Photo walk to Kremenki. Report by Evgeny Sofronov from the Staromainsky district

Kremenki

Probably, the name “Kremenki” comes from the name of the flint stone, which was found in large quantities in these places. Flint can also mean a fortified point, an outpost, a fortress (“hard as flint”). In the 16th century, Ivan IV the Terrible founded border outposts along the Oka River (Lithuania began beyond the Oka). Kremenki was first mentioned in 1709 in the Landrat book (census) of the Maloyaroslavets district of the Khokhlovsky camp. The document states that the peasants of 3 households were transferred from the village of Troitskoye, which was in the possession of the ensign of the Preobrazhensky regiment, Prince Ivan Petrovich Dashkov (1694–1743), to the opposite bank of the Protva River. This is how a settlement of courtyard people was founded, which gave rise to the future city of Kremenka. According to the revision of 1721–1722. Kremenki was part of the Serpukhov district and still belonged to I.P. Dashkov.

Traditionally, the history of the city is associated with Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (nee Vorontsova), who in 1759 became the wife of Mikhail Ivanovich Dashkov, the son of Ivan Petrovich. After the death of her husband in 1764, the former associate of Catherine II, known for her literary and educational activities, became the full owner of the Troitskoye estate. From that time on, the princess’s life was closely connected with the estate, which during her time was brought into exemplary condition. The village of Kremenki was also located on lands owned by E.R. Dashkova, and therefore the princess’s activities extended to her.

In the List of populated places of the Kaluga province for 1859, Kremenki is listed as the owner’s village of the Tarusa district on the Protva River “along the highway from the city of Serpukhov to the city of Borovsk.” The village had 28 households, in which there were 204 residents of both sexes - 92 males and 112 females.

During the Great Patriotic War, bloody battles for the defense of Moscow in the Serpukhov direction took place on this territory. In October - December 1941, on the defense line Drakino - Kremenki - Pavlovka, soldiers of the 49th Army of the Western Front under the command of Lieutenant General Ivan Grigorievich Zakharkin fought to the death. More than 18 thousand Soviet soldiers gave their lives at this point.

Modern period

In 1973, Vladimir Andreevich Shkilev, who was then the chairman of the Lenin collective farm in the village of Troitskoye, approached the Construction Administration 620 of the city of Protvino with the initiative to create a collective farm village. It was planned to build cottage-type houses with plots of land for the collective farm specialists. But the need for housing was very great, and it was planned to allocate little funds for construction. Therefore, it was decided to first build two panel houses, which in 1974 were inhabited by families of collective farm specialists. This year is considered to be the year of the founding of the modern village of Kremenki, which was named after the village of the same name, and the village itself is now one of the streets of the city - Starye Kremenki Street.

For the first 20 years the city grew rapidly. On May 9, 1975, the Kremenki Museum opened, which became a branch of the State Museum of G. K. Zhukov. On September 1, 1985, Kremenkovskaya School No. 1 accepted its first students, which in 1998 was named after E. R. Dashkova. In 1999, the 1st stage of school building No. 2 was commissioned - for an elementary school, the second stage was commissioned a year later - for a secondary school, in 2001 the school was completely built. Housing construction virtually ceased with the beginning of the perestroika period.

On May 15, 1989, the village of Kremenki, Troitsky village council, as part of the Zhukovsky district, was transformed into a workers’ village. By Law of the Kaluga Region No. 6-OZ of December 28, 2004, the working village of Kremenki received the status of a city. Today it is a young, clean and beautiful city. There are no large industrial enterprises here, and therefore no industrial pollution. But most residents are forced to take jobs outside the city.

Cities

Kremenki city

- a city in the Zhukovsky district of the Kaluga region (became a city on December 28, 2004), the center of the urban settlement "City of Kremenki" of the Zhukovsky municipal district. The population at the end of 2011 was 11.9 thousand inhabitants. The area of ​​the settlement is 222.7 hectares. The charter of the municipal formation "City of Kremenki" was adopted by the resolution of the City Duma of the municipal formation "City of Kremenki" dated October 14, 1998 No. 12. The city is located on the left bank of the Protva River, at the confluence of the Borovna River, 32 km from the regional center of Zhukov, on the border with the Moscow region, in close proximity to the city of Protvino. In Kremenki there is a military history museum, the Vyatichi sanatorium, and a museum named after. E. R. Dashkova. Nearby (across the bridge over the Protva River) there is a temple in which Ekaterina Dashkova is buried, the romantic ruins of her Troitskoye estate - the remains of buildings and a water mill.

