Dyatkovo, Russia

 

Description of Dyatkovo

Dyatkovo - a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Dyatkovsky district of the Bryansk region. This is the northernmost city of the Bryansk region. Located in the northern part of the region, on the southern slopes of the Smolensk-Moscow Upland, on the small river Oleshne, which flows into Bolvo.

 

Sights

Far beyond the region, the Dyatkovo Crystal Museum, opened in 1976, is famous, where, in addition to a large number of various dishes (made of crystal and colored glass), you can look at crystal decorative compositions that reach a height of up to 1.5 meters. Among the exhibits of the museum there is a vase painted with uranium oxide.

The building of the Crystal Museum also houses the Museum of Military and Partisan Glory dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

On Lenin Street - the main street of the city - in 2003 a memorial temple was built in honor of the icon "Burning Bush". The temple premises are small, but it is here that the world's only crystal iconostasis is located, made at the Dyatkovo crystal factory (weight about 3 tons). Other decorations of the temple were also made of crystal. One of the authors is E. I. Volnova. A church with a crystal iconostasis existed in the village of Dyatkovo back in the 19th century, but after the destruction of the Transfiguration Church, the crystal iconostasis was lost.

Near the House of Culture, designed by the Bryansk architect Yevgeny Skachkov, a square of Partisan Glory was laid out.

Near the former SPTU-14 there is a Square of Courage. The memorial immortalized the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and military operations in Afghanistan and Chechnya, as well as the liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The square of Courage was opened on September 26, 2012.

Not far from the city of Dyatkovo in the tract "Loban" there is a memorial "Partizanskaya Polyana". An obelisk was erected on the territory of the memorial, 3 dugouts and a partisan spring were preserved.

In the forest, in the area of ​​Hospital Lake, there is a source of "Three Wells". In the south of the city there is a source "White Well" with a landscaped area and a font.

 

Religion

The current Orthodox parishes of the city belong to the Bryansk and Sevsk diocese of the Bryansk Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). The main Orthodox centers of the city are the memorial church in honor of the Burning Bush icon, the Transfiguration Church and the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

The Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists operates, the temple is located on Khrustalnaya Street. The parishioners of the church believe that they take an active part in the life of the city.

 

Education

Four secondary schools, the City Gymnasium, the Dyatkovo Industrial College, the Dyatkovo Cadet School named after the Hero of the Soviet Union I. A. Kashin.

 

Geography

Dyatkovo is the northernmost city of the Bryansk region, located in the northern part of the region, on the southern slopes of the Smolensk-Moscow Upland, on the small river Oleshna, which flows into the Bolva.

Climate
The climate of the city is temperate continental, with a pronounced seasonality. The coldest months are January and February. Severe winters are rare, the winter is moderately frosty, with constant snow cover and regular thaws. Snow cover usually sets in at the end of November and disappears completely by the end of March - beginning of April. Summer is moderately hot, it begins in May, usually in the middle of the month and lasts until early September. The warmest month is July.

 

History of Dyatkovo

The village of Dyatkovo has been known since 1626, since 1810 it has been a village. Since 1924 - an urban-type settlement, since 1938 - a city.

In the local history literature, one can find many versions of the origin of the name of the city, the most probable - from the word "uncle".

The first written mention of the village of Dyatkovo is contained in the cadastral book of local and patrimonial lands of the Bryansk district of 1626-1629, compiled by Prince Peter Zvenigorodsky and clerk Kovelin: “... The village of Dyatkovo on the Shumovetka River, and there are peasants in it: the courtyard of Andryushka and Ivashka Ivanov’s children of Vashutin , yes, their nephew Ivashko Fedorov son; the courtyard of Demidko and Mikheiko Ignatov, and Vaska Mishukov lives with them; the yard of Fedka Istomin with Savko Fedorov, and bobs; the courtyard Neustroyka Sazonov with Ogapk Stepanov; the yard is empty of Demidko Ignatov, and Demidko fled without a trace ... ".

The village of Dyatkovo was part of the Foshnenskaya (Khvoshnenskaya) volost of the Bryansk district. (now the village of Foshnya, Zhukovsky district). In terms of size, the village, for that time, was considered average and belonged to the Nebolsin landowners.

The development of the settlement is associated with the founding of a crystal factory: in 1785, after the death of Akim Vasilyevich Maltsov, his widow Marya Vasilievna bought the Raditskaya and Karachevskaya factories from Evdokia, the widow of Alexander Vasilyevich Maltsov, and decided to expand production. In 1790, in the forest near the village of Dyatkovo, Marya Maltsova built the famous glass and crystal factory, the production of which already in 1796 was not inferior to the products of the Gusevsky factory. The village of Dyatkovo soon merged with the working settlement of the plant.

In 1798, the enterprise was transferred to Ivan Akimovich Maltsov, under which an entire industrial empire was created with a center in Dyatkovo. The father's work in 1853 was continued by his son Sergei. About 100 thousand people worked in the Maltsovsky factory district on the lands of the Kaluga, Oryol and Smolensk provinces, producing mechanisms of all kinds, building materials, furniture, agricultural products, etc. versts and its own shipping system. For the maintenance and development of his possessions, Sergei Ivanovich Maltsov in 1875 established the Maltsovsky industrial and commercial partnership with a board in Dyatkovo.

The landmark of Dyatkovo was the Transfiguration Church, opened in 1810, after which the village of Dyatkovo became known as a village. The painting in the cathedral was made in the Italian style, the iconostasis was made of crystal, all the candlesticks in front of local icons, the covers over the shroud and thrones were crystal, and the chandelier was also crystal.

