Nikiforovsky district

The area covers 1191.4 km², of which more than 90,000 hectares are occupied by agricultural land, of which about 65,000 hectares are arable land. The Polnoy Voronezh River flows through the territory of the district.

Borders: with Sosnovsky , Tambovsky , Petrovsky , Michurinsky and Staroyuryevsky areas of the region. In the area near the village of Yaroslavka there is a large Yaroslavl reservoir.

The district was formed in 1928 as part of the Tambov district of the Central Black Sea District . In the Decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of June 13, 1934, it is mentioned as part of the Voronezh region . Since September 27, 1937, the Nikiforov district, among 48 other districts, began to belong to the newly formed Tambov region . Later, the Nikiforov district was abolished and its territory entered the Tambov and Michurinsky areas . On January 13, 1965, by the decision of the Tambov Oblast Executive Committee, the Nikiforov District was again formed with its center in the village ( from 09/09/1966 - a working village ) Dmitrievka .

Evgeny Podolsky worked in the Nikiforov district, in 1990-1991. The first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU , who published in Tambov in 2000 the book "How We Lived, How We Worked."

The writer and poet A. Ostroukhov, who graduated from the VGIK scenario faculty, worked in the regional newspaper.

In r.p. Dmitriyevka was born and spent the years of her youth, the Soviet (Russian) theater and film actress Nadezhda Markina (the film Elena , the series "Plot" and many other feature films).

In r.p. Dmitriyevka November 13, 1979 was born a film actor Sergei Strelnikov , who became famous for playing the main role in the biographical series “ Passion for Chapay ”, “ Kuprin. Pit "and others.

A major contribution to the development of the district center and the entire territory of the future municipality was made by Yuri Alekseevich Erin, who for many years (1970s – 1980s) headed the Nikiforov Sugar Plant (currently - a branch of Znamensky Sugar Plant OJSC, Rusagro Group of Companies) ) Thanks to the efforts of Yu. A. Erin, a large number of housing and socio-cultural institutions were built in the village of Dmitriyevka. With the transfer of Yuri Alekseevich from the Nikiforov district to work in the Ministry of Agriculture, the pace of development of the district center was reduced many times.

Urbanization

In urban areas (the working village of Dmitriyevka ), 43.69% of the population live in the district.

Employment

The number of able-bodied citizens living in the district is 58 percent of the total number of residents. Of the total number of employees, 62 percent of people work in material production and 38 percent of workers work in the non-productive sphere. Recently, there has been a movement of labor into the non-productive sphere of activity.

Nikiforov district as an administrative-territorial entity includes 1 council and 5 village councils ^[12] .

The Nikiforov district as a municipality with the status of a municipal district includes 6 municipalities , including 1 urban and 5 rural settlements ^{[13] [14]} :

Settlements

In Nikiforov district 57 settlements.

Abolished settlements

The villages of Lysovka and Fedorovka 2nd .

The region is economically promising in the industrial and agricultural development plan due to the development of transport infrastructure. The main areas of the economy are agricultural production and the food industry. The district has one of the largest sugar factories in the country, part of the Rusagro holding. Its capacity currently allows you to process about 7 thousand tons of sugar beets per day. Also in the regional center - the village of Dmitriyevka - there are three elevators, a dairy workshop. On July 7, 2009, a grain warehouse for 240 thousand tons was launched in the district, the largest in Russia. It is planned to build a plant for deep processing of grain, a plant for processing oilseeds, and in the surrounding villages - another pig complex and a complex for fattening cattle. In the village of Saburo-Pokrovskoye there is a bread factory equipped with modern equipment. The soils in the district are powerful chernozems. The main crops grown in the region are sugar beets, sunflowers, cereals, fodder crops, horticulture and livestock farming are developed. The agricultural industry is represented by several large farms: Golitsyno JSC, a field-breeding and dairy sector (collective farm, robotic farm), Tsentralnoye LLC, which operates a recently built pig farm and a powerful feed mill, launched in July 2012, and agro-technology LLC field-growing enterprises, LLC Agro Vista Tambov, LLC Brahrosagro, as well as a number of smaller agricultural production companies and a large number of farms, in addition to field husbandry involved in sheep and dairy farming go livestock. In 2012, the largest grain elevator for storing and processing grain in the European part of Russia - and in the whole country, was opened in the district center.

The village of Dmitriyevka is located 50 km northwest of the regional center of Tambov . Communication with him is carried out on a highway with asphalt-concrete pavement M6 , which is of national importance. Another road of national importance - P119 " Orel - Tambov ."

The Southeast Railway passes through the territory of the Nikiforov district, the movement on which was opened back in 1869 . The largest stations are Nikiforovka and Saburovo , the distance between which is about 20 km.

As of January 1, 2008, there were ten full, ten secondary and two elementary schools in the district, as well as one kindergarten school. To implement the program “Modernization of the education system for two thousand five-eighth years” they want to transform several complete schools into secondary schools and secondary schools into primary schools.

As of January 1, 2008, there were eight kindergartens in Nikiforovsky District, with more than 360 children attending. In general, the district does not suffer from a shortage of places in kindergartens, as there are more than 1300 places for 1000 children. In the future, it is expected that a system of school training for pupils in short-stay groups that will be created in large schools will work. There are also three institutions of additional education: the Children's and Youth Sports School, the home of children's creativity and the children's art school.

There are no universities, vocational schools and technical schools in the Nikiforov district.

