Lesnoy town: history, attractions, photos

Lesnoy town is a part urban district "City Lesnoy" – closed administrative-territorial entity. This urban district also includes villages Elkino, Taiga, Bushuevka, Chashchavita. total area urban district "City Lesnoy" is 360.7 sq. km. The number of residents in the city district reaches more than 50 thousand people.

of Lesnoy is located in the north of the Sverdlovsk region , 254 km from Yekaterinburg . The unique appearance of the city is made up of the picturesque taiga forests with which it is surrounded.

City `s history

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In 1947, on the site where the city is now located, the government of the country decided to build a scientific enterprise for electromagnetic isotope separation. Construction proceeded very quickly - the industrial buildings of the future workshops were erected in the shortest possible time, the operation of the equipment was established, and the first products were produced. Construction of a village begins next to the enterprise.

People from various social strata contributed to the construction and development of the village: military personnel, young specialists and graduates of universities and technical schools, workers from neighboring settlements, representatives of the country's scientific elite. A year later, the first wooden houses appeared in the village, and by the early 1950s, the village had already developed social infrastructure, including: a kindergarten, a secondary school, a medical unit, a youth club and others. In 1954, the village received the status of a city, and from this year it began to be called Sverdlovsk-45 .

For 40 years, the city's activities were kept in the strictest confidence, and the city itself was not even displayed on maps.

The closed administrative-territorial formation Sverdlovsk-45 its official geographical name, familiar to modern people - “Lesnoy City” in 1994. Two years later, Lesnoy becomes the center of the municipality. And since 2006, “Lesnoy City” has become an urban district.

Economy

The basis of the economy of the urban district "City of Lesnoy" is industry, the main industry is mechanical engineering. The city-forming enterprise is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Electrokhimpribor Plant" - a diversified enterprise that produces military products, including disposal, assembly of nuclear weapons, production of stable isotopes, civilian products, consumer goods, and also implements a number of conversion projects. General Director - Andrey Novikov.

Construction is the second most important sector of the city's economy. One of the largest construction organizations in the region is located here - JV Severouralskoe Construction Management OJSC, which went bankrupt in 2013.[9] Intracity and intercity transportation services are provided by Autotransport Enterprise OJSC. A special place in the city’s economy is occupied by public utilities and public service enterprises: MUP “Improvement Plant”, MUP “Energoseti”, municipal unitary “Industrial Housing Repair and Maintenance Enterprise”, MUP LLC “VAF” and many others. The municipality's income from the use of city property in 2010 will amount to more than 600 million rubles. or 30% of the budget.

In Lesnoy there are food industry production facilities: bakery products MUP "Khlebokombinat", feed milling, flour milling, dairy LLC "Agroprom" and others. On the territory of the city there are more than 300 trade and public catering facilities, about 500 small enterprises and institutions of various forms of ownership and areas of activity.

The financial and credit market in Lesnoy is served by branches of 7 commercial banks. The main factor hindering the economic development of the city is the lack of free circulation of land (the sale of land is de facto prohibited; it is leased for 49 years). However, in the city territories annexed in 2006 (about 25%) of urban lands, there is a free circulation of land previously acquired into ownership.

Lesnoy today

Today, life in the city is practically no different from life in the open cities of Russia - there are branches of political parties, youth and children's organizations, associations of veterans and disabled people, a women's council, as well as creative and sports associations of various types.

photo: https://gorodarus.ru/lesnoj.html

You can enter the city only with a pass; as a rule, it is issued only if there are close relatives in the city. But even in this case, the process of obtaining permission to enter the city is quite complicated: the procedure will take a lot of time and effort.

