The first thing a person who comes to Chaplygin by train sees is the inscription “Ranenburg” on the railway station building. Over the years, the old name of the city has not been forgotten and now coexists with the new one almost on equal terms. The local newspaper is called "Ranenburg Bulletin", there is a shopping center in the city center, and tourism in the city and region is entirely built on the historical past. In 2006, a referendum was even held in Chaplygin on returning the historical name, but supporters of this idea were defeated.
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Story
Chaplygin is located in the Lipetsk region, about a five-hour drive from Moscow. It owes its original name to the fortress from the time of Tsar Peter.
In the 17th century, a small village appeared on the site of the future city. In 1695, a wooden traveling house was built here for Peter I, in which the Tsar stayed on his way from Moscow to the south. In 1702, he built a fortress near the village and named it Oranienburg. The owner of these territories was Peter's friend, Prince Alexander Menshikov. Over time, the name of the fortress extended to the settlement. Over the course of several decades, the name Oranienburg was shortened to Raninburg, and in 1778, Empress Catherine II declared the village the district town of Ranenburg, with an “e”. Local residents were actively involved in trade, and in the 19th century Ranenburg became a wealthy merchant town. In 1890, a railway station of the same name was built here.
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Ranenburg, 1917 / Photo from the archives of the Chaplyginsky Museum of Local Lore
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Photo from the archives of the Chaplyginsky Museum of Local Lore
A huge number of settlements were renamed in the USSR. More than 250 cities and villages across the country were named in honor of Lenin alone. The Soviet government got rid of most German-language and German-sounding names, and in 1941 the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Volga Germans was abolished, and dozens of its colonies received new names. After the war, there was a broad campaign to rename settlements in the part of the territory of East Prussia that was transferred to the Soviet Union, which became the Kaliningrad region. In 1948, Ranenburg also lost its name. It was renamed Chaplygin in honor of the mechanical physicist Sergei Chaplygin, who was born in the city in 1869.
The city respects its own history. Photographs of pre-revolutionary Ranenburg and its inhabitants have been preserved; they are regularly published in the LiveJournal “Notes of a Ranenburger”. In 2004, the city restored one of the fortress buildings - the house of Alexander Menshikov. Now it houses a local history museum. The house numbers in the center of Chaplygin show two street names: the official current one and the pre-revolutionary one. A few kilometers from the city, the Peter and Paul Monastery, a monastery founded by Prince Menshikov and ruined by the Bolsheviks, has been restored for years.
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It is officially believed that the settlement here was formed during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, in 1648 - the same year when the uprising of the townspeople took place in Moscow. It arose on the ancient route from the Oka to the Don, namely: Oka - Pronya - Ranova - Khupta - Ryassky portage - Stanovaya Ryasa - Voronezh - Don. The settlement was named Ust Stanovykh Ryas. The Ryassky portage was controlled by the village of Yakimets, located on Khupt (now the villages of Nizhny and Verkhny Yakimets - actually the outskirts of the Ryazan village of Alexandro-Nevsky). During the time of the Golden Horde, boats, plows, and canoes were put on wheels here and transported by horses to the Stanovaya Ryasa, along which they sailed to the lower reaches of the Don, to Cherkask (now the village of Starocherkskaya). They returned overland, having sold the ships. The Ryassky portage was part of a giant single water system connecting the Volga, Northern and Western Dvina, and Don.
Ust Stanovykh Ryas is an external name, based on the locality. There are five cassocks in total: Stanovaya (main) with successively flowing into it from the right - simply Ryasa, Berry Ryasa with its tributary Gushchina Ryasa and, finally, Cancer Ryasa. Later, the village began to be called Slobodskoye, which indicates that the residents who were engaged in crafts had vegetable gardens and orchards, but did not have arable land.
Peter I really wanted to connect the basins of the Volga and Don rivers** with a regular waterway, and the updated, equipped Ryassky portage was assigned a significant role in his plans. Since 1702, the village of Slobodskoye has been transformed into the city of Oranienburg, and the house of Peter’s favorite, Prince A.D., already stands here. Menshikov, since 1703 - also a fortress***. However, the place turned out to be inconvenient.
The fortress has not survived. In 1834, seven-year-old Pyotr Semenov, the future Tian-Shansky, was transported to Ranenburg; he later recalled Menshikov’s house as “a rather gloomy two-story house,” which then housed a prison. The house was also not preserved, but is now being restored.
This is how the city of Oranienburg ***** began, the name of which was transformed into the intelligent Ranenburg, passing through the common people Ambur (Anbur) and Rambov (Ranbov).
In 1948, Ranenburg was renamed in honor of the great fellow countryman - Sergei Aleksandrovich Chaplygin (1869-1942) - the founder of modern hydroaerodynamics, one of the creators of the famous TsAGI******, a major specialist in the field of mathematics and theoretical mechanics. The name of the railway station remained the same - Ranenburg.
The Ryassky portage is firmly forgotten. Ranenburg is now a station on the South-Eastern Railway, and Chaplygin is the regional center of the Lipetsk region. Aggregate plant, starch plant, auxiliary production.
The city is wonderfully diverse, where you either feel like you’re somewhere in a resort (only Elbrus is missing on the horizon), or suddenly on the working outskirts of Kazan or Elektrostal; it’s like you’re in one of the clean Baltic towns, although you quickly realize, because in Chaplygin it’s clearly noticeable that working people live here. Yes, yes, the old suburban spirit is quite noticeable here, if only because the streets are clean and not deliberately, but because it is customary.
A natural way to get to know the city is to travel on foot from north to south. It starts from Luchki Street, from a boastful rotunda-shaped tent at the final bus stop - at the turning point of the city route. The hemisphere of this rotunda is clearly visible from the windows of the railway trains, and passengers suddenly understand where all the roads lead and where the Russian land came from. The further path is wide, lined with private houses, Engels Street - green, with mandatory water pumps.
Anyone arriving in Chaplygin from the north is surprised by some unusually lush greenery: bushes, trees - everything seems ordinary, but rich. Chaplygin is a southern city. Pyramid poplars, marigolds, chestnuts. And salvia is a cultivated sage. These juicy, crimson-red flowers are the absolute weakness of the Chaplygin people. They are everywhere where it is possible to arrange a flower garden (fortunately, there is no point in picking them - once picked, they immediately wither). Dense greenery and juicy salvias suddenly remind you of the most Russian flowers - red and green.
