The city of Buturlinovka, beginning. XXI century |
Buturlinovka
, a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Buturlinovsky district of the Voronezh region, the second cathedral city and the center of the Buturlinovsky deanery of the Boris and Gleb diocese. Located on the northern outskirts of the Kalach Upland, on the Osered River (tributary of the Don), 52 km northeast of Pavlovsk and 133 km (as the crow flies) southeast of Voronezh. Population 27.2 thousand people [1].
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Official historical documents report that in the 1740s, near the then deep tributary of the Don River Osered, on the land “granted” by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to Count Alexander Borisovich Buturlin (1694-1767), a small village appeared.
It was founded by Ukrainians, whom the count’s manager “invited to free lands.” In the middle of the 19th century, the settlement ranked second in the province in terms of population and industrial activity after Voronezh. Buturlinovka, losing the features of a rural village, increasingly became a handicraft-industrial center, trade was well developed. A hotel and several inns were built to serve visitors. In the settlement there were 86 windmills and 35 roller mills, which were engaged in grinding grain.
By the end of the 19th century, Buturlinovka became one of the largest and most significant centers for processing agricultural raw materials, mainly livestock. Here leather and sheepskin were tanned, sheepskin coats were sewn and boots were made. Blacksmithing also developed.
Sloboda Buturlinovka, con. XIX - early XX centuries |
At the beginning of the century, about 30 thousand people lived in the settlement, there were 6 Orthodox churches, a zemstvo hospital, a pharmacy, an almshouse, 4 schools, 2 distilleries, 3 brick factories, 90 tanneries and one steam mill and 86 windmills.
5 fairs were held annually. In 1917, Buturlinovka was given city status.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the city had a flour mill, a bakery, a meat and poultry plant, and factories for alcohol, butter, distillery, canning, reinforced concrete products, and expanded clay gravel [2].
Statistics
- OK. 1760 - approx. 5 thousand people
- 1897 - 23.5 thousand people
- 1926 - 27.5 thousand people
- 1959 - 13.3 thousand people
- 1979 - 23.6 thousand people
- 1992 - 29 thousand people
- 2002 - 28.6 thousand people
Story
In 1740, the Buturlinovka settlement was founded on the lands of Count Alexander Borisovich Buturlin, donated to him by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The population consisted of immigrants from Little Russia. Since 1779 it was part of Bobrovsky district.
On the general map of the Voronezh province in 1829 it is designated as “Petrovskoye, or Buturlinovka.”
Since the 2nd half of the 19th century, Buturlinovka was a trade and craft settlement, one of the centers of leather production in the Voronezh province. At the end of the 19th century, up to a million pairs of boots were produced here every year. Each pair made in Buturlinovka was sold throughout the Russian Empire, including to the royal family.
Since 1896, the steam mill of the Kashchenko merchants operated. In the 1860-1870s. B. S. Poznansky worked at the distillery, his impressions were reflected in the essay “Voronezh crests” (Kiev Antiquity. 1885. No. 4). In 1869-1876. memoirist V. A. Tikhonov worked as a school teacher; this period is covered in his memoirs “Twenty-five years in government service” (St. Petersburg, 1912). In 1900, in the settlement of Buturlinovka there was a zemstvo hospital, an almshouse, 4 schools, 2 distilleries, 3 brick factories, a steam room and 86 windmills.
On July 17, 1917, Buturlinovka received city status.
Since September 9, 1917, the newspaper “Buturlinovskaya Zhizn” has been published. Editor - "Editorial Commission", Publisher - "Share Partnership".
During the Civil War, fierce battles took place near Buturlinovka. On November 23, 1919, Buturlinovka was finally occupied by the division of M.F. Blinov, who died in battle (in 1967, a monument was erected at the site of his death). Military and party leaders M. N. Tukhachevsky, I. E. Yakir, F. K. Mironov, V. A. Trifonov visited the house where the headquarters of military units were located (Kommunisticheskaya St., 5).