In the district, 72,400 hectares of land are allotted for arable land, of which 63800 hectares are cultivated, 18,900 hectares, or almost 30 percent of the total area of ​​cultivated arable land, are allocated for farmland and private enterprises.

In 2004, grain collection from all farms in the region amounted to 39800 tons, in 2005 - 45500 tons, in 2006 - 53400 tons, in 2007 - 55800 tons.

The average grain harvest in the district in 2004 was 16.1 centners per hectare, in 2005 - 18.4 centners per hectare, in 2006 - 20.7 centners per hectare, in 2007 - 19.7 centners per hectare .

As of January 1, 2006, there were almost 6.9 thousand head of cattle in all the farms of the region, 3 thousand of which were cows, as of January 1, 2008, the number of cattle was slightly more than 4 thousand, of which there were cows 1.6 thousand goals.

Twenty-four post offices and nineteen telecommunication offices operated in the district. After the reorganization, most of the settlements in the district do not have a post office. In twenty-eight villages there is a telephone connection, and the communication departments are working on modern technologies. In the district center ATS provides digital communication services, through which the residents of the village can use additional services, and most of the residents of the district have the opportunity to connect to the Internet.

Since 2002, cellular communications of the GSM - 900/1800 standard began to operate in the region. This made it possible for the population of the Nikiforov district to use federal cellular communications. In 2004, an updated MTS Si - 2000 tower was installed at the district center, and a MTS Si - 2000/320 tower was installed in the village of Saburo-Pokrovskoye. This significantly affected the radio coverage area and the quality of communication. Currently, other mobile operators operate in the district. In 2007, several cellular communication towers were commissioned, this made it possible to provide the district with cellular communications in most of its territory.

The number of landlines in rural areas in the two thousand and seventh year was 182 per 1000 inhabitants. Cable TV operates in the district center; plans for laying fiber-optic lines have begun.

In the village of Ekaterino there is a large experimental agricultural station operating under the auspices of the All-Russian Institute of Plant Production named after academician N.I. Vavilov . Here, elite seeds of grain crops are grown, scientific work is being conducted, and collecting seeds of plants of the region is being carried out. In the village of Yekaterinino there is a unique and most beautiful monument, a living natural monument - a dendrological park with an area of ​​about 40 hectares, founded in the XIX century by the landowner A. Ushakov. It is declared a natural monument of national importance. In Catherine Park, there are more than 230 species of trees and shrubs.

Among the historical monuments of the region is the so-called Tatar rampart , which at one time served as a defense against attacks by nomadic tribes and the Tatar-Mongolian cavalry. It was an integral part of a complex serif line, stretching from Belgorod to Simbirsk , and is now recognized as a unique monument of archeology, ancient fortification, history and nature. Now this monument is under state protection.

In the district, a park of regional significance in the village of Saburo-Pokrovskoye is known and protected by the state.

On the territory of the district, the Polnovsky reserve is established, which was created to restore the numbers of brown hare (Lepus europaeus), gray partridge (Perdix perdix) and Russian desman (Desmana moschata).

In the regional center, work has begun on the construction of a new church, instead of the existing small church of St. John the Evangelist, small and cramped.

In r.p. Dmitriyevka was born in 1970 and grew up Andrei Mikhalev, a sailor, a bastard engineer who died heroically on the K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine on April 7, 1989 in the Norwegian Sea.

There are many heroic pages in the history of the region. Perhaps one of the most tragic is connected with the Great Patriotic War . More than 14 thousand Nikiforovites were called up during the war to the ranks of the Red Army. 6436 names of soldiers who did not return home were recorded in the regional Book of Remembrance. They, like those who came home with victory, honorably fulfilled their duty as defenders of the Fatherland. The whole country learned about the exploits of many of them. Five became Heroes of the Soviet Union - these are A. T. Makarov, I. I. Grishaev, A. N. Mikhin, N. Ya. Medvedev , E. V. Shkurdalov. Full holders of the orders of Glory are E. N. Koltyukov, I. M. Rastyapin, I. P. Ledenev. Over 6 thousand Nikiforites were awarded orders and medals.

But not only on the fronts forged victory. Behind the rear, people also accomplished feats, working with unprecedented tension. Almost 2.5 thousand Nikiforovites were awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

Residents of the region provided all possible assistance to the warrior heroes with their hard work, their material help and care. The Nikiforovites unanimously supported the initiative of the workers of the Izberdeevsky district to raise funds for the construction of the tank column "Tambov collective farmer." They collected 559 thousand rubles. For the construction of the squadron and armored trains, the residents of the region transferred 125,600 rubles.

Young people did not stand aside. In 1943, the Komsomol district gathered 98 thousand rubles for the construction of the torpedo boat "Nikiforovsky Komsomolets." The sailors proudly carried the Soviet naval flag in the waters of the Baltic. On their account several sunken enemy ships and transports.

In the early years of the war, the First Guards and Third Long-Range Aviation Regiments were based at the airfield in Nikiforovka. Residents of the region rendered all possible assistance to the pilots, did everything for the normal functioning of the airfield. About this in his memoirs writes one of the pilots of the 1st air regiment A.N. Bodnar.

• Eugene Podolsky . How we lived, how we worked. - Tambov, 2000.
• Vladimir Bashkankov . Memorable and historical places of the village Saburo-Pokrovskoye. - Tambov, 2005.
• Alexander Bodnar . About time and about yourself. - Tambov, 2004.
• Victor Fomenkov. Thistle // Rise. - 2016. - No. 7.

• Administration of Nikiforov district
• The regional newspaper "Banner"