The center of Chaplygin begins with a post office, a fountain with dolphins and a wonderful park. It is being restored, and there is a lot to restore: a grotto, a colonnade, Menshikov’s house, alleys, a fountain. Next is a wonderful memorial to those killed in the Great Patriotic War (12 Chaplygin residents then became Heroes of the Soviet Union), a magnificent row of public buildings. This is the merchant and bourgeois past, lovingly preserved and maintained in exemplary condition: sandriks, pylons, niches. These architectural excesses give Chaplygin a touch of local metropolitanism. The center is closed by the huge Trinity Cathedral - in the bright sun the walls shine dazzlingly and the crosses burn. (Such crosses - “cross in a circle” - for some reason in our press are called “Celtic”, although in Rus' they have been known for a long time - just look at old cemeteries or look at the pectoral cross. The cross is a symbol of Christ, and the circle is the Sun, visible confirmation of the idea of obligatory Resurrection.)
Opposite the cathedral, as usual, is a market. Until lunch, when they sell their own (tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, etc.), the bazaar is completely Russian. Wonderful baked goods.
Further to the south there is a bridge over the Stanovaya Ryasa, a smooth river with densely overgrown banks. In the morning, geese swim in it, and on the shore with twigs young shepherdesses and shepherdesses guard them.
Behind the bridge is a modern city, Sovetskaya Street lined with five-story buildings. And just on the outskirts there is a symbiosis of the city and the settlement: five-story buildings with amenities, a roadway, sidewalks, front gardens, benches, and across the sidewalk there are oak trees, behind the oak trees there are vegetable gardens. The land here is enviable - black soil. Potatoes the size of a fist, dill (for seeds, of course) in growth. The tomatoes are real, strong, juicy, with a nightshade flavor from childhood. At a distance are garages and sheds.
The city ends, the street turns into a highway. To the right is Dubovoe, to the left is the famous Snowball. Snezhetok are huge apple orchards, where apple lovers ******* from all over the area, including the Ryazan region, come to collect their harvest by rail in the fall.
...The train station is quiet. Trains to the south go in the morning, to the north in the evening. Nearby is a wooden bus station, typical for the Russian outback. You can take a ticket and go very far into the wilderness, looking out the window at maple and poplar forests, yellow mustard fields and the distant sky in all directions.
Between the Don and Oka rivers - you can’t sit in these places, you want to go beyond the horizon! __________
* See: S.A. Tarkhov. Changes in the administrative-territorial division of Russia over the past 300 years // Geography, No. 28/2001, p. 5. - Here and further approx. ed.
** On the options for the Oko-Don waterway (and, in particular, on the attempt to create a canal in the area of present-day Novomoskovsk, Tula region), see: V.P. Semenov. Oko-Don//Geography, No. 31/97, p. 13.
*** Let us recall: it is generally accepted that after the death of Peter I, Menshikov wanted to take the young Peter II to the Ranenburg fortress that belonged to him in order to subordinate him to his undivided influence. So Ranenburg almost became the seat of the monarch and, accordingly, the Russian capital. His Serene Highness’s ambitious plans were not destined to come true, and in 1727 he himself ended up in exile in Ranenburg (and a decade later Anna Leopoldovna was exiled here).
**** See: S.V. Rogachev. Center of the river. Modeling of territory development in changed geographical conditions. [Assignment for the correspondence Olympiad]//Geography, No. 46/94, p. 8.
***** Oranienburg literally means orange fortress, orange city. Some researchers tried to interpret the name literally, deriving it from the greenhouses that allegedly existed here under Menshikov. However, there is no evidence of this. Most likely, the name was simply borrowed - and it was very common for Europe to play apes among the chicks of Petrov's nest - from the German city of the same name near Berlin. - Here and further approx. ed.
****** About the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in the town of Zhukovsky near Moscow, see: A.A. Agirrechu. Science cities of Russia//Geography, No. 24/2001, p. 13, 15.
******* The old “apple” coat of arms, as we see, is still a relevant symbol.
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Referendum
In 2006, a referendum was held in Chaplygin on returning the historical name to the city. The main initiator of the project was the late Yuri Telyakov, at that time the head of the local council of deputies and director of the Chaplyginsky starch plant. If supporters of the return of Ranenburg had won, the city would have become the fifth Russian “burg” along with St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Orenburg and Shlisselburg. All of them also lost their historical names during the Soviet years, and then were renamed back.
But the majority of the townspeople who came to the polling stations were in favor of preserving the name Chaplygin, and the referendum itself was declared invalid due to low turnout. 37% of its participants voted for the historical name. “Our main mistake was that we were unable to coordinate our actions. It was all swan, crayfish and pike, everyone had their own opinion. The joint work did not work out, and because of this there was no uniform information dump,” says one of the members of the referendum initiative group, local historian Alexander Bogdanov. Due to internal disputes, the authors of the project were unable to convince the townspeople that the name should be returned. In addition, the head of the Chaplygin administration did not support the idea of returning the name Ranenburg, and, according to Bogdanov, the administrative resource worked against their team.
Chaplygin, city audio guide, Lipetsk region
Have you already made a travel list for summer and spring? Together with the Public Educational Institution “Center for Cluster Development of the Lipetsk Region” and the Lipetsk Regional Society of Local Lore, we have prepared for you a virtual tour of one small but very beautiful city. We are glad to present you an audio guide to Chaplygin, or Ranenburg (in the old style). The small town of Chaplygin, which was called Ranenburg before the revolution, remembers many Russian emperors, representatives of the ruling dynasty and influential nobles. This amazing town is definitely worth a visit to get a feel for the local flavor and enjoy a variety of architectural attractions: from the ancient fortress - the Menshikov House, to majestic temples and merchant houses. On this tour you will take a fascinating walk around the city, see its main attractions, learn about the most interesting museums in Chaplygin, be impressed by the beauty and scale of local churches and find out why a small town in the Lipetsk region can safely be called a city of unique monuments. Your companion on this journey will be the wonderful local historian, historian, member of the Lipetsk Regional Local History Society, Alexander Bogdanov. No one can tell you about Ranenburg better than him! Have a nice trip! You can listen and download the audio guide here https://izi.travel/ru/3946-chaplygin-obzornyy-tur/ru Have any of my friends already traveled around Chaplygin?
