Brochure "Kinel urban district in tasks and diagrams"

Kinel

(Samara Region)

OKATO code:
36408
Founded:
1837
Urban-type settlement since:
1930
City since:
1944 City of regional subordination
Center:
Kinelsky district
Urban-type settlements, population as of 01/1/2021

Deviation from Moscow time, hours:
1
Geographic latitude:
53°14′
Geographic longitude:
50°37′
Altitude above sea level, meters:
35 Sunrise and sunset times in the city of Kinel

Chikhirev effect

In mid-October, it became known about the early resignation of the head of Kinel, Vladimir Chikhirev. As stated in the official press service of the regional government, the mayor of the city submitted his resignation after a meeting with Governor Dmitry Azarov.

Vladimir Chikhirev has led Kinel since 2015 - two terms in a row. Despite his formally voluntary resignation from office, Kinel residents saw political motives in this. The initiative group created a petition in support of the mayor, which received more than 1,000 signatures in the first 24 hours. Now the page with the petition already has more than 2,000 signatures, and local public pages on social networks are filled with posts of gratitude to the outgoing mayor.

Such cases of popular love for officials in modern Russia are rare. DG correspondent Igor Bogatinov looked into the possible reasons for the resignation of the United Russia mayor and the reaction of Kinel residents to it.

Clear lakes and a deadly viaduct

“A journalist from Samara? Write, write, we’ve been completely abandoned here!” a woman shouts from the open window of a wooden house in the northern part of Kinel. Not far from a residential street, carriages creak endlessly - here is the so-called “hill”, from where freight trains are formed.

Over the course of 150 years of operation, the Kinel station (the settlement itself appeared only 40 years earlier) has grown into the largest marshalling station of the Kuibyshev Railway network. And now it acts as both a landmark of the city and an eternal problem for its residents. The railway divides Kinel in half - into the conditionally “new” southern side and the “old” northern side.

Residents of the south and north are separated by a wide double railway crossing. It happens that waiting for an open barrier you can stand here for up to half an hour, or even longer, letting an endless line of freight and passenger trains pass.

The nearest bypass road is on the viaduct - a detour 15 km away. Considering that the ambulance station is based in the southern part of the city, for residents of the north who wait for hours for an ambulance, this problem sometimes literally becomes a matter of life and death.

This long-standing problem could not be resolved under any mayor, including Chikhirev. Just like the water problem. Emergency water outages in Kinel occur almost all year round at intervals of approximately every two weeks. This is all due to the deterioration of the city’s water supply systems and wastewater treatment plants. But much in the city has begun to change in recent years.

North and South

In addition to a major railway junction and the birthplace of video blogger Brian Maps, Kinel, with a population of more than 35 thousand people, is notable for the many small lakes located around.

During the reign of Vladimir Chikhirev in 2021, the strategic concept of public spaces “Kinel - a city of clean lakes” was developed and approved. The decision to functionally fill the spaces around the reservoirs was made in solidarity with the city residents, 60% of whom were in favor of improving the near-water areas.

The first on the list of beautified abandoned lakes was Ladnoe, and last summer the area around Lake Krymskoye underwent global improvement (work there is still ongoing). The long-term plan is to create “a coherent system of Kinel public spaces based on the natural framework of the lakes.”

Other areas of the city began to look better. On the southern side of Kinel there are well-groomed parks and squares. The children's park has an artificial pond with exotic fish, which you can even feed (for a fee). Military equipment is displayed in the park near the city administration, and in a small cozy park behind the cinema there is a steam locomotive.

Large trees are carefully surrounded by circular benches. On warm summer evenings, an instrumental ensemble from the city cultural center plays here. Almost all park spaces have lighting in a stylish, minimalist, high-tech design.

And even in the northern part of Kinel, which is frighteningly abandoned in places, there are signs of life and comfort. Landscaping elements include a renovated memory lane in Lenin Square, Skazka Square with partially broken lanterns, and a monument to the “Workers of Plant No. 12 who died in the Great Patriotic War” in the industrial zone.

According to the Ministry of Economic Development and Investment of the Samara Region, in the consolidated ranking of urban districts, Kinel is in 7th place - in the middle peasants, bypassing cities such as Zhigulevsk, Oktyabrsk and Chapaevsk.

Code "red"

Obvious successes in the improvement of the city are the main argument of Kinel residents against the resignation of Vladimir Chikhirev. When social networks stirred up the news of his resignation, most commentators perceived it with regret and bewilderment. But there were also those who seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: “Are you making an ideal out of him? No one is irreplaceable. They removed it - that means there is a reason for it,” “There are no roads in the alleys, in the north there is only dirt. He promised to do it,” “We weren’t happy with the results of the last elections, so they punished us.”

The initiator of the collection of signatures in support of the head of Kinel, Nikita Struk, published a post in which he emphasized that he was in no way personally connected with Vladimir Chikhirev and was guided solely by social motives:

“I do not have any friendly, family or other ties to Vladimir Alexandrovich. I am an ordinary person who wants to live and raise children in my beloved city, which in 6 years only Vladimir Alexandrovich was able to put in order. I fear that when the head changes, we will return to the times of a dead park, dead roads, a period of stagnation.”

Soon, Vladimir Chikhirev’s resignation was publicly reacted to on the official account of the Smena football club from Kinel:

“We express our sincere words of support to Vladimir Alexandrovich. We thank him for the fact that Kinel has really taken a big step forward in its development in recent years. It was Vladimir Chikhirev who was the first to support our initiative to open Smena in 2021. The mayor of the city and his deputies helped us with a difficult issue related to renting halls. Vladimir Alexandrovich believed in our idea and supported us.”

Residents' support for the mayor is a rare story in Russia. But the residents of Kinel seem to be quite sincere. And among several versions of Chikhirev’s resignation, there is not one directly related to the city. The reasons, everyone is sure, are different.

Stankevich lost - the mayor lost his position

One of the most popular versions of the dismissal of Vladimir Chikhirev, which is being discussed in Kinel, is the victory in the elections of State Duma deputies in the 162nd single-mandate district of the communist Mikhail Matveev, and not the United Russia member Igor Stankevich.

In the urban district of Kinel (also includes the villages of Alekseevka and Ust-Kinelsky), Matveev won the elections. According to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, his lead over Stankevich was only 630 votes - 6626 versus 5996.

Other heads of municipalities where Stankevich lost were also fired after the elections or faced other problems.

In Otradnoye, Matveev beat Stankevich with a difference of 1,305 votes. And 10 days after the elections, a criminal case was opened against the mayor of the city, Alexander Bugakov, for obstructing legal business activity on several occasions from 2018-2020.

In the Industrial District of Samara, where Matveev also won against Stankevich, head Andrei Semyonov wrote a letter of resignation with the wording “at his own request.”

Mikhail Matveev himself, in a conversation with a DG correspondent, said that the reason for the resignation of the mayor of Kinel lies not only in the victory of the “red” candidate.

“If you pay attention to the fact that problems arose among the heads of Otradny, Kinel, and the Promyshlenny district, where I won, then the trend is visible,” says Mikhail Matveev. “However, in the case of Chikhirev, the fact that in the garbage reform he, with many reservations, but still took the position of the residents, could also play a role. And this irritated the White House and the beneficiaries of garbage reform.”

Garbage and human factor

Samara blogger Oleg Ivanets partly agrees with Matveev. He believes that Chikhirev’s resignation was influenced by the election results, but there may be other reasons.

“Vladimir Chikhirev, no matter how much dirt and negativity there is on him, is a highly professional manager who did a lot of useful things during his work at Kinel, and I am sincerely sorry that it all ended this way because of political games.

Chikhirev didn’t lose something so much as the Samara region lost something. The governor's team is now trying to clean up and reformat its teams on the ground. Of course, the undesirable results of the State Duma elections are also an argument. But let’s be frank: for the “party in power” they were everywhere, and purges are taking place even in those areas where “United Russia”, according to papers, won categorically.

I do not idealize Chikhirev’s personality, but I believe that the results of the elections in Kinel are a far-fetched factor. I believe that the reason must be sought in the relationship with Kinel’s “curator” Zhivaikin.” (Alexander Zhivaikin - deputy from Kinel in the Samara Provincial Duma, head of the Duma faction of United Russia - editor's note)

Dmitry Aseev

Kinel entrepreneur (production of semi-finished meat products) and member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Dmitry Aseev attributes, oddly enough, his good relations with local residents to the reasons for Chikhirev’s resignation. “In Kinel, like almost everywhere else, there are many chronic problems,” explains Aseev. “But here everyone knows each other, it’s a big village in a good way.” Chikhirev studied with someone, someone was his neighbor. The head of the territory does not hide from the residents and does not look down on them.”

On some topics sensitive to higher authorities, the mayor of Kinel often took the side of the city residents, the communists believe. Including on the issue of garbage reform.

“Mikhail Matveev and I proposed to the governor to make Kinel an experimental site and charge for garbage removal not per square meter, as is customary in cities, but per the number of residents, since a significant part of the people here live in the private sector. The difference in money was proposed to be reimbursed to the regional operator from the regional budget.

Chikhirev met with residents and tried to jointly find a solution to the problem. Apparently, the “garbage” topic became one of the reasons to start looking askance at Chikhirev’s person,” sums up Dmitry Aseev.

According to the current deputy of the Kinel City Duma, Evgeny Makarov (LDPR), it will be difficult for the new head to compare with Chikhirev.

“The resignation of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Chikhirev from the post of head of the Kinel city district is undoubtedly a loss for the city. During his reign, he changed the city beyond recognition. Read the comments on social networks, the reactions of residents to this shocking news. Vladimir Aleksandrovich is a “leader from the people”; he could always meet with every resident and help in solving problems.

He was the first of the heads to start conducting live broadcasts with residents 5 years ago and did not leave work until he answered every question. He did not divide either the city or the Duma into parties and treated all deputies equally, with respect and always helped. For me personally, his passing is a loss and disappointment. It’s difficult to answer what to expect from the new chapter. But the fact that it will be difficult for him to meet Chikhirev’s set standard is a fact.”

On October 28, at the twentieth meeting of the Duma of the Kinel City District of the Samara Region, among others, the issue of the official early termination of the powers of the mayor of the city, Vladimir Chikhirev, will be considered. Candidates for his position are still unknown.

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a brief description of

Located on the river. Bolshoy Kinel, near its confluence with Samara, 41 km east of Samara. Railway node

Territory (sq. km): 109

Information about the city of Kinel on the Russian Wikipedia site

Historical sketch

Founded in 1837 as a village. In 1877, during the construction of the Samara-Orenburg railway, a railway was created. Kinel station, a junction since 1888.

Name by location on the river. The Bolshoi Kinel (the right tributary of the Samara), where the Tatar word “wide”, is a truncated form of the Turkic elga “river”, i.e. "wide river". The definition of large contrasts this river with its tributary Maly Kinel.

Workers' village of Kinel from 01/30/1930 City from 03/16/1944

Economy

Kinel is the center of an agricultural region.

A plant for closures, a furniture factory, a clothing factory, and enterprises for servicing railway transport.

In the town of Alekseevka there is a building materials plant and a livestock breeding complex.

Culture, science, education

In the PGT Ust-Kinelsky Samara Agricultural Institute and experimental breeding station.

Museums, galleries, exhibition halls

House-Museum of V.I. Lenin in the village Alakaevka 446404, Samara region, Kinelsky district, village. Alakaevka, st. Leninskaya, 1 Phone(s): (8-84663) 345-74

Cities

Kinel city

- a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Kinelsky district of the Samara region, in the past it was part of the district. Since 2004 - the administrative center of an independent municipal entity - the Kinel City District. The population at the beginning of 2021 was actually 34 thousand. people The city is located on the Bolshoi Kinel River near its confluence with the Samara River, 41 km from Samara. Received city status in 1944. Nowadays Kinel is a large junction station of the Kuibyshev Railway, the largest marshalling station of network importance, with two mechanized humps. The railway junction is served by Kinel, a carriage depot, a track distance, a signaling and communication distance, and other railway transport enterprises.

Videos about the city of Kinel

1) Kinel, southern side from a bird's eye view. Flight on a quadcopter over the southern side of Kinel. Shooting in UltraHD

2) City trial competition. 4x4, day of the city of Kinel.