Notes

1. ↑ 12
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3. [archive.is/20130103184250/www.istrodina.com/rodina_articul.php3?id=250&n=14 A. Bedel. Our response to Truman]
4. [www.proatom.ru/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2352 E. Korchagin. Creation of the nuclear shield of the Fatherland]
5. [www.nr2.ru/74856.html Rosatom: 13 briquettes of uranium shavings burned at Elektrokhimpribor]
6. [www.svobodanews.ru/Article/2006/07/17/20060717190714983.html Uranium-238 burned during the fire at the Elektrokhimpribor plant]
7. [www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2006/07/17/20060717183452157.html Fire at the uranium warehouse of the Elektrokhimpribor plant]
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   www.MojGorod.ru/sverdlov_obl/lesnoj/index.html People's encyclopedia “My City”. Forest
9. [www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls All-Russian Population Census 2002. Volume. 1, table 4. Population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, districts, urban settlements, rural settlements - regional centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more]. [www.webcitation.org/65AdCU0q3 Archived from the original on February 3, 2012].
10. [www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b08_14t/IssWWW.exe/Stg/ur/03-00.htm Administrative-territorial division of the Sverdlovsk region as of January 1, 2008]. Retrieved May 11, 2016. [www.webcitation.org/6hQQf5WLh Archived from the original on May 11, 2016].
11. [www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B09_109/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/tabl-21-09.xls Number of permanent population of the Russian Federation by cities, urban-type settlements and districts as of January 1, 2009]. Retrieved January 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6MJmu0z1u Archived from the original on January 2, 2014].
12. [sverdl.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/sverdl/resources/c081bf004cb2e2e8b07efb98f842dd0b/number and distribution of the population of the Sverdlovsk region.rar All-Russian population census 2010. Number and distribution of the population of the Sverdlovsk region]. Retrieved June 1, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6Q0e0rzaI Archived from the original on June 1, 2014].
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14. [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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17. [urbc.ru/1068009283-sp-oao-severouralskoe-upravlenie-stroitelstva-priznano-bankrotom.html JV Severouralskoe Construction Management OJSC declared bankrupt]
18. [www.forbes.ru/stil-zhizni-slideshow/66925-goroda/slide/4 10 closed cities in Russia that are worth visiting]

Sights of Lesnoy

In the city of Lesnoy there are houses of culture and clubs, libraries, a museum and exhibition complex, a park of culture and recreation, and a cinema. However, the most famous and interesting attraction of the city is Workshop 001 - a structure hiding under its roof a 21-meter magnet weighing more than 6 thousand tons.

Another interesting landmark of the city is the Lutheran Church , built in 1901. In the 60s, the building was expanded and a second floor was added. Since 2010, the religious building came under the control of the Orthodox Church.

Also worth a visit is the Historical Museum , opened in 1968 by the city council. Today, there are more than 7 thousand different exhibits located here. The most popular of them are stuffed animals, in particular bear, wolf, elk, lynx, as well as fish and birds.

photo: https://gorodarus.ru/lesnoj.html

Also on the territory of the urban district, in the village of Elkino , there is an object of historical significance - the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker .

Famous foresters

• Bragin, Valery Nikolaevich (b. 1956) - Soviet hockey player, Russian hockey coach. Born in Sverdlovsk-45.
• Glatskikh, Olga Vyacheslavovna (b. 1989) - Russian rhythmic gymnast. Olympic champion in group exercises (2004). Born in Sverdlovsk-45.
• Zamyatin, Dmitry Nikolaevich (b. 1962) - Russian geographer, cultural scientist, essayist, poet. Born and lived in Sverdlovsk-45 before moving with his parents to Obninsk in 1971.
• Malsky, Anatoly Yakovlevich (1909-1989) - Soviet economic figure, engineer. Twice Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1943, for participation in the creation of an explosive mixture exceeding in degree of detonation all existing at that time; 1949, for testing the first atomic charge), Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1961, for work on the serial production of warheads for missiles), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Lived in Sverdlovsk-45 from 1953 to 1971 - before moving to Obninsk. He worked as deputy director (1953-1955), then director (1955-1971) of enterprise No. 975.
• Polygalov, Vasily Afanasyevich (1921-2007) - Soviet military man, participant in World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). Commandant of Sverdlovsk-45 in 1953-1965. After being transferred to the reserve, he moved to Krasnodar.
• Popov, Alexander Vladimirovich (b. 1971) - Russian swimmer, sports functionary. Four-time Olympic champion, six-time world champion, twenty-one-time European champion. Born in Sverdlovsk-45.
• Prokofiev, Andrei Vasilievich (1959-1989) - Soviet track and field athlete. Olympic champion (1980), European champion (1982). Born in Sverdlovsk-45.
• Protsenko, Mikhail Vasilyevich (1914-2003) - Soviet economic figure. He lived in Sverdlovsk-45 and worked as a director of factories under construction in 1950-1955.
• Romanchenko, Alexander Efimovich (b. 1922) - Soviet and Russian physicist, specialist in the field of accelerator physics. From 1950 to 1962, before moving to Obninsk, he worked in Sverdlovsk-45 at plant No. 418. Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1961, for work on the serial production of warheads for missiles, as part of a group of specialists led by A. Ya. Malsky) .
• Sirotin, Viktor Nikolaevich (1922-1991) - Soviet military pilot, participant in World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). Since 1954, after moving from Nizhny Tagil, he lived in Sverdlovsk-45 and worked until his retirement in 1987 as a lawyer at the Elektrokhimpribor plant.
• Stefanenko, Natalya (b. 1971) - Italian and Russian model, TV presenter, actress. She was born and lived in Sverdlovsk-45 before entering the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.
• Tereshkin, Oleg Viktorovich (1971-1995) - deputy platoon commander in the special forces detachment "Rosich" of the North Caucasus District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, warrant officer. Died during the First Chechen War; Hero of the Russian Federation (1996, posthumously). Born in Sverdlovsk-45, graduated from SPTU-78 with a degree in mechanical engineering. After completing military service in the special forces detachment “Vityaz” of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, he worked as an inspector of the fire department in Sverdlovsk-45 - until returning to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1994.
• Churina, Anna Valerievna (b. 1978) - Russian actress. Born in Sverdlovsk-45.

An excerpt characterizing Lesnoy (city)

