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- a city (since 1939[2]) in the Tula region of Russia. Forms the Donskoy municipality with the status of an urban district.

Population - 64,201[1] people. (2016).

Geography

The city is located in the upper reaches of the Don River, 65 km southeast of Tula on the Kaluga-Syzran railway line (Bobrik-Donskoy station), connecting the Volga region with the western regions of the country. The distance to the M4 Don highway is 20 km.

The municipality occupies an area of ​​4,758 hectares with a maximum length of 30 km (as of 01/01/1997).

Climate

The city of Donskoy is located in the middle zone of our country, where the climate is temperate continental, exposed to the influence of northern and northeastern winds. The difference in average temperatures between summer and winter reaches 28 °C. The greatest warmth is observed in July, the average temperature of this month fluctuates within +18 °C. The average January temperature is −10 °C. The first frosts occur at the end of September, stable snow cover occurs in November. On average, by April 10, the snow cover disappears.

Cloudiness throughout the year is quite significant, especially in November-December. The annual precipitation is about 50 centimeters, with most of it occurring in the summer.

Nature

The soil in the vicinity of the city itself consists of degraded black soil. The urban area is flat, with some general slope to the east. In the center of the DMO there is Bobrik Gora, which is its historical part. In the vicinity of the city, the Don River, receiving water from the small Bobrik River, goes around Bobrik Mountain. On the territory of the DMO, significant reserves of brown coal have been explored, the mining of which has been carried out for more than 100 years. In the vicinity of the city itself there are fireproof and refractory clays, construction sand, and there are reserves of gypsum and rock salt. In the northeastern part of the DMO there are forests in which mainly broad-leaved tree species grow: aspen, birch, maple, linden, ash, and occasionally oak. Animals in the forests and copses include hares, foxes, badgers, and various breeds of ducks and waders are common. The reservoirs are inhabited by crucian carp, carp, carp, perch, gudgeon, roach and some other species of fish.

Story

In the scribe books of 1571-1572, the “repair of Khodyrev at the mouth of the Bobrik River” is mentioned. The name pochinka, derived from the nickname personal name Khodyr (known since the 15th century), has not been preserved in local toponymy. The river (the right tributary of the Don) was named after the animal beaver, which in the past lived on the rivers of Central Russia. The following names have already been given to it: the estuarine upland Bobrik Mountain, the neighboring village of Boboriki and the entire surrounding area as Bobriki County.

Bobrik Mountain belonged to Catherine II, by whose order in 1773-1776. a magnificent estate was built there for her illegitimate son, who received the surname Bobrinsky due to land ownership.

In 1881, a brown coal deposit was discovered near it. In 1883, a mine and 2 adits were built, around which a mining settlement was formed, which received, due to its proximity to the river. Don name Donskoy.

In 1929, the village at the Bobrikovsky mine was classified as a working village and given the name Donskoy

.

In 1932, the working village of Donskoy

becomes the center of the Don region, separated from part of the Uzlovsky region.

September 19, 1939 workers' village of Donskoy

received city status.

February 1, 1963, the city of Donskoy

classified as cities of regional subordination.

of Donskoy) as microdistricts.

).

Donskoy forms the city district of the same name.

Memorial "Soldier and Mother" on Lenin Square

A sculptural group consisting of statues of a grieving mother and a bare-headed warrior was also installed in 1969, and also at the burial site of Soviet soldiers killed in the battles near Donskoy.

Memorial "Soldier and Mother" on Lenin Square

Nearby, the names of city residents who laid down their lives for their Motherland in the battles of the Great Patriotic War are engraved on black stone slabs.

Location: pl. Lenin.

Economy

The basis for the development of the territory was the coal industry. The first coal in the region was produced back in 1882. Its development is associated with the name of the descendants of Count Bobrinsky, who received these lands from Catherine II. By the early 1960s, the coal deposits had largely been depleted and new industrial enterprises appeared on their basis: furniture, shoe and hosiery factories, a reinforced concrete structures plant and an experimental plant. In the early 1970s, 2 large electronics factories were built.

Severo-Zadonsk Experimental Plant (SEZ)

[18] - a coal engineering enterprise in the city of
Donskoy , Tula region.
The plant was founded to accelerate the production of prototypes and batches of new machines and mechanisms for mines, as well as to conduct experimental work on mechanization and automation of production processes. Subsequently it became one of the flagships of coal engineering. "Electrical Machine Building Plant"

[19] - production of power supplies, on-board electric motors, sensors for monitoring the operation of devices, current converters, etc. The plant is part of the
Aeroelectromash
[20].