In January 1924, the Buturlinovsky Vicariate of the Voronezh Diocese was established, it was headed by: in 1924 - Bishop. Mitrofan (Polikarpov), in 1925 - bishop. Mitrofan (Rusinov), in 1929-1931. - ep. Vasily (Belyaev), in 1931-1933. - ep. Methodius (Abramkin).
In the summer of 1943, the headquarters of the 5th Aviation Corps (82 Krasnaya St.), commanded by Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General N.P. Kamanin, was located in Buturlinovka. Since 1993, the 899th Guards Assault Orsha Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov III Class Aviation Regiment named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky has been based on the outskirts of Buturlinovka.
In 1945, mill equipment was brought from Germany.
Hero of the Soviet Union (Afghan War 1979-1989) S. V. Igolchenko lives in Buturlinovka.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the city of Buturlinovka was approved by the decision of the executive committee of the city Council of Deputies dated January 30, 1990 No. 49. Author: Surkova Valentina Tikhonovna.
The city's coat of arms is a heraldic shield. At the top of the coat of arms on a white background is the inscription: “Buturlinovka.” In the center of the shield, on an ocher background, symbolizing the fertility of the earth, there is a Russian boat with a sail made in the shape of an oak leaf. Geographically, the settlement is located on the banks of the Osered River, a tributary of the Don River. The hills approaching the river are covered with the Shipovaya oak grove, a forest that was used to build ships at the Pavlovsk shipyard.
Under the rook there is an open white book - a symbol of the youth city. At the bottom of the shield there is part of a gear and a spike, symbolizing local industry and agriculture. The date of the first settlements in these places “1740” is also located here.
Where to stay
Hotel "Kupechaya" (Krasnaya str., 90). Rooms from 1500 rub. There is free wi-fi, guarded parking. Each room has a kitchen with utensils, a microwave, a bathroom, a refrigerator, a TV, and air conditioning.
Hotel "Grand" (Dorozhnaya str., 38). A place in a shared triple room is 500 rubles, a double room with private facilities is 2500 rubles.
Tourist base "Golden Sazan" in the village of Karaichevka, tel. +7 (920) 211-49-98. Coordinates 50.912502, 40.311809. Accommodation in camping (RUR 1,937), hut houses (RUR 2,037), huts (RUR 2,137), rooms (RUR 2,337 for a standard room). There is fishing, horse riding.
Economy
In Buturlinovka there are enterprises of the food and processing industries, light industry, as well as the construction industry - about twenty in total, some of which did not survive the economic crisis of the 1990s. The following enterprises are currently operating:
- flour mill, bakery, meat and poultry plant
- Buturlinovsky Distillery
- Buturlinovsky reinforced concrete products plant
Under the city there are rich deposits of chalk, clay, sand; At present, however, they are not being developed, since industrial enterprises are closed.
In the Buturlinovsky district they grow wheat, corn, rye, barley, buckwheat, peas, but above all sunflower in large quantities. Pig and dairy farms have been built where cattle and pigs are bred.
In 2022, construction of the first stage of the 220/110/10 kV Buturlinovka electrical substation was completed. The substation is located on the North-Eastern outskirts of the city. The substation includes an outdoor switchgear-220 kV, an outdoor switchgear-110 kV, two autotransformers with a capacity of 125 MVA, a general substation control center combined with an indoor switchgear-10 kV, and auxiliary systems. Simultaneously with the substation, a 220 kV single-circuit power supply line “Novovoronezh NPP-2 - Buturlinovka” with a length of 120.3 km was built. In April 2022, the substation and the 220 kV overhead line feeding it were brought to operating voltage.
Notes
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- [butur-rn.ru/poseleniya/buturl/ About the settlement] (Russian). Official website of Buturlinovsky municipal district. Retrieved September 11, 2011. [www.webcitation.org/65E5J751o Archived from the original on February 5, 2012].
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Historical and architectural monuments
- Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral (built in 1886-1893).
