Sambek (Neklinovsky District)

According to legend, two families of runaway peasants were the first to stop at the site of the future settlement. “And there were their families of the five souls of the owners, their women and children. But in general, they had a goat before the ox. And they set the stone shacks where the river, unfolding, strengthened straight to the sea. ” For the first time documented about the farm in 1690. During the period of this time, defeated by the troops of the Turkish Sultan near Azov, Peter I with an army along an unfamiliar river to the North. In the village of Soviets, 25 miles from the mouth of the river, a military council was held, at which Peter said: “Let's go to the Voronu river, build ships, build a canal, pour the guns, go down the sea, break the Turks , no matter what. On the same river, where the path goes, I saw a deposit of stone near a small farm. Take it and build a fortress Taganiy Rog ". Peter's dream came true. The Turks in 1698 were expelled to the Crimea. Stone - shell from the right bank of the river serfs, kartozhane, soldiers, artisans loaded into barges, and it was delivered to the cape Taganiy Rog, where the fortress was built. And from the easy words of Peter I, the farm and the river in the common people called themselves Running (Sambek).

At the turn of the 18th century, then the pillar road from the Dmitrovo Rostov fortress to Taganrog and then across the Mius river at the Koroviy Brod grove lay here. At the crossing over the river Sambek there was a post station and a farm on the right bank, populated by government-owned peasants. The farm was called Sambek - Stone Bridge. Then there was a stone bridge with three arches across the river. At that time there were 30 yards in Sambek, but already in 1858, 60 years later, there were 162 yards with a population of 1,133 people. In 1861 a church was built “in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord”. From that time on, the village was called Preobrazhensky. Later this was the name of the parish, where the farms of Varenivka and Kurlatskoye belonged, and the village of Sambek became the volost center.

At the beginning of the Russian-Turkish war, the first commandant of the Taganrog fortress, Dezhoderas, had a farm and a fish factory at the confluence of the Sambek River into the sea. It is well known from the letter of April 10, 1771 that he allowed people to catch fish on the “Sambek Spit” to merchants and other titles, for which from each delivery and seine was taken to his hamlet on the Sambek river for the whole summer one employee and a pair of shafts. The Sambek River was controversial because of fishing between the Don Army and the commandant of the Taganrog fortress, which led to the government banning fishing on both sides.

On the maps of the end of the XVIII century in this territory are indicated on the right side of the mouth under a cliff - a tavern, and above - two fish factories. On another map, in the place where the remains of the former medieval round fortress “Major Fursov Rope Plant” are now located, go west to Volova Gully, a farm without names.

In addition to the main road, there was also another road that ran near the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov and the Dead Donets through Varenovka. Both roads were laid under Peter I, when the city of Taganrog was built. How many events were witnessed by these roads! The Cossack cavalry and Petrovsky regiments moved along them, the “working people” were walking, the convicts rang in chains. People went to the construction of the Trinity Fortress, Tagany Rog in 1678-1710. In February 1712, soldiers of the Trinity Fortress, destroyed by the Prut Treaty with Turkey, marched here. And later, during the war with Turkey and the Crimean Khan, the troops again moved along these roads, brought ammunition and foodstuffs, brought stone to restore Taganrog in 1798.

In 1771, Sambek passed the future leader of the peasant war, Emelyan Pugachev, as well as scientists of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

June 6, 1820 Sambek drove A. Pushkin .

By 1859, there were already 162 courtyards with a population of 1,133 people.

In 1861, a church in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in Sambek, since that time Sambek was called the Transfiguration.

In July 1875, together with his sisters, brothers and mother in Sambek, A. P. Chekhov halted. This road and steppe are described by him in the stories “Steppe” and “Lights”.

Civil War

The surroundings of the village became places of fierce fighting between the "red" and "white". At the beginning of the conflict, a detachment of White Guards consisting of 300 men was concentrated here and 2 Sambek guns changed hands several times. The Soviet period in the history of Sambek began on January 9, 1920, when the Red Army forced the White Guards to flee from Sambek and Kurlatsky . The conflict claimed the lives of 500 people.

At the end of the census of 1920, the population was 3014 people.

World War II

German troops occupied Sambek twice: in the fall of 1941 and in the summer of 1942. The liberation formally began with the attack on the Mius-Front on August 18, 1943, and finally Sambek was released on August 30. From Sambek and Kurlatsky 1130 went to the front, 350 people returned.

• Bondarenko, Mikhail Markovich (1905–1938) - Soviet state and party worker, second secretary of the city committee of the CPSU (b) Taganrog.
• Petlyakov, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1891–1942) - Soviet aircraft designer.
• Saryan, Martiros Sergeevich (1880-1972) - Soviet artist. The artist's childhood passed in Sambek.
• Meshcheryakov, Mikhail Grigorievich (1910–1994) - Soviet and Russian physicist, organizer of science, a prominent figure in the Atomic Project.

Davidenko Lyudmila Dmitrievna - winner of season 13 show of the Battle of Psychics

• Glory Memorial at Sambek Heights

• Sambek (village) (inaccessible link)
• The Book of Memory of Ukraine 1941—1945