The glorious city of Tommot celebrates its 95th anniversary

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Tommot

(Yakut. Tommot, translated as
Unfreezing
) is a city (since 1923) in the Aldan region of Yakutia. Railroad station.

History and description

The city is located on both banks of the Aldan River (a tributary of the Lena), 390 km from Yakutsk, 65 km from the regional center of the city of Aldana.
Railway station of the Amur-Yakutsk railway line Berkakit - Tommot - Yakutsk.

Tommot owes its appearance to the industrial development of the Aldan region in the 1920s. The city was founded on June 12, 1925, 80 km from the Nezametny mine, next to the Ukulan pier. The first house was founded on June 14, 1925 at the mouth of the Ukulan River at its confluence with Aldan, in a dense pine forest. The city was built, becoming a recreation area for the population of the gold-mining Aldan. Officially, the status of the city was received in 1933.

In 1925-1926, Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin lived and worked in Tommot. In the summer of 1925, there was talk of the need to build a radio station, powerful at that time, on Aldan in Yakutia. Then Papanin was appointed deputy head of construction. The head of the expedition was Pyotr Alekseevich Ostryakov, who had previously worked with V.D. Bonch-Bruevich. Papanin was deputy “for practical issues.” In Tommot, they cut down a site in the taiga and got to work. Papanin had to travel a lot, obtaining either the nails necessary for construction or food for the workers. The situation with food was not good; food was very expensive. The construction work was completed in a year, although the period was two years. Papanin writes that this radio station was the first in Yakutia. He further recalled that it was with the construction of the radio station that the “northern story” of his life began. In 1926 he left for Moscow[2].

The city of Tommot serves as a transport center. The population is employed in transport, distribution and procurement organizations of non-urban importance. The Amur-Yakutskaya railway and the Lena highway pass through the city. On April 22, 2006, a railway bridge across the river, built within the city, was put into operation. Aldan. In the city there is a river pier, an oil depot, woodworking production, a food processing plant, the central estate of the Pyatiletka state farm, the main industries are dairy cattle breeding, agriculture (vegetable and potato growing). There is a House of Culture, a House of Pioneers, secondary, incomplete secondary general education and music schools, a sanatorium-type boarding school, healthcare, trade and consumer services institutions.

On August 16, 1997, the railway came to the city. At first there was only freight traffic, and on August 28, 2004, a railway station was opened, from which a passenger train was launched to Neryungri.

Railroad and road bridges across the Aldan River: the road bridge was built in 1987, the railway bridge opened in 2006.

In the 2010s, uranium mining developed near Tommot (Elkon group of deposits)[3].

The urban settlement “Tommot City” includes: the city of Tommot, the village of Bezymyanny, the village of Yllymakh, the village of Verkhnyaya Amga, the village of Uluu.

The glorious city of Tommot celebrates its 95th anniversary

In 2022, Tommotians celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of their beloved city. Tommot, translated from the Yakut language as “unfreezing”, is located in one of the most beautiful places in Southern Yakutia, on both sides of the mighty Aldan River. The founder of the city, Alesey Alekseevich Semenov, designed a “garden city” and, when cutting down clearings for the construction of houses, they left a natural boulevard of century-old pine and larch trees along the edge of the bank, so the left bank is a recreational area of ​​regional and republican significance. In Soviet times, the legendary Rest House was located here, where workers from all the Aldan mines, families with children and everyone else rested. Since then, a lot has changed, more than one generation of Tommotians has grown up. The village, which once consisted of several households, has turned into a beautiful city, home to about 7,000 people. The history of the city includes more than 20 leaders, under whom the city grew and developed. Currently, Tommot is being transformed under the leadership of the head of the administration, Alexander Vasilyevich Zaveryukh. A lot has been done to improve the city. Construction of new houses is underway to implement the republican targeted program “Resettlement of citizens from emergency housing stock.” A new city hospital was built, playgrounds were equipped, streets were illuminated and roads were repaired.

An anniversary is a whole story, and 95 years is the story, first of all, of the people who lived, live and will live in the city. This holiday is needed not only to remember the history of our small homeland, but also to think about its further development. It is not without reason that they say that in order to look confidently into the future, you need to know your past, your roots and origins. And the Tommotians not only know their past, but are also proud of the achievements and glorious fellow countrymen of all generations, of which, by the way, there are many. Among them are labor veterans and children of war. These people passed through the harsh trials of war and post-war times with honor. And today they serve as living examples for the younger generation.

