Safonovo (city)

Safonovo is located on the Moscow - Brest railway , 102 km east of Smolensk and 300 km west of Moscow.

The M1 “Belarus” highway passes through the city, the distance to Smolensk is 97 km, to the MKAD - 280 km.

Through the city flows the Vopets river , the Dnieper basin.

The city got its name from the village of Safonovo. The name of the village is derived from the calendar name Sophonia , which means: "which God dawns upon."

The decisive role for the development of the district and the city was played by the construction of the Moscow-Brest Railway . On September 20 (October 2, according to a new style), 1870, the first train proceeded from Moscow to Smolensk . A large railway station appeared on Safonovo land, which got its name in the nearest city of Dorogobuzh - Dorogobuzh station. Its construction became the basis for the emergence of the city of Safonov in the future. At the same time as the station Dorogobuzh a substation village arose.

On October 1, 1929, the Safonovsky district was formed. The basis of it was the Safonov volost of the Dorogobuzh district, the name of the district arose from its name. The center of the Safonovsky district was made the village at the railway station Dorogobuzh. The village of Safonovo, a former volost center, was 10 km from the station. The location of the district center turned out to be completely unconnected with the village of Safonovo, which gave the name to the district and the future city. This toponymic paradox persisted until October 7, 1938 , when the substation village received the status of a working village and the name Safonovo.

In the late 1940s , a rapid industrial development of the region began, based on the large-scale development of brown coal deposits . In 1948, the USSR Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the creation of a fuel and energy base for the country's northwestern economic region. It was decided to build mines in the vicinity of Safonovo station. In total, it was planned to build 28 mines.

On December 25, 1952, the miners of the mine number 1, called "Smolenskaya", gave out the first tons of coal. Thus began a short, but fundamentally important for the city, era of coal in the Smolensk region. By 1957, 8 mines were built.

The construction of the mines led to the rapid development of the working village of Safonov. In a short time he grew into a real city, on April 8, 1952 Safonov was officially assigned the status of a city of regional subordination ^[2] . This event has become a major milestone in the history of the region - the stage of development of urban civilization has begun. The birth and rapid growth of the city is associated with the creative work of the Dorogobuzhshahtstroy Trust, created in 1949 (later Dorogobuzhhimstroy). The builders of the trust erected mines, factories, residential buildings in Safonovo. In addition, large industrial and housing construction was carried out in Dorogobuzh , Verkhnedneprovsky , Vyazma and other cities of the Smolensk region.

By the end of the 1950s , it turned out that miscalculations were made in assessing the prospects for industrial development of the Safonovsky brown coal deposit. As a result, it was decided to create industrial enterprises on the basis of the closing mines. This was the beginning of the history of the leading enterprises of the city.

In 1960, the Safonovsky Electric Machine Building Plant, the Teplokontrol and Gidromepribor factories were founded. In Safonov, the light and food industries also developed.

In 1961, the Oryol sewing factory was opened.

In 1962, the Safonovsky Plastics Plant (now the Avangard production association) was founded.

In 1964, the Safonovsky Meat Processing Plant (now Safonovomyasoproduct OJSC) was commissioned ^[3] .

In 1971, the Safonovsky bakery was founded.

In 1980, the Safonovoloko plant continued its history on a modern industrial basis.

The development of a coal deposit played an outstanding historical role in the fate of not only the Safonovsky Territory. Unpromising Safonovsky coal gave the prospect of industrial development of two districts at once - Safonovsky and Dorogobuzhsky. Thanks to coal mining, the city of Safonovo grew, its leading enterprises were built, the Dorogobuzh State District Power Plant was built , and after it the village of Verkhnedneprovsky and the Dorogobuzh plants.

As of January 1, 2019, in terms of population, the city was in 365th place out of 1,115 ^[22] cities of the Russian Federation ^[23] .

• PJSC Safonovsky Rural Construction Plant is a large enterprise in the Smolensk region for the production and sale of reinforced concrete products and related materials (in 2015 it is planned to modernize production to increase and expand the range of products) ^[24] .
• OJSC Safonovomyasoproduct is a large meat processing enterprise in the Smolensk region (60 tons of meat per shift, 7 tons of sausages per shift) ^[25] .
• Timber processing plant LLC Forex
• Safonovsky Electric Machine Building Plant is a large Russian manufacturer of powerful (from 30 to 2000 kW) electric motors and generators (part of the Ruselprom concern ).
• Teplokontrol OJSC - is engaged in the production and sale of process control and regulation devices, devices for physical research, automation equipment and spare parts for them, heat supply devices, connecting parts for pipelines, non-standard equipment, etc.
• Hydrometpribor Plant is a manufacturer of hydrometeorological, geological and automation devices.
• Within the framework of the plastics plant, the following were formed:
  • AO Avangard is a research and production complex in the field of composite materials; it produces plastic, glass and carbon fiber products;
  • Polyplast OJSC is a manufacturer of children's game and sports complexes, fairings and other plastic products;
  • Compital JV is a manufacturer of fiberglass chemically resistant containers for the chemical industry, oil production and oil refining, and other industries. In addition to chemical-resistant containers, it produces fiberglass gutters, equipment housings and other products. Also produces fiberglass cladding panels for railway transport, fiberglass seats for stadiums;
  • Koltek Special Reagents is a manufacturer of reagents for the oil and oil refining industries;
  • Safonovsky branch of Smolkabel;
  • LLC "Iitek S" production of fiberglass pultruded profiles and structures from glass composites.
• A small refinery with a capacity of 96 thousand tons per year of gas condensate (straight-run gasoline, heating oil and diesel fuel).
• CJSC "Safonovohleb" (part of the agricultural corporation "Stoilenskaya Niva" ).
• Safonovsky plant of mobile buildings.
• Brickworks.
• Asphalt plant.
• The production company "Module" is a manufacturer of steel entrance doors.
• Polikraft Energomash JSC is a boiler equipment factory.
• ZVO Kavik - production of welding equipment.

• IP Kozhenov
• "Magnet"
• Dixie
• Pyaterochka
• Crossroads
• "Fix Price"
• "Hive" IP Shablinsky

• Ice Palace
• Motocross in the MREO area
• 2 football fields (Mountain and South). On June 28, a football field was opened with modern artificial turf near the Ice Arena ^[26] .
• Ski base
• Sports School
• Sports complex "SAFONOVSKY" ^[27]

• Palace of Culture
• Museum of Local History
• Central and children's libraries
• Schoolboy house
• House of Creativity
• School of Music (Stroiteley St.)
• DYUHSH them. V. M. Kirillova
• Annual Open Rock Festival "Safoniy" (since 2009)
• Street Art Festival “Lanterns” (2012—2015)

• Public newspaper “ Safonovskaya Pravda ”
• LLC Television and Radio Studio "Safonovo"
• LLC "SNT Television Company"
• Radio Safonovo
• Internet portal "Safonovsky Vedomosti"
• Internet portal "In Safonovo"

FM

• 88.70 - Radio Vanya
• 91.60 - (plan)
• 93.90 - (plan)
• 96.80 - (plan)
• 98.10 - (plan)
• 100.90 - Europe Plus
• 102.50 - Road Radio
• 103.80 - (plan)
• 104.50 - Autoradio
• 105.40 - Humor FM
• 107.40 - (plan)

• First channel
• Russia 1
• REN TV / SNT Safonovo
• Russia K / TRS Safonovo
• Match tv
• TVC / SNT Safonovo
• 5th channel
• Argo-Info +

• 1 multiplex - 23 TVK (10 channels, 3 radio) (broadcasts)
• 2 multiplex - 25 TVK (10 channels) (broadcasts)

• Nine comprehensive schools, one is considered a gymnasium; evening, sports, art and two art schools
• Safonovsky branch of OGB POU “Smolensk Academy of Professional Education”
• KNOW College of Modern Technology
• Branch of Moscow State Open University
• Representative Office of Moscow State Industrial University
• Smolensk Institute of Business and Entrepreneurship
• Representative Office of the Russian State Social University
• NOU SPO College of Tourism, Management and Information Technology
• KNOW SKIT Safonov College of Information Technology

• Railway communication by long-distance trains with stations of the Moscow - Kaliningrad section ^[28] .
• The movement of electric trains on the section Vyazma - Smolensk , and the branch to Vladimirsky Tupik ^[29] .
• Bus communication with the settlements of the district, neighboring district centers (flights to Dorogobuzh, to Yelnya, to Yartsevo, to Vyazma)
• Bus connection with Moscow (from the airport and Belorussky station ).
• The city begins the regional highway P137 Safonovo ( M1 "Belarus" ) - Dorogobuzh - Yelnya - Roslavl (A101).
• Freight railway to Verkhnedneprovsky , a number of access roads to the city enterprises and mines.

Intracity public transport is represented by the following routes:

• No. 1 - from the Hydrometpribor plant to the village of Yuzhny
• No. 2 - from pl. Tukhachevsky to the zd da Teplokontrol
• No. 3 - from the Central District Hospital to a / k No. 1799
• No. 3B - from the First Mine to a to No. 1799
• No. 3D - from the Central Hospital to the Babakhinsky Cemetery
• No. 3M - from the Central Hospital to the village of Mishenino
• No. 5 - from substation microdistrict to Yuzhny microdistrict
• No. 6 - from pl. Tukhachevsky to mine number 2
• No. 7 - from pl. Tukhachevsky to mine number 7
• No. 9 - from microdistrict No. 1 to a boarding school (village of Klinka)
• No. 10 - from the microdistrict of MZHK to MREO

There are 5 GSM mobile operators in the city:

• Tele 2
• Megaphone
• MTS
• Beeline
• Enforta

In September 2009 MegaFon, and on December 31, 2010 also Beeline and MTS launched the third generation UMTS 2100 network in the city. Since July 2017, 4G LTE network has been operating in Safonovo, from MTS, Beeline, MegaFon and Tele2

In the field of providing Internet access in Safonovo, the following Internet providers are distinguished:

• NETKOM (NETKOM-E LLC) - Internet using FTTB, Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX technologies.
• TTK (CJSC TransTeleCom Company) - Internet using FTTB technologies.
• MTS (OJSC Mobile TeleSystems) - the Internet using FTTB, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM technologies.
• Beeline (OJSC Vympel-Communications) - Internet using FTTB, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, 4G LTE technologies.
• TELE2 - 3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, 4G LTE.

• Church of the Nativity (converted building of the cinema "Miner" ^[30] )
• Church of the Holy Prince Vladimir ( 1906 , architect V.G. Zalessky )
• Evangelical Christian Church (Pentecostals) (formerly a maintenance plant)
• House of Prayer (Church) of Evangelical Baptist Christians
• Seventh-day Adventist Church Prayer House

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  From high

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  Church of the Holy Prince Vladimir

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  Lenin street

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  Vopets in the city, downstream

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  Museum of Local History

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  Bus station

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  Church of the Nativity

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  Public transport stop on the street Soviet

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  Safonovsky railway station

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  Secondary school №1

Safonovskoe urban settlement borders:

• in the northeast - with the Drozdovsky rural settlement
• in the east - with the Beleninsky rural settlement
• in the southeast - with the Baranovsky rural settlement
• in the south-west - with the Pushkin rural settlement
• in the north-west - with Vyshegorsky rural settlement

Established December 2, 2004 .

• Official site of the administration of Safonovsky district