Text, voiceover, selection of archival photos: Alexander Bogdanov.
Photo: Vadim Razumov. 2. Church of the Ascension is one of the oldest churches in the city. This is what he looks like now.
3. And this is the pre-revolutionary appearance of the temple. It was once decorated with a high bell tower.
4. Kemenov House and Museum of Military Glory.
5. Museum of Merchants (House of Merchant Grigoriev)
6. Quite a rare monument, consisting of two equestrian figures - Emperor Peter the Great and His Serene Highness Prince A.D. Menshikov.
7. In Chaplygin there is the only monument in the world to Emperor John the Sixth, who spent his entire short life in captivity.
8. The main symbol of the city is the Menshikov House, which now houses a local history museum.
9. The Menshikov House is a part of the Ranenburg fortress that has survived to this day, which once existed in the city.
10. Theological school building.
11. And this is what the religious school looked like in pre-revolutionary photographs.
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13. House of historian D.I. Ilovaisky (Museum of Modern History).
14. The building of the district zemstvo government today is occupied by the local police department.
15. The building has remained virtually unchanged for many decades.
16. Take a closer look at the facade of the building - there you will find the abbreviation R.O.P., which means “Ranenburg Consumer Society”.
17. House of the outstanding mathematician, one of the founders of Russian aerohydrodynamics, Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin, whose name the city bears since 1948.
18. Trinity Cathedral. There is an assumption that the author of the project of this cathedral is Andrei Voronikhin.
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20. Former women's gymnasium, the building of which today houses the Department of Education.
21. View of the gymnasium and the cathedral in a pre-revolutionary photograph.
22. The former house of the merchant Dementyev, in which the city administration is located.
23. House of the merchant Raspopov.
24. In the center of the city there is an ancient shopping mall building.
25. The building is well preserved.
26. St. Nicholas Church.
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28. Puppet Museum (House of N.P. Nikitin).
29. Wooden building of the former noble assembly.
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31. This inconspicuous building today is also a landmark. In front of you is the former house of the Radins merchants.
32. It’s hard to believe, but once upon a time the Radins’ house looked like this...
33. Printing house of the Kolpakovs.
34. On the territory of Chaplygin there are two St. Nicholas churches - the temple that you see in the photo is called Zarechny by local residents.
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36. Assumption Church.
37. And the majestic Peter and Paul Hermitage, on the territory of which restoration work is now actively underway.
38. I would like to believe that the Desert will soon be reborn in its original form!
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Tourist Ranenburg
The peculiarity of Chaplygin is that its main attraction, the Peter the Great fortress of Ranenburg, has not survived to this day. A model of the fortification can be seen on the ground floor of the local history museum. Even a photograph from the end of the 19th century has survived, in which some of the fortress’s buildings are visible. A schematic image of its bastions adorns the flag of the Chaplyginsky district. Today, a city park is located on the site of the complex.
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Alexander Bogdanov believes that returning the city to its former name would allow, in particular, to raise money for the development of the fortress: “The Ranenburg fortress would be an iconic tourist attraction if it were restored. But it can be restored, and there was a conversation about this.”
Director of the Chaplyginsky Tourism Center Valentina Povaluka also notes the importance of returning the old name to “continue the promotion of Ranenburg as Peter’s fortress, the first in Russia, built according to all the rules of European fortification.” Thanks to the development of tourism in the region in recent years, the word “Ranenburg” has practically become a tourist brand. “In the development of tourism, the Chaplyginsky district relies on its rich historical past, so it was decided to promote the old name of the city in advertising articles and events,” says Povaluka.
Today the city is in a situation where the two names actually coexist on equal terms. Every year the city hosts the culinary festival “Ranenburg Feast” and the winter holiday “Vivat, Ranenburg!” Not far from the station there is a steam locomotive monument on which is written “All roads lead to Ranenburg.” One of the key tourism projects in the region has become the Oranienburg autotourism cluster. It was part of the federal target program for the development of domestic tourism in Russia, but was excluded from it in 2021.
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Having parked the car not far from the Slobodskoye stretch, we began to explore the sights of the city (more precisely, its central part)…
Right in front of us, judging by the view wheel, is a city park... And in front of him, along the road (Volodarsky Street), characters from famous Soviet cartoons lined up:
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
- the wolf and the hare from “Well, wait a minute!”,
the cat Matroskin and the postman Pechkin,
Cheburashka and crocodile Gena..
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Their presence already puts the tourist in a certain mood and creates a kind of friendly atmosphere, which creates a desire to continue exploring the city (despite the fatigue that has accumulated over the past days)…
We didn’t even have time to walk a few tens of meters - in front of us was another exhibit - Baba Yaga’s hut...
We got so carried away by cartoon characters that we completely forgot about our tradition - before visiting an object, first take a historical excursion...
Well, it's time to catch up...