OKATO code: 29213560 Founded: beginning. 17th century Urban settlement since: 1989 City since: 2008 Deviation from Moscow time, hours: 0 Geographic latitude: 54°53′ Geographic longitude: 37°07′ Height above sea level, meters: 130

Education in the city of Kremenki

The city has a number of secondary specialized, general education and preschool institutions. There are no institutions of higher professional education in the city, so future students go to other cities to enroll.

Economy of the city of Kremenka

The population is mainly employed at enterprises in the cities of Protvino, Serpukhov and the Serpukhov region. The city also has a well-developed trading system. Since the Vyatichi sanatorium is located on the territory of the city, the city economy is primarily focused on servicing the flow of tourists from Moscow and the Moscow region. The production of thermal insulating coatings is in operation

History of the city of
Kremenka
It emerged as a settlement near the village of Troitskoye at the beginning of the 18th century. According to the revision of 1721-1722 (the first capitation census of Russia), Kremenki were assigned to the Serpukhov district and belonged to the ensign of the Preobrazhensky regiment Ivan Petrovich Dashkov. The development is connected with the construction needs of the city of Protvino. The city was formed due to the Soviet registration policy - mainly those construction workers settled in it for whom it was impossible or impractical to apply for the “limit” of residence in the Moscow region. Since the city (then a village) was located in the Kaluga region, there was no limit on registration in it. The city's builders mainly served the construction of the proton accelerator in Protvino. In accordance with Article 1 of the Law of the Kaluga Region dated December 28, 2004 No. 6-OZ, the status of “working village” of the settlement “Kremenki” was changed to the status of “city”

Photo walk to Kremenki. Report by Evgeny Sofronov from the Staromainsky district

Morning greetings to all nature lovers! In this photo report, I want to tell you how the day before yesterday we went on a joint trip to the Staromainsky district of our region, or rather to Kremenki. This time, besides me, there were two more nature lovers in the crew. This is Protodeacon Sergius, a wildlife lover already familiar to all of you, and Sergius’s old friend Dmitry (Doctor of Science, teacher at Ulyanovsk State University) agreed to go with us. We left quite early, at about six in the morning. We met the dawn at the entrance to the Presidential Bridge...

On the way to Staraya Maina we turned onto Kremenki... Usually, right away in the morning, to the right of the road on the wires, you see various birds. So it was this time. There were small things on the wires... This is a young meadow mint.

Regular oatmeal...

And finally we met two young common kestrels, I see them here all the time at this time of year. The kestrel is a very shy small predator and this was the only photo I could take. I didn't have time to focus the camera.

At the entrance to the village of Kremenki we were met by a pair of ravens.

Driving through the village, I met a young wheatear and a white wagtail.

Having driven a little further, we saw a black kite sitting on a cross in a small chapel. - Sinner. He atones for sins. Not an aesthetic shot,” says Sergius.

Immediately after the village we turn towards the Volga and drive along the coast by car... On the map it will be approximately HERE .

Having arrived, we saw how the Volga had become shallow, exposing its sandy banks. The water level probably dropped by 1-1.5 meters? From the window we take pictures of waders, of which there were many here. These are mostly young turukhtans.

There were also large godwits here.

Newcomers to photography, Sergiy and Dmitry, saw waders for the first time and found it difficult to focus on the waders with their cameras from the car window, so they decided to go out and take photographs from the shore.

While we were photographing the waders, a small plane flew almost above us.

A boat is rushing along the Volga... Fish conservation? Hardly that early.

We met a marsh harrier flying over the Volga...

Here, on the banks of the Volga, white-tailed eagles are often found...

One eagle managed to grab a fish, it seemed like an ide, from the surface of the water in front of me and flew along the shore. I managed to take this photo.

A decent flock of great cormorants was flying right at us... My fellow travelers did not have time to take photos of cormorants, since it is very difficult to focus their cameras on the flying bird.

We are driving further along the Volga bank...

Sergius really likes photographing the gray heron... He asks me to stop to capture this beauty.

Another small flock of great cormorants flies by... In a hurry to get somewhere?!