3) The largest railway junction in Kinel, aerial photography

4) Kinel from a bird's eye view. North. — Flight at an altitude of 350-450m on a DJI Phantom 4 quadcopter over the north side.

Education in the city of
Kinel
The city has a number of secondary specialized and general educational institutions. There are no higher vocational educational institutions in the city, so future students go to other cities to enroll.

Economy
of the city of Kinel
In the city there are factories for the production of seals from rubber-cork material, rubber products, spare parts for the automotive industry made of plastic, spare parts for railway equipment, PET molds, a furniture factory, food industry enterprises, brick and cement factories, a clothing factory

Photo of the city of Kinel, Samara region:

History of the city of
Kinel
Founded in 1837 as a village.

Until the 1820s The richest land at the confluence of the Samara and Bolshoi Kinel rivers was empty. In the early 30s. XIX century on these lands a small settlement of Studenets appeared, founded by eighteen families of appanage peasants. These places attracted the first settlers due to the abundance of water, flat terrain, variety of soils, pastures and meadows, floodplain forests, lakes and rivers rich in fish and game. In addition, the postal road between Samara and Orenburg passed through this area. Here in 1837 a small railway settlement was founded, which received the name “Kinel” - from the name of the river flowing nearby. On December 6, 1850, the territory on which the village was located became subordinate to the Samara province. On August 12, 1875, the locomotive whistle was heard for the first time in Samara, and soon the Orenburg-Samara railway through the village of Kinel was put into operation, its official opening took place on January 1, 1877 - from that day on, the small railway village began to be called the Kinel railway station. In 1888 the station became a junction. Some local historians believe that in 1877 the station bore the name Charykovskaya - after the name of the landowner on whose lands the village and station were built. By the mid-1890s. the village grew significantly and in 1895 the station and the growing village were united into a single settlement, called Kinel. According to the census of January 28, 1897, 1,700 people lived in the village. After the opening of the Samara Agricultural School in 1903, the population of Kinel began to grow rapidly and by 1910 it amounted to 3,013 residents. By 1916, the Kinel station, which was a class I station, was one of the largest stations in the Russian Empire at that time. Even then, the railway became the city's main industry. According to the 1931 population census, there were about 8,300 residents in the village, including those living in the neighborhoods of New Students, Sovety, Rechka, Agricultural Institute, Mozharo-Minaevsky, Lebed, Gorny, Ivan-Chasy (Elshnyagi). And over the next eight years, by 1939, the population of the village doubled, amounting to 17,160 people. On January 30, 1930, the settlement (village) Kinel was classified as a workers' settlement. And on March 16, 1944, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the workers' village of Kinel was given the status of a city of district subordination. After gaining a new status, the city elected the executive committee of the Kinel City Council of Workers' Deputies. By the end of the war, Kinel remained a small town and was a regional center. The city's population was concentrated near the station on the southern and northern sides. Along with the development of the railway infrastructure, the urban economy also developed. In 1957, an asphalt plant was built and started operating in Kinel, after which the city streets began to be gradually covered with asphalt. In the early 1960s. a road bridge was built across the Kinel River (Agricultural Institute area). The road from Kinel in the direction of the cities of Otradny and Kuibyshev was also asphalted. A large asphalt road was laid in the direction of the villages of Bobrovka and Malaya Malyshevka. After the appearance of high-quality asphalt roads, a motor transport enterprise created in 1958 organized regular bus service with Kuibyshev, Malaya Malyshevka, along other routes and intra-city service. By the beginning of 1963, the city's population reached 35 thousand people. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated February 1, 1963, the city of Kinel was transformed into a city of regional subordination. In 1970, a Victory Park was laid out in the city, timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. An obelisk was installed in the park in memory of the fellow countrymen who died at the fronts, which was made in the form of a truncated tetrahedral pyramid with a five-pointed star crowning the top of the monument, and with a bas-relief of the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1985, Victory Park was reconstructed, and today the obelisk appears in a modified form - in the form of a beautiful composition of three rifle bayonets pointing upward, and with the Eternal Flame at the base of the monument.

Coat of arms
of the city of Kinel:
Coat of arms
of the city of Kinel
- In a green field, facing and shifted to the right, a narrow silver fork-shaped cross, rounded at the corners and accompanied at the top by a winged wheel, and below by three towers with pointed roofs, the middle of which is larger and has an open gate; the towers are connected by a palisade; all accompanying figures are gold.

Rationale for symbolism: The coat of arms of the city of Kinel is an image of the confluence of two rivers (Samara and Bolshoi Kinel), where the city is located. The winged wheel indicates that in 1877, during the construction of the Samara-Petersburg railway, the Kinel railway junction station arose. The image of the fortress reflects the first settlement in 1700, associated with the construction of the Alekseevskaya fortress on an important trade route at the confluence of two rivers. The color green is a symbol of life and fertility, also showing the State Agricultural Academy located in the city. Gold is a symbol of strength, wealth, sunlight, generosity. Silver is a symbol of simplicity, wisdom, mutual cooperation. The coat of arms of the city of Kinel in the language of heraldic symbols harmoniously reflects the history of the formation of the city and the natural features of the city's location.

Author group: idea of ​​the coat of arms: Yuri Martyanov (Kinel), Valery Bibaev (Kinel); heraldic revision: Konstantin Mochenov (Khimki), Sergey Isaev (Moscow); artist: Robert Malanichev (Moscow).

Approved by the Decision of the Kinel City Duma of the Samara Region Duma (#90) dated April 29, 1999.

Flag
of the city of Kinel:
Flag
the city of Kinel -
A rectangular double-sided green panel with a width to length ratio of 2:3, divided by a narrow white fork-shaped cross facing and shifted to the right, rounded at the corners and accompanied at the top by a winged wheel, and at the bottom by three towers with pointed roofs, the middle one of which there are more and has an open gate; the towers are connected by a palisade; all accompanying figures are yellow.

Rationale for the symbolism: The flag was designed based on the coat of arms of the city of Kinel, where the language of heraldic symbols harmoniously reflects the history of the formation of the city and the natural features of the city’s location.

Author group: idea of ​​the flag: Konstantin Mochenov (Khimki); computer design: Sergey Isaev (Moscow).

Approved by the Decision of the Kinel City Duma of the Samara Region Duma (#91) dated April 29, 1999.

