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The city is located on the Berd River (the right tributary of the Ob ), 26 km south of Novosibirsk .

Iskitim Train Station is 57 km from Novosibirsk-Glavny Train Station.

According to 2008 data, Iskitim Square is 29.87 km² ^[4] .

Climate

The continental climate prevails. Winters are harsh and long. Summer is hot and short. The average annual rainfall is 450 mm.

According to one of the many etymological versions, the name “Iskitim” is considered to be derived from the ethnonym “Askishtim (Ashkitim, Azkeshtim)” - an ancient tribal group of steppe Teleuts of the Teleuts living in the area, and translated from Turkic means “pit” or “bowl”. Indeed, the city is actually located in a hollow ^[6] . This nomadic people came to southern Siberia (and, in particular, in Priobye) in the 15th – 17th centuries. within the borders of the Oirat Khanate ( Turkic-speaking peoples ). At the same time, the Finno-Ugric peoples who lived here earlier were supplanted. The population density in Western Siberia in the Middle Ages was extremely small and the total number of Teleuts by the 17th century in the Upper Ob and in the foothills of Altai was only a few thousand people. In the next two centuries, the Russian Cossacks and the Russian peasantry became the dominant population.

With the repeated annexation of Siberia in 1604, a large Tomsk prison was built , from which the Cossacks build a chain of new defensive (from the Dzungars and Kyrgyz tribes) prison camps, including one in the area of ​​modern Berdsk . Ostrogs are surrounded by Cossack villages and settlements.

By the census of 1717, the villages of Shipunovo, Koinovo, Chernodyrovo (named after the Chernodyrikhi River, which in Soviet times was renamed to Chernaya) and Vylkovo already existed in the place of the modern city.

From 1886 to 1917, the territory of the environs of the future Iskitim belonged to the Koynovsky volost of the Barnaul district of Tomsk province , after the Civil War , from 1920 to 1922 - to the Novo-Nikolaevsky district .

Two factors contributed to the economic development of the settlements of Koynovskaya volost in the 19th century:

• the Barnaul tract passed through the territory (the road from the administrative center of Tomsk to the royal Altai plants) ^[8] ;
• discovery at the end of the 19th century of a limestone deposit, which was mastered by local merchants in small volumes of production.

In 1912, construction began on the Altai Railway , linking Barnaul and the Trans-Siberian Railway at the site of Novonikolaevsk station, which was completed in 1916 . Not far from the railway, line 5 was built, later renamed Iskitim Station . In the early 1920s, 2 cars were installed at the station, which replaced the station. In the 1930s, the first wooden building of the Iskitim railway station was built. In the second half of the 1920s. Here the administrative center of district rural settlements is being formed - the Iskitim village council .

At the beginning of the XX century (including the period of the Civil War ), the territory belonged sequentially:

• to the Koynovskaya volost of the Barnaul district, first Tomsk , and since the summer of 1917 - to the Altai province . In the fall of 1918, the Kolchak power of whites abolished the Koynovsky volost , including the territories of modern Iskitim and its modern environs to the Berd volost of the Tomsk province .
• In January 1920, the Sibrevkom restored (or rather, did not recognize Kolchak’s decision to abolish) the Koynovsky volost. The volost is assigned to the Novo-Nikolaevsky district of the Tomsk province.
• in 1922, the Sibrevkom again abolished the Koynovsky volost, having included its territory in the Berd volost of the Novo-Nikolaevsky district of the newly created Novo-Nikolaevsky province (1922-1925);
• to the Berdsky district of the Novosibirsk District (1925-1933), first the Siberian Territory (1925-1930), then the West Siberian Territory (in 1930-1933);
• to the Cherepanovsky district of the West Siberian Territory (in 1933-1935).