So, as you already understand, we are located in the city of Chaplygin - the regional center of the Lipetsk region. In 1638, the settlement of Ust Stanovykh Ryas was founded on this site... Since at the end of the 17th century Peter I often visited Voronezh (he was involved in organizing the construction of the fleet), so-called travel palaces began to be built along the entire route (a place for the king and his rest to rest). numerous retinue). One of these palaces was erected in 1695 on the high bank of the Yagodnaya Ryasa in the village of Ust Stanovykh Ryas, which by this time had already been renamed Slobodskoye... Soon Peter I gave Slobodskoye to Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, his friend and comrade-in-arms (at that time), who had distinguished himself during the capture of the Noteburg fortress (Oreshek fortress at the source of the Neva). Menshikov really liked the gift and, under the strict guidance of the tsar, he takes on the development of the village. By February 1703, a fortress appeared around the travel palace, called Oranienburg. Menshikov's further plans for Oranienburg were simply grandiose: he wanted to make it like St. Petersburg (wide streets and large squares, squares, embankments, etc., etc.). However, the plans of the Most Serene Prince and Generalissimo were not destined to come true: during the reign of Peter II, he fell into disgrace, was deprived of all ranks, awards and titles and, ironically, exiled to his home in Oranienburg, which by this time was already called more briefly - Ranenburg. A year later, the tsar decided that Menshikov was living too freely on the “family” estate and exiled him further away - to Berezov, Tobolsk province, where he died... In the future, the Ranenburg fortress will often receive eminent persons into its arms. So, soon after Menshikov, Prince S.G. was exiled here. Dolgoruky (who took part in the "overthrow" of Menshikov), who was later beheaded in Novgorod. The next prisoners of the fortress were the young Emperor Ivan IV and his parents... In 1778, by her decree, Catherine II gave Ranenburg the status of a county town within the Ryazan province. By the middle of the 19th century, the city began to occupy one of the leading positions in the province in terms of its trade turnover. And with the advent of a railway station in 1890, Ranenburg’s trading position was significantly strengthened... Since 1928, leapfrog began in the organizational life of the city: first, the district was abolished and removed from the subordination of the Ryazan province to the Central Black Earth Region; then it becomes part of the Kozlovsky district, then - part of the Voronezh region; then - into the Ryazan region, and in 1954 - into the newly formed Lipetsk region... During this confusion, in 1948, Ranenburg managed to rename itself to Chaplygin (in honor of the famous mathematician and mechanic Academician S.A. Chaplygin, a native of Ranenburg) ..
I hope we didn't bore you too much. Now that all the traditions have been respected, it’s time to continue exploring Chaplygin...
We came across the first city fountain (with dolphins) near the post office (opposite the city park)..
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Next to the fountain is an angel with an Orthodox cross. This is a monument to Chaplygin residents who died in local wars. Installed in 200 4
Next on our way appears the Ascension Church...
Construction of the cathedral began back in 1790. It was at that time that two Ranburg merchants, Osip Shebanov and Anton Lykov, received a blessing from Bishop Theophilus of Tambov and Penza to build a temple. In 1794, construction was completed. In 1804, at the expense of parishioners, a 30-pound bell was purchased, which was installed on the bell tower...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
After 1917, the Ascension Church underwent the “standard” changes of that period: the bell tower was destroyed, the domes and crosses were demolished, and the church itself was redesigned for new purposes and tasks: first, a water tower was installed in it, then a collection point for glass containers was opened, then a local history center settled in it museum…. Only in 2005 was the temple returned to believers, and from that moment full-scale restoration work began here.
In a small park near the church we see two busts of famous Chaplyginites: Hero of Socialism. Labor V.M. Voronezhtsev and Hero of Russia V.V. Polyansky...
Volodarsky Street smoothly turns into Sovetskaya Street,
and we find ourselves on October Revolution Square,
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
in the center of which there is a monument to its leader...
150 meters from this monument, in a city park, we found another Ilyich, with his favorite gesture...
Next door to it is the Victory Memorial...
On the opposite side of the street we again saw characters from various children's works...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Here's Puss in Boots
which is located near the house of merchant Kazmin...
If you take a closer look at the house, you can see sculptures of various people in the niches of the upper tier and on the corners of the roof...
And it looks like Koschey the immortal is reverently guarding his casket...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Next to him is Baba Yaga, offering to taste a specific apple...
And such various sculptures can be found in literally every house in the city center...
Not so long ago (in August 2013) another monument appeared in Chaplygin - to Peter I and his associate Alexander Menshikov with the inscription “To the founders of our city from grateful descendants”...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
And next to him are again colorful characters from children's cartoons and fairy tales...
Agree - it looks very original and beautiful...
In the same style we see another fountain of the city....
Well, we continue to move along Sovetskaya Street,
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
where we see numerous pre-revolutionary houses... For example, one of them is the building of the former Zemstvo Government...
Next we turn onto Gorky Street and linger a little near the house at number 4, and on it there is a memorial plaque informing us that the famous historian, publicist and teacher Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaisky was born here in 1832...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Nearby there is another building, which is an architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century. At one time it housed a religious school, which was opened in 1848. The building is now occupied by an elementary school...
Now we turn again and find ourselves in the territory of the city park,
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
and head towards the observation deck, on which there is an openwork gazebo...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
From here you can clearly see the area of the city, located on the low bank of the Yagodnaya Ryasa...
From here you can also see the Trinity Cathedral, the history of which dates back to the times of Peter the Great, when a wooden church was built on this site.
The construction of the stone church began in 1806, but due to various objective circumstances (first a fire in the city in 1810, then the war of 1812), the temple was built only in 1818. The bell tower of the temple was built later - in 1840-1848. according to the project of A. Voronikhin (author of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg). After the October Revolution, services in the temple took place until 1931, after which it housed first warehouses and then a kerosene shop. All church values (and there were quite a few of them) disappeared in an unknown direction... In 1989, the temple was returned to the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Having left the observation deck, we headed towards this structure, which stands out against the surrounding background...
Before us is part of the Ranenburg fortress, which has survived to this day and today is conventionally called “The House of A.D. Menshikov"
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
Today in a monument of history and architecture of federal significance of the late 17th - early 18th centuries. The local history museum of the city is located. Probably, if we had gone there, we would have learned a lot of interesting and educational things about Chaplygin, but unfortunately, we did not have time for this event - we still had a long road home ahead...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
We head through the city park towards the street. Volodarsky, where we left our car...
Here is the landmark - the viewing wheel (although getting lost in this small but cozy town is quite problematic)...
Someone in the park lost his umbrella and it was “occupied” by beautiful flowers...
And here are the lions that escaped from the zoo...
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
At the exit from the park, another of the many park sculptures was waiting for us... True, it was difficult for us to decide on its name: was it Ded-Mazai and the hares, or something else (let the Chaplygin residents not be offended at us for our ignorance - there were simply no information signs in the vicinity)
Chaplygin (Ranenburg, Oranienburg). Walk around the city
This concludes our short journey through the central part of the city. Of course, there are many more interesting places in Chaplygin than those that we were able to see in 40-45 minutes... So, if you happen to be passing by, be sure to take a look here - you won’t regret it...