It would seem that in those almost unimaginably difficult conditions of existence in which Russian soldiers found themselves at that time - without warm boots, without sheepskin coats, without a roof over their heads, in the snow at 18° below zero, without even the full amount of provisions, it would not always be possible to keeping up with the army - it seemed that the soldiers should have presented the saddest and most depressing sight. On the contrary, never, in the best material conditions, has the army presented a more cheerful, lively spectacle. This happened because every day everything that began to despondency or weaken was thrown out of the army. Everything that was physically and morally weak had long been left behind: only one color of the army remained - in terms of strength of spirit and body. The largest number of people gathered at the 8th company, which bordered the fence. Two sergeants sat down next to them, and their fire burned brighter than others. They demanded an offering of firewood for the right to sit under the fence. - Hey, Makeev, what are you... disappeared or were you eaten by wolves? “Bring some wood,” shouted one red-haired soldier, squinting and blinking from the smoke, but not moving away from the fire. “Go ahead and carry some wood, crow,” this soldier turned to another. Red was not a non-commissioned officer or a corporal, but he was a healthy soldier, and therefore commanded those who were weaker than him. A thin, small soldier with a sharp nose, who was called a crow, obediently stood up and went to carry out the order, but at that time the thin, beautiful figure of a young soldier carrying a load of firewood entered the light of the fire. - Come here. That's important! They broke the firewood, pressed it, blew it with their mouths and overcoat skirts, and the flames hissed and crackled. The soldiers moved closer and lit their pipes. The young, handsome soldier who had brought the firewood leaned his hands on his hips and began to quickly and deftly stamp his chilled feet in place. “Ah, mamma, the cold dew is good, and like a musketeer...” he chanted, as if hiccupping on every syllable of the song. - Hey, the soles will fly off! – the red-haired man shouted, noticing that the dancer’s sole was dangling. - What poison to dance! The dancer stopped, tore off the dangling skin and threw it into the fire. “And that, brother,” he said; and, sitting down, took a piece of French blue cloth from his knapsack and began to wrap it around his leg. “We’ve had a couple of hours,” he added, stretching his legs towards the fire. - New ones will be released soon. They say, we'll beat you to the last ounce, then everyone will get double goods. “And you see, son of a bitch Petrov, he’s fallen behind,” said the sergeant major. “I’ve noticed him for a long time,” said another. - Why, little soldier... - And in the third company, they said, nine people were missing yesterday. - Yes, judge how your feet ache, where will you go? - Eh, this is empty talk! - said the sergeant major. “Ali, do you want the same thing?” - said the old soldier, reproachfully turning to the one who said that his legs were chilling. – What do you think? - suddenly rising from behind the fire, a sharp-nosed soldier, who was called a crow, spoke in a squeaky and trembling voice. - He who is smooth will lose weight, but the skinny will die. At least I would. “I have no urine,” he said suddenly decisively, turning to the sergeant major, “they told me to send him to the hospital, the pain has overcome me; otherwise you’ll still fall behind... “Well, yes, yes,” the sergeant major said calmly. The soldier fell silent and the conversation continued. “Today you never know how many of these Frenchmen they took; and, to put it bluntly, none of them are wearing real boots, just a name,” one of the soldiers began a new conversation. - All the Cossacks struck. They cleaned the hut for the colonel and took them out. It’s a pity to watch, guys,” said the dancer. - They tore them apart: so the living one, believe it, babbles something in his own way. “They’re pure people, guys,” said the first. - White, just like a birch is white, and there are brave ones, say, noble ones. - How do you think? He has recruited from all ranks. “But they don’t know anything our way,” the dancer said with a smile of bewilderment. “I say to him: “Whose crown?”, and he babbles his own. Wonderful people! “It’s strange, my brothers,” continued the one who was amazed at their whiteness, “the men near Mozhaisk said how they began to remove the beaten, where the guards were, so after all, he says, theirs lay dead for almost a month.” Well, he says, it lies there, he says, theirs is how the paper is white, clean, and doesn’t smell of gunpowder. - Well, from the cold, or what? - one asked. - You're so smart! By cold! It was hot. If only for the cold, ours wouldn’t have gone rotten either. Otherwise, he says, when you come up to ours, he’s all rotten with worms, he says. So, he says, we’ll tie ourselves with scarves, and, turning our muzzle away, we’ll drag him; no urine. And theirs, he says, is as white as paper; There is no smell of gunpowder. Everyone was silent. “It must be from the food,” said the sergeant major, “they ate the master’s food.” Nobody objected. “This man said, near Mozhaisk, where there was a guard, they were driven away from ten villages, they carried twenty days, they didn’t bring all of them, they were dead. What are these wolves, he says... “That guard was real,” said the old soldier. - There was only something to remember; and then everything after that... So, it’s just torment for the people. - And that, uncle. The day before yesterday we came running, so where they won’t let us get to them. The guns were quickly abandoned. On your knees. Sorry, he says. So, just one example. They said that Platov took Polion himself