Information

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Ancient monuments

On the northwestern outskirts of the city of Kinel there was a settlement of the Bronze Age (2 thousand years BC).

On the north-eastern outskirts of the city of Kinel, on the right bank of the Bolshoi Kinel River, there was a settlement of the Middle Ages - here, during excavations, ceramics from the Golden Horde era were found.

One and a half kilometers southeast of the village of Gorny, on the 2nd terrace above the Samara River, there is a burial ground consisting of three mounds.

Natural monuments

“Stone Valley” (Ust-Kinelsky village): it is characteristic that in this stone ravine, water spills reveal rocks. In places where the ground collapses, large lenses of gypsum of a pale white and pink color are displayed in regular rows. Here you can read the entire history of the formation of the relief of the Trans-Volga expanses. More than 300 plant species and 20 percent of the region’s total flora grow in Kamenny Dole. It is a reserve of rich flora and fauna of the Middle Volga region. Stone Valley is a complex natural monument. It has scientific and historical significance.

Settlements

Alekeseevka village. Founded in 1700 as a fortified suburb of Samara by order of the Ufa governor Alexander Sergeev. The fortress was built by steward Semyon Dmitriev. The fortress was named after the son of Tsar Peter 1, Tsarevich Alexei. The fortress was inhabited by Cossacks and retired soldiers. Vladimir Church is the first, built in 1706. The double-altar church was consecrated in honor of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God in the name of St. Alexei, the man of God.

The village of Elshnyagi. Founded at the end of the 19th century in a tract, in the floodplain of the Samara River, by Bobrovsky appanage peasants. The name of the village indicates the presence of “elsha” (spruce-alder) thickets in the area.

City of Kinel. The settlement was founded in 1837 at the junction of the lands of the Bobrovsky appanage peasants and the landowner D. Putilov. The demarcation took place along the erik of the Yazevka River. The settlement received its name from the Bolshoi Kinel River.

History of the village and Kinel station until 1918

Until the 20s of the 19th century, the fertile land in this basin was empty. On the banks of the Kinel River in the early 30s of the 19th century, the appanage village of Studenets from the appanage peasants of the Simbirsk province first appeared.

According to popular legends, the village of Studenets, somewhere in the mid-30s of the 19th century, burned to the ground from a sudden fire. As time passed, the burned village of Studenets was restored. The village of New Students was also built, which received its name as a settlement in 1837. 1837 is considered the year of the founding of the future city of Kinel.

By 1897, a population had formed around the Kinel station, which began to engage in arable farming and work on the railway. Here are New Students, and the newly founded Khokhrina farm (the future “Peasant Farm”), and railway track booths, station water pumps, a bridge guard booth, station residential and service buildings.

According to the census for January 28, 1897, the total number of residents was more than 1,700 people, there was a church school.

By 1910, the population of Kinel, after the formation of the Samara Agricultural School (1903), had increased significantly and reached 3013 inhabitants.

A two-class railway primary school appeared - a college at the station. The population had an emergency room, a doctor, paramedics and a midwife.

According to the population census on May 1, 1931, there were already about 8,300 people in Kinel, including in the settlements of New Students, Agricultural Institute, Sovety, Rechka, Gorny, Mozharo-Minaevsky, Ivan-Chasy (Elshnyagi), Lebed. Before the war in 1939, the population of Kinel was 17,160 people.

The Orenburg–Samara railway under construction was accepted into operation by a special government commission. The official opening of this line took place on January 1, 1877, old style. It was from this day that the small village began to be called the Kinel railway station - according to the name of the river that flowed nearby. At that time, the route connecting Kinel with Samara passed along the old highway through the current village of Ust-Kinelsky, then to Smyshlyaevka. Today, the roadbed of the former railway track in the area still remains.

By 1876, the movement of working steam locomotives was carried out to the Bogatoye station.

On September 8, 1888, constant traffic opened from the Kinel dol station to the Ufa station.

Since 1894, the construction of sidings began in order to increase the capacity of the road, and a long stretch section Kinel-Pokhvistnevo and Farmers-Kinel was opened.

In 1896, the construction of second tracks on the limiting sections began. Just two years later, a second track was opened on the most heavily loaded Samara-Kinel section. Thus, in 1888, the Kinel station became a junction, also operating on the Kinel-Samara, Kinel-Pokhvistnevo and Kinel-Buzuluk directions.

One of the most important events was the start of construction of a railway bridge across the Bolshoi Kinel River, two spans of 30 fathoms (140 meters), in July 1899. Construction was completed on October 1, 1900. Before that, there was no bridge across the Bolshoi Kinel River. Movement across the river was carried out using a ferry crossing, which led to idle time for the carriages.

1905 is a turning point in the history of Kinel station

Thanks to active participation in the revolution of 1905, the small railway junction of Kinel quickly attracted the attention of the Administration of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway, which soon began technical re-equipment and expansion of the station. It was from this moment that Kinel became one of the most significant railway junctions.

Becoming

On September 24, 1917, the All-Russian strike of railway workers began, in which the railway workers of the Samara-Zlatousov railway actively participated, and they were joined by workers and employees of the Kinel station. Train traffic on the railways was stopped; only military cargo and food for the population were transported.

Chronicle of events

1917

from September 23 to 27 All-Russian strike of railway workers. The Bolsheviks took the Winter Palace. The stage of the socialist revolution began - the greatest experiment in building a society of universal equality and fraternity.

October 30 at the station. Kinel general meeting of craftsmen and employees made a decision: “... full support for the Revolutionary Committee. The orders of the Provisional Government are not valid. Only orders of the Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. We ask you to send weapons so that we can suppress the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie here in Kinel...”

1918

On May 1, the village of Kinel, population – 2417 people, in the village there were 13 grocery stores, four meat shops, one shoe shop and three buffets. The population had 1,275 horses and 1,078 cows.

The Kinel Cheka decided: “At Kinel station, organize a flying permanent detachment to combat bag smugglers and speculators on trains and stations. Confiscate food from all persons who have more than 0.5 pounds (8 kg) of flour and bread, 800 grams of butter and 1 kg 200 grams of meat. In case of resistance – execution on the spot...”

