Pervomaika (Akmola region)

The village is located on the territory of the Kazakh small hills , on the left bank of the Ishim River , 6 km from the Almaty-Yekaterinburg ( M36 ) highway, between the villages of Kamyshenka and Lozovoye .

The distance from the district center of the village of Astrakhan is 35 km, the distance from Pervomaika to the nearest city of Astana is about 87 km. The distance to the nearest railway station Zhaltyr is 60 km.

In 1999, the village population was 1385 people (674 men and 711 women) ^[2] . According to the 2009 census, 1388 people lived in the village (670 men and 718 women) ^[2] .

The place where the village of Pervomaika now stretches was called the twelfth point of KarLAG . Poles and Germans from Ukraine were deported here to this vast, uninhabited steppe, which was supposed to become native to many over time, in May 1936 ^[3] . In memory of the time of arrival, the village was called Pervomaika ^[4] . During the Great Patriotic War , Ingush from the Caucasus were also exiled here ^[5] .

In 1937, on the basis of point No. 12 of the village of Pervomaika, a large agricultural enterprise was organized - the Kalinin collective farm. The first chairman was Lipke Otto, and only later, the new chairman was Micheslav Klinkovsky, elected by his own countrymen.

During the war years, collective farmers worked without sleep and rest on the fields and farms, fulfilling the main order of the state: “Everything for the front, everything for the victory!”

In 1961, on the basis of the collective farms named after S. M. Kirov, M. I. Kalinin, the Soviet Constitution and the “Bolshevik”, a state farm “Pervomaisky” was organized with a central estate in the village of Pervomaika. The main areas of agricultural specialization: grain production, dairy cattle breeding, rearing of young cattle and vegetable growing. The total area of ​​farmland was 39,048 ha. The Pervomaisky state farm received the unofficial title of a millionaire state farm; it has been repeatedly awarded state awards for the development of field husbandry and livestock raising .

A bright page in the history of not only the village, but also the district was inscribed: Stepan Trofimov - director of the Pervomaisk MTS, Stanislav Galitsky - the first teacher of the village and the first director of the village school, Ivan Farik - the foreman of the tractor field team, who sought record grain crops, for which the state farm It was marked by state awards.

May Day was famous for its high school, which was opened in 1936. The first director of the school was Stanislav Galitsky Galitsky, and then the school was headed by Denis Petrovich Yasinovsky, in which he worked continuously for twenty-five years. May Day High School was famous for its graduates.

With a kind word, the villagers still remember the director of the state farm Mikhail Antipov, a skilled organizer and experienced production worker. The glory of tireless toilers was firmly entrenched in the livestock breeder Ekaterina Gayevskaya and the agronomist Maria Sitnitskaya.

Pervomayka is the center of the Pervomaysky rural district , since 2010 including three villages:

• May Day,
• Lozovoi,
• Kamyshenka.

• st. May Day
• st. Komsomolskaya
• st. Of the world
• st. Garden
• st. October
• st. Virgin
• st. South
• RTS (microdistrict)

In May Day there are:

• May Day High School for 200 students ^[6]
• hospital (May Day family medical outpatient clinic)
• Center for the provision of special social services, Pervomaika village (a former boarding house for children with disabilities) ^[7]
• kindergarten "Baldyrgan" with 80 places ^[8]
• post office (Kazpost JSC)
• combined block module for water treatment
• LLP "Hotel Esil" (Cultivation of grain and leguminous crops, including seed and livestock)
• bakery
• prefabricated food workshop
• 7 shops
• 3 pharmacies
• Cafe
• barbershop
• sewing workshop

Today Pervomaika is one of the most prosperous villages in the Astrakhan region.

The basic, town-forming enterprise of the village and the okrug is Farmer-2002 LLP ^[9] . Every year, the partnership sows about 40 thousand hectares, of which about three - with barley and oilseeds .

In 1991, the parish of the Roman Catholic Church was opened in the village. Then the parish was given the name of the Mother of God of the Holy Rosary ^[10] .

Since 2004, the Polish national-cultural center “ Polonia ” ^[11] has also been successfully operating in Pervomayka, whose volunteers are actively involved in teaching the Polish language and promoting the customs and traditions of the Polish people.

The village has mobile operators Beeline , Aktiv / Kcell , Tele2 and Altel . The village of Pervomaika is fully telephoned and connected to Megaline broadband Internet from Kazakhtelecom .

• May Day rural district
• Speech by akim of Pervomaisky rural district V. Dembitsky, February 2011