Zavolzhsk

It is located on the left bank of the Volga River ( Gorky Reservoir ), opposite the city of Kineshma , with which the Kineshma Road Bridge connects, 105 km northeast of Ivanovo . 4 km from the eponymous railway station of the Northern Railway .

The village of Vladychnoye (Epiphany - according to the Church of the Epiphany) of the Kinesham district of Kostroma province has been known since at least the 17th century. In the mid- 19th century , a paper spinning and paper mill (later a fiber factory) was built on the territory of a modern city, and in 1871 a sulfuric acid plant (one of the oldest chemical enterprises in Russia, which turned 140 in 2011).

On February 20, 1934, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to establish a working village under the name Zavolzhye in the following settlements of the Kineshem region: at the chemical plant and factories Fira and Privolzhanka, Kuzhlyovka, Zhilinsky, Tikhomirovsky, Novy, Chirkovsky, Aleksinsky, Vladychny, Chirkov, Skriptsova, Zhilin, Urakov, Myasnev and Ryabininsky with the Volga hospital ” ^[3] .

With the receipt of the status of the city on October 4, 1954 it was renamed Zavolzhsk . October 9, 1968 became a district center.

As of January 1, 2019, the city was in the 929th place out of 1,115 ^[16] cities of the Russian Federation in terms of population ^[17] .

The main industrial enterprises of Zavolzhsk: “ Zavolzhsky Chemical Plant named after MV Frunze "(dye production, etc.) - the city-forming enterprise ^[18] , a fiber factory (sheet fiber , suitcases, etc.), the Zarechye-service factory (linen knitwear, hosiery), “Zavolzhskllen”, “Zavolzhskzhelezobeton”, enterprises of the food industry, timber industry.

• One of the attractions of the city is the Church of the Epiphany ( 1778 ) ^[19] .
• On the outskirts of Zavolzhsk, in the village of Bredikhino, there was the estate of Pogost, astronomer F.A. Bredikhin , who was buried in the family crypt in 1904. The scientist’s memorial museum, located in this estate, burned down in 1994 ^[20] .
• The Zavolzhsky City Museum of Local History, located in the Burnaev-Kurochkin mansion ^[21] . Permanent exhibitions:
  • Picture Gallery named after V.N. Telina .
  • The life and scientific activity of the scientist-astronomer F. A. Bredikhin.
  • History of the Zavolzhsky Chemical Plant.
  • The room of peasant life.
• Stone cross from the river Merezhka.

City Day - the last Saturday of May (in 2014 - the 60th anniversary).

Golodnov, Alexey Vasilievich (1925-2006) - Hero of the Soviet Union, lived in Zavolzhsk in the thirties and forties of the twentieth century ^[22] .

The city has a moderately favorable environmental situation. This is primarily affected by the Globus-1 chemical plant and nuclear tests conducted in 1971 in the village of Galkino, which is thirty kilometers from the city ^[23] .

At the end of 2015, a complete rehabilitation of the radiation hazardous facility Globus-1 was carried out. Now it meets the requirements of sanitary standards ^[24] .

• Car

Bus flights to Kostroma region, Ostrovskoye , regular schedule to Kineshma every 15-20 minutes, etc.

• Railway

Cargo station " Zavolzhsk ". Passenger traffic is absent. The nearest station with passenger traffic in the city of Kineshma.

Newspapers

• “Vanguard” - a socio-political newspaper ^[25]

• Zavolzhsk // Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
• Zavolzhsk // Big Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• Kasatkina S.V. Zavolzhsk: history in photographs. - Ivanovo: Navigator Media, 2009. - 80 p. - 1000 copies.
• Shilov M.P. Monuments of nature of the city of Zavolzhsk and its environs // Materials of the scientific conference “V Plessa Readings. 1994. " S. 10-13.
• Kasatkina S.V. - M .: "Planet", 2012. - 240 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-903162-30-7 .
• Memoirs of the Great Patriotic War / Compiled by: Kasatkina S. V., Shishkaryova T. N. .. - Ivanovo: Publishing House "Referent", 2015. - 128 p. - 1050 copies.
• Zavolzhtsy.rf (neopr.) . Newspaper Avangard, Trans-Volga branch of the United Russia party. - A site about people of the Zavolzhsky municipal district of the Ivanovo region .. Date of treatment February 1, 2017.

• Administration of the Zavolzhsky urban settlement of the Zavolzhsky municipal district of the Ivanovo region
• List of cultural heritage sites of Zavolzhsk in Wikigid
• Expedition to the Bear Corner. Zavolzhsk (Neopr.) (2010). - The local history expedition of the Ivanovo State Museum of History and Local Lore named after D.G. Burylina. " Date of treatment January 30, 2017.