Kondrovo

The city, in the past - the village of Troitskaya volost of Medynsky district, is located on the Shan River (tributary of the Ugra , Oka basin), 46 km from Kaluga , on the Central Russian Upland.

XVII century

In 1500-1501, the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III for the march on Lithuania and in the defense of the Ugra and Oka rivers granted the governor, Prince Dmitry Vasilyevich Kondyrev, hereditary possession of the border lands on the Shan River ^[5] .

1615 is considered the date of foundation Kondrovo. In the scribe book on Medynsk county for the years 1628-1629 it says:

“For the Nomadic Volodymyr's son of Polivanov according to the Sovereign, he granted a patrimonial patrimonial certificate of 1615 with a deed of diak Gerasim Martemianov half of the village of Kondarev, and Omelianovskoye identity , on the river on Shan”

This is the first mention of Kondrov in written sources. From this quote it follows that Kocheva (Koch) ^[6] Vladimirovich Polivanov owned half of the village of Kondyrevo (Omelyanovskoye). The other owner of the village was M. B. Sherstov ^[7] .

By 1678, the population of Kondyrev consisted of more than 100 male souls in 18 yards. In the 2nd half of the XVII century. Nearby, another village arose - Troitskoe, merged with Kondyrev in 1678, "behind the boyar Prince Fedor Fedorovich Kurakin in the village of Trinity and Vzdin tozh on the Shan River." Around the Kurakin patrimony there are four villages with 29 yards of peasants and mares and 121 peasants. The owners of the villages were the princes of Khovan, Gagarin, Begichev, Kozlovsk, Volkonsk. Kondyrev landowners bought more for the export of peasants from Kashinsky, Venevsky and Shatsky districts of Tver and Tula, as well as Kaluga provinces.

XVIII century

In 1785, Prince Ya. A. Kozlovsky began the construction of a paper mill on the r. Shane on his land of serfdom. In 1799, P. G. Shchepochkin, having bought the estate, also began the construction of a paper mill on the left bank of the r. Shani.

The new owner of Troitsky seconds, Major A. S. Khlyustin, having bought it in 1806 from Kozlovsky, built a “azure” factory at the factory. In 1818 the Trinity Church was rebuilt in stone at the expense of Khlyustin, and two years later, at the expense of Shchepochkina, Spasskaya. In 1840, Trinity was bought by Princess S. V. Kochubey. Kondyrevo-Kondrovo passed into the hands of Generalsha Mescherinova, the daughter of Shchepochkin. The production of factories did not expand, the reconstruction of the complex was necessary. However, since 1845, machines began to be used in production. In 1849, Troitskaya, and in 1853 the Kondrovsk factory was bought by an English businessman, V. Howard. New construction has stepped on the right bank of Shani. In 1862, the Troitsk and Kondyrev factories had 550 workers and produced goods for 370 thousand rubles. in year. At the end of the XIX century. at the Trinity factory they installed a self-tapping machine, conducted steam heating and electric lighting. In 1870, a two-class factory and district school opened its doors.

XX century

In 1914, the new owners of the factories were L. L. Katuar, G. M. Vogau, and K. P. Bakhrushin. Then the population of Kondrovo was 2 thousand people, the school worked. In Troitsk there was another school, the population numbered 2020 people. In 1916 the People’s House was built. In November 1917, the Troitsko-Kondrovsky Council was created, which maintained a normal rhythm of production.

Since 1929, Kondrovo received the status of a working village. On March 25, 1938, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a decree “On uniting the workers' settlements of Kondrovo and the Trinity Dzerzhinsky District of the Western Region into one settlement and transforming this settlement into a city”.

On October 9, 1941, the city was occupied by the Nazi troops . Released on January 19, 1942.

In 1963-1969 Chairman of the City Executive Council of Deputies was Artizov Alexander Andreevich (11/19/1929 - October 1, 1981). These years began the improvement of the city. Were built suspension bridges over the river. Shan to the Pedagogical School and the city market. Asphalting of central highways of the city was carried out and the construction of panel five-story buildings began on the street. Lenin. Schools No. 2 and No. 4 and the Malyshok kindergarten were built. The construction of a sanitary paper factory has begun. South Street (Cheryomushki) was built.