Furniture factory " Novo Mebel"

» belonging to the largest manufacturer of cabinet furniture in Eastern Europe[21]

Leather goods factory: Dokofa

— production of high-quality products from natural and artificial leather[22].

Furniture factory: "Mario Rioli"

— modern production of interior doors using Italian technology[23].

Shoe factory "Donskaya Obuv"

- a subsidiary of the Moscow shoe company.
[24]
Today, on the territory of the DMO there are 35 industrial enterprises, 6 construction enterprises, 3 transport enterprises, 1 agricultural production cooperative. To date, 26 joint-stock companies (all industrial enterprises) and 164 limited liability companies have been registered.

The Don municipality produces various products. These are: capacitors, metal-ceramic products, ceramics, fans, electric motors, reinforced concrete products for industrial and prefabricated housing construction, shoes, leather goods and hosiery, furniture and much more.

Provides support and development for medium and small businesses. About 19.8% of the working population is employed in this area alone. Receipts to the city budget from entrepreneurs and small businesses account for 13% of budget income.

The situation on the labor market has remained stable for 5 years. The unemployment rate is significantly lower than the regional average.

There are branches of three banks in the city, and insurance companies operate[25].

House of Culture named after Vladimir Molodtsov

The magnificent House of Culture, designed in the style of Stalinist architecture, was built in the difficult post-war years. It opened in 1951 and was called "Shakhtostroitel". For that time it was a real palace - a snow-white building with classical columns, a beautiful auditorium, and a spacious foyer with a vaulted ceiling. Amateur art groups, a choir, and a brass band immediately started working here. Concerts were held in the auditorium on holidays, and film shows on ordinary days. At dances in the cultural center, Donetsk residents met and relaxed, talked and fell in love. Many married couples began their history together under his roof.

In 1963, the Shakhtostroitel House of Culture became simply “Stroitel”: the coal in the area ran out, and the House of Culture was transferred to Stroytekhnika.

In 1966, in connection with the 55th anniversary of the birth of Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Molodtsov, the House of Culture was given a name. Before the war, Molodtsov worked as a miner in local coal mines. From July 1941 to July 1942, he led a partisan detachment based in the catacombs of Odessa and carried out sabotage attacks on the Romanian occupiers. He was captured and killed by the Nazis.

House of Culture named after Vladimir Molodtsov

In 1988, the Molodtsov House of Culture was transferred to the Don Leather Goods Factory, and in 1996 it became municipal property. In the early 2000s, the Koshevoy Palace of Culture and the Ostrovsky Palace of Culture - Houses of Culture in other microdistricts of the city of Donskoy were annexed to it as branches.

The House of Culture survived the “dashing 90s” and is still open to everyone who loves songs and dances; theatrical, decorative and applied arts.

The central entrance to the building is still decorated with statues of miners. The stadium in the city of Donskoy is also named after Vladimir Molodtsov.

DK address: st. Oktyabrskaya, 91.

Social sphere

The social sphere has received significant development. In cities and towns, the DMO operates: 3 city and 1 children's hospital, a dental clinic, an ambulance station, a children's sanatorium, an outpatient clinic and a maternity hospital, there are 5 hospitals with a number of beds of 845. Classes are conducted in 16 secondary schools and one secondary gymnasium, there are 20 preschool institutions, 6 additional education institutions, a correctional boarding school, 4 vocational schools, 2 technical schools, 7 cultural centers, 2 music schools, 2 sports centers with swimming pools.

Museum of Local Lore

There is a local history museum in one of the estate buildings. There are a lot of different exhibits here. This includes furniture from the Bobrinsky estate, and household items, and ancient books, documents, photographs, and models of mines, and dishes, and paintings, and much more. In general, a most interesting place that can tell the history of this area better than people.

Attractions

Three kilometers from the city of Donskoy, in the village of Bobrik-Gora, the Bobriki estate has been preserved, which was founded by Catherine II and bequeathed to her illegitimate son A.G. Bobrinsky. As of 2011, what remained of the estate were the Spasskaya Church (1778), the tomb of the Bobrinsky counts (architect V. Milinsky, early 19th century) and the estate park - a monument to landscape architecture of the 18th-19th centuries. On the territory of the former estate there is a historical and memorial museum complex “Bobriki” (since 1933)[26].

ZIS-3 gun

The memorial complex was opened on December 10, 1971, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the liberation of the city from fascist invaders. In its center, a 76-mm ZIS-3 cannon is installed on a pedestal, on the left there is a stele with the dates of the Great Patriotic War: 1941-1945, and the words: No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten, on the right there is another stele on which a banner with a military theme is attached .

ZIS-3 gun

Location: st. Herzen.

Tourism

Historical-memorial

The Bobriki museum complex
is one of the oldest museums in the Tula region, created in 1933 as the Museum of the Moscow Region Coal Basin.
In 1996, it was reorganized into the Bobriki historical and memorial museum complex.

The museum is located in the historical part of the city on Bobrik Gora. It was here, on a high picturesque hill at the confluence of the Bobrik and Don rivers, that Catherine II founded in the second half of the 18th century. Bobriki estate, which was inherited by Alexei Grigorievich Bobrinsky, the son of the Empress and Count Grigory Grigorievich Orlov.

The Tula region has become a platform for the implementation of a pilot project for the federal tourist route “Russian Estates”. This project, which will cover several regions of Central Russia, will be implemented for the first time in the country. The “Russian Estates” tourist route also includes the historical and memorial museum complex “Bobriki”, located on the territory of the municipality of the city of Donskoy.

Monument "Two Warriors"

The memorial to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War was erected in 1969 on the site of a mass grave of Soviet soldiers. This is a sculptural group of two Red Army soldiers. One is depicted in an overcoat, the other in a padded jacket, with a PPSh machine gun.

Monument "Two Warriors"

Location: Bobrik-Gora microdistrict.

Notes

1. ↑ 123
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11. www.gks.ru/dbscripts/munst/munst70/DBInet.cgi?pl=8112027 Tula region. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2009-2013
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13. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2013/bul_dr/mun_obr2013.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. Population of urban districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements)]. Retrieved November 16, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6LAdCWSxH Archived from the original on November 16, 2013].
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16. taking into account the cities of Crimea
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18. Official website: www.szez.ru
19. Official website: www.emzdon.ru
20. Official website: aeroem.ru
21. [www.parra.ru PARRA.RU - Home]. www.parra.ru. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
22. Official address: www.dokofa.ru
23. Official address: mariorioli.ru
24. Official address: www.parcom.ru
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An excerpt characterizing Donskoy (Tula region)

