Dmitriev-Lgovsky - a small town with a long history

Dmitriev-Lgovskyas the locals call him, he never officially bore that name. According to all documents in the Kursk region on the river Svapa stands the city of Dmitriev. It occupies a small area, only 8 km²and less than 7 thousand people live there today. But these 7 thousand people love their small and quiet town very much, take care of its past, keep the memory of their countrymen and maintain traditions.

Today at the head of the city is youngthe head. A group of enthusiasts has created a great site that helps local residents not only to get the necessary information, but also to keep abreast of all the city news, discuss exciting moments, get answers to questions. Undoubtedly, such a guide - the best guide for tourists who came here. In Dmitriev-Lgovsky very active young people who do not allow their city to grow old.

From the Prophetic Oleg to ...

The fortress on the right bank of Svapa was built in the 9th century to protect the lands of the ancient Russian principality, which was under the hand of Oleg, nicknamed the Prophet. From here begins the history of the city.

Civil wars of Russian princes, raidsPolovtsy and other nomadic tribes erased the settlement from the face of the earth, it was rebuilt again. Khan Baty, who “walked with fire and sword” through the lands of Russia, did not regret it either.

Only in the XVII century from the ruins rose newsettlement named Dmitrievskoe, which by the decree of Catherine the Great at the end of the XVIII century was granted the status of the city and the name Dmitriev-on-Swapa (to distinguish from Dmitrovsk Orlovskaya province). Later only Dmitriev of the Lgovsky District remained.

The city grew and developed.The main income residents received from livestock and agriculture. Plants for the processing of their products were built: oil mill, flour milling, kruporushny. At the end of the 19th century, a railway was built near the city, which, together with the waterway, gave a new impetus to the growth of production and trade. A women's gymnasium opened, a hospital was built.

Soviet authority

If there were factories in the city, it means there was a proletariat. The revolutionary movement of 1905, which shook Russia, did not pass by Dmitriev-Lgovskiy. The peasants smashed the manor’s estates, took the bread, cut the forest. The uprising was crushed by the troops.

In December 1917, the power of the Soviets came.In the first Soviet years social life was revived. Gradually, everything entered its course: enterprises worked, bread was sown, five-year plans were fulfilled and over-fulfilled. There were two cinemas in the city, several schools and a pedagogical school.

War

To the town of Dmitriev-Lgovsky, Kursk Region the Germans entered October 8, 1941. Began the destruction of people and their homes. They were all executed, they did not spare either the old or the small.

Four days after the start of the occupationDmitrievsky detachment stood up to fight the invaders, turning the city into the center of the partisan movement in the Kursk region. Gaining experience, the partisans made more and more daring attacks, destroying the fascists in their rear, diverting the forces and techniques of the enemy from the front. The population of the occupied areas in every way helped the partisans, their fathers and grandfathers, husbands and brothers. The city was liberated in March 1943.

Many residents of a small town went to the front in the early days of the war and defended their country there. Fifteen Dmitrievs were Heroes of the Soviet Union, two were full knights of the Orders of Glory.

The modern city of Dmitriev-Lgovsky

After the war, the ruined city completelyrebuilt, rather, rebuilt. In a modern, but still small and peaceful town, there are several enterprises, including Dmitrievkonservi, a hospital, a House of Culture, an agricultural technical school, schools, and kindergartens. The Dmitrievsky Vestnik newspaper is published.

Tourists have something to see.The city has several monuments to the heroes of the front. Of course, there are monuments to the partisans, and the Church of Dimitry of Solunsky, in whose honor the city was named, and the local history museum named after A.F. Vangenheim.

Famous countryman dmitrievtsev - A. F. Vangengeym

Anatoly Feodosevich lived from 1881 to 1937.He is known to us as the person who organized and headed the USSR Weather Bureau, which today is called Rosgidromet. Shortly after his birth, his father, Feodosiy Petrovich, was a national teacher and a famous meteorologist, who moved his family to an estate located in the Dmitriyevsky district of Kursk province. There he equipped a meteorological station, where, together with his grown-up son, he conducted observations and conducted experiments.

Anatoly, graduating from high school, enteredMoscow University, where he joined the Bolshevik Party. For participation in student unrest was expelled and put in prison for six months, and then sent into exile to the estate to the father. Later he will finish his studies at the university and at the agricultural institute.

The revolution of 1917 took all at once and was appointed inspector of public education in Dmitriev-Lgovsky.

Two years later, there was opened a museum of “homeland studies” organized by him, which works and bears his name until today.

In 1922, returning to its mainactivity, he moved to Petrograd, where he held senior executive positions. In 1934 he was arrested as an "enemy of the people", sent to Solovki. In 1937, he was shot and buried in the mass grave of the Sandarmokh cemetery under Medvezhegorsk.

Dmitriev-Lgovskiy of the Kursk region of Russia keeps the memory of his fellow countryman, giving his name to the local history museum founded by him.