Thanks to the crystal factory, in the 19th century Dyatkovo became the largest village in the Bryansk district (since 1861 it has been a volost center).

In 1918, all the factories and factories of the Maltsovs were nationalized, and the trust "State Maltsovsky Factory District" was created with a center in Dyatkovo.

From the second half of 1922, growth began at the district's enterprises. After the equipment was repaired, the Dyatkovo Crystal Plant started working again.

By 1926, part of the Maltsovskaya narrow-gauge railway Bryansk - Dyatkovo was rebuilt to a broad gauge.

In 1926, a woodworking plant was built in Dyatkovo.

In 1929, about 10% of the window glass produced in the USSR was produced in the Dyatkovo region.

In September 1930, the Dyatkovo Glass-Ceramic Technical School (Dyatkovo Industrial College) was established on the basis of the II-level school with a chemical bias. Starting from 1936, the technical school produced annually 150 specialists.

In 1938, the village of Dyatkovo was transformed into a city.

Dyatkovo in the war and post-war years
During the Great Patriotic War, Dyatkovo became an active center of partisan struggle, which made it possible to temporarily restore Soviet power in the city and the region. On February 14, 1942, the Red Army and a combined partisan detachment occupied the city of Dyatkovo, thus, behind enemy lines, throughout the territory of the Dyatkovo region, Soviet power was restored. The territory liberated from the Germans became known as the Soviet District, which lasted until June 6, 1942. In Soviet newspapers, Dyatkovo in 1942 received a second name - Partizansk.

On September 15, 1943, the city of Dyatkovo was liberated by the Red Army. On September 16, 1943, the Bytosh partisan brigade in the village of Ivotok met with the 17th Infantry Division of the 3rd Army of the Bryansk Front, thereby completing the liberation of the entire Dyatkovo region.

The damage caused by the occupation to the economy of Dyatkovo and the Dyatkovo region was estimated at 400 million rubles. Of the 1884 pre-war buildings in the city, only 690 survived; of the 17,000 inhabitants in Dyatkovo, only a few people remained. The Dyatkovo Crystal Factory was completely destroyed. 19,848 residents of the Dyatkovo district were driven away to hard labor in Germany by the invaders.
In the region, 25,783 residential buildings, nine brick factories, one tile factory, six grain mills, two mechanical, two windmills and ten watermills, 102 cattle yards were burned. 95 stables. More than three thousand heads of cattle, up to five thousand pigs, up to three and a half thousand horses were captured.

The revival of life in the city began with the restoration of the crystal factory. In December 1945, a 16-pot glass furnace was put into operation.

Since 1946, the Dyatkovo woodworking plant (later OAO Dyatkovo-DOZ) began to produce standard houses, and since 1960, furniture.

In 1956, the House of Culture of Crystalmakers was built.

In 1959, natural gas came to the city.

Since the late 1950s, a large enterprise began to work - a plant of electrovacuum devices.

In the 1960s, the construction of apartment buildings on Mira Street began, and in the mid-1970s, the first houses grew in the new residential 12th microdistrict.

In 1963, the city of Dyatkovo became a city of regional subordination. The cities of regional significance were subordinated to nearby cities and towns of industrial importance.

On July 31, 1976, the first visitors were received by the Crystal Museum of the Dyatkovo Crystal Factory, which very soon became one of the most popular attractions in the Bryansk region.

In 1983, in connection with the 40th anniversary of the liberation from the Nazi invaders, the city of Dyatkovo was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree "For the courage and steadfastness shown by the working people of the city during the Great Patriotic War and for the successes achieved in economic and cultural construction" .

In 1990, after a break of more than 60 years, the newly built Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior was opened in Dyatkovo. In 1994, a symbolic reburial of the ashes of the Maltsov family, the founders of the industrial industry of our region, was carried out near its walls. This place is marked with an oak cross. The inscription on the commemorative tablet reads: "Your labors are not forgotten by descendants."

In 2001, the Regulations on separate structural subdivisions of the administration of the city of Dyatkovo and the Dyatkovo district were approved.

In 2003, the consecration of the temple-monument "Burning Bush", built in memory of the fallen soldiers-countrymen, took place. The church has a crystal iconostasis. The city has again acquired a unique artistic attraction. Modern masters of crystal dedicated their work to the memory of the founders of the Maltsov factory and all generations of Dyatkovo crystal makers.

On April 28, 2011, the city of Dyatkovo was awarded the honorary title "City of Partisan Glory".

 

Economy

The city has the Dyatkovsky Khrustal plant (produces crystal products, glassware, souvenirs), Relay JSC (relays, thermostats), Dyatkovsky Design and Industrial Construction Association JSC (prefabricated reinforced concrete structures), Dyatkovsky Plant JSC Lesstroydetal”, LLC “Dyatkovo-DOZ” (furniture) and other enterprises.

Furniture plant "Katyusha" produces furniture under the trademarks "dmi / Dyatkovo" and Odalia, as well as components for furniture production.

Food industry. In the vicinity there are deposits of glass sands and clays.

 

Transport

The city has developed urban public transport: bus, commercial bus, fixed-route taxi. There are several private taxi firms.

The P68 Bryansk - Dyatkovo - Lyudinovo - Kirov route passes near the city, through which there is a regular bus service to Bryansk and the main settlements of the Dyatkovo district. There is a direct bus connection with Moscow. Since December 26, 2009, the Bryansk-Kaluga-Tula-Ryazan bus route has been running through Dyatkovo.

Suburban (Bryansk - Dyatkovo - Fayansovaya) and long-distance trains (No. 076B / 075B Gomel - Moscow - Gomel) stop at the Dyatkovo railway station of the Moscow Railway.