- Kashchenko Estate (located at: Lenin St., 28)
- Parish school (XX century)
- Zemstvo Hospital (built at the end of the 19th century)
- Monument to V.I. Lenin
- Monument to M. F. Blinov, a participant in the Civil War of 1918-1922 on the side of the “Reds”
- Memorial to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
- Monument to the “internationalist” soldiers in the Internationalists Park
- Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Lenin Street, 292 (built in 1871)
- Church of Theodosius of Pechersk (built in 1882)
- Holy Cross Church on Popkova Street (built in 1843)
- Monument aircraft "Su-25"
- The MiG-21UM aircraft monument installed on the road at the entrance to the Buturlinovka airfield
- Buturlinovsky Church in the name of the Great Martyr George the Victorious
- Monument to Emperor Alexander II.
Famous Buturlinovites
The following people were born in Buturlinovka:
- Alexander Alekseevich Buchkuri (1870-1942) - artist, student of Ilya Repin.
- Maria Romanovna Grichanova (1922-2015) - participant in the Great Patriotic War and the Soviet-Japanese War, captain of the medical service.
- Pavel Nikolaevich Dyuzhikov (1836-1890) - Russian opera singer.
- Nikolai Yakovlevich Kolodiev (1909-1940) - polar explorer-hydrographer.
- Vladimir Viktorovich Kryukov (1897-1959) - Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant general.
- Andrey Porfiryevich Srebryansky (1809-1838) - poet, first editor of poems by A. V. Koltsov.
- Panichkin Nikolai Georgievich (1944 - ) - scientist in the field of rocket and space technology, laureate of four State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.
The following people lived in Buturlinovka for some time:
- Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin (1763-1829) - director of the Hermitage, collector, bibliophile.
- B. S. Poznansky.
- V. A. Tikhonov is a memoirist.
- S. A. Anikin - Hero of the Russian Federation (2000)[19]
Population
Population | |||||||||
1877 | 1897 | 1926 | 1931 | 1939 | 1959 | 1967 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 |
23 963 | ↘23 500 | ↗27 500 | ↘25 200 | ↘11 400 | ↗13 288 | ↗23 000 | ↘21 643 | ↗23 607 | ↗29 258 |
1992 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
↘29 000 | ↘28 500 | ↘27 700 | ↘26 600 | ↘26 100 | ↗28 627 | ↘28 600 | ↘27 300 | ↘26 800 | ↘26 200 |
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | ||
↘25 800 | ↘25 391 | ↗27 208 | ↘27 200 | ↘26 543 | ↘26 108 | ↘25 684 | ↘25 230 |
In the middle of the 19th century, 22 thousand people lived in Buturlinovka. In terms of population, Buturlinovka was in second place in the province after Voronezh. According to the 1877 census, there were 23,963 residents in the Buturlinovka settlement. In 1897, 23,443 people lived in the settlement.