twice. Doesn't know the words. He’ll take it: he’ll pretend to be a bird in his hands, fly away, and fly away. And there is no position to kill either. “It’s okay to lie, Kiselev, I’ll look at you.” - What a lie, the truth is true. “If it were my custom, I would have caught him and buried him in the ground.” Yes, with an aspen stake. And what he ruined for the people. “We’ll do it all, he won’t walk,” said the old soldier, yawning. The conversation fell silent, the soldiers began to pack up. - See, the stars, passion, are burning! “Tell me, the women have laid out the canvases,” said the soldier, admiring the Milky Way. - This, guys, is for a good year. “We’ll still need some wood.” “You’ll warm your back, but your belly is frozen.” What a miracle. - Oh my God! - Why are you pushing, is the fire about you alone, or what? See... it fell apart. From behind the established silence, the snoring of some who had fallen asleep was heard; the rest turned and warmed themselves, occasionally talking to each other. A friendly, cheerful laugh was heard from the distant fire, about a hundred paces away. “Look, they’re roaring in the fifth company,” said one soldier. – And what a passion for the people! One soldier got up and went to the fifth company. “It’s laughter,” he said, returning. - Two guards have arrived. One is completely frozen, and the other is so courageous, dammit! Songs are playing. - Oh oh? go have a look... - Several soldiers headed towards the fifth company. The fifth company stood near the forest itself. A huge fire burned brightly in the middle of the snow, illuminating the tree branches weighed down with frost. In the middle of the night, soldiers of the fifth company heard footsteps in the snow and the crunching of branches in the forest. “Guys, it’s a witch,” said one soldier. Everyone raised their heads, listened, and out of the forest, into the bright light of the fire, two strangely dressed human figures stepped out, holding each other. These were two Frenchmen hiding in the forest. Hoarsely saying something in a language incomprehensible to the soldiers, they approached the fire. One was taller, wearing an officer's hat, and seemed completely weakened. Approaching the fire, he wanted to sit down, but fell to the ground. The other, small, stocky soldier with a scarf tied around his cheeks, was stronger. He raised his comrade and, pointing to his mouth, said something. The soldiers surrounded the French, laid out an overcoat for the sick man, and brought porridge and vodka to both of them. The weakened French officer was Rambal; tied with a scarf was his orderly Morel. When Morel drank vodka and finished a pot of porridge, he suddenly became painfully cheerful and began to continuously say something to the soldiers who did not understand him. Rambal refused to eat and silently lay on his elbow by the fire, looking at the Russian soldiers with meaningless red eyes. Occasionally he would let out a long groan and then fall silent again. Morel, pointing to his shoulders, convinced the soldiers that it was an officer and that he needed to be warmed up. The Russian officer, who approached the fire, sent to ask the colonel if he would take the French officer to warm him up; and when they returned and said that the colonel had ordered an officer to be brought, Rambal was told to go. He stood up and wanted to walk, but he staggered and would have fallen if the soldier standing next to him had not supported him. - What? You will not? – one soldier said with a mocking wink, turning to Rambal. - Eh, fool! Why are you lying awkwardly! It’s a man, really, a man,” reproaches to the joking soldier were heard from different sides. They surrounded Rambal, lifted him into his arms, grabbed him, and carried him to the hut. Rambal hugged the necks of the soldiers and, when they carried him, spoke plaintively: “Oh, nies braves, oh, mes bons, mes bons amis!” Voila des hommes! oh, mes braves, mes bons amis! [Oh well done! O my good, good friends! Here are the people! Oh my good friends!] - and, like a child, he leaned his head on the shoulder of one soldier. Meanwhile, Morel sat in the best place, surrounded by soldiers. Morel, a short, stocky Frenchman, with bloodshot, watery eyes, tied like a woman's scarf over his cap, was dressed in a woman's fur coat. He, apparently drunk, put his arm around the soldier sitting next to him and sang a French song in a hoarse, intermittent voice. The soldiers held their sides, looking at him. - Come on, come on, teach me how? I'll take over quickly. How?.. - said the joker songwriter, who was hugged by Morel. Vive Henri Quatre, Vive ce roi vaillanti – [Long live Henry the Fourth! Long live this brave king! etc. (French song)] sang Morel, winking his eye. Se diable a quatre... - Vivarika! Vif seruvaru! sit-down... - the soldier repeated, waving his hand and really catching the tune. - Look, clever! Go go go go!.. - rough, joyful laughter rose from different sides. Morel, wincing, laughed too. - Well, go ahead, go ahead! Qui eut le triple talent, De boire, de battre, Et d'etre un vert galant... [Having triple talent, drinking, fighting and being an amiable...] - But it’s also neat. Well, well, Zaletaev!.. “Kyu...” Zaletaev said with effort. “Kyu yu yu...” he drawled, carefully protruding his lips, “letriptala, de bu de ba and detravagala,” he sang. - Hey, it’s important! That's it, guardian! oh... go go go! - Well, do you want to eat more? - Give him some porridge; After all, it won’t be long before he gets enough of hunger. Again they gave him porridge; and Morel, chuckling, began to work on the third pot. Joyful smiles were on all the faces of the young soldiers looking at Morel. The old soldiers, who considered it indecent to engage in such trifles, lay on the other side of the fire, but occasionally, raising themselves on their elbows, they looked at Morel with a smile.