October 8. Units of the third Nikolaevsky regiment entered Alekseevka and Kinel. The commandant of the station Kinel Volkov issues order No. 27, according to which Kinel was declared under a state of siege. Residents were asked to hand over their weapons within 24 hours. It was forbidden to commit violence against the families of peasants who left with the White Czechs.

October 19. Art. Kinel, the general meeting of the RCP (b) station approved the revolutionary committee consisting of: P.R. Kulygin – chairman, L.P. Bakanov – secretary, N.A. Fedotov, N.D. Sabanin - members.

27th October. At Kinel station a general meeting of communists was held - 43 people, a committee was elected with the following composition: L.P. Bakanov - chairman, Ya.B. Kurevich – Comrade Chairman, N.A. Fedotov, N.D. Sabanin, S.Alexandrov, I.N. Kulkov, P.F. Kulygin - members, giving lectures, staging performances.

1919

On January 1, employees of the Kinel station informed the Commissioner of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway P.A. Vavilov that the committees of the poor carry out mass searches of employees, take away food and firewood received from railway organizations, and also engage in massacres.

On January 30, Kinel Military Commissar A. Kolesnikov issued order No. 217 “On the surrender of weapons within a month. Those who fail to surrender will receive a sentence of one to 10 years in prison. Anyone who reports someone hiding a weapon will receive a reward: 600 rubles for a serviceable rifle, 1000 rubles for a machine gun. Leave weapons only to members of the Communist Party, one rifle and one revolver per communist.”

On February 7, in connection with the threat of an offensive by Kolchak’s army, the office of the 6th field construction of the Eastern Front was located in Kinel. The main task is the construction of a fortification along the line of the villages of Bobrovka and Krasny Yar. The construction was supervised by D.M. Karbyshev, future lieutenant general of the engineering troops, Hero of the Soviet Union, who was subsequently tortured by the Nazis in the Mauthausen camp in 1945.

March 19. S. Kinel, a decision was made to build a “People’s House” with a hall for 600 seats, a library-reading room and a unified labor school measuring 10x10 fathoms.

On May 2, an unprecedented flood of the Samara and Bolshoy Kinel rivers occurred in the region. The villages of Georgievka, Domashka, Bobrovka and the agricultural school in the village of Ust-Kinelsky were flooded. Railway traffic has been stopped. On the Alekseevka-Kinel section, the railway was flooded with water.

In 1919, on the basis of the Kinel Agricultural School, an agricultural institute was formed as part of the Samara University. In February 1927, the institute changed its name to IZK (Institute of Grain Crops).

1920–1921

An amnesty was declared for all peasants who were forcibly mobilized into the White Army. The Kinel station was flooded with White Guards returning to their native villages. In January, at the same time, another “voluntary” recruitment into the Red Army was announced. And if the workers consciously joined the ranks of the Red Army, then most of the peasantry did everything to avoid this fratricidal war.

On January 11, a train with evacuees from the Pskov Agricultural School was unloaded at Kinel station; 257 people were accommodated on the territory of the Kinel Agricultural School in the village. Ust-Kinelsky.

On May 1, celebrations dedicated to International Workers' Day were held in all villages. During this period, the following people lived in the village of Kinel: indigenous people – 987 people, non-residents – 3187 people, refugees – 668 people and employees of the Kinel station – 525 people. In total, 5367 people lived in Kinel.

The formation of Soviet power

On May 30, construction of a road bridge across the Bolshoi Kinel River on the Samara-Orenburg highway (now an operating road bridge) began in Studentsi.

On January 12, 1923, the merger of Alekseevskaya and Bobrovskaya volosts took place. The center of the two volosts became the village of Kinel “...as a trade and bazaar village and a large railway station...” This is how the Kinel volost was formed. A peasant from the village of Alekseevka, Stepan Sergeevich Zazin, 28 years old, the brother of a revolutionary sailor from the cruiser “Count Potemkin-Tavrichesky” who was executed in 1908, was elected as the first chairman of the newly formed Kinel Volost Executive Committee. The secretary of the Kinel Party Bureau of the RCP(b) comrade was elected as members of the presidium of the executive committee. Rodionov, OGPU agent comrade. I.Fomin. Timofey Startsev was elected Chairman of the Kinelsky Village Council for the third term.

On July 30, the first seven-year school in the region was opened in Alekseevka.

1924

On February 28, a non-party conference was held in Alekseevka under the motto “According to the planned plan of Ilyich’s path.” A conscription was announced for boys born in 1902 to defend Ilyich’s behests.

On April 6, a financial inspection station was opened in Kinel.

On May 19, a centralized post office began operating in the region. If before this each volost village itself sent mail to Samara, now all mail was delivered to Kinel, and from there to the addressee.

1925

On January 22, a hut-reading room named after V.I. Lenin was opened in Kinel

On March 18, a film company from the Unshlikht car repair base arrived in the village of Bobrovka, bringing new films “Old Man Knysh” and “How Petyunka Went to Ilyich.” These were the first Soviet silent films. The ticket price is purely symbolic - five kopecks. 150–200 people were allowed into the “people’s” house (club). Seven sessions were shown. The peasants stood and waited for their turn for several hours.

On May 1, a May Day demonstration took place in Kinel. Two thousand people took part. At the end there was a football match between a team of railway workers and students of an agricultural institute.

1926

On March 4, the villages of Lugovoi, Kultura, Energiya, Yazevka and the Rechki agricultural artel were annexed to the village of Kinel.

16 of September. The village of Kinel was renamed into the working village of Kinel. 4,591 people lived here, of which 1,252 were peasants, 3,339 were workers and employees.

Formation of the district

The collection of laws and orders of the workers' and peasants' government of the RSFSR No. 95 approved the Resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of July 16, 1928 on the formation of the Kinel rural district (center - the workers' village of Kinel).

In September he was elected executive committee of the Kinel Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies. Comrade Chigin was elected as the first chairman of the district executive committee.

The Kinelsky district included 29 village councils.

The process of formation of the region took place very rapidly. The Smyshlyaevsky village council, which was previously part of the Kinelsky volost, flatly refused to become part of the Kinelsky district. The Bogdanovsky volost congress of representatives of village councils, with the support of 12 village councils, made a decision “... to ask the PEC to form a district with a center in the village of Bogdanovka, as the most densely populated volost...”.