City Day is celebrated every year. This is a large-scale, colorful event. In 2022, due to the current epidemiological situation, residents of Tommot do not need to go anywhere, and the holiday will come to them, cultural events will be held online. Employees of the Cultural Center prepared events and competitions: “Tommot...Creativity Without Borders”, “Native Voices of Tommot”, “Favorite Yard”, “Tommot Mosaic”, “Order Becomes the City”, taking place as part of the “City of Talents” festival-competition. Video and photographic materials will be accepted until August 10. City residents take an active part in the proposed competitions and send in their creativity. Under the works posted on the Instagram account of the Cultural Center you can see many positive comments: “Well done! I left Tommot so long ago, but it’s always nice to watch cultural holidays take place, Bravo and thank you very much for the emotions you gave!”

The employees of the Cultural Center congratulate residents on City Day and wish them prosperity, development and strengthening of well-being. Young people want to be hardworking, attentive to the older generation, respect the history of the city and continue its glorious traditions. Happy birthday dear Tommot!

Stolypina M.

Climate

The table shows Tommot climate data provided by NASA: air temperature, air humidity, amount of solar radiation, wind speed.

Notes

1. ↑ 12
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   How Maxim Ammosov helped the Papanins // Newspaper “Yakutia”, 11/17/2012]
3. www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/meetings/PDFplus/2009/cn175/URAM2009/Session%204/01_79_Boytsov_Russia.pdf
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   www.MojGorod.ru/r_saha/tommot/index.html People's encyclopedia “My City”. Tommot
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Map

Tommot: photo from space (Google Maps) Tommot: photo from space (Microsoft Virtual Earth)

a brief description of

Located on permafrost, in the north of the Aldan Highlands, on the river. Aldan, the right tributary of the Lena (pier), on the Amur-Yakutsk highway, 451 km south of Yakutsk, 87 km northeast of the city of Aldan (airport). Railway station.

Information about the city of Tommot on the Russian Wikipedia site

Historical sketch

Founded in 1923 in connection with the construction of the Ukulan pier on the river. Aldan. It was a transshipment base for the developing gold mining industry of the Nezametny mine.

In the early 1940s. hunter V.N. Zakharov discovered a deposit of mica - phlogopite (an insulating material). Mining has been carried out since 1942.

The name is from the Yakut tommot “non-freezing”.

Economy

Mining, timber processing industry. Production of building materials.

Main enterprises

FORESTRY, WOOD PROCESSING AND PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY

CJSC "Tommot-les"
678953, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Aldansky district, Tommot, st.
Otechestvennaya, 1 Offers:
Sawlogs, lumber

