Pervomaisky (Mamontovsky district)

The village of Pervomaisky is located on the territory of the Timiryazevsky state farm in the north of Mamontovsky district, 35 km from the district center and 175 km from Barnaul, and it is 10 km away from the Korchino railway station. With all surrounding settlements, the village is connected by paved roads. State farm "Timiryazevsky" is located in the flat-steppe zone, where steppe meadows, birch-aspen forests (spikes), wild food fruit and berry plants predominate. The following bird species live in our area: crow, rook, magpie, black-headed mint, steppe horse, yellow wagtail, as well as water and near-water birds. Small mammals: ground squirrel, hamsters, field mice. From large mammals: wolves, goats, fox, polecat, white hare, corsac , hamster. There are 8 ponds in the village.

The village was founded in 1955.

At the party’s call for the spring of 1954, thousands of volunteers from Central Russia moved along the Komsomol vouchers to the East. In the Urals, northern Kazakhstan and southern Siberia, hundreds of collective farms were organized. The virgin lands had to live in tents, in off-road conditions, a change in severe cold weather and exhausting heat.

So, in 1955, in early spring, a train with virgin lands arrived at Korchino station. Initially, they were temporarily housed in apartments in a. Yermachikha, and in April, a tent camp appeared a few kilometers from the railway. Among the virgin lands were both family and youth. The first of the family were Alexei Fedorovich Gulevsky, Georgy Efimovich Makhonko, Vasily Fedorovich Kapustin and others. The first among young people was Paly Vladimir Antonovich.

The problems of life that the virgin lands met immediately upon arrival alone hardened, and they steadfastly endured the hardships of life; those who could not stand the difficulties left back.

On May 1, 1955, an organizational meeting was held at the field camp and the settlement was given the name “Pervomaisky”, the future village was part of the new virgin state farm “Sharchinsky”. Its first director was Muscovite Konyashin Nikifor Eliseevich. In 1954, during the year, a huge preparatory work was carried out to receive future new settlers.

Forest and other building materials were prepared, trailers and tents were put up, prefabricated houses began to arrive in spring.

All attention and all efforts of the new settlers were turned to plowing virgin lands. 40 tractors DT-54 were sent here. They worked, sparing neither strength nor time. In the first spring, May Day sowed 3,500 ha. It was a real labor feat without any embellishment.

After the sowing company, all efforts were devoted to the construction of housing, industrial and domestic premises, and by autumn 20 panel 4-apartment and 18 2-apartment buildings, an office building, a dormitory, a dining room, a bakery were delivered. The village was built by young people full of energy and enthusiasm, after a hard day the youth gathered spontaneously in the clearings, where the sounds of the accordion quietly ripped open the expanse of steppe.

At first, all the new settlers ate in the dining room, hammered together from the boards, the food was simple and satisfying. The bread was especially tasty for the new settlers, which was not only virgin, cultivated with their own hands, but also because the bread was baked by a man, the first baker M. Zhogov, a professional in his field, who worked at this place until his retirement.

The first virgin fall gave the country an unprecedented harvest. The area that raised 47 thousand hectares of land doubled the harvest of grain. The region and the region gave the country millions of tons of bread. Despite the huge difficulties in harvesting, the country's bread problem was mainly resolved.

The construction of the village did not stop even in the most suffering time, and the first street was named after Lenin. The second street was called Youth.

The village was considered youth, but there were also family ones. Although there were few children at first, there was a need to open an elementary school. Mishkina Maria Ksenofontovna and Berkut Valentina Ivanovna became the first teachers and educators, the founders of the future May Day school. The training went first in tents, and later in a fitted house.

Over the years, the virgin settlement grew, people came from the surrounding villages and districts. Tselina tempered people, developed the best character traits, she gave great bread, helped defuse the tense situation in the country with grain.

But virgin land at the same time gave rise to a lot of negative. Soil scientists predicted that dump plowing in virgin regions, where winters were very harsh and with little snow, could lead to loss of soil fertility. The upper humus layer has been accumulating by nature for millennia, and we ruined it in almost a few years. As a result of thoughtless dump plowing during the icy, snowless winter, under the influence of the prevailing winds, the entire humus layer rose into the air and dispersed over thousands of kilometers.

All subsequent decades have been devoted to the conservation of soil fertility.

The Sharchinsky Zernosovkhoz became a very large farm; therefore, the need arose for dividing the state farm into two independent farms.

On April 17, 1958, a new grain farm “Korchinsky” was formed, which included settlements: p. Korchino, p. Ermachikha, p. Grishinsky, p. Novomoskovsk, p. Rybalny, p. Veselovsk, and p. Pervomaisky. The village of Pervomaisky by this time already had a population of more than 800 people and was part of the Korchinsky village council.

The village was built, and in its economy two directions were clearly manifested - grain and livestock.

In connection with the growth of the village numerically and the presence of a large number of surrounding land at the request of the regional production department of agriculture, the Korchinsky state farm was divided into two farms.

In 1966, the Timiryazevsky state farm was formed, which included workers from the village of Pervomaisky, the village of Grishinsky, the village of Novomoskovsk, and the village of Rybalny.

So on the map of the Mamontovsk district there appeared a new economy and a new administrative center of the settlement of Pervomaisky with its village council. Vladimir Grigoryevich Vasilenko was appointed the first director of the Timiryazevsky state farm and Mikhail Pavlovich Maksimov was elected the first chairman of the village council.

Currently, the head of the administration is Valery Borisovich Dedov. 760 people live in the village, 188 of them are pensioners. 34 young families and 20 families with two or more children live in the village.

In the village operates PR "Timiryazevsky", 2 shops, Pervomaisk secondary school, kindergarten "Gnezdyshko"