After long mutual claims, the Kinelsky rural district was formed with its center in the workers' village of Kinel, where the largest railway junction was located.

Industrial development

The period of the mid and late 20s is characterized by the industrial development of our region. Kinel station became the largest railway junction in Russia, and was the gateway between central Russia on the one hand, and the Urals, Siberia, the Far East and Central Asia, on the other.

The opening of an alabaster factory and a sulfur mine in the village of Alekseevka led to the fact that by the end of the 20s there were already about 7 thousand workers and employees in the area, which was made up almost entirely of peasants.

In October 1928, construction of a bacon factory began in the village of Kinel (former closure factory No. 12). The production of bacon from lard and meat from a special breed of pigs was brought to a production level.

July 31, 1929 The bacon factory produced its first products, but in 1931 the factory was closed.

Collectivization

The first collective farms in the region began to be created in 1928.

Many agricultural communes and artels had ceased to exist by this time for various reasons. By the end of the year, 1,606 peasant farms were members of collective farms, which amounted to 10.3 percent of the total number of peasant farms in the region. 12 percent of the sown area was cultivated by collective farmers. In 1929, already 3,462 peasant farms were included in collective farms, which amounted to 22 percent.

6,670 peasant households out of 15,833 living in the region joined the collective farm. In total, 90 thousand people lived in the Kinelsky district.

On May 5, 1930, the first issue of the regional newspaper “Collective Farm Path” was published in Kinel. The newspaper was the fighting mouthpiece of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and enjoyed enormous popularity among the population. The publication of the district newspaper was a big event in the public life of the region.

On June 13, the 3rd district party conference was held in Kinel, at which the “25-thousanders”, volunteers who came at the call of the party to organize collective farms in our region, were honored.

On June 22, the first pioneer camp in the region was opened in the village of Bogdanovka. 47 pioneers were on vacation.

On September 26, Alexander Ovsyannikov, the first Komsomol member of the region, died in Kinel. In 1918, he organized a cell and was elected the first secretary of the Komsomol in the region. He went to the civil war and was the commander of the 16th separate battalion of the labor army. In 1927, he was elected secretary of the Volost Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

On January 1, 1934, the collectivization process in the region was completed to 92.7 percent. 71 collective farms and two state farms were formed. There were four MTS operating in the district with 269 tractors and 10 combines.

On February 26, a radio started working in the area. Mass radio listening was organized. District party radio training began. Radio played a huge role in information propaganda among the population. On the village radio they learned not only the latest news of the life of the USSR, but also operational communication within the region appeared.

On May 1, a “red corner” was opened at the Kinel station depot. A festive manifestation of Kinel residents was held. All streets are clean and decorated with flags. In the evening, festive festivities were held.

November 8. Celebrating the 17th anniversary of the October Revolution. A squadron of three aircraft arrived in the area, lifting 30 of the best collective farmers into the air. The planes were flying around the area. The ride continued until the evening. The results have been summed up; the Komsomolets state farm has been recognized as one of the best farms. Its workers were given three seats on the plane, headed by director Comrade Mitsin, and five seats on the regional honor board; four seats on the plane were allocated for railway workers.

On December 1, 1934, S.M. Kirov was killed in Leningrad. Protest rallies were held in all villages against the “insolent” class enemies. The Kinel district committee of the International Organization for Assistance to Fighters of the Revolution (IOPR) organized assistance to the victims of the fascist coup in Spain

Turning years

April 30, 1935 On the eve of May Day, the ceremonial launch of the sulfur mine took place in Alekseevka. In honor of the holiday, workers did everything to deliver high-quality sulfur to the country ahead of schedule. The opening was attended by the first secretary of the Kuibyshev regional committee, comrade. Shubrikov and the chairman of the regional committee, comrade. Polbitsyn. The director of the sulfur plant, Comrade Krainev, was awarded the Order of Lenin. Only two years will pass and they will all be shot as “enemies of the people.” Construction of the sulfur processing plant continued.

By June 15, wooden sidewalks appeared in Kinel on the streets of Sovetskaya – 250 meters, Oktyabrskaya – 1 km, Pozharnaya – 150 meters and Rabochaya – 500 meters. A horse cemetery has been opened.

1936

On May 23, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a resolution to rename the Samara-Zlatoust railway into the Kuibyshev railway. The People's Commissariat of Railways of the USSR awarded the Kinel station the highest qualification - an extra-class decisive marshalling station. From this time Art. Kinel became one of the largest marshalling stations in the country and the position of the head of the Kinel station became a nomenklatura of the People's Commissariat of Railways.

Kinel station is located in the center of the Kuibyshev railway, and due to its geographical location, it is essentially a gateway between central Russia on the one hand and the Urals, Siberia, the Far East and Central Asia on the other. Considering the importance and significance in the national economic system of the country, the party and government paid special attention to Kinel station in its further reconstruction, path development and technical equipment.

On December 25, 1936, an act on the completion of construction and commissioning of the Kinelsky plant was signed. This day is considered the birthday of one of the largest industrial enterprises in Kinel.

1937

On January 6, the All-Union Population Census took place in the Kinelsky district. 89,376 people lived in the villages of the Kinelsky district and in the workers’ settlement of Kinel.

In the spring of 1937, the steepest period of repression began in the Kinelsky region. A wave of mass extermination swept the entire area. It is scary to imagine the scale and goals of mass repressions after the adoption of the “Stalin Constitution”. The formula “enemy of the people” has come into use for the criminal lawlessness of a significant part of the rural population.

In 1997, construction began on the largest district school (now school No. 1) for 500 students, and a district hospital in Kinel.

Pre-war years

On the occasion of the All-Union Railway Worker's Day, the famous machinist of the Kinel depot, Comrade. I.S. Kozlov and the best switchman of the Kinel station V.V. Trofimov. Both of them received prizes and were awarded the badge of “Honorary Railway Worker” and the personal watch of the People’s Commissar of Railways, Comrade. L. Kaganovich.

By the beginning of the 40s, repressions began to wane. The residents of the area paid a terrible price, the price of their lives, for the “great experiment” carried out by the authorities in the 1930s.

Since the beginning of the century, human losses in the villages of the Kinelsky district have been:

1.Russian-Japanese War 1904–1905: 0.5–1.0 thousand people.