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Where did the names of Lipetsk villages come from (part XVIII)
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The Lipetsk region turned 65 on January 6. All its inhabitants are called Lipchans. But each of us has our own small homeland. These are Yelets or Lipetsk, Talitsky Chamlyk or Yarlukovo, Zamartynye or Bolshoy Mechyok... For natives of villages, hamlets and even tiny hamlets, these are not just points on the map, but their father’s houses and family nests. With its own history and traditions. But why are large and small settlements in the region called exactly that and where did their names come from? LipetskMedia tried to answer this question in the new column “Roots of the Lipetsk Land from A to Z.”
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TSELYKOVKA
village of Stanovlyansky district, Petrishchevsky village council. The name is patronymic, from the owner Tselikovsky. Documents from 1702 mention a resident of Elchan, the son of the boyar Kirill Tselikovsky (PKVEMV, 219). The “Economic Note of the Yeletsk District” of 1778 speaks of a village of Tselikovsky owners, which had 7 courtyards.
CHADAEVKA
Dolgorukovsky district and village council. In 1884 it was mentioned as a village included in the parish of the village. Dolgushi. Name after the surname Chaadaev.
CHAMLYK-NIKOLSKOYE
With. Dobrinsky district of Talitsky village council. Inhabited in 1705-1707. and at that time it was considered part of the village of Talitsky Chamlyk. Later, after the construction of the St. Nicholas Church in this part, it began to be considered an independent village and was called Chamlyk St. Nicholas after the Chamlyk River and after the St. Nicholas Church. The name of the river Chamlyk is of Turkic origin: from the word chamla - pine. In this case, a river flowing through a pine forest.
CHAPLYGIN
City, center of Chaplyginsky district, railway junction, on the right side of the river. Standing Cassock. In 1638, servicemen Nazar Dukhonin, Dmitry Kirkin, Artemy Ryshkov, Oksen Gvozdev, Mikhail Raspopov and others founded the village “Ust Stanovykh Ryas near Slobodsky Lipyag”. Soon it began to be called simply Slobodsky - after the Slobodsky linden - fishing line. At the beginning of the 18th century. Peter the Great gave the village to his favorite Alexander Menshikov. Having visited here in 1703, Peter the Great named the village in a foreign manner: Oranienburg (“orange city”), which then became colloquially known as Ranenburg. Since 1779, Ranenburg has been a county town. In 1948, it was renamed Chaplygin - in honor of a native of this city, an outstanding scientist, mathematician and mechanic S.A. Chaplygina (1860-1942).
CHAPLYGINO
village of Izmalkovsky district, Domovinsky village council. It is inhabited by Chaplygin, which preserved the memory of some person Chaplygin. It is noted in documents of 1778.
FREQUENT OAK BRAVA
With. Lipetsk district, center of Chastodubravsky village council. In the revision tales it is noted that in 1835 it was a village in the Syrsk volost. The name comes from the oak woods.
CHEMODANOVO
village of Stanovlyansky district, Lamsky village council. Known since the 18th century. In the description of the Efremovsky district in 1776 there is the following entry: “the village of Selkina, Chemodanovo, also, on the right side of the Skopinsky ravine.” The name is based on the last name of Chemodanov.
CHEREPYAN
With. Lebedyansky district of Volotovsky village council, on the left bank of the Don. According to documents, it has been known since 1627. There is an indication that Cherepyan was founded by Cossacks from. Bolotova. The name may be related to the manufacture of clay products (tiles). The ending is by analogy: Lebedyan, Kuiman, Ptan.
CHERKASSKAYA
Sloboda, Izmalkovsky district, Pyatnitsky village council, on the left bank of the river. Pines. Founded by six families of Cherkasy (Ukrainian) military Cossacks who arrived here in the 1660s.
CHERKASSY
Village of Yeletsk district, center of Cherkassy village council, on the left bank of the river. Pines. Around the 1660s. 12 families of Cherkasy (Ukrainian) military Cossacks came here. Six of them settled here near Talitsk and founded the Cherkasy settlement.
CHERNAVA
The village of Izmalkovsky district, the center of the Chernavsky village council, at the confluence of the Bolshaya Chernava and Sosna rivers. Archaeological evidence suggests that there was a Slavic settlement here even before the Mongol-Tatar invasion. It ceased to exist. But at the very end of the 16th century. there was already a small fortress here. The settlement was considered a city and was called Chernavsky. In 1630, the city's defenses were strengthened. In the middle of the 17th century. During the construction of the Belgorod line, Chernavsk, which found itself deep in the rear, lost its military significance, but for several more decades it continued to be a city and only in 1779 was transformed into a village. Chernavu. Name - after the river Chernave. Hydronyms Chernava, Chern from black forest - deciduous forest. In this case, the river was named after the characteristics of the area through which it flows. A native of the village is the Soviet poet P.N. Shubin (1914-1951).
CHERNAVKA
village of Krasninsky district, Drezgalovsky village council. Known since the second half of the 18th century. Mentioned in the description of Yeletsk district in 1778 as the village of Chernava, located next to the village. Nizhny Drezgalov. The origin of the name is similar to the previous one.
CHERNECHKI
village of Usmansky district, Dryazginsky village council. Known since the 19th century. In 1862 they had 9 courtyards. The name comes from the Chernechik hole in the upper reaches of the river. Usmani (Usmanki). Chernechik, Chernets - this is how monks were called in Little Russia. In this case, the name otvershka preserved the memory of a monk who lived here and moved from Ukrainian lands.
CHERNIGOVKA
With. Zadonsky district of Kasharsky village council. First - Cherneevka. Founded in the 1630s, it is mentioned in the census books of 1646 as the possession of Prince I.A. Vorotynsky. Name - after the river Chernigovka. The river is mentioned in documents of 1629 under the same name. It is known that in the X-XII centuries. there was a resettlement of Slavs to the Don region from the Chernigov land, as evidenced by the similar names of the Sumy and Chernigov regions and the Don region (Voronezh and Voronezh, Romny and Ramon, Devitsa and Devitsa, Usman and Esman, Again and Again, etc.). Name of the river Chernigovka seems to convey the exact address of the place from which the Slavs migrated in the 10th-12th centuries.
CHERNOLES
With. Stanovlyansky district, center of the Uspensky village council. Mentioned in documents of 1778 (“the village of Chernolesok, near the Parinovsky forest, 21 yards”). The name comes from the nearby black (deciduous) forest.
