Zlynka is a city (since 1925) in Russia, the administrative center of
the Zlynkovsky district of the Bryansk region and the Zlynkovsky urban
settlement.
Population - 5270 people. (2021). Zlynka is the
smallest city in the Bryansk region.
The Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary or simply
the Intercession Church is a temple of the Klintsovo diocese of the
Russian Orthodox Church in the town of Zlynka, Bryansk region. An
architectural monument of regional importance. The Old Believers
Intercession Chapel was built by the bespopovites of the Fedoseevsky
accord, who arrived in Zlinka from Lithuania in 1758-1759. In the early
1850s, the prayer room was closed and, after perestroika, turned into a
co-religionist church, consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the
Most Holy Theotokos. In 1886, the Holy Synod decided to transform the
co-Orthodox church of the village of Zlinka into an Orthodox one and
form a parish with it from the Orthodox inhabitants of the village of
Zlinka, the village of Petrovka and the village of Pavlovka. In
1903-1904, a modern wooden church on a brick basement was built on the
site of the former temple. The rector of the church was the priest
Anatoly Shkredovsky. In 1919, the Soviet authorities sentenced him to
three years in prison. In 1937, he was arrested and shot, and the temple
was closed, used as a grain warehouse. It was reopened during the German
occupation in 1943 and was never closed again.
The temple is
wooden. The walls are completely chopped down and upholstered with wood.
The octagon on the quad is crowned with a head on an octagonal neck. A
small four-sided altar is placed on the pentagonal altar, completed with
a cupola. A tiered bell tower rises above the refectory, covered with a
gable roof: a through octagon is placed on a blind quadrangle and is
completed with a dome with a dome. Entrance porches are located on the
west, north and south sides. On the north side there is another porch
attached to the altar.
Temple complex of the Churches of the
Ascension and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (second half of the 19th
century).
Several mansions from the turn of the 19th-20th
centuries, richly decorated with wooden carvings (nowadays the mansions
house the district administration, forestry department, music school,
and district agriculture department).
Zlynka was founded in 1700 (according to other sources - in 1702) by
fugitive Old Believers. It was part of the Cholkhovsky volost of the
Starodubsky regiment. In 1770, together with the volost, it was granted
by Catherine II to Count P. A. Rumyantsev. In 1862, a match factory was
built near Zlynka, in the village of Barki. At the end of the 19th
century, Zlynka became a settlement in the Chernigov province; Until the
beginning of the 20th century, it was famous for its carpenters and
tanners. In Zlynka, a unique appearance of buildings developed,
consisting of houses richly decorated with saw-cut carvings.
In
1923, the Zlynkovsky volost was formed, on the basis of which the
Zlynkovsky district was formed in 1929. From 1959 to 1988, the
Zlynkovsky district was temporarily abolished; the city of Zlynka was
part of the Novozybkovsky district.
In 1941-1943. Zlynka was
occupied by the Nazi invaders, who destroyed all the enterprises. On
September 27, 1943 it was liberated by Soviet troops.
In 1986, as
a result of the Chernobyl accident, the radiation situation in the city
significantly worsened. The question was raised about the complete
resettlement of the city. The economy and further development of the
city suffered a severe blow.
Modern Zlynka has preserved the
appearance and layout of the old settlement. To this day, many wooden
houses have retained features characteristic of local construction.
Zlynka is the westernmost city of the region, located within the
Dnieper Lowland, belonging to the East European Plain, on the Zlynka
River, at an altitude of 151 meters above sea level. The terrain is
flat. The city is surrounded on all sides by forests.
By road,
the distance to Bryansk is about 220 km. The nearest railway station
Zlynka is located in the village of Vyshkov, 8 km northwest of the city.
The border with the Republic of Belarus is 11 km away.
The city
is located in a temperate continental climate with relatively cold
winters and moderately warm, sometimes hot, summers. The average annual
precipitation is about 610 mm.
In the city, as well as throughout
the Bryansk region, Moscow time operates.
Leskhoz (in the process of bankruptcy). There is a plant for the production of plasterboard sheets, and the West Metrology company (production of flow meters, dispensers, pumps, hydraulic and pneumatic drives).
There are two schools No. 1 and No. 2 and PU 31 in the city.