But not only did the Russian troops stand only under the protection of weak, unfinished fortifications on August 26, but the disadvantage of this situation was increased by the fact that the Russian military leaders did not recognize the completely accomplished fact (the loss of position on the left flank and the transfer of the entire future battlefield from right to left ), remained in their extended position from the village of Novy to Utitsa and, as a result, had to move their troops during the battle from right to left. Thus, during the entire battle, the Russians had twice as weak forces against the entire French army directed at our left wing. (The actions of Poniatovsky against Utitsa and Uvarov on the right flank of the French were actions separate from the course of the battle.) So, the Battle of Borodino did not happen at all as they describe it (trying to hide the mistakes of our military leaders and, as a result, diminishing the glory of the Russian army and people). The Battle of Borodino did not take place in a chosen and fortified position with forces that were somewhat weaker on the Russian side, but the Battle of Borodino, due to the loss of the Shevardinsky redoubt, was accepted by the Russians in an open, almost unfortified area with forces twice as weak against the French, that is, in such conditions in which it was not only unthinkable to fight for ten hours and make the battle indecisive, but it was unthinkable to keep the army from complete defeat and flight for three hours. On the morning of the 25th, Pierre left Mozhaisk. On the descent from the huge steep and crooked mountain leading out of the city, past the cathedral standing on the mountain to the right, in which a service was going on and the gospel was being preached, Pierre got out of the carriage and went on foot. Behind him, some cavalry regiment with singers in front was descending onto the mountain. A train of carts with those wounded in yesterday's case was rising towards him. The peasant drivers, shouting at the horses and lashing them with whips, ran from one side to the other. The carts, on which three or four wounded soldiers lay and sat, jumped over the stones thrown in the form of a pavement on a steep slope. The wounded, tied with rags, pale, with pursed lips and frowning brows, holding onto the beds, jumped and pushed in the carts. Everyone looked at Pierre's white hat and green tailcoat with almost naive childish curiosity. Pierre's coachman angrily shouted at the convoy of wounded to keep them together. A cavalry regiment, singing, descending from the mountain, approached Pierre's droshky and blocked the road. Pierre stopped, pressing himself against the edge of the road dug into the mountain. Because of the slope of the mountain, the sun did not reach the deepening of the road, it was cold and damp here; It was a bright August morning above Pierre's head, and the ringing of bells resounded cheerfully. One cart with the wounded stopped at the edge of the road near Pierre himself. The driver in bast shoes, out of breath, ran up to his cart, slipped a stone under the rear tireless wheels and began to straighten the harness on his little horse. One wounded old soldier with a bandaged arm, walking behind the cart, took hold of it with his good hand and looked back at Pierre. - Well, fellow countryman, they’ll put us here, or what? Ali to Moscow? - he said. Pierre was so lost in thought that he did not hear the question. He looked first at the cavalry regiment that had now met the train of wounded, then at the cart where he stood and on which two wounded were sitting and one was lying, and it seemed to him that here, in them, lay the solution to the question that was occupying him. One of the soldiers sitting on the cart was probably wounded in the cheek. His whole head was tied with rags, and one cheek was swollen as big as a child's head. His mouth and nose were on one side. This soldier looked at the cathedral and crossed himself. The other, a young boy, a recruit, fair-haired and white, as if completely without blood in his thin face, looked at Pierre with a fixed, kind smile; the third lay face down, and his face was not visible. The choir cavalrymen passed right over the cart. - Oh, it’s gone... yes, the hedgehog’s head... - Yes, they’re tenacious on the other side... - they performed a soldier’s dance song. As if echoing them, but in a different kind of fun, the metallic sounds of ringing were interrupted in the heights. And, in yet another kind of fun, the hot rays of the sun poured over the top of the opposite slope. But under the slope, near the cart with the wounded, next to the out of breath horse where Pierre was standing, it was damp, cloudy and sad. The soldier with a swollen cheek looked angrily at the cavalrymen. - Oh, dandies! – he said reproachfully. “Today I’ve seen not only soldiers, but also peasants!” The peasants are being driven away too,” said the soldier standing behind the cart with a sad smile, addressing Pierre. - Nowadays they don’t understand... They want to attack all the people, one word - Moscow. They want to do one end. “Despite the vagueness of the soldier’s words, Pierre understood everything he wanted to say and nodded his head approvingly. The road cleared, and Pierre went downhill and drove on. Pierre drove along, looking on both sides of the road, looking for familiar faces and everywhere meeting only unfamiliar military faces of different branches of the army, who looked with equal surprise at his white hat and green tailcoat. Having traveled about four miles, he met his first acquaintance and joyfully addressed him. This acquaintance was one of the leading doctors in the army. He was driving towards Pierre in a chaise, sitting next to a young doctor, and, recognizing Pierre, he stopped his Cossack, who was sitting on the box instead of the coachman. - Count! Your Excellency, how are you here? - asked the doctor. - Yes, I wanted to see... - Yes, yes, there will be something to see... Pierre got down and, stopping, talked with the doctor, explaining to him his intention to participate in the battle. The doctor advised Bezukhov to contact His Serene Highness directly. “Why, God knows where you are during a battle, in obscurity,” he said, exchanging glances with his young comrade, “but His Serene