May Day

In 1865, a sugar factory was built in the village of Deryugino . Since 1898, the Deryuginsky sugar factory belonged to Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov . In addition to the sugar factory in Deryugino, a distillery, a paper mill, a steam sawmill, and mills worked. On May 2, 1918, enterprises were nationalized.

In the 1920s, the plant was transferred to new technical equipment, some of which was imported from abroad, the building of the plant itself was also reconstructed and its territory was expanded. The expansion of the plant required the involvement of new workers. For their residence on the left bank of the factory pond, in 1924 the construction of a working village began. The construction - cooperative brigade "Zhilstroy" led the work. A brick mini-factory was organized in the same territory. During the construction, 53 houses and 115 apartments were erected. The houses were built semi-detached and single-family. The population was 3.5 thousand people. In 1930, Deryugino received the status of an urban-type settlement .

Until 1935, the territory of the housing construction was called the "Soviet Dawn." The date of completion of the first house coincided with the 7th Congress of the 3rd Communist International, at which it was decided to consider August 1 as the International Day against the Imperialist War, and therefore in 1935 the village was renamed to the village of Pervoavgustovsky, which also part of the territory of the Deryuginsky and Bychkovsky village councils. An urban-type village and a village council were formed. The entire territory of the village was divided into 24 streets. At that moment, a sugar factory, a citric acid factory and a paper mill named after the Paris Commune were operating in the village, an outpatient hospital, a pharmacy, a veterinary clinic, a sawmill, a MTS, a mill, a dairy processing plant, a First August school, a cultural center, and a library were operating.

With the beginning of World War II, more than 300 people left for the front of the village. In connection with the approach of the front to the Kursk region on September 16, 1941, the party regional committee ordered the construction of military defensive structures, the provision of comprehensive assistance to the front, and the creation of partisan detachments. In 1941, the Deryuginsky sugar factory was partially evacuated to Siberia, the equipment that could not be removed, the workers urgently lowered to the bottom of the factory pond. Repair of military equipment was organized in the mechanical workshops of the Deryuginsky sugar factory, and a military hospital was located in the building of the local hospital. During the occupation, an underground anti-fascist group operated in the territory of the village. Among them were yesterday’s students of the First August School: Vera Tereshchenko , Zhenya Lakeev, Sasha Governors, Zhenya Lugovskaya, etc. On March 3, 1943 the village was liberated from the Nazi invaders. The sugar factory destroyed during the war was restored in 1947.

February 10, 1989 a paper mill burned down. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the sugar mill and citric acid plant stopped. In 2004, the First of August became a rural village - a village. Industrial production is represented only by a bakery and a dairy workshop ^[2] .