Vesely (Veselovsky district)

Located 100 km (79.44 km in a straight line) from the city of Rostov-on-Don and 55 km from the nearest railway station Mechetinskaya, on the left bank of the Manych .

XIX century

Vesely Farm was founded in 1845 by the Cossacks from the Bagaevskaya stanitsa.

In 1845, at the behest of the ataman, seven Cossacks and their families were evicted from the Bagaevskaya stanitsa for their rebellious character. Cossack Circle approved the decision of the chieftain. Immigrants allocated a cash share. Stormingly noted the resettlement, the Cossacks undertook to build dugouts. Since those seven dugouts, and began the Jolly Farm (originally - Merry Semiizbyanka). However, soon, with the light hand of the clerk of the village government, the word “khutor” began to be written in front and in small letters. This is how the name “Farm Farm” appeared.

XX century

According to the “Alphabetical List of Populated Places of the Region of the Don Cossacks” ^[2] for 1915, there were 300 households in the farm Velyol and there were 1998 people (1103 men and 895 women). In the farm there were: farm administration, church, two-class parish school, women's parochial school, post office. From 13 to 20 October, an annual fair was held.

In the years of the Civil War, in the farm and around Vesely, violent bloody battles were fought, since the Manych Front was the most important strategic frontier that opened the way to the Kuban .

By the spring of 1920, Merry was taken by the Red Army.

Labor artels appear in Vesele, which were soon merged into one large artel of three thousand people. In 1920, the labor collective farm of the Veselyi farm worked as workshops: forge, carpenters, shoemakers, tinsmiths, stove setters, tailors, forage workers, watchmakers, hairdressers.

On November 6, 1929, the peasants of the Veseloi farm were united in a collective economy, which they called “12 years of October”. Vasily Dmitrievich Lukashov became the first collective farm chairman.

In the 1930s, with the beginning of the construction of the Manych waterway, the Manych river became navigable, and a wharf appeared in Vesely, in which in the spring of 1934 the first ship moored. At the same time, the construction of the Veselovsky hydroelectric complex, which became the largest on the Manychstroy route, was going on at Manych.

On January 1, 1935, a new administrative unit appeared on the map of the Rostov region - the Veselovsky District (before that, Vesely was part of the Mechetinsky District). Farm Funny became the administrative center.

During the Great Patriotic War, there were strong battles in the area in the summer of 1942 (when the fascists rushed to Stalingrad and the North Caucasus ) and in the winter of 1943 (when the Soviet Army liberated Don land from invaders). The district was occupied from June 27, 1942 to January 30, 1943. The area was liberated from the German troops at the very end of January 1943 by the troops of the 2nd Guards and 56th armies.

After the end of World War II, in 1947, restoration work began on the Western Manych , and two years later an earthen dam was restored in the Veselyi area, locks, a bridge, a power station were built, and a large reservoir of more than 1.5 million m³ of water was created.

In 1952, for the first time in the region, the Veselovsky self-flowing channel gave water to the fields of the Veselovsky, Bagayevsky and Aksay districts. In 1953, the head pumping station was established and the Azov main canal passed through the steppes of the region.

In 1957, its own airport appeared in Vesely: the AN-2 planes opened on the route Rostov - Vesely - Martynovka - Vesely - Rostov .

In January 1963, the Veselovsky District was reorganized, its territory was transferred to Zernogradsky, later to the Semikarakorsky District, and in March 1964 - to the Bagaevsky District. Farm Happy lost the status of the district center.

In 1972, a detachment of the Don Expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences near the village, on the right bank of the Manych River, discovered a large kurgan group, Shakhayevskaya II .

On April 12, 1978, in accordance with a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Veselovsky District was re-established with the administrative center in the Velyy Farm.

On June 13, 1979, a decision was made to classify Veselyi as a worker village.

In 1991, by the decision of the presidium of the executive committee of the Veselovsky District Council of People's Deputies No. 20 of July 4, 1991, the working village Vesely was transformed into the settlement “Vesely village” ^[3] .

XXI century

In 2004, during the reform of local self-government, Vesely settlement became the center of a new administrative entity - the Veselovsky rural settlement, one of the four rural settlements belonging to the Veselovsky district.

• Zimovets, Sergey Nikolaevich (born 1954) - philosopher, psychoanalyst, prof. University of Lausanne, from 1997 to 2011, rector of the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis.
• Mesropyan, Alexander Henrikovich (born 1962) - poet, member of the Russian Writers' Union.
• Potapov, Vladimir Alekseevich (1932-2004) - a writer, a member of the Writers' Union of Russia.
• Fedorov, Ivan Filippovich (1917-1988) - poet, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
• Hwang Chun-il (1893-1966) - Hero of Socialist Labor.

There are 2 markets, 5 supermarkets, catering establishments, private trading and manufacturing enterprises in the village of Vesely.

In 2008, a solid waste landfill was commissioned.

In October 2009, the DonMasloProdukt oil extraction plant was built in the village with a capacity of 38,000 tons of sunflower oil per year ^[8] .

In the village of Vesely there are 2 secondary schools: Veselovskaya school № 1 and Veselovskaya school № 2.

Institutions of additional education: Children's Art School. N.Ye. Sorokina, Center for Children's Creativity, Children and Youth Sports School.

Institutions of preschool education: kindergarten number 1 "Bell", kindergarten number 2 "Fairy Tale".

• Veselovskaya Intersettlement Central Library.
• Regional house of culture, rural house of culture.
• Monuments: 4 (monument to V. I. Lenin; military memorial; monument to participants in the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant; monument to fallen soldiers on Bratskaya Street).

• The official website of the administration Veselovsky district.
• Veselovskaya Intersettlement Central Library