2. First World War (“German”) 1914–1917: 2.5–2.8 thousand people.

3. Revolution and civil war 1917–1921: 2.0–2.5 thousand people.

4. “Hunger” 1921–1922: 14.0 thousand people.

5. Dispossession and repressions of 1929–1940: 2.5–2.8 thousand people.

6. Great Patriotic War 1941–1945: 6.0 thousand people.

Terrible years of the Great Patriotic War

That distant Sunday in June 1941 turned out to be sunny and warm in Kinel, conducive to active recreation. A football match took place at the railway stadium, and various sports competitions were organized. There were no signs of trouble. And like a bolt from the blue: “war.”

The terrible news shocked the entire station village. By lunchtime, messengers were delivering mobilization notices. By evening, such heavy rain broke out that the water level in the Yazevka river rose sharply, and the then poorly maintained roads turned into a mess. But this did not stop the flow of people: young and old walked to the military commissariat building; some walked silently, gloomily, others with songs, noise and hubbub; many rode horses from villages and hamlets to say:

-Please go to the front!

Thus began the first day of a war unprecedented in the history of mankind for the residents of Kinel and the region.

In terms of population, Kinel at that time was small, but it had important strategic importance as a junction station connecting the center of the country with the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, with Central Asia. During the war years, this importance increased many times over. It was necessary to ensure the advancement of the increased number of trains with cargo for the front. Therefore, speaking at rallies and expressing the will of their comrades, the compilers Starostin, Igonin and others vowed to work, regardless of time, fatigue, or difficulties. And at a unit-wide meeting a resolution was adopted: “We are all, as one, ready to come out in defense of our socialist Fatherland and give a crushing rebuff to the treacherous enemy. With our honest and dedicated work, we will provide the transportation needs of our valiant army and navy.”

Proximity to the regional center and sufficient communications allowed the command of the Volga Military District to designate Kinel as the place for the formation of military units to be sent to the front. It was on the territory of our region that the 356th Rifle Division, which later became the Red Banner Rifle Division, was formed from Kinel residents. And here, so to speak, the 134th separate rifle brigade was born, on the basis of which the 74th Kiev-Danube Red Banner Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky rifle division was then deployed.

The closures plant was one of the first to switch to producing defense products. It was difficult and time-consuming work, aggravated by the fact that many men were mobilized into the army. Women took the places of their husbands, sons and brothers. They worked as master adjusters, tinsmiths, and turners...

A hitherto unprecedented rise in labor was observed at other industrial enterprises. The workers' artel "15 Years of October", for example, increased labor productivity by more than one and a half times, and garment workers began to produce almost twice as much.

A serious test during the war fell on the teams of the Kinel railway junction. And they coped with it brilliantly, showing examples of work enthusiasm, skill and dedication to their profession. The regional newspaper “Banner of Communism” reported that Starostin had become a master of high-speed train formation, that drivers Efimov, Anishin, Kozhmetyev, Avtaikin drove trains weighing 500–700 tons above normal; that the mechanics of the carriage depot Serebryakov, Lyubukhin, Startsev complete daily tasks at 300 percent or more.

The Great Patriotic War was the greatest test for railway transport. Her first year was the most difficult. The forced retreat of Soviet troops significantly complicated the work of transport. The temporary loss of a number of roads in the west and south led to an increase in freight traffic on the railways of the Volga region and Siberia. The importance of the Kuibyshev road and especially the Kinel station has increased as never before. The huge flow of cargo led to an oversaturation of the Kuibyshev branch of the road with rolling stock. To increase capacity at the beginning of the war, when trains from West to East moved in an almost continuous stream, a “live block” was introduced on the Syzran-Kinel section from October 13, 1941. Signalmen were stationed on the tracks at every kilometer of the track, and trains followed their signals.

At the front

From August to November 1941, the territory of the Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute became the base for the formation of the 356th Infantry Division. The main building and other buildings of the institute housed the division's administration and headquarters, the 918-1 artillery regiment, a separate communications battalion, engineer and medical battalions, and a reconnaissance company. The division was almost entirely formed from residents of the Kuibyshev region. It included many residents of Kinel and Kinelsky district.

Five military orders: two of Alexander Nevsky, two of the Red Star, Second Class of the Patriotic War and a number of medals were awarded to the participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, the commander of an artillery battery, today a retired colonel, who for a long time headed the special department at the institute, Sergei Ivanovich Maksimov.

Post-war period 1945–1963

In the mid-50s, at the end of Sovetskaya Street, across the Yazevka River, a railway bakery was built - the first bakery in Kinel, which facilitated the supply of bread to the population.

In 1960–1961, a two-story building of the district party committee was built next to the RDK. And in 1968, the former wooden building of the eight-year school No. 3 was rebuilt into a brick one and became an evening secondary school No. 1.

In 1945, on the north side of the city on the street. The cooperative created a plant of public utility enterprises and improvements (“Gorzhilkomkhoz”).

In 1945, after the war, a specialized train for water supply arrived from Germany and at its base, by order of the Ministry of Railways dated April 17, 1946. Construction and installation train No. 15 (Vodrem-27) was organized.

In 1953, Vodrem-27 was relocated to Kinel station for the construction of facilities to supply enterprises of the railway junction and city residents with water. The base was located near the carriage depot. The Vodrema-27 team in Kinel built a water treatment plant (water softener) on the Kinel River and a sewage treatment plant. 80 kilometers of water supply networks, 30 kilometers of sewer networks were laid and put into operation, 100 water standpipes and more than 50 fire hydrants were installed.

Vodrem-27 operated in Kinel until 1977, then it was merged with SMP-309 and relocated to the city of Samara.

In 1959, a repair and construction department (RCU) was formed for the construction and repair of housing and other facilities.

In 1960, a city production department was created: the consumer services plant (KBO) was located on the north side, near the railway bathhouse.

In connection with the construction of a power transmission line from the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station and the Bezymyanskaya Thermal Power Plant in 1957–1959, the Kinelskaya regional electrical substation for 220 kilovolts of the Kuibyshev electrical networks was built on the approach to the city from the northeast side.

In 1957, as soon as an asphalt plant was built in Kinel, asphalting of city streets began.