An excerpt characterizing Buturlinovka
It was not difficult to say “tomorrow” and maintain a tone of decency; but to come home alone, to see your sisters, brother, mother, father, to confess and ask for money to which you have no right after your word of honor was given. We weren't sleeping at home yet. The youth of the Rostov house, having returned from the theater, having had dinner, sat at the clavichord. As soon as Nikolai entered the hall, he was overwhelmed by that loving, poetic atmosphere that reigned in their house that winter and which now, after Dolokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to thicken even more, like the air before a thunderstorm, over Sonya and Natasha. Sonya and Natasha, in the blue dresses they wore at the theater, pretty and knowing it, happy, smiling, stood at the clavichord. Vera and Shinshin were playing chess in the living room. The old countess, waiting for her son and husband, was playing solitaire with an old noblewoman who lived in their house. Denisov, with shining eyes and tousled hair, sat with his leg thrown back at the clavichord, clapping them with his short fingers, striking chords, and rolling his eyes, in his small, hoarse, but faithful voice, sang the poem he had composed, “The Sorceress,” to which he was trying to find music. Sorceress, tell me what force draws me to the abandoned strings; What fire did you plant in your heart, what delight spread through your fingers! He sang in a passionate voice, shining at the frightened and happy Natasha with his agate, black eyes. - Wonderful! Great! – Natasha shouted. “Another verse,” she said, not noticing Nikolai. “They have everything the same,” thought Nikolai, looking into the living room, where he saw Vera and his mother with the old woman. - A! Here comes Nikolenka! – Natasha ran up to him. - Is daddy at home? - he asked. – I’m so glad you came! – Natasha said without answering, “we’re having so much fun.” Vasily Dmitrich remains for me one more day, you know? “No, dad hasn’t come yet,” said Sonya. - Coco, you have arrived, come to me, my friend! - said the countess's voice from the living room. Nikolai approached his mother, kissed her hand and, silently sitting down at her table, began to look at her hands, laying out the cards. Laughter and cheerful voices were still heard from the hall, persuading Natasha. “Well, okay, okay,” Denisov shouted, “now there’s no point in making excuses, barcarolla is behind you, I beg you.” The Countess looked back at her silent son. - What happened to you? – Nikolai’s mother asked. “Oh, nothing,” he said, as if he was already tired of this same question. - Will daddy arrive soon? - I think. “Everything is the same for them. They don't know anything! Where should I go?” thought Nikolai and went back to the hall where the clavichord stood. Sonya sat at the clavichord and played the prelude of the barcarolle that Denisov especially loved. Natasha was going to sing. Denisov looked at her with delighted eyes. Nikolai began to walk back and forth around the room. “And now you want to make her sing? – what can she sing? And there’s nothing fun here,” thought Nikolai. Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude. “My God, I am lost, I am a dishonest person. A bullet in the forehead, the only thing left to do is not sing, he thought. Leave? but where? anyway, let them sing!” Nikolai gloomily, continuing to walk around the room, glanced at Denisov and the girls, avoiding their gaze. “Nikolenka, what’s wrong with you?” – asked Sonya’s gaze fixed on him. She immediately saw that something had happened to him. Nikolai turned away from her. Natasha, with her sensitivity, also instantly noticed her brother’s condition. She noticed him, but she herself was so happy at that moment, she was so far from grief, sadness, reproaches, that she (as often happens with young people) deliberately deceived herself. No, I’m having too much fun now to spoil my fun by sympathizing with someone else’s grief, she felt, and said to herself: “No, I’m definitely mistaken, he should be as cheerful as I am.” Well, Sonya,” she said and went out to the very middle of the hall, where, in her opinion, the resonance was best. Raising her head, lowering her lifelessly hanging hands, as dancers do, Natasha, energetically shifting from heel to tiptoe, walked through the middle of the room and stopped. "Here I am!" as if she was speaking in response to the enthusiastic gaze of Denisov, who was watching her. “And why is she happy! - Nikolai thought, looking at his sister. And how isn’t she bored and ashamed!” Natasha hit the first note, her throat expanded, her chest straightened, her eyes took on a serious expression. She was not thinking about anyone or anything at that moment, and sounds flowed from her folded mouth into a smile, those sounds that anyone can make at the same intervals and at the same intervals, but which a thousand times leave you cold, in the thousand and first times they make you shudder and cry. This winter Natasha began to sing seriously for the first time, especially because Denisov admired her singing. She no longer sang like a child, there was no longer in her singing that comic, childish diligence that was in her before; but she still did not sing well, as all the expert judges who listened to her said. “Not processed, but a wonderful