CHERNYSHEVKA
1) village of Eletsky district, Voronets village council, on the right bank of the river. Pines. The name comes from the surname Chernyshev.
2) village of Lebedyansky district, Vyazovsky village council. According to documents, it has been known since 1782. Its name is from the surname Chernyshev.
CHECHERS
1) p. Dobrovsky district of Lebyazhensky village council. The village and the church have been known since 1768. Chechera (chechera) is an old river bed that has become a swamp, a swampy ravine; swamp.
2) p. Chaplyginsky district of Zenkinsky village council. Founded by people from the village. Krivopolanye (now in the same area) in the second half of the 18th century. In documents of 1779 it is mentioned as a newly settled village. The name is similar to the previous one.
CHIBISOVKA
village of Gryazinsky district, Bolshesamovetsky village council. Formed in 1921. The name is possible from the lapwing birds, and not from the surname Chibisov, given that the village was formed under Soviet rule.
CHIRIKOVO
With. Lipetsk district of Novodmitrievsky village council. Known since 1764. Name - after the owners Chirikov.
SHARAPOVKA
village of Izmalkovsky district, Lebyazhensky village council. Known according to documents from 1776 as the village of Sherapova, owned by the Sherapovs.
SHATALOVKA
village of Krasninsky district, Aleksandrovsky village council. The name retains the surname of the Yelchan resident, the serviceman N.X. Shatalov, who lived in the second half of the 17th century. Apparently, this village arose at that time.
SHAHOVSKOE
d. Dankovsky district of Plakhovsky village council. Back in 1680, in these places there was the land of the service man Shekhovsky, whose name remained in the name of the village.
SHIPOVO
With. Stanovlyansky district of Lukyanovsky village council. It was already in the 18th century. It is known that Yuri Petrovich Lermontov, the father of the great Russian poet M.Yu., was buried in the churchyard of this village in 1831. Lermontov. Biographers suggested that M.Yu. was present at his father’s funeral. Lermontov. Several years ago, the ashes of Yu.P. Lermontov was moved to the village. Tarkhany, Penza region and buried next to the tomb of M.Yu. Lermontov. Name after the surname Shipov.
SHISHKINO
With. Chaplyginsky district, center of the Shishkinsky village council. In documents of 1771, the village of Shishkino, 20 yards, ownership of L.F. is noted. Shishkin, from whom the name came.
SHOVSKOE
With. Lebedyansky district, center of Shovsky village council. It arose in the middle of the 17th century. Mentioned in documents of 1678. The birthplace of St. Silouan of Athos (1866-1938). In the village there is the Church of the Nativity of Christ (built in 1865), in which the future Venerable Silouan of Athos was baptized. Wooden manor house of the Durasov landowners. (mid-19th century). House-museum of St. Silouan of Athos. The origin of the village's name is unclear.
SHCHEGLOVKA
d Dankovsky district, Malinkovsky village council. Known from documents since 1771. Named after the surname Shcheglov.
SHCHERBAKOVO
village of Krasninsky district, Pyatnitsky village council. It is noted in documents of the last quarter of the 18th century. The name is based on the surname Shcherbakov.
SHCHERBACHOVKA
village of Izmalkovsky district, Lebyazhensky village council. According to 1859 data - the owner's village of Semenetskaya (Shcherbachevka), 10 courtyards. The origin of the name is unclear.
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Beginning: Part I - Letter A. Part II - Letter B. Part III - Letter B. Part IV - Letter G.
Part V - Letter D. Part VI - Letters EZH. Part VII - Letters ZI. Part VIII - Letter K.
Part IX - Letter L. Part X - Letter M. Part XI - Letter N. Part XII - Letter O.
Part XIII - Letter P. Part XIV - Letter R. Part XV - Letter S. Part XVI - Letter T.
Part XVII – Letters UFH.
The publication uses materials from Valentin Prokhorov’s book “Lipetsk Toponymy”
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Chaplygin
Chaplygin is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Chaplyginsky district of the Lipetsk region.
Until 1948 the city was called Ranenburg.
Toponymy of Chaplygin (based on materials from the book “Geographical names of Russia: toponymic dictionary: more than 4000 units / E.M. Pospelov. - M.: AST, Astrel, 2008. - 523, [5] p."):
Chaplygin, city, district center, Lipetsk region. In 1703, Peter I, passing through the estate of A.D. Menshikova s. Slobodskoe, founded a fortress in it, which he called Oranienburg (lit., “orange fortress”). The circumstances of assigning the name completely deny the possibility of an etymology linking the oikonym with the cultivation of oranges. Obviously, here, as in the case of the name Oranienbaum (modern Lomonosov, see) there was simply a borrowing from the German language. names (cf. Oranienburg near Berlin). But the name could also be given in honor of the Orange dynasty - the commander Moritz of Orange (1567-1625), revered by Peter, or the King of England, William III of Orange (1650-1702), whom Peter met during a trip abroad. Later, this name was extended to the village, and in popular usage it turned first into Raninburg, and then into Ranenburg. The latter form was formalized in 1779 when the village was transformed into a city. In 1948, Ranenburg was renamed Chaplygin after the name of one of the founders of aerodynamics, Acad. S.A. Chaplygin (1869-1942), who was born in this city.
Chaplygin (based on the book “Lipetsk toponymy / V.A. Prokhorov. - Voronezh: Central Black Earth Book Publishing House, 1981. - 160 p.”):
CHAPLYGIN, city, center of Chaplyginsky district, railway junction, on the right side of the river. Standing Cassock. In 1638, servicemen Nazar Dukhonin, Dmitry Kirkin, Artemy Ryshkov, Oksen Gvozdev, Mikhail Raspopov and others founded the village “Ust Stanovykh Ryas near Slobodsky Lipyag”. Soon it began to be called simply Slobodsky - after the Slobodsky linden - fishing line. At the beginning of the 18th century. Peter the Great gave the village to his favorite Alexander Menshikov. Having visited here in 1703, Peter the Great named the village in a foreign manner: Oranienburg (“orange city”), which then became colloquially known as Ranenburg. Since 1779, Ranenburg has been a county town. In 1948, it was renamed Chaplygin - in honor of a native of this city, an outstanding scientist, mathematician and mechanic S.A. Chaplygina (1860-1942). A native of the city is the professional revolutionary, poet and inventor, author of the popular workers’ march “Boldly, comrades, keep up” L.P. Radin (1860-1900). The historian D.I. was also born in Ranenburg. Ilovaisky (1832-1920), author of the famous work “History of the Ryazan Principality.” In August 1919, M.I. visited Ranenburg with the organizational and instructional train “October Revolution”. Kalinin. Nowadays there are aggregate and iron foundries, a hosiery factory and other enterprises in the city.