In 1961, since the construction of the road bridge across the Kinel River in the Agricultural Institute area, the highway both with the exit from Kinel and in the direction of Kuibyshev and Otradny was asphalted. In 1958–1962, television came to the apartments of city residents: while at home, people could not only listen, but also watch television programs from Kuibyshev and Moscow. In the early 60s, natural gas came to the city, which made it possible to switch stove heating to gas and improve the lives of city residents.

After February 1, 1963, when the city of Kinel received the status of cities of regional subordination, on March 3 of the same year, deputies of the city council were elected at the elections to local councils of the 10th convocation.

By decision of the Kuibyshev Regional Council No. 297/285 dated June 22, 1964, the village of Alekseevka was administratively subordinated to the city of Kinel.

In 1956–1958, the railway on the Kuibyshev–Kinel–Krotovka section was electrified.

In October 1957, by order of the Minister of Automobile Transport and Highways and a resolution of the Kuibyshev Regional Executive Committee, the Kinel Automobile Facility was formed. It was located on the northwestern outskirts of the city of Kinel on the territory of the Kinel MTS (machine and tractor station), next to plant No. 12.

In April 2000, the company ceased to exist due to increased competition from private vehicles and the lack of volume of cargo transported due to the economic downturn in the country.

The Vlankas holding company, which produces sealing gaskets for the automotive industry, is currently located on the territory of OJSC Kinelavto.

Formation and organization of the work of the City Council,

City Duma and City Administration 1963–2005

On March 3, 1963, the first elections of deputies to the Council of Workers' Deputies of the city of Kinel, a city of regional subordination, took place.

Population of the city as of 01/01/1963 –35400 people. The total number of voters is 23,322 people. 23,319 people or 99.98% took part in the elections.

On election day, the city limits of Kinel included the following villages: Gorny, Elshnyagi, Lebed, Agricultural Institute (Ust-Kinelsky), Students, Kamenny Yar, Melnitsa, Sovety.

113 deputies were elected. Composition: 51 workers, 49 office workers, six engineering and technical workers, two military personnel. By education, 32 deputies had higher education, the same number had primary education, the remaining 49 had secondary and incomplete secondary education.

The years 1989–2005 were a difficult period. Various departments “dumped” housing, including dilapidated housing, boiler houses, cultural institutions, educational institutions, and utilities, onto the local authorities. Thus, 12 educational institutions, more than 400 thousand sq.m., were taken into municipal ownership. housing, 11 boiler houses, etc.

Unemployment appeared in the city, because... some enterprises ceased their activities. Only in 1999 1,854 people applied to the city employment service department.

The city administration was faced with the issue of sustainable provision of the city's life. At the same time, it was necessary to denationalize property, support nascent individual entrepreneurship, and develop small businesses.

The city of Kinel, Samara region, is located 40 km from the regional center on the left bank of the Bolshoi Kinel River, at the confluence of the Bolshaya Kinel and Samara . Kinel is located in the central part of the Samara province and occupies a very advantageous transport and geographical position. It performs an important transport function among Russian cities. The city is one of the world's largest hubs. Currently, the administrative boundaries of the city district include the Lebed, Elshnyagi, Gorny microdistricts, the village of Alekseevka, the village of Ust-Kinelsky with the settlements of Students, Sovety, and Melnitsa. The year of birth of the city is considered to be 1837. Until the 20s of the 19th century, the richest land in this basin was empty. Once upon a time, in the early 30s of the 19th century, a small settlement of Studenets, consisting of eighteen families of appanage peasants, arose on these fertile lands. The reason for the settlement was the abundance of water, flat terrain, diversity of soils, meadows and pastures, floodplain forests, rivers and lakes rich in fish and waterfowl. The postal road between the cities of Samara and Orenburg ran here. In this place, in 1837, a small railway settlement arose, the name of which was given “Kinel” - after the name of the river flowing nearby. On August 12, 1875, a locomotive whistle sounded for the first time in Samara. And soon the Orenburg-Samara railway line through Kinel was put into operation. Its official opening took place on January 1, 1877. It was on this day that the small village began to be called the Kinel railway station, and since 1888 - the junction. According to some local historians, in 1877 the station was called Charykovskaya after the name of the landowner, on whose lands both the village and the station were built. Since 1895, the growing station village and station merged into a single settlement with the common name Kinel . According to the census on January 28, 1897, the total number of residents was 1,700 people. By 1910, the population of Kinel , after the formation of the Samara Agricultural School (1903), had grown significantly and reached 3013 inhabitants. By 1916, Kinel , a 1st class station, was classified as one of the largest stations in Russia at that time. And even then it was possible to talk about the railway as a city-forming industry for the city. Great changes took place in the village during the years of Soviet power. On January 30, 1930, the village (settlement) was classified as a workers' settlement (see Directory: State Archives of the Kuibyshev Region and its branches. P. 278). By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated March 16, 1944, the village of Kinel was renamed into the city of district subordination of Kinel (see the book “Addition to the directory of administrative and territorial divisions of the Union Republics.” Publication of information articles in the service of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. - M.. 1944. - P.6). On the 25th anniversary of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, in 1970, a Victory Park was founded with an obelisk in memory of the fellow countrymen who died at the fronts. The obelisk was a truncated 4-sided pyramid with a five-pointed star on top and a bas-relief image of the Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union on the front side. Victory Park was reconstructed in 1985. Today the obelisk is a beautiful composition of three rifle bayonets pointing upward, with an eternal flame at the base. City telephone code: 8 (84663) City administration address: 443430, Samara region, Kinel, st. Mira 42a e-mail Phone: 6-18-50, 2-15-70 (fax) City website: www.kinelgorod.ru

Historical places of Kinel

Going for new stories

Many major tourist sites are well known not only in their own country, but also abroad. Millions of people come to them every year. However, the city also has many places that are less popular, although no less interesting. Recently, excursions to such objects have begun to be in demand.

Travel agencies on our website are ready to offer you a non-standard rendezvous to well-known attractions. There are many advantages of ordering such a tour:

• Not all buildings are easy to find information about, especially if you don’t know about their existence;
• experienced guides will be able to take you to the most interesting and little-known places quickly and with maximum benefit - you won’t take extra steps and won’t get tired so quickