history spans over 300 years. The city was founded in 1716. The city of Berdsk is located on the banks of the Ob reservoir and Berdsky Bay, 38 kilometers south of the city of Novosibirsk. city since 1944.

The main part of the territory of historical Berdsk fell into the flood zone of the Novosibirsk reservoir (“Ob Sea”).

 

Destinations

The water tower, an architectural monument of the early 20th century, is located near the Berdsk railway station. Since December 24, 2014, it has been an object of cultural heritage.

About half of the city consists of municipal housing or high-rise commercial new buildings, the other half - residential private sector, one-story houses, mostly wooden, without central heating, hot water and sewerage.

 

Sanatoriums, dispensaries and boarding houses

The boarding house "Forest Fairy Tale" is located on the shore of the Berdsky Bay.
Sanatorium "Sail" is located on the shore of the Berdsky Bay.
Sanatorium "Dawn" - one of the leading health resorts in the Novosibirsk region, located on the outskirts of the city on the banks of the river, on the one hand, on the coast of the Ob Sea - on the other.
The neuropedic sanatorium "Ortos" is located in a pine forest on the shore of the Berdsky Bay.
Sanatorium "Sibiryak" is one of the most modern sanatoriums in the Novosibirsk region.

 

SPA-hotels and hotels

Bylina boarding house is a hotel complex located on the outskirts of the city of Novosibirsk, in a pine forest on the shore of Berdsky Bay.
Sanatorium "CRONA hotel&spa" is a unique sanatorium that combines the experience of traditional medicine and advanced technologies in the treatment of various diseases.
Hotel "Borvikha hotel&spa". One of the best hotels in the Novosibirsk region. The hotel stands out for its high level of comfort, good location and convenient booking system.
The resort-hotel "Sosnovka" is located seven kilometers from the Novosibirsk Academgorodok, on the shore of the Berdsky Bay in a pine forest.
Sports and hotel complex "Crystal". On the basis of the complex there are 5 grounds for practicing more than 20 sports.
Restaurant and hotel complex "Old Tower". Russian Greco-Roman wrestlers, who brought Olympic gold at the Olympics in Beijing, were preparing for the Olympics here.
Hotel and restaurant complex "Sport" - the hotel is designed for 26 beds, rooms of the class "Lux" and "Junior Suite", single and double.
Complex "New". The standard of the hotel corresponds to the European four stars.
The Postoyaly Dvor Hotel is located on the shore of the Berdsky Bay within the city. It offers 10 two-bed rooms "Lux", "Junior Suite", and ordinary rooms. There is a restaurant and a sauna.

 

Bases and recreation parks

The recreation center "Blue Lake" is located in a pine forest, 200 meters from the coast of the Ob Sea.
The recreation center "Berdskaya Zaimka" on the shores of the Ob Sea.
The Remix Family Recreation Park is a popular summer holiday destination.
Recreation Park "On the Stones" - for those who like to spend the weekend in nature.
Leisure park "Green Island".
The yacht club "Royal Marine" is located on the left bank of the Berdsky Bay of the Ob reservoir. On the basis of the yacht club there is a children's and youth sports school.

 

Sports objects

Sports complex "Remix". The main idea of the club's creators was a reasonable combination of business life, active family recreation and physical improvement.
The Ice Palace of Sports "Berdsk" is a modern Ice Palace of Sports. The arena of the palace can simultaneously accommodate 900 people, there are also training rooms, a choreography room, a gym, and a lounge for spectators to relax.
Sports and recreation complex "Vega" is designed for competitions in team sports, martial arts, rhythmic gymnastics, fencing, as well as training camps.
The sports and hotel complex "Winter-Summer" has a hockey rink 26x56 meters and a grandstand for 800 seats. The 25-meter pool is equipped with 6 lanes of different depths for beginners and professional swimmers, saunas, changing rooms and showers.

 

Country camps

The year-round children's sanatorium camp "Yubileiny" is comfortably located in an ecologically clean area on the shores of the Ob Sea, on the outskirts of the city.
Recreation center "Chudolesye" them. V. Dubinin is located in a picturesque place on the shore of the Berdsky Bay. The center is designed for 288 people.
The Yunost tent camp is located not far from the city, in a pine forest, on the banks of the Ob reservoir, far from industrial facilities. On the territory of the camp there is a rope park "Taiga traps", paintball, a tourist simulator "Climbing wall", a throwing gallery, a volleyball court.
The all-year-round children's sanatorium and health camp "Timurovets" offers an effective system of comprehensive children's recreation, within which more than 180,000 children from many cities of Russia have rested and improved their health since the camp was founded.
The children's recreation camp "Azure" is located in a pine forest near the Berdsky Bay, on the territory of the Berdsky sanatorium. Accepts children aged 6 to 16 during the summer holidays.
The Pioneer children's recreation camp is located on the shores of the Berdsky Bay of the Ob Sea, surrounded by forest on all sides and covers an area of 5.2 hectares.
Children's Health and Education Center. O. Koshevoy, located in a pine forest on the shores of Berdsky Bay.
Children's health camp Grenada is located three kilometers from the village of Novy, on the shores of Berdsky Bay.
The children's recreation camp "Krasnaya Gorka" is located on the high bank of the Berdsky Bay, at its highest point and covers an area of about 22 hectares. The virgin, almost untouched forest, clean air, sun and water create ideal conditions for rest and health improvement.
Children's health camp named after Admiral Nakhimov is located on the shores of Berdsky Bay in the shade of the Siberian forest.

 

Military structure

Before disbanding in 2009, the 67th separate brigade of the GRU General Staff of the Siberian Military District was based in Berdsk. There is a military airfield on the territory of Berdsk.

From June 29, 1993, the 9th Separate Helicopter Squadron "military unit 52550", withdrawn from Oranienburg, ZGV, was located at the Berdsk-Central airfield. In 1997, the OVE was disbanded, and the equipment and part of the personnel merged into the 337th OFP.

On May 24, 1994, in accordance with the Directive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the 337th Separate Helicopter Regiment was relocated from the city of Malwinkel, Germany, at the Berdsk-Central airfield, which became part of the Siberian Military District with the code name "military unit 12212". After the relocation, Lieutenant Colonel A. Chibeskov becomes the commander of the regiment. The regiment included 2 helicopter squadrons of Mi-24 combat helicopters, and one helicopter squadron of Mi-8 transport helicopters.

In 1996, in accordance with the Directive of the Civil Code of the SV dated 01/15/1996, a squadron under the command of Lieutenant Colonel A. A. Zolotukhin was formed on the basis of the regiment, which departed for Georgia on August 12 to carry out peacekeeping tasks as part of 311 OVE. The result of this six-month business trip of Siberian aviators was an order to encourage the personnel of the squadron, issued by the commander of the Group of Russian Forces in the Transcaucasus.

The soldiers of the regiment took and are taking part in the conduct of counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya. For courage and heroism, 32 people were awarded the Order of Courage, among them majors V. G. Shumsky, O. P. Kozinchenko and S. V. Biryukov. In total, more than 380 servicemen of the regiment were awarded government awards.

On May 7, 2002, on the northern slope of the Ak-Tru glacier in the Altai Mountains, during an attempt to land on the site, at an altitude of over 3.5 thousand meters above sea level, the Mi-8mt helicopter No. 61 337 ovp BiU hooked a rock ledge with rotor blades , overturned and rolled into the abyss from a sheer cliff about 800 meters high. The deputy commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bukharov, the squadron commander, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Ivashenkov, the flight technician, Major Vyacheslav Yuryev, and eight passengers were killed. With the wording "For violations in the organization of flights," the regiment commander, Colonel Alexander Chibeskov, was removed from his post.

According to the Directive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of November 29, 2002, the regiment is transferred from the subordination of the Ground Forces to the subordination of the 14th Air Force and Air Defense. In 2005, according to the State General Staff, one power supply was reduced on the Mi-24. And before disbanding, the regiment included: 1st VE on Mi-24v / p / c helicopters and 2nd VE on Mi-8mt helicopters.

Being in Siberia, along with the UTP, the regiment solves various tasks. This includes the transportation of senior staff, and the implementation of urgent medical flights, and the parachute landing of cadets of the Novosibirsk Military Institute and the Berd Special Forces Brigade, and the provision of training for a cosmonaut detachment, and the provision of PSO flights and flights of civil aviation and launches of spacecraft with the relocation of search crews to the Gorno- Altaysk.