voice, it needs to be processed,” everyone said. But they usually said this long after her voice had fallen silent. At the same time, when this raw voice sounded with irregular aspirations and with efforts of transitions, even the expert judges did not say anything, and only enjoyed this raw voice and only wanted to hear it again. In her voice there was that virginal pristineness, that ignorance of her own strengths and that still unprocessed velvet, which were so combined with the shortcomings of the art of singing that it seemed impossible to change anything in this voice without spoiling it. “What is this? - Nikolai thought, hearing her voice and opening his eyes wide. -What happened to her? How does she sing these days? - he thought. And suddenly the whole world focused for him, waiting for the next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world became divided into three tempos: “Oh mio crudele affetto... [Oh my cruel love...] One, two, three... one, two... three... one... Oh mio crudele affetto... One, two, three... one. Eh, our life is stupid! - Nikolai thought. All this, and misfortune, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor - all this is nonsense... but here it is real... Hey, Natasha, well, my dear! Well, mother!... how will she take this si? I took it! God bless!" - and he, without noticing that he was singing, in order to strengthen this si, took the second to the third of a high note. "My God! how good! Did I really take it? how happy!” he thought. ABOUT! how this third trembled, and how something better that was in Rostov’s soul was touched. And this was something independent of everything in the world, and above everything in the world. What kind of losses are there, and the Dolokhovs, and honestly!... It’s all nonsense! You can kill, steal and still be happy... For a long time Rostov has not experienced such pleasure from music as on this day. But as soon as Natasha finished her barcarolle, reality came back to him again. He left without saying anything and went downstairs to his room. A quarter of an hour later the old count, cheerful and satisfied, arrived from the club. Nikolai, hearing his arrival, went to him. - Well, did you have fun? - said Ilya Andreich, smiling joyfully and proudly at his son. Nikolai wanted to say “yes,” but he couldn’t: he almost burst into tears. The Count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s condition. “Oh, inevitably!” - Nikolai thought for the first and last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, such that he seemed disgusted to himself, as if he was asking the carriage to go to the city, he told his father. - Dad, I came to you for business. I forgot about it. I need money. “That’s it,” said the father, who was in a particularly cheerful spirit. - I told you that it won’t be enough. Is it a lot? “A lot,” Nikolai said, blushing and with a stupid, careless smile, which for a long time later he could not forgive himself. – I lost a little, that is, a lot, even a lot, 43 thousand. - What? Who?... You're kidding! - shouted the count, suddenly turning apoplectic red in the neck and back of his head, like old people blush. “I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nikolai. “Well!...” said the old count, spreading his arms and sank helplessly onto the sofa. - What to do! Who hasn't this happened to? - said the son in a cheeky, bold tone, while in his soul he considered himself a scoundrel, a scoundrel who could not atone for his crime with his whole life. He would have liked to kiss his father's hands, on his knees to ask for his forgiveness, but he said in a careless and even rude tone that this happens to everyone. Count Ilya Andreich lowered his eyes when he heard these words from his son and hurried, looking for something. “Yes, yes,” he said, “it’s difficult, I’m afraid, it’s difficult to get... never happened to anyone!” yes, who hasn’t happened to... - And the count glanced briefly into his son’s face and walked out of the room... Nikolai was preparing to fight back, but he never expected this. - Daddy! pa... hemp! - he shouted after him, sobbing; excuse me! “And, grabbing his father’s hand, he pressed his lips to it and began to cry. While the father was explaining to his son, an equally important explanation was taking place between the mother and daughter. Natasha ran to her mother excitedly. - Mom!... Mom!... he did it to me... - What did he do? - I did, I proposed. Mother! Mother! - she shouted. The Countess could not believe her ears. Denisov proposed. To whom? This tiny girl Natasha, who had recently been playing with dolls and was now taking lessons. - Natasha, that’s complete nonsense! – she said, still hoping that it was a joke. - Well, that's nonsense! “I’m telling you the truth,” Natasha said angrily. – I came to ask what to do, and you tell me: “nonsense”... The Countess shrugged. “If it’s true that Monsieur Denisov proposed to you, then tell him that he’s a fool, that’s all.” “No, he’s not a fool,” Natasha said offendedly and seriously. - Well, what do you want? You are all in love these days. Well, you’re in love, so marry him! – the countess said, laughing angrily. - With God blessing! - No, mom, I’m not in love with him, I must not be in love with him. - Well, tell him so. - Mom, are you angry? You’re not angry, my dear, what’s my fault?