Chaplygin (based on materials from the book “Chaplygin: walks with a local historian / A.A. Bogdanov, S.A. Makeeva, A.S. Nartsisov. - Lipetsk, 2015. - 52 p."):
Chaplyginsky district
Chaplyginsky district is located 85 km. from the regional center, in the northern part of the Lipetsk region, in the center of the European part of Russia, at the intersection of the most important transport routes connecting the capital of the Russian Federation with the North Caucasus.
The area of the district is 1.52 thousand square meters. km., which is 6% of the area of the Lipetsk region.
The climate is temperate continental with moderately cold winters and warm summers.
The population of the district is 32.1 thousand people, of which 38.5% are urban residents. The region is divided into 23 administrative-territorial units, which include the city of Chaplygin and 102 rural settlements.
The administrative and cultural center of the district is the city of Chaplygin. This is a city that includes an industrial complex consisting of mechanical engineering, food and light industry enterprises.
The leading branch of agriculture is crop production, the development of which is facilitated by favorable agroclimatic conditions and high soil fertility.
The predominant soil types are chernozems.
The mineral resources of the region that are of industrial interest are sands, clays, the Gorlovskoye deposit in the village of Urusovo, and a deposit of natural stone in the village of Chechery.
In the city of Chaplygin there are educational institutions of secondary special and vocational education.
Currently, there are 23 secondary schools, 21 preschool institutions, and 3 additional education institutions in the region.
The healthcare system includes: 1 hospital, 1 outpatient clinic, 2 general family practice centers, 27 paramedic and obstetric stations.
The district has a developed network of cultural institutions and has 27 cultural and leisure institutions: 23 settlement centers of culture and leisure (22 in the village and 1 in the city), a multidisciplinary intersettlement integrated cultural and leisure center, a children's art school, a local history museum (it includes a room -museum of S.A. Chaplygin), museum-estate of P.P. Semenov-Tien-Shansky, the central inter-settlement library, as well as 32 libraries in the network of these institutions.
In the area, many historical and cultural monuments have been preserved, restored and are in operation, including the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the city of Chaplygin (architects A.E. Bindeman and N.I. Voronikhin), St. Nicholas Church in the city of Chaplygin (architect K.A. Ton), Museum-Estate of P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky in the village of Urusovo.
In the city, up to 60% of the buildings of the 18th-19th centuries have been preserved.
Autotourist cluster "Oranienburg"
Since 2014, the Oranienburkh autotourist cluster has been operating in the Chaplyginsky district.
Chaplygin has a rich heritage, unique historical and cultural monuments: the famous Oranienburg fortress, the Menshikov House, the Church of the Ascension, the Holy Trinity Cathedral.
The city of Chaplygin is called the “northern gate” of the Lipetsk region. The distance from the city to the M-6 "Caspian" federal highway is 20 km, to the M-4 "Don" - 70 km. High transport accessibility: 350 km from Moscow, 84 km from Lipetsk.
The cluster territory, located in the central part of the city, is connected to the territory of the eastern part along Sovetskaya Street.
The creation of the Oranienburg autotourist cluster makes it possible to create a complex of interconnected tourist facilities with roadside service.
Projects for creating these tourist clusters are being implemented using public-private partnership (PPP) mechanisms.
Chaplygin in a series of events
Since ancient times, our region was the southern borderland, first of the Ryazan principality, and then of the Russian state.
The main scourge of Rus' for many centuries was the raids of nomadic hordes from the vast southern steppe. The strengthened Russian state decided to oppose them with a powerful defensive system - the Belgorod Line. Thus, in the 1st half of the 17th century, large fortified cities and small guard settlements arose in the substeppe. One of them, Ust Stanovykh Ryas, near Slobodsky Lipyag appeared in 1638.
By the end of the 17th century, the village of Slobodskoye had about 100 households, and the wooden Church of St. Michael the Archangel was built.
At the turn of the 17th-18th centuries, our land did not remain aloof from the rapid transformative activities of Peter I. Traveling to the shipyards from Moscow to Voronezh, the Tsar often stopped in Slobodskoye, where in 1695 two mansion cobbled buildings containing one apartment were built for him. After returning from Europe, Peter I built a fortress here according to all the rules of fortification.
In 1702, the fortress was donated by Peter I to his friend and associate A.D. Menshikov for the capture of the Noteburg fortress. The Tsar, accompanied by a large retinue, visited the fortress in February 1703. It was then that she received the name Oranienburg. Peter I made a drawing of the built fortress, signed the name of the fortification and bastions, and attached to it a detailed letter about visiting this city addressed to A.D., who was on the banks of the Neva. Menshikov.
It was a touchstone before the construction of St. Petersburg. Subsequently, His Serene Highness visited Oranienburg several times. In 1712, several miles from the fortress A.D. Menshikov founded the Peter and Paul Monastery. According to legend, an attempt was made on Peter I’s life at this place and the Tsar miraculously escaped mortal danger.
As fate would have it, the “semi-sovereign ruler” became the first prisoner of his own fortress. Here the Menshikov family remained in exile from April 1726 to November 1727. Their further path lay in Berezov.
The next prisoner in the Oranienburg fortress was the prominent Russian diplomat Prince S.G. Dolgorukov, exiled here by Anna Ioanovna in 1735. For 5 years, Dolgorukov and his family were within the walls of the fortress. In 1744, Oranienburg was again visited by representatives of the Romanov dynasty. The young Emperor Ivan VI, his mother, the ruler of Russia, Anna Leopoldovna, and his father, Prince Anton-Ulrich of Brunswick, were exiled here by Elizabeth Petrovna, who overthrew them.
