Port (microdistrict)

Portselok is one of the oldest micro-districts of Togliatti. Appeared in connection with the construction of the Zhiguli (then Kuibyshev) hydroelectric station. It was created as a working town of hydraulic builders and workers of the future river port ^[1] .

The design of the village began in 1949. Development planning was carried out by the Kuybyshevgidrostroy project department, later transferred to Lengiprogor specialists, but in the end it was carried out according to the KGS project ^[2] , which was approved only in March 1953, when the bulk of the village’s buildings had already been built and 3,000 people lived in it ^[1] . Initially it was assumed that the river port would be located on the territory of the settlement, the name of the settlement - Portpossselok (Portgorod) - was fixed to it, although the port as a result was built in the village of Komsomolsky ^[2] .

A land plot of 15 hectares near the Stavropol hospital was obtained for development near the leshoz ^[1] . Part of the territory was built up with the so-called “Indomes” - one-story wooden houses with running water, sewage, baths, internal water heating, intended for engineering and technical workers of construction. They included, among others, the head of the Kuibyshevgidrostroy, I. V. Komzin , the chief engineer, Razin , the party organizer, A. Murysev, and other senior officials ^[1] . The section of the highway connecting Portselok and Komsomolsk was built up with prefabricated two-story 8-apartment houses made of larch timber (the so-called “Finnish houses”) ^[2] for construction workers of lower rank ^[1] .

Residential buildings and many other objects in Portseloselka were built by female prisoners of Kuneevlaga ^[2] .

In 1951, a bath, a hairdresser, a shop, a canteen, an ambulance station with a pharmacy, a nursery-kindergarten, and a ten-year school for 440 students were opened in the village ^[2] . On January 2, 1951, a permanent bus service began between Portseloselk and Komsomolsky, on July 4, 1951, traffic was organized along the routes: “Portselok - Construction Management”, “Pier - Portposelok” ^[3] . In August 1951, the current from the power lines Bezymyanka-Stavropol was connected. In 1952, the sewage system was laid and a heating main was laid. A whole hospital complex, a fire station, a boiler room, a water intake, and a sewage treatment plant appeared, which provided the Portlet Village with considerable autonomy ^[2] .

On February 3, 1953, the Stavropol City Executive Committee appealed to the Kuibyshev Regional Executive Committee with a request to include the territory of the Portselochk in the line of the New Stavropol. In March 1953, the regional executive committee approved the development plan for the Portselochka, developed by the design department of Kuybyshevgidrostroi. By the same decision, all construction of buildings was stopped, except for those provided for by the General Plan, new buildings should subsequently be placed in the New Stavropol. By this time, 3,000 people lived in the village ^[1] .

In 1960, buildings of a residential building with 24 apartments and a dining room with 150 beds were adopted ^[1] .

In 2000, a church in the name of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared in the microdistrict, next to which in the building of auxiliary services there will be a gold-embroidered and icon-painting workshops, a prosphora, refectory, a library and a Sunday school ^[1] .

In 1998, a monument was opened to the founder of the city, Vasily Tatishchev, who became the hallmark of the city ^[1] .

• Oleg Maltsev. The covenant territory // Relga.ru: electronic journal. - 2004-09-10. - Vol. No. 9 (99) .