Every year, the personnel of the regiment was involved in aviation support for various exercises at the Shilovo and Yurga training grounds. Every year in spring, ice jams form on the rivers of Western Siberia. Often, the crews of the 337th regiment were involved in their liquidation. In connection with the reform of the Armed Forces in October 2009, a "farewell" was held with the banner of 337 ovp BiU.

The unit's Book of Honor contains the names of nine servicemen. Colonel Yu. M. Leus and Lieutenant Colonel O. A. Panyushkin received this high honor already on Siberian soil.

On December 1, 2009, the 337th separate helicopter regiment was disbanded and became part of the Aviation Base, based at Tolmachevo Airport in Novosibirsk.

 

Etymology

The name of the city is derived from the hydronym of the river Berd. The etymology of the hydronym has not been finally elucidated. According to I. A. Vorobyova, the explanation of the hydronym "Berd" through the Tatar "bird" - "gave away" is doubtful both from a grammatical and semantic point of view. According to D. Ya. Rezun, “the word“ Berd ”in its historical etymology is of Tatar origin, but it was taken by Russian Cossacks from the local population or brought here by Tomsk people - that is the question.”

 

Physical and geographical characteristics

The area of Berdsk, according to data for 2008, is 67.06 km². The city is located in the right-bank part of the Novosibirsk region on the shore of the Berdsky Bay (the flooded valley of Berdi, formed during the creation of the Novosibirsk reservoir). The terrain is flat, in the west, between the city and the shore of the Novosibirsk reservoir, there is a pine forest with an area of about 20 km².

The climate is temperate continental. The average temperature in January is −19 °C, in July +18…+19 °C. The average annual air temperature is +0.1 °C.

Ground frosts begin in the second half of September and end at the end of May. The duration of the cold period is 178 days.

The annual rainfall is 380-410 mm. Spring lasts two months - April and May, in spring there are many sunny days. Summers are short, not very hot, and the largest amount of precipitation falls in summer.

 

History of Berdsk

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Berdsky prison was erected. By the end of the 18th century, it became a large economic center of the Upper Ob region, and a project appeared to transfer the provincial center from Tomsk to the Berdsky prison. In 1783, the Kolyvan province was created, and in May 1783 Empress Catherine II issued a decree: "On the existence of the provincial town of the Kolyvan province in the Berdsk prison with the name of it Kolyvan." However, in 1797 they had to abandon the project, the Kolyvan province was abolished (its territory was part of the Tobolsk province), and Kolyvan, having lost the status of the provincial center, began to be called the Berdskoye village. Since 1804, the village of Berdskoye became part of the Tomsk province. In 1917, the village of Berdskoye became part of the new Novo-Nikolaevsky district, which in 1921 became part of the Novo-Nikolaevsky province, which was separated from the Tomsk province.

Since May 25, 1925, according to the decree of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR, all provinces, districts and volosts in Siberia have been liquidated. The Siberian Territory was formed, and in the place of the former districts and volosts, in accordance with the jurisdiction of the district committees of the RCP (b) that appeared in 1920-1923, districts were created, one of which was the Berdsky district of the Novonikolaevsky district; the village of Berdskoye became its administrative center. In 1929 the village of Berdskoye received the status of an urban settlement.

By the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of July 30, 1930, the Siberian Territory was divided into the East Siberian and West Siberian Territories; At the same time, the districts were abolished, and the Berdsk region passed into direct subordination to the authorities of the West Siberian Territory. On October 1, 1933, the Berdsk district was abolished, and the dacha settlement Berdsk was subordinated to the Novosibirsk City Council.

On September 28, 1937, the West Siberian Territory was abolished and the Novosibirsk Region was formed, the authorities of which were located in Novosibirsk. On February 9, 1944, the working village of Berdsk received the status of a city of regional subordination. Due to the construction of the Novosibirsk reservoir, the main territory of the city was in the flood zone, and as a result, the city was rebuilt around the existing area near the railway station, 8 km from the old location. The relocation of the city began in 1953 and was completed by 1957.

 

Getting here

By train
From Novosibirsk by electric trains from the stations Novosibirsk-Glavny, Pravaya Ob (Bus station), River Station, following in a southerly direction.

By car
From Novosibirsk to the south along the Berdskoe highway (federal highway M52).

By bus
From Novosibirsk by minibuses following from the Rechnoy Vokzal stop.