The town-forming enterprise and the main source for the formation of the city’s budget was PO Kondrovobumprom, general director from 1970 to 1995, Dakhno Vasily Timofeevich (born February 2, 1932), an honorary citizen of the Dzerzhinsky district of the Kaluga region. When it was carried out a complete reconstruction of production with the involvement in 1984 of Finnish builders and technologists ("Puolimatka") and the launch of new industries for export purposes (including packaging for projectiles used in tropical conditions, Vietnam), the largest modern factory in Europe was built for the production of vegetable parchment, began to produce sanitary products of fluff pulp. The funds obtained by the enterprise allowed the city administration to carry out its reconstruction, including a bus station, a two-storeyed catering complex “Kaskad” and other facilities - a city park, a stadium was reconstructed, three bridges across the r. Shan (heads of administrations Viliy Mikhailovich Nebuchinov and Nikolai Romantsov).

In 2005, Kondrovo was recognized as the second most comfortable city (after Dmitrov ) in Russia among cities with a population of less than 100,000.

As of January 1, 2018, in terms of population, the city was located at 795 out of 1113 ^[29] cities of the Russian Federation ^[30] .

Town-forming enterprises:

• Enterprise "Kondrovskaya Paper Company" - currently produces corrugated products.
• Trinity Paper Mill - produces parchment and waterproof paper;
• Enterprise "Hygiene Service" - produces feminine hygiene items, "Hygiene-Service-Med" diapers for adults.
• Firm Vesta manufacture of corrugated products.
• Kondrovsky bakery bakery products, pasta, soft drinks, confectionery.
• Firm "Geopack" production of paper for corrugation and cardboard for flat layers.
• LLC Kondrovo-Milk cheese production.
• Pischepak packaging material.

There is a mototrain on the outskirts of the city, the second largest in Europe . Currently there are no events on the track.

Russian motorcycle racer, repeated champion of Russia in motocross EE Bobryshev was born in Kondrovo. The only Russian speaking in MX-1.

Since 1998, an annual regional art song festival has been held in Kondrovo.

The city is located on the highway of regional significance P93 .

Bus service to Kaluga and Moscow .

Railway communication with Vyazma and Kaluga ( Govardovo station ).

• The Church of the Savior, not made by hands , was built in 1820 by the owner of the paper mill, P. G. Shchepochkin. In 1935, the church closed. From 1961 to 1993 there was a grocery store in the building. In 1993, the church was again handed over to believers, and in 2008, the reconstruction was fully completed. Address: st. Lenin Square, 3.
• Monument "50 Years of Victory . " Located in the city center on Kooperativnaya Street, near the dam on the Chanet River.
• Alley of Heroes , located near the monument to the 50th anniversary of the Victory. Laid in 2005 in memory of 11 residents of the city who died in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
• The paper mill building, built at the end of the XVIII century. Located in the city center on Kooperativnaya street, near the dam. Unfortunately, the 2nd floor was completed (used as a residential building), it is now destroyed by 60%, but you can get a general idea.
• Monument to A. Pushkin . The author is a sculptor Svetlana Farneeva , famous in the Kaluga region . Established in 2004 at the beginning of Pushkin Street. In 2007, a stone tablet with the name of the poet was stolen from the monument, but after 3 months an iron plate was installed in its place.
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  The Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity is the oldest church in Kondrov. Built in 1818. The temple is located on the outskirts of the city, on the street of Red October (before the unification of settlements in the town of Kondrovo in 1938, it was located in the village of Troitsk on Vzdyn). In 1932 the church was closed. It had a school, an incubator, a warehouse, a brewery, and a shop at various intervals. In 1988, the temple transferred to the ROC .
• Monument to Soviet soldiers who died in World War II . Located on Pronin Street, built in 1975.
• Monument to the founder of the city voivode Dmitry Kondyrev . Open on city day in 2009. Sculptor Svetlana Farniev. 7m tall, made of copper Address: Kondrovo, ul. Komsomolskaya ^[5]

In the normative Grammar dictionary of Zaliznyak about the names of localities on -s, ovo, -ino (that is, about options for use: it was in Kondrovo / Kondrovo) it says: Reference to this paragraph indicates that it is very often found - as in oral speech and in the press - the use of this word as unchangeable, for example, lives in Kuntsevo, we drive up to Ostankino, a kilometer from Borodino , instead of literary ones, lives in Kuntsevo, we drive up to Ostankin, a kilometer from Borodin . The extent of the spread of this phenomenon is so significant that, apparently, it is already approaching the status of a permissible option ... So said in the appendix. Previously, such variability was allowed only in combination with the word "city", for example: I was in the city of Kondrovo ( comp .: "Cities of Moscow" in passports and other records).

• Kondrovo in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia