Khvoynaya (Khvoyninsky district)

It is located at the confluence of the Talka River into the River Pes , 290 km east of the regional center of Veliky Novgorod and 80 km from the city of Borovichi .

The urban village Khvoynaya was created on the site of the ancient settlement of Troshovo. In the center of Khvoynoy there are the remains of an ancient reaper, hills. The village of Troshovo belonged to the Krutetsk Monastery, which was founded in the 16th century on Krutoy on Peses, which is seven kilometers from Troshovo.

Under the project for the construction of the Mga-Rybinsk railway, the following were laid on the site: Antsiferovo, Art. Pesa, Troshovo junction (at the site of the present Khvoynoy), local station. Kushavera, Kabozha junction and Art. Mounds. At the Kushavera precinct station, it turned out to be impossible to place all the railway services - around a swamp. Then the troshovo crossing was made a station and called it Coniferous. Since 1927, the railway services that were already created in Kushavera began to be transferred to Khvoynaya, on the left bank of the Pes River. Together with administrative and office buildings, residential buildings were also built. So began the conifer station

By 1927, the administrative and territorial reform was over. On the territory of the former Borovichi district, several districts were formed, including Minetsky.

For some time, there were two settlements - the Khvoynaya station and the Khvoynaya village. Each settlement had its own school, hospital, shops, post office, etc. Later, both villages “merged”, and the village of Troshovo entered the village of Khvoinaya, as one of the streets.

By a resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on June 8, 1931, the administrative center of the Minetsky District of the then Leningrad Region was transferred to the village of Khvoynaya from the village of Mintsy on August 1, 1931, which was renamed Khvoininsky District . The construction of the village began already on the right bank of the River Pes and the village was built as an administrative center with all the relevant institutions and organizations.

In accordance with the decree of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of August 20, 1935, the Khvoinaya substation village was transformed into a working village ^[4] .

During World War II , hospitals were deployed in Khvoynoy in the fall of 1941; 714 Soviet soldiers who died from wounds are buried in the fraternal cemetery located in the village. In September 1941, Khvoynaya became the main air base for the supply of besieged Leningrad. The Special Northern Civil Aviation Group (OSAG) and then the aviation regiment under the command of the renowned pilot V. Grizodubova arrived in Conifer. ^[5] .

In the forest across the river Pes, at the end of 1941, a training partisan camp was formed, partisan printing houses and editorial offices worked there, where the newspapers Leningradsky Partisan, the organ of the Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement, For the Soviet Homeland and several copies of Young Avenger, were published. ^[6] .

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 5, 1944, the village of Khvoynaya and the entire Khvoyninsky district were included in the newly formed Novgorod region ^[7] .

Locomotive depot, timber industry, brewery (a large enterprise for the production of beer and soft drinks. Beer Khvoyninskoe and other products of the enterprise are in great demand throughout the Novgorod region.) And other enterprises. The surrounding area produces gravel and sand .

The single-track railway Sonkovo - St. Petersburg passes through the village.

• Long-distance train schedule on Yandex. Timetables
• Schedule of local trains on Yandex. Timetables

Highways connect Khvoynaya with Borovichi , Pestovo and Lyubytino . Bus connection with the cities of Borovichi and Veliky Novgorod .

The village has a private passenger taxi, which can be ordered by phone. There is also a village bus route.

Education

There are two secondary schools in the village:

1. Secondary School No. 1 named after Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Makarovich Denisov ^[22] , founded in 1936 ^[23] .
2. Secondary school No. 2, organized in 1938 as a complete secondary school No. 36; in 1942-1943 the school building housed evacuation hospital No. 2753 ^[24] .

Healthcare

• Central District Hospital
• Children's tuberculosis sanatorium

Culture

• DK railway workers (now DK village Khvoynaya)
• Cinema "Dawn"
• Museum of Local Lore ^[25]

mass media

• Newspaper New Life ;

Interesting about Khvoynoy: • Near Khvoynoy there is an underground river Beginning on Lake. Iron (northern part). An exit - the river Belenkaya. There is a dry channel on the top, now barely noticeable, and about seventy years ago, in the spring it was filled with water all the way.

• Administrative and territorial division of the Novgorod province and the region 1727 - 1995 Handbook / Ed. S. D. Trifonova, T. B. Chuikova, L. V. Fedina, A. E. Dubonosova. - SPb. : Committee for Culture, Tourism and Archival Affairs of the Novgorod Region; State Archive of the Novgorod Region, 2009. - 272 p.

• Khvoynaya settlement on the site "Savelovskaya Glukhoman"
• Coniferous during the war. abbreviated materials “In the Name of Victory” by the local historian I. Mikhailov and “Coniferous during the war” by the local historian A. Ivanov from the 1991 Methodical Handbook on Physico-Geographic and Historical Local History of the Khvoininsky District
• Khvoynaya (Khvoyninsky district) - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .