A walk through Krasnoarmeysk: legends and ghosts of the “red city”

Religion in Krasnoarmeysk

The majority of the ethnic population of the city professed reformism, a small part - Lutheranism. At the end of the 18th century, a Protestant parish appeared here, and in 1856 the parish of Baltzer was formed.

In the first years, religious services were held in a residential building, and in 1777 a wooden church appeared here. In 1821, another wooden church was built using donations from local craftsmen.

However, two small churches were not enough for all the believers, so a decision was made to build a new church, which began in 1849.

The church was built from local bricks, and the first service was held in it in 1851, and in 1856 it received parish status. In 1924, the church was reconstructed, the roof was covered with iron, funds for this were sent by people from Belzer who lived in the USA.

Unfortunately, in 1931, by order of the Communist Party, the prayer house was first closed, and in 1935, church services were stopped in the church, and a school was opened in the church itself.

The educational institution did not last long; in 1936 it was recognized as unsuitable for a school and was dismantled into bricks.

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Sights of Krasnoarmeysk

In Krasnoarmeysk, a small number of pre-revolutionary buildings of German architects made of yellow and red bricks (made from local clay) have been preserved, the main feature of which is that the recipes for the mortars used during brick laying are still not known.

Most of these structures are from the late 19th century - early. 20th century, are located in the city center, they housed educational institutions, administrative offices and mansions of merchants and city nobility.

A local history museum has been operating in the city since 1987, the collection of which includes more than 9 thousand exhibits relating to various historical moments in the life of the city.

Also in Krasnoarmeysk there is a memorial to the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War with an Eternal Flame. In addition, the city is open:

• a monument at the Mass Grave to the fallen soldiers of the Red Army in the fight against the “white” gangs, it was opened in 1965;
• monument to Vladimir Lenin on Victory Square;
• monument to revolutionary V.T. Smolyaninov;
• a monument to fellow countrymen participating in the liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster;
• a monument to soldiers who died in local military battles;
• monument to cadets of the Engels Machine Gun School.

Krasnoarmeysk is not connected by rail; previously, the railway made it possible to get to the city of Karamysh, but in the 1990s. traffic was stopped, the tracks were dismantled, and the city retained a narrow-gauge railway, which is used by a ceramic factory to transport clay from quarries.

The narrow-gauge railway is one of the Red Army landmarks.

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• Bogorodsky 10081 (+60)
• Bronnitsy 1714 (+3)
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• Voskresensk 11263 (+10)
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• Zhukovsky 9638 (+13)
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• Ivanteevka 6780 (+29)
• Istra 10926 (+9)
• Kashira 3363 (+16)
• Klin 9461 (+27)
• Kolomna 13991 (+34)
• Korolev 31771 (+85)
• Kotelniki 3717 (+20)
• Krasnoarmeysk 443 (+0)
• Krasnogorsk 30504 (+56)
• Krasnoznamensk 4339 (+13)
• Leninsky 16223 (+72)
• Lobnya 7610 (+14)
• Losino-Petrovsky 1571 (+1)
• Lotoshino 1307 (+4)
• Lukhovitsy 4102 (+8)
• Lytkarino 4567 (+28)
• Lyubertsy 29884 (+117)
• Mozhaisk 2815 (+3)
• Youth 3 (+0)
• Mytishchi 29237 (+171)
• Naro-Fominsk 6944 (+45)
• Odintsovo 35436 (+127)
• Lakes 2446 (+9)
• Orekhovo-Zuevo 14128 (+40)
• Pavlovsky Posad 4652 (+48)
• Podolsk 22830 (+47)
• Protvino 1086 (+0)
• Pushkino 18792 (+8)
• Pushchino 1245 (+0)
• Ramenskoye 20561 (+51)
• Reutov 8635 (+0)
• Roshal 449 (+0)
• Ruza 4781 (+2)
• Sergiev Posad 21541 (+93)
• Silver Ponds 1953 (+3)
• Serpukhov 9660 (+52)
• Solnechnogorsk 16170 (+88)
• Stupino 8852 (+50)
• Taldom 2430 (+11)
• Fryazino 5735 (+17)
• Khimki 14781 (+0)
• Chernogolovka 1688 (+1)
• Chekhov 10173 (+51)
• Shatura 6878 (+21)
• Shakhovskaya 1809 (+13)
• Shchelkovo 10051 (+30)
• Elektrogorsk 2351 (+6)
• Elektrostal 6299 (+13)

Outstanding fellow countrymen

Krasnoarmeysk has become a “small homeland” for many prominent people. Among them:

• Ya.Ya. Weber is an honored artist of the Volga Germans, the most famous paintings are “Grandfather Mazai and the Hares”, “Ice Drift”, “Twilight on the Volga”.
• A.S. Krasnov is a Soviet and Russian surgeon, Honored Traveler of Russia, inventor of the sports fleet.
• N.M. Skomorokhov is a military ace pilot, twice Hero of the USSR.
• V.V. Vorobyova is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, theater actress.
• Victor Glazovsky, Bishop of Glazovsky, was canonized in 2000.
• Ludwig von Platen was the first German settler; he became the author of the first literary work of German settlers, “Description of the journey of the colonists, as well as the way of life of the Russians, compiled by officer Platen.”

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Krasnoarmeysk, near Moscow, next to which my country cottage is located, is a dead-end town: no highway passes through it. The Krasnoarmeyskoye Highway, a branch from Yaroslavka, leads into the city itself and ends there. That is, you can drive along it right through the entire Krasnoarmeysk (this continuation of the highway is called Ispytatelev Avenue) and come across a fire station, above which the banner of the Ministry of Emergency Situations flies. Then the road turns into Dachnaya Street, and in fact, that’s all. All other branches from this Dachnaya Street are local roads leading to several SNT, as well as to a spice factory, some kind of warehouse and a military unit. These roads can be conditionally called roads - they are broken, and you can only drive on them with trucks or SUVs. We somehow manage, knowing all the potholes and ruts by heart, to get to our village by car, swearing every time, according to the old Russian tradition...

I don’t know whether these outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk belong to the city itself or belong to the city of Pushkino (Krasnoarmeysk is part of the Pushkinsky district), but having lived here for 4 years, I see that the situation with the roads is not improving, and the pollution of the forest along these roads and the banks of the Vorya River, the favorite vacation spot of the Red Army soldiers, is taking on more and more menacing proportions every year. That is, on weekends the local population “relaxes” in the forest and on the banks of the river (on a grand scale, of course: with a lot of booze, bonfires, barbecues, chanson, etc.), and all the garbage remains at the resting place - for archaeologists of future generations, probably . There is no need to talk about the culture of the population here - this is not good old Europe, where every square centimeter of wildlife is worth its weight in gold. This is Mother Russia, with all its bells and whistles.

In the city of Krasnoarmeysk there was a mayor - Bulgakov. Of course, I immediately remembered his last name))). This mayor was convicted some time ago and sent to prison - he stole, they say. Now there is a new leadership in the city - I don’t know their names, I don’t know them personally, as they say... But neither this nor this leadership changes anything in the city - only a little commercial housing and an office center were built together with a Moscow company - for themselves and their surroundings, and also for the purpose of making money. The pride of Krasnoarmeysk is a relatively new stadium, built for the local women's football team "Rossiyanka" - the banner of Krasnoarmeysk. Millions of dollars are poured into this team, it travels to competitions all over the world, and, therefore, must host guests in decent conditions...Teams from different countries are brought to this stadium by buses from Moscow to the “Russians” - all sorts of championships are often held here. But these teams are driven strictly along the route “Moscow - Red Army Stadium”, and never set foot outside the stadium)))… Because what can foreigners see outside the stadium fence? Broken houses that have not been repaired for years, some of which are without amenities, the majority of the male population (and partly female) aged from 12-13 to 70 years old (rarely anyone lives past 70), drunkenly in the evenings and on weekends, crowds of young people mothers with strollers aged 15-17 years (in the evenings, young people have nowhere to go in Krasnoarmeysk - so they fuck the children... I’d rather not talk about the local recreation center - almost everything there is rented out) and all that?! By the way, people in Krasnoarmeysk are good. It's just a pity for them.

Those who are smarter and quicker, of course, work in Moscow or in Pushkino - they come to their homeland late in the evening and leave early in the morning... And those who work in the military unit or at the local one, where they do not pay wages for months (for me Several Red Army soldiers I know work there - so I’m fully aware) - poverty. It’s good that many of them have 6 acres left over from socialism... These 6 acres feed them. The city gives the impression of having fallen asleep under anesthesia: the saleswomen in the stores are sleepy, lazy - you want to buy something, but they don’t have change, the goods haven’t been counted, they went out to smoke, they’re trending on their cell phones... At the market, as elsewhere in Russia, there are almost no Russian sellers, but life is in full swing: deception, body kit, unsanitary conditions... But! One of the local bars has striptease on Sundays!)))

...Somehow I went crazy today - I rolled out such a canvas! I myself don’t understand where this anger awoke in me? Why, in the midst of the July peace and lazy heat, did I suddenly feel so hurt and offended for this small town near Moscow?!

Because, probably, when I visit other cities near Moscow, which are growing and becoming more beautiful every year, where roads, modern cinemas, hospitals are being built, new jobs are being created, I sometimes think: “Why is everything so bad in OUR Krasnoarmeysk?! »