Highness still knows you and will receive you graciously.” “So, father, do it,” said the doctor. The doctor seemed tired and in a hurry. - So you think... And I also wanted to ask you, where is the position? - said Pierre. - Position? - said the doctor. - This is not my thing. You will pass Tatarinova, there is a lot of digging going on there. There you will enter the mound: you can see from there,” said the doctor. - And you can see from there?.. If you... But the doctor interrupted him and moved towards the chaise. “I would see you off, yes, by God,” here (the doctor pointed to his throat) I gallop to the corps commander. After all, how is it with us?.. You know, Count, tomorrow there is a battle: for a hundred thousand troops, a small number of twenty thousand wounded must be counted; but we have neither stretchers, nor beds, nor paramedics, nor doctors for six thousand. There are ten thousand carts, but other things are needed; do as you wish. That strange thought that from among those thousands of people alive, healthy, young and old, who looked at his hat with cheerful surprise, there were probably twenty thousand doomed to wounds and death (perhaps the same ones he saw), – Pierre was amazed. They might die tomorrow, why do they think about anything other than death? And suddenly, through some secret connection of thoughts, he vividly imagined the descent from Mozhaisk Mountain, carts with the wounded, the ringing of bells, the slanting rays of the sun and the song of the cavalrymen. “Cavalrymen go to battle and meet the wounded, and do not think for a minute about what awaits them, but walk past and wink at the wounded. And out of all these, twenty thousand are doomed to death, and they are surprised at my hat! Strange!" - thought Pierre, heading further to Tatarinova. At the landowner's house, on the left side of the road, there were carriages, vans, crowds of orderlies and sentries. The brightest stood here. But at the time Pierre arrived, he was not there, and almost no one from the staff was there. Everyone was at the prayer service. Pierre drove forward to Gorki. Having driven up the mountain and into a small street in the village, Pierre saw for the first time militia men with crosses on their hats and in white shirts, who were loudly talking and laughing, animated and sweaty, working something to the right of the road, on a huge mound overgrown with grass. . Some of them were digging a mountain with shovels, others were transporting earth on planks in wheelbarrows, and others stood doing nothing. Two officers stood on the mound, ordering them. Seeing these men, obviously still amused by their new, military situation, Pierre again remembered the wounded soldiers in Mozhaisk, and it became clear to him what the soldier wanted to express when he said that they wanted to attack the whole people. The sight of these bearded men working on the battlefield with their strange clumsy boots, with their sweaty necks and some of their shirts unbuttoned at the slanting collar, from under which the tanned bones of the collarbones were visible, affected Pierre more than anything else he had seen and heard so far. about the solemnity and significance of the present moment. Pierre got out of the carriage and, past the working militia, ascended the mound from which, as the doctor told him, the battlefield could be seen. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning. The sun stood somewhat to the left and behind Pierre and brightly illuminated through the clean, rare air the huge panorama that opened up before him like an amphitheater across the rising terrain. Up and to the left along this amphitheater, cutting it, wound the great Smolensk road, passing through a village with a white church, which lay five hundred steps in front of the mound and below it (this was Borodino). The road crossed under the village across a bridge and, through ups and downs, wound higher and higher to the village of Valuev, visible six miles away (Napoleon was now standing there). Beyond Valuev, the road disappeared into a yellowing forest on the horizon. In this birch and spruce forest, to the right of the direction of the road, the distant cross and bell tower of the Kolotsk Monastery glittered in the sun. Throughout this blue distance, to the right and left of the forest and the road, in different places one could see smoking fires and indefinite masses of our and enemy’s troops. To the right, along the flow of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers, the area was gorged and mountainous. Between their gorges the villages of Bezzubovo and Zakharyino could be seen in the distance. To the left, the terrain was more level, there were fields with grain, and one smoking, burnt village could be seen - Semenovskaya. Everything that Pierre saw to the right and to the left was so vague that neither the left nor the right side of the field completely satisfied his idea. Everywhere there was not the battle that he expected to see, but fields, clearings, troops, forests, smoke from fires, villages, mounds, streams; and no matter how much Pierre tried, he could not find a position in this lively area and could not even distinguish your troops from the enemy. “We need to ask someone who knows,” he thought and turned to the officer, who was looking with curiosity at his huge non-military figure. “Let me ask,” Pierre turned to the officer, “what village is ahead?” - Burdino or what? - said the officer, turning to his comrade with a question. “Borodino,” the other answered, correcting him. The officer, apparently pleased with the opportunity to talk, moved towards Pierre. - Are ours there? asked Pierre. “Yes, and the French are further away,” said the officer. - There they are, visible. - Where? Where? asked Pierre. - You can see it with the naked eye. Yes, here you go! “The officer pointed to the smoke visible to the left across the river, and his face showed that stern and serious expression that Pierre had seen on many faces he met. - Oh, these are the French! And there?.. - Pierre pointed to the left at the mound, near which troops could be seen. - These are ours. - Oh, ours! And there?.. - Pierre pointed to another distant mound with a large tree, near a village visible in the gorge, where fires were also smoking and something was black.