Excerpt characterizing Tommot

One thing that Pierre now wanted with all the strength of his soul was to quickly get out of those terrible impressions in which he lived that day, return to normal living conditions and fall asleep peacefully in his room on his bed. Only under ordinary conditions of life did he feel that he would be able to understand himself and all that he had seen and experienced. But these ordinary living conditions were nowhere to be found. Although cannonballs and bullets did not whistle here along the road along which he walked, on all sides there was the same thing that was there on the battlefield. There were the same suffering, exhausted and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldiers' greatcoats, the same sounds of shooting, although distant, but still terrifying; In addition, it was stuffy and dusty. Having walked about three miles along the big Mozhaisk road, Pierre sat down on the edge of it. Dusk fell on the ground, and the roar of the guns died down. Pierre, leaning on his arm, lay down and lay there for a long time, looking at the shadows moving past him in the darkness. It constantly seemed to him that a cannonball was flying at him with a terrible whistle; he shuddered and stood up. He didn't remember how long he had been here. In the middle of the night, three soldiers, having brought branches, placed themselves next to him and began to make a fire. The soldiers, looking sideways at Pierre, lit a fire, put a pot on it, crumbled crackers into it and put lard in it. The pleasant smell of edible and fatty food merged with the smell of smoke. Pierre stood up and sighed. The soldiers (there were three of them) ate, not paying attention to Pierre, and talked among themselves. - What kind of person will you be? - one of the soldiers suddenly turned to Pierre, obviously, by this question meaning what Pierre was thinking, namely: if you want something, we will give it to you, just tell me, are you an honest person? - I? me?.. - said Pierre, feeling the need to belittle his social position as much as possible in order to be closer and more understandable to the soldiers. “I am truly a militia officer, only my squad is not here; I came to the battle and lost my own. - Look! - said one of the soldiers. The other soldier shook his head. - Well, eat the mess if you want! - said the first and gave Pierre, licking it, a wooden spoon. Pierre sat down by the fire and began to eat the mess, the food that was in the pot and which seemed to him the most delicious of all the foods that he had ever eaten. While he greedily bent over the pot, picking up large spoons, chewing one after another and his face was visible in the light of the fire, the soldiers silently looked at him. -Where do you want it? You tell me! – one of them asked again. – I’m going to Mozhaisk. - Are you now a master? - Yes. - What’s your name? - Pyotr Kirillovich. - Well, Pyotr Kirillovich, let’s go, we’ll take you. In complete darkness, the soldiers, together with Pierre, went to Mozhaisk. The roosters were already crowing when they reached Mozhaisk and began to climb the steep city mountain. Pierre walked along with the soldiers, completely forgetting that his inn was below the mountain and that he had already passed it. He would not have remembered this (he was in such a state of loss) if his guard, who went to look for him around the city and returned back to his inn, had not encountered him halfway up the mountain. The bereitor recognized Pierre by his hat, which was turning white in the darkness. “Your Excellency,” he said, “we are already desperate.” Why are you walking? Where are you going, please? “Oh yes,” said Pierre. The soldiers paused. - Well, have you found yours? - said one of them. - Well, goodbye! Pyotr Kirillovich, I think? Farewell, Pyotr Kirillovich! - said other voices. “Goodbye,” said Pierre and headed with his driver to the inn. “We have to give it to them!” - Pierre thought, taking his pocket. “No, don’t,” a voice told him. There was no room in the upper rooms of the inn: everyone was occupied. Pierre went into the yard and, covering his head, lay down in his carriage. As soon as Pierre laid his head on the pillow, he felt that he was falling asleep; but suddenly, with the clarity of almost reality, a boom, boom, boom of shots was heard, groans, screams, the splashing of shells were heard, the smell of blood and gunpowder, and a feeling of horror, the fear of death, overwhelmed him. He opened his eyes in fear and raised his head from under his overcoat. Everything was quiet in the yard. Only at the gate, talking to the janitor and splashing through the mud, was some orderly walking. Above Pierre's head, under the dark underside of the plank canopy, doves fluttered from the movement he made while rising. Throughout the yard there was a peaceful, joyful for Pierre at that moment, strong smell of an inn, the smell of hay, manure and tar. Between two black canopies a clear starry sky was visible. “Thank God this isn’t happening anymore,” thought Pierre, covering his head again. - Oh, how terrible fear is and how shamefully I surrendered to it! And they... they were firm and calm all the time, until the end... - he thought. In Pierre's concept, they were soldiers - those who were at the battery, and those who fed him, and those who prayed to the icon. They - these strange ones, hitherto unknown to him, were clearly and sharply separated in his thoughts from all other people. “To be a soldier, just a soldier! - thought Pierre, falling asleep. – Enter into this common life with your whole being, imbued with what makes them so. But how can one throw off all this unnecessary, devilish, all the burden of this external man? At one time I could have been this. I could run away from my father as much as I wanted. Even after the duel with Dolokhov, I could have been sent as a soldier.” And in Pierre’s imagination flashed a dinner at a club, at which he called Dolokhov, and a benefactor in Torzhok. And now Pierre is presented with a ceremonial dining room. This lodge takes place in the English Club. And someone familiar, close, dear, sits at the end of the table. Yes it is! This is a benefactor. “But he died? - thought Pierre. - Yes, he died; but I didn't know he was alive. And how sorry I am that he died, and how glad I am that he is alive again!” On one side of the table sat Anatole, Dolokhov, Nesvitsky, Denisov and others like him (the category of these people was as clearly defined in Pierre’s soul in the dream as the category of those people whom he called them), and these people, Anatole, Dolokhov they shouted and sang loudly; but from behind their shout the voice of the benefactor could be heard, speaking incessantly, and the sound of his words was as significant and continuous as the roar of the battlefield, but it was pleasant and comforting. Pierre did not understand what the benefactor was saying, but he knew (the category of thoughts was just as clear in the dream) that the benefactor was talking about goodness, about the possibility of being what they were. And they surrounded the benefactor on all sides, with their simple, kind, firm faces. But although they were kind, they did not look at Pierre, did not know him. Pierre wanted to attract their attention and say. He stood up, but at the same moment his legs became cold and exposed.