Vakhtan

The village arose in 1921 around the newly built rosin-turpentine plant, the first in Russia. Got its name from the river Big Vakhtan ^[3] .

In the Soviet years, on the initiative of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, in August 1920, the Commission for the Establishment of Rosin-Turpentine Production in Russia was organized at the Supreme Economic Council under the leadership of the Supreme Economic Council, headed by the chairman and chief of the Chemical Department, L. Ya. Karpov and members of persons who previously worked in rosin-turpentine production: S. P. Langov, I. V. Filipovich, B. I. Zbarsky and N. P. Polyansky. By the decree of the Council of Labor and Defense, signed by the chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin) and secretary L. Fotieva, signed in the Kremlin on August 5, 1921, a special building commission, the Vakhtansky Construction, was created at the Supreme Economic Council, for which the task was assigned to build a rosin-turpentine plant in the tract "Vakhtan" by the extraction method. According to the project of the chief engineer of construction I.V. Filipovich, a rosin-turpentine plant was built, producing rosin , turpentine, later, after reconstruction, it began to be called a rosin-extraction plant and produced clarified rosin, smoke preparations, solvents, and diamond drilling lubricant. Vakhtan developed rapidly. Related enterprises of the chemical industry and timber industry enterprises were organized. Logging and processing industry has become the largest in the region.

On October 20, 1933, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided “To classify settlements as Vakhtan and Shakhunya, Shakhunsky district, retaining the same names for them” * ^[4]

One of the branches of the Shahun Agricultural College was opened in Vakhtan. The boom in the development of the village occurred in the 1970s - 1980s . New industrial workshops were built, new areas of production were opened. A new gym was built near the secondary school. To quickly provide the growing population of the village with comfortable housing, large residential areas of multi-apartment brick houses (up to 5 floors high) with all amenities and single-storey houses were erected. A new hospital complex, a new pharmacy, a large factory dining room were built, a fountain was built on the square in front of the dining room, a beautiful metal fence was erected along the new hospital and village park on Karpovskaya Street, attractions and a fountain were installed in the park. A three-vaulted stone arch was built next to the Palace of Culture. Playgrounds were made out by local craftsmen with wooden art figures. Large village roads were paved and equipped with sidewalks.

Thus, in addition to a large industrial economy, in the mid-80s Vakhtan had an eight-year and a secondary school, an evening school, a vocational school, a library, a Palace of Culture, a Pioneer House, a music school, kindergartens and a summer camp for children at the Palace of Culture, a hospital complex with surgical, maternity and infectious wards, polyclinic, sanatorium, grocery stores, department stores, hardware and bookstores, pharmacy, gym, ski stadium a base, skating rink and shooting gallery, a reservoir and beaches, canteens and a restaurant, a bakery, an amusement park, fountains, equipped playgrounds, two railway stations, an airfield, a regional bus station, two bus routes through the village.

The population of the village is decreasing due to a sharp decline in the birth rate since the beginning of the 1990s (35–45 per year versus 140 in the 1980s according to annual reports on birth rates), the working population is aging. Because of this, a shortage of workers is indicated.

The rosin extraction plant was stopped and closed in the 1990s , and its buildings were subsequently dismantled by local residents for building materials for personal needs. In 2005, FC Rosplit LLC was created on the basis of the timber industry enterprise, which began to produce plywood (the output volume is 24 thousand m ³ per year. In 2010, a new production was launched to produce chipboard. However, the equipment that was brought in from Finland was technically used Obsolete and in need of modernization and reconstruction. Repeatedly the production of chipboard stopped due to technical and organizational problems. All production is provided with its own raw material base, Finnish "Harvesters are used for logging. and "Forwarders". In addition, the active individual entrepreneurs. Only enterprise "Senbur" and "Forest" harvested 60,000 ^m3 of wood per year, which is comparable with the volume of the former timber industry in the 2000s. They also produce machine rounded blanks for log houses Also in Vakhtan they make upholstered and prefabricated cabinet furniture, there are two production of plastic windows.

In addition, the village has a bakery and a bakery. There are about 30 outlets, mainly selling food and household goods, there are also shops with industrial goods, household appliances and electrical equipment. There are three cafes, one evening bar with billiards and a sauna.

In the center of the village there is a sports complex with a stadium, where regional and inter-district competitions are regularly held in the summer. There is a football team. In winter, a hockey court is flooded. There is a shooting range for bullet shooting.

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• A. Arsenyev. The village is smaller ... // "Skepsis"