During the establishment of Soviet power in 1917, Afanasy Skorokhodov, a sailor of the Baltic Fleet (crew of the military cruiser "Pearls") who lost his legs in the war and returned to his homeland, was elected chairman of the volost council of soldiers', workers' and peasants' deputies. After the fall of Soviet power in the summer of 1918 A. Skorokhodov was arrested. When the Kolchakites selected political Bolshevik prisoners for execution, Skorokhodov managed to escape in a convoy of criminals sent to the Nikolsk-Ussuri prison fortress. There, Bolshevik sailors from the "Pearls" found out about him, back in the spring of 1917, they found themselves in the Far East and organized an escape. In 1920 A. Skorokhodov returned to the village of Koinovo occupied by the Red Army. Married a second time. Once again, he became the head of the Koynovsky village committee and the executive committee. After that he did not live long. On January 21, 1924, Skorokhodov died without working for only 8 days, although he had been ill for a very long time, he just literally lay down the last 8 days. It was decided to preserve the durability of the Bolshevik in the memory of generations; the first pre-executive committee was erected in Koynovo monument, which today is a monument to the era of the Civil War in Iskitim ^[9] .

In 1929, geologists in the vicinity found limestone and shale . From 1930 to 1934 the Chernorechensky cement plant was built , which became the largest cement enterprise in Siberia. Economic development leads to dynamic demographic development, several thousand people live on the territory with the predominant dominance of the Russian population.

On April 10, 1933, the working village of Iskitim appeared on the maps of the USSR, formed from the neighboring villages of Koynovo, Chernorechka, Vylkovo, Shipunovo and the territory of the Siblag zone ( GULAG ). Here (at the village council) the Iskitim Machine-and-Tractor Station (MTS) for helping collective farms of the region is formed.

In 1935, Iskitimsky district was formed from part of the territories and village councils of the former Cherepanovsky district . The organs of Soviet power are being created here: the district committee of the CPSU (b) , the district council, the district executive committee, the prosecutor’s office, the district court, the regional department of the NKVD police, the regional military commissariat, and the district committee of the Komsomol . The agitation and propaganda organ of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b), the regional / city newspaper Socialism (since 1953, the newspaper The Banner of Communism ^[10] ), began to be issued. The governing bodies of education, culture, and local industry are being created. In Iskitim, a village council also continues to operate, in the jurisdiction of which are nearby villages. The administrative and camp facilities of the large territorial special commandant of the OGPU (NKVD) are hastily built here as part of the infrastructure of the Siblag (the original name is SIBLON , then SIBULON is the Siberian Administration of the NKVD special purpose camps ^[11] ). Since 1937, the Novosibirsk Region was formed from part of the territories of the former West Siberian Territory, to which the city and the region belong to this day.

December 4, 1938 Iskitim assigned the status of a city ​​of regional subordination . The population of the region exceeds 20 thousand people, up to 15 thousand people live in the city. Formed by the city committee of the CPSU (b), the city executive committee and other power structures.

Due to the rapid construction and development of industry, the population of the city (voluntary or involuntary) continues to grow rapidly. In particular, the development of the economy and demography was affected by the evacuation of enterprises and the population from territories temporarily occupied by the enemy during the years of World War II .

During the Great Patriotic War, thousands of seekers went to the front. Most of them died in battle. In the city , obelisks were erected in memory of the Iskitim heroes, those who were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union or became a full holder of the Order of Soldier Glory .

In 1951, Iskitim received the status of a city ​​of regional subordination .

It is believed that it was limestone that gave birth to Iskitim.

On the occasion of the 270th anniversary of Russian settlements, a torch-like limestone block was established on the site of the city on Komsomolskaya Square as a symbol of the city. The marble coat of arms of the monument displays the coat of arms of Iskitim and the main stages of formation.

At the beginning of 1987, at a joint meeting of the bureau of the city committee of the CPSU and the executive committee of the Council of People’s Deputies, it was decided to celebrate annually in August, the day of the builder , the day of the city of Iskitim .

Currently, both Iskitim itself and the Iskitim region are among the most industrially developed subjects of the Novosibirsk region . There are enterprises of heavy, manufacturing, mining and other industries, deployed on the territory in the second half of the 20th century.

As of January 1, 2019, the city was in 298th place out of 1,115 ^[28] cities of the Russian Federation in terms of population ^[29] .

On the territory of Iskitim there are large reserves of limestone and building stones, shale. This is connected with the main specialization of industrial enterprises - the production of building materials (cement, slate, lime, crushed stone, precast concrete, sandwich panels). ^[thirty]

The main enterprises of the city: cement factory , slate factory (asbestos-cement products factory), Teplopribor factory, pilot mechanical plant (closed), building materials factory, stone processing factory (IskitimMramorGranit), two concrete products factories, asphalt plant, limestone quarry, Novosibirsk artificial fiber plant , furniture factory (closed), sandwich panel manufacturing company. There are food industry enterprises: a feed mill, a dairy plant, a bakery, a confectionery factory ^[31] .

In Iskitim there are 14 full-time secondary schools (including 10 secondary), one evening school, a branch of the Novosibirsk Construction and Installation College, a medical college, and 2 art schools.

There are several representative offices of Novosibirsk universities (a branch of NSTU, NSUU, NGASU). Also, a few kilometers from Iskitim is the training center (training ground) of the Novosibirsk Military Institute of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (NVI VV of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation).

Cultural institutions of Iskitim: houses of culture - "Youth" (Industrial microdistrict), "Cementnik" (Northern microdistrict), "October" (in the microdistrict Lozhok), RDK im. Leninsky Komsomol (Central Microdistrict), as well as the Palace of Culture "Russia" (Southern Microdistrict).

Park of Culture and Rest named after I.V. Koroteev and a monument to I.V. Koroteev .

Iskitim City Museum of History and Art

The Iskitim Museum was opened to visitors on November 4, 1977. The museum was originally formed in two directions and is complex, consists of two departments: historical and art. The museum stores 24 collections, more than 19 thousand exhibits. The most ancient are exhibits of the paleontological and archaeological collections. The most modern ones are materials testifying to the participation of the seekers in the Chechen wars.

Storage units: 19,839, of which the main fund items: 17,648, including: an ethnographic collection - 1759 units, a collection of icons - 200 units, a collection of numismatics - 3898 units, a natural history collection - 563 units, photos and documents from the collection “V. M. Shukshin. Life and work ”- 250 units.

Museum of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression

The museum was opened on May 3, 2019 in the Lozhok microdistrict in the basement of the church in honor of the New Martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, built on the site where the Special Camp No. 4 of Siblag was located in the Soviet years, from 1929 to 1956. According to various estimates, about 30 thousand people were killed in this camp, whose corpses were buried in common pits, burned in industrial zone furnaces or simply thrown into the forest. In five museum rooms are presented documents and personal belongings of the Siblag prisoners, miraculously preserved photographs, imprisoned tools. In one of the museum’s rooms, the isolation chamber was reconstructed ^[32] .

City Cultural Institutions

• Palace of Culture "Russia" (there are 2 cinemas)
• MBOU of additional education for children "Children's Music School" of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region
• MBOU of additional education for children "Children's Art School" of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region
• MBU DK "Youth" of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region
• MBU DC "October" of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region
• MBU of culture "Iskitim city historical and art museum" of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk region
• MBU Park of Culture and Rest I.V. Koroteeva of the city ​​of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region
• MBU "Centralized Library System" of the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region (Central Library)

Sports

• Sports complex "Dawn"
• Pool "Coral"
• Sports complex "DYUSSH" (Children and youth sports school)
• Sports complex "Jubilee"
• Arena-300 Ice Sports Palace

The railway station of the same name connects the city with Novosibirsk , Berdsk , Novoaltaysk , Barnaul , Biysk , Cherepanovo , Yurga , Tomsk , Kemerovo .

Buses from the city bus station go to Barnaul , Novosibirsk , Belokurikha , Biysk , Bishkek , Gorno-Altaysk , Zarinsk , Tomsk , Tolmachevo , Ust-Kamenogorsk .

• The site of the administration of the city of Iskitim
• All about sports in the city of Iskitim
• Directory of public transport schedules Iskitim
• Group in VK