Right Chemi

Microdistrict Right Chemi or, as it is also called by Novosibirsk people, the Gateway, the Novosibirsk Hydroelectric Power Station owes its origin. After 1950, when work began on the construction of the dam, on the left and right banks of the Ob , two hydro-construction villages grew up against each other. Gradually, it was precisely in these villages that many houses were transported from two old acquired villages in the flood zone - Upper and Lower Chem . The very word "Chemy", scientists bring to the Indo-European root "by whom", which means "river".

When it became necessary to name the new villages, the villages began to be named after the old villages of the Left and Right Chemi.

At that time, the Right Cham had a double beginning. On the one hand, it was an ordinary village (and to this day its island has survived - the so-called "private sector"). In the names of two streets of the village that have been preserved since the tsarist time — Inozemnaya and Russkaya — traces of the past of the old, still 18th – 19th centuries , Siberian village, semi-Russian, semi-foreign.

But at the same time it was a typical suburban working village , built up with yellow two-story houses in the style of Stalinist classicism. The builders of the power plant lived in them. Traces of this are also in the names of the streets - Hydro - builders , Workers , Shlyuzovaya . The village itself also began to be called by the only enterprise located then on its territory: Gateways, Gateway.

One side adjacent to the Ob coast, on all other sides the village was surrounded by a beautiful pine forest , in which at that time there were still a lot of moose , and even wolves met. A part of the forest was occupied by a swamp , and on its edge there was a section of relic fir preserved in these places from the ice age.

The event that drastically changed the fate of the village was the beginning of the construction of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok , to accommodate which Academician Lavrentyev chose the Volchiy log forest tract, located four kilometers from the Right, which he renamed the Golden Valley. In April 1958, the Chems were included in the city line, forming together with Akademgorodok a new urban area - Sovetsky . Almost all the lands of the village were transferred to the Academy of Sciences, and the third component, workers of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, joined the population of the Right. Several institutes and design bureaus were built here, as well as residential buildings of the Siberian branch. So, the Right Chemi became a city microdistrict, retaining some isolation and even self-closure from the times of independent existence. ^[one]

Russian Street used to be Lenin Street, and Vakhtangov Street Kalinin Street. Hardware store on the street. The Caspian is the only reminder of Stalin Street, although old-timers say that in fact Stalin Street passed in the modern direction Russian 3-Volunteer 2, 4, 6, 8.

Renaming was due to the fact that when the village was attached to the city there was a duplication of some names: Lenin, Krylova and Bolshevik streets in Novosibirsk were already. ^[one]

Other examples of renaming streets of a neighborhood

• Baltic - Chernyshevsky
• Belousova - Krylova
• Vakhtangova - Kalinina
• Hydro Builders - School
• Zolotorozhskaya - Furmanova
• Foreign - Chapaeva
• Russian - Lenin
• Toilers - Bolshevik

The Vakhtangov stop has several names: SKTB Catalysts, ul. Belousova, st. Vakhtangov St. Baltic.

Site of the microdistrict “Gateway” (Right Chemi)