Since 1737, the fortress and village. Slobodskoe were transferred to the treasury and assigned to the stable department for the establishment of stud farms. By the highest decree of Catherine II of September 16, 1779, the village of Ranenburg (Russified Oranienburg) became a district town of the Ryazan province. On March 31, 1781, the city received its coat of arms.
Ten years later, in 1791, the city began to be built up according to a master plan that skillfully took into account the natural geographical conditions and historical past. The central urban core was the fortress from which the streets spread out like a fan, built up with stone residential and commercial buildings at the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1806, construction of the Church of the Holy Trinity began. The five-domed temple was built by 1816, the construction of the 4-tier bell tower was completed in 1837. And by 1855, the bell tower was crowned with a majestic 22-meter metal Spire.
Gradually the city becomes a major shopping center. In the second half of the 19th century, the city of Ranenburg occupied one of the prominent places among the cities of the Ryazan province in terms of trade turnover. The main item of trade was grain. Ranburg buckwheat was especially famous for its taste. Industry also developed in the city, so the tobacco factory of the merchant Olovnikov produced more than 100 thousand pounds of shag per year. The match factory of the merchant Kalashnikov and several soap-making establishments operated.
In the 70s of the 19th century, there were 2 pharmacies and a zemstvo hospital with 59 beds in the city. In 1787, a small public school was opened, in 1870 - a women's school, transformed in 1903 into a women's gymnasium. By 1910, there were 5 educational institutions in the city, with 855 students. The population of Ranenburg at the end of the 19th century was 15.4 thousand people.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the appearance of the city had changed significantly - 14 streets were paved, kerosene lamps were replaced with electric ones, a telephone network was installed, and the Cinema Cinema began operating.
During the revolution of 1905-1907, social democratic groups engaged in revolutionary propaganda appeared in Ranenburg. Soviet power in the city was proclaimed at the 1st founding Congress of Soviets on February 10, 1918. The civil war also left its mark on Ranburg land. Here there were battles between the cavalry of General Mamontov and the ChON fighters.
The Ranenburg district was formed on July 30, 1928 as part of the Central Black Earth Region (CChO) (until 1930 it was part of the Kozlovsky district). After the division of the Central Black Sea Region on December 31, 1934, it became part of the Voronezh region, and on September 26, 1937 - into the newly formed Ryazan region.
During the first five-year plans, new enterprises appeared in the district. In 1932, an iron foundry was created on the territory of the Olovnikov tobacco factory, and the associations “Rabotnitsa” and “Red October” were created on the basis of handicraft cooperatives, producing products for the population. In the first months of the Great Patriotic War, destruction battalions were created on the territory of the Ranenburg region, and residents were mobilized to build defensive fortifications. Thousands of Ranburgers went to the front. 13 of our fellow countrymen were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, two were full holders of the Order of Glory. In the post-war years, industry grew in Ranenburg. In 1948, an aggregate plant was created, a starch and brick plant was transformed into a garment factory, and construction of a dairy plant began.
Since 1948, the city has been named after Academician S.A. Chaplygin, and the district was renamed Chaplyginsky district. After the formation of the Lipetsk region on January 6, 1954, it was included in its composition. On July 4, 1956, part of the abolished Kolybelsky district was included in the Chaplyginsky district. On February 1, 1963, the also abolished Troekurovsky district became part of Chaplyginsky.
Tourist routes (based on materials from the book “Chaplygin: walks with a local historian / A.A. Bogdanov, S.A. Makeeva, A.S. Nartsissov. - Lipetsk, 2015. - 52 pp."):
Noble estates
On the territory of the former Ranenburg district there were more than three hundred noble estates.
To date, only a few have survived. They are real pearls among the monuments in the history and architecture of our region:
- Family estate of P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (village of Ryazanka);
- Bunin-Kropotkin estate (Urusovo village);
- Sviridov-Wagner Estate (Urusovo village);
- The Ivanovs' estate (Solntsevo village).
In Petrovsky places
The Chaplygin land is directly connected with the name of the great reformer of Russia Peter the Great, who left an indelible mark on the history of our region.
He repeatedly stayed in his wooden Travel House.
It was according to his design, exported from Holland, that the Oranienburg fortress was founded, and the Petropravlovskaya Hermitage was erected in his honor not far from the former village of Slobodskoye.
And on the territory of the city park, the remains of ditches, ramparts and bastions of Peter the Great’s earthen fortress have been preserved.
Today we offer tourists:
- Petrovsky House - Tourism Center (Kalinina St.);
- Monument to Peter and Menshikov (Sovetskaya St.);
- Remains of the fortress moat and bastions of the Oranienburg fortress (city park area);
- Menshikov House – Chaplyginsky Museum of Local Lore (city park area);
- Peter and Paul Hermitage, founded by A.D. Menshikov (village Roshchinsky).
Ranenburg merchant
One of the most popular tourist routes has become “Ranenburg merchant”
To this day, the appearance of the historical center of Ranenburg has remained unchanged since the middle of the 19th century, when the district Ranenburg was finally formed as a provincial merchant town.
These are ancient stone and wooden mansions, trading shops, shopping arcades, public buildings, built with the zeal of Ranburg merchants, and often at their own expense.
The main objects of inspection today are merchant houses on Sovetskaya (Kozlovskaya), Gorky (Ryazanskaya) and Krupskaya (Bolshoi) streets, Gostiny Dvor on Khlebnaya Square, buildings of the former Zemskaya Administration and hospital and other architectural monuments of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.
Ranenburg Orthodox
Before the revolution, Ranenburg was famous for its shrines: temples, holy springs, miraculous icons
In recent years, there has been an active revival of churches in the Chaplyginsky district. Today, dozens of Orthodox churches have been restored and are functioning.
Pilgrims have the opportunity to venerate the miraculous images of the Akhtyrka and Tikhvin icons of the Mother of God, draw holy water from the Nikolsky and Ilyinsky springs, and kneel in the ancient churches of Ranenburg and its environs.
Most visited by pilgrims and tourists:
- Church of the Archangel Michael (Krivopolanye village);
- Church of the Ascension (October Revolution Square);
- Trinity Cathedral (Sovetskaya Square);
- St. Nicholas Church (Gorky St.);
- Peter and Paul Hermitage (village Roshchinsky).
