Zhukovka (city)

Zhukovka is located on the left bank of the Desna River , 64 km from Bryansk .

In the city there is the railway station of the same name Zhukovka on the line Bryansk - Smolensk .

In 1867, the construction of the Oryol - Vitebsk railway began. The organizer of the construction was Peter Gubonin . To service the road, refuel steam locomotives with water and firewood, Gubonin settled several families here. Thus began the story of Zhukovka.

In 1871, Zhukovka from a stop was transformed into a station. In 1879-1880 , the station was built with a buffet. Nearby were the land of the landowner Zhukov (he was engaged in the sale of timber, built sawmills). Sawmills of Wielkowski and the Francis brothers were the first industrial enterprises of Zhukovka.

In 1878-1881 the construction of the Zhukovka-Lyudinka ( Kletnya ) road began. Rails and parts for them were needed. For this purpose, an iron foundry is organized in Zhukovka. In 1894, the Oryol-Vitebsk railway became state.

On October 1, 1896, a zemstvo elementary school was opened. In 1896, the church of Alexander Nevsky opens. Now Komsomolsky Square is located on this place. There is a version that P.I. Gubonin is buried here.

At the beginning of the 20th century , a railway school was built in Zhukovka. In 1907-1910 a three-year school was opened, a postal and telegraph office and a veterinary department appeared in the village.

In 1914, a tuberculosis sanatorium began operations (during the years of the First World War it acted as a military hospital).

October 1, 1929 Zhukovka became a district center.

In 1927-1928, a year before the formation of the Zhukovsky district, more than a hundred enterprises of small and handicraft industry were already working in the Zhukovsky volost. The population was engaged in brick production, metal processing, blacksmithing, in mechanical engineering, in the milling and cereal industry, and in baking. According to TSB , in 1930, 4010 people lived in Zhukovka.

On October 31, 1931, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee classified Zhukovka as a working-class settlement.

Zhukovka was occupied by the Nazi troops in September 1941, and from the very first days a guerrilla war broke out in the area.

The partisan detachment "For Homeland" was created on Zhukovsky land on the initiative of an underground group of communists at Beloglava station. On May 1, enemy garrisons were defeated in the villages of Knyavichi and Strashevichi , and Soviet power was restored in many villages. The For Homeland brigade defeated three German headquarters, 36 enemy garrisons, blew up 4 railway bridges, derailed 81 enemy trains, and destroyed more than 6,000 German soldiers and officers.

Fascist punishers tortured and shot 243 people in the village of Matryonovka for contact with partisans. The village was burned to the ground, repeating the fate of the Belarusian Khatyn .

In September 1943, Soviet troops completely liberated the Zhukovsky district from German invaders. The liberated area lay in ruins. The restoration of the destroyed economy began. Fishing cooperatives, industrial complex, district consumer union, railway canteen began their activity. Already in October 1943, the question arose of the revival of the convoy plant.

Four years after the liberation of the district, new streets, buildings of the city council, district executive committee, canteens, shops, and libraries appeared. A new club was built, a secondary school and a kindergarten were launched, a new hospital and an outpatient clinic are being built. New streets are being built, road repairs are being carried out, a city park is being broken up.

The Rest House (now - the Zhukovsky sanatorium) has been commissioned, pioneer camps are being built, a tubsanatorium is being revived. In 1952, one secondary and two seven-year schools worked in Zhukovka. In 1953, the regional House of Culture was opened, and a vocational school began to work. In January, a new railway station was launched. In 1960, a boarding school for children was built on the banks of the Vetma River.

On August 30, 1962, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the workers' village of Zhukovka was given the status of a city of regional subordination.

As of January 1, 2019, in terms of population, the city was in 739th place out of 1115 ^[19] cities of the Russian Federation ^[20] .

Until the 1960s, the development of Zhukovka (then still a village) consisted of one-story log houses. These were typical buildings with three living rooms, a cold corridor, an entrance (annex) and a kitchen. There were up to two wood stoves in such a house.

In the 1960s and 1970s, brick residential buildings appeared.

Five-story residential buildings were erected in the 1980s. In parallel, streets appeared that were built up with houses for workers of the bicycle factory, DRSU, SU-868, hospitals, etc. As a rule, these are one-story houses for 2-3 apartments.

Now, wooden buildings no longer prevail, most private houses are bricked, some are finished with siding, some are demolished.

Private shops make a great contribution to the appearance of Zhukovka.

Notable Buildings

• Water tower - a round tower of red brick, the lower part is painted. Located in the area of ​​the train station. It was built to pump water to the station (for refueling locomotives). Today it is a component of the city's water supply system.
• Zhukovskaya Children's Art School is the oldest brick building in the city. The art school has been located here since 1969.
• The houses along Karl Marx Street are residential buildings with bay windows, one of the first stone houses in Zhukovka.
• "House with a deer" - a white five-story building with an image of an elk, lined with brick on the end wall. Despite the fact that the elk is depicted, the name "House with a deer" has taken root. Nearby is school number 2, in connection with which on the other wall there is an appeal from Lenin to schoolchildren: "Learn, study and study."
• The church of Alexander Nevsky was built in 1991-1995.

There are two schools and one lyceum in Zhukovka. The oldest school in the city is Zhukovskaya Secondary School No. 1. In 2005, it received a presidential grant. In 2007, school No. 2 achieved the best results, having won in the district festival of youth, KVN , DYUP, "Leader" and subject Olympiads in the Russian language, geography, literature, history (individual students). In 2007, 15 students from the entire district received grants of 5 thousand rubles. each for an active social, sporting life. Also in the city is the Zhukovskiy vocational school No. 33, which provides training in four specialties. Additional education: children's art school, youth sports school and the center of children's creativity.

• Zhukovsky Motor Plant Velomotors ^[21] , the former Zhukovsky Bicycle Plant.
• OJSC "Zhukovsky Plant of Technological Equipment"
• LLC "Zhukovsky Dairy Plant"
• Compound feed plant
• Grain Processing Plant
• Cannery (not valid)
• Asphalt Plant (not valid)
• Leshoz
• LLC Stroysosna ^[22]
• LLC "Basis"
• LLC "Intertehstroy"

88.5 - Autoradio (Dubrovka)

105.1 - Road Radio

107.3 - Radio Record

Many novels by V.V. Golovachev , a native of Zhukovka, take place in Zhukovka and the Zhukovsky district. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor, Department of Technology and Design, BSU Petrovsky Vladimir Volkov, a native of Zhukovka.

In the Trinity administrative district of Moscow there is the village of the same name Zhukovka , which is also located on the left bank of the Desna River .

• Zhukovka (station)
• Microdistricts of Zhukovka

• Kharlamov, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1905−1983) - Soviet naval leader and diplomat, admiral , candidate of naval sciences.

• Unofficial site of the city
• Zhukovka in the encyclopedia "My city"
• Map sheet N-36-XXII . Scale: 1: 200 000. Indicate the date of issue / condition of the area .