Agree with me, but not every time you see a gray heron land on the water and swim like a duck.

Let's move on...

Driving along an old road made from old sleepers, you encounter a huge flock of starlings. It seems to me that there are several thousand of them here. This is how they gather in a flock and prepare to fly to the southern regions for the winter.

Right there, on the banks of the Volga, rooks and jackdaws gather together...

We meet the beautiful yellow wagtail...

A little further, towards the house of commercial fishermen, we meet waders. These are mainly Turukhtan and Sandpiper again.

Driving along the sandy road towards the Slavyanskoye Podvorye BO, to our surprise, we come across a hoopoe. Handsome.

- Well, wow, we met such a bird! I would never have believed that in my life I would be able to see a hoopoe like this with my own eyes. I've only seen them in books. This is great luck for me,” says Dmitry.

For 20-25 minutes we tried to approach this handsome man, but the hoopoe did not let us near. Flew onto a fence near the road.

To the right, sitting on a pole, a young black kite is watching us.

We turn off the sandy road towards the forest... There are wild apples and ranet. Sergius tastes it.

“They are very sour, I don’t recommend taking them home,” the archdeacon concludes.

But I took a bag of these apples with me, they are tasty and aromatic.

We made a stop at a dry tree, which was covered in cobwebs, and began a photo hunt for small things, of which there were, to our surprise, a lot.

This ordinary bunting makes it possible to photograph itself as a souvenir of our meeting in Kremenki.

Warbler

garden warbler

Whitethroat.

Young curious Common Shrike.

Gray warbler.

And again the willow warbler... This is already an adult bird.

A young spotted woodpecker sat on a post that was in a web.

We couldn’t go into the forest; we wanted to have a snack there, but they dug up the forest road and returned to the sandy road again. Leaving the car, we went out and decided to photograph the birds in Ivanovo Bay.

There were many shorebirds and gray herons in the bay. There were also ducks, but very few of them.

Here are some of the waders that we managed to photograph a little closer than others. Fifi sandpiper.

And this is a mud sandpiper.

In the foreground is a snipe sandpiper...

Black sandpiper.

Young gray duck.

That’s it, it seems we’ve been to many places here and photographed all the birds. We return back, across the field, to the Staraya Maina – Ulyanovsk highway. A young shrike is found in a field sown with sunflowers.

Having passed the village of Mirny, we turned off the highway towards the village. Oktyabrsky (Chardaklinsky district). I decided to show novice photographers another place where you can meet and photograph birds well. In the first swamp, which is just outside the village of Oktyabrskoye near the pig farm, there were mainly sandpipers and several lapwings.

A young black kite was sitting on a dry tree near a swamp.

As we drove through the field to the second marsh, two Common Buzzards flew overhead.

We approached the second swamp, where it was already possible to see the birds better and more conveniently and photograph them.

Young white wagtail.

Suddenly, a forest pipit was encountered near the swamp.

We all got out of the car and headed through the grass and thickets to the shore of this swamp. We met young teal codlings.

And here is the marsh harrier in person. I only managed to take this photo.

Then the harrier took off and began to patrol the swamp in search of its next victim for lunch.

And this is a young marsh harrier.

The crows, sitting on a dry tree, conjured over some next plan...

Waders on the opposite bank wander around with caution... Among them are a pair of lapwings and a fifi.

I was lucky enough to see and photograph a rather rare round-nosed phalarope for our region.

And again Fifi's waders...

That's it, the photo hunt is over, I showed all the birds to my fellow travelers, and now it was time to have a snack. We stopped at a birch forest plantation so that the sun wouldn’t hit us so hard. And it was already +30 degrees Celsius.

Our modest table...

Before our snack, the novice photo hunters congratulated me on my birthday and sang “many years to come”…. The voice of both Orthodox fellow travelers, and especially Sergius, was such that it seemed they were heard in neighboring villages. – Thank you, friends, for such an unexpected congratulation. “So our photo journey has ended, for which we thank you, Evgeniy, for this wonderful joint trip,” Dmitry will then write as a gift on a sheet of birch bark.

This is how I ended up with a photo report about our joint photo walk to the Staromainsky district, namely to Kremenki. See you again, friends!

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3. "26. The size of the permanent population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2022". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
4. ^ abcd Law No. 7-OZ
5. "On the Calculation of Time". Official Internet portal of legal information
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