 

Shopping

TSUM, st. Ostrovsky, 69A,. 10:00 - 20:00. Nice store close to home. There is a supermarket on the ground floor. On the second floor there are household goods, the Labyrinth pick-up point and a clothing store, on the third floor there is a playroom for children

 

Official symbols

Coat of arms

The current coat of arms of Berdsk was approved on March 27, 2003, but has been used as an official symbol since 1996. The authors of the emblem are G. V. Kuzhelev, S. V. Morzhakov, V. N. Smirnov (Novosibirsk city).

The emblem is a green and silver shield, on which there is a wide azure wavy band, bordered on top with silver and connected to another narrower azure wavy band placed in a silver field. Below is a black prison with a palisade and one two-tiered tower with silver closed gates.

The symbolism of the coat of arms of the city of Berdsk uses the colors traditional for the symbols of Siberia: green and white. The green color, as conceived by the creators of the coat of arms, symbolizes the taiga, hope, abundance, health and freedom. White color is a symbol of snow, purity, devotion and wisdom.

A wide wavy strip symbolizes the Ob River, a narrow strip - Berd, at the confluence of which in 1716 the Berdsky prison was founded. The image of the prison is also present on the coat of arms, emphasizing "historical continuity, careful attitude and preservation by the inhabitants of the city from generation to generation of their traditions, culture, customs."

 

Flag

The current flag of Berdsk was approved on February 26, 2004. The symbolism of the flag is similar to that of the emblem of the city. The ratio of the flag's width to its length is 2:3.

 

Communications and media

Television: Television company "TVK", the largest media holding in the Novosibirsk region.
Newspapers: “Witness”, “People knows everything”, “Courier. Wednesday. Berdsk, Berdskiye Novosti.
Internet portals: "Kurier-Sreda", "Berdsk-online", "Witness", "Housing and communal services portal of Berdsk".
The federal telecommunications company Rostelecom operates in the city, as well as the long-distance operator Dom.ru, the regional operators Siberian Networks and Novotelecom, the city operator NPP Saturn Telecom LLC, which provide wired telephone services, access to the Internet and digital television.
In addition, the city has a children's and youth newspaper "PikNik" (Literary Studio of the youth press center "PikNik") and a youth newspaper "Impulse" (Media Center MBU "ODM").

 

Culture

There are 2 large cultural centers in Berdsk: the House of Culture in the central district and the Palace of Culture "Rodina" in the Microdistrict; a centralized library system, including a central adult and a central children's library and five branch libraries, a historical and cultural museum, a park of culture and recreation, a yacht club.

Previously, there were 3 cinemas in Berdsk, at present there is only one - "Orion", equipped with modern equipment for showing films. The second cinema "Ekran", equipped with soft comfortable chairs and showing films and cartoons of domestic production on its screens, was transformed into a supermarket after the fire.

 

Sport

There are sports facilities in the city - 3 stadiums ("Avangard", "Vega" and "Vostok"), 2 sports complexes ("Winter-Summer", "Crystal"), the ice sports palace "Berdsk". The city is home to the youth hockey team "Crystal", which previously played in the MHL Championship, the rugby club "Druzhina", participating in the Russian Championship in rugby-7, 2 yacht clubs "Royal Marine" (on the left bank of the Berdi) and "Aqualand" - the largest and best yacht club on the Ob (right bank of the Berdi).

Since 1994, the International Chess Festival "Maestro" has been held in Berdsk.

 

Tourism and rest

Due to the proximity of the Novosibirsk reservoir, remoteness from the industrial areas of Novosibirsk and quick access, Berdsk is a convenient place for recreation. There are several sanatoriums and rest houses here. Comfortable houses are being built. In winter, a ski track is laid in the forest for cross-country skiing.

 

International relations, sister cities, Berdsk in street names of other cities

Berdsk is a sister city of Bely, Tver Region, a member of the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities.

In the city of Tomsk there is Berdskaya street. Novosibirsk has Berdskoye Highway, Berdsky Lane and Berdsky Dead End. There is also Berdskaya Street in Berdsk itself and in the neighboring city of Iskitim.

On December 30, 2011, a memorandum of understanding and cooperation was concluded between the administration of the city of Berdsk and the government of the Chinese urban county Fukan (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region). This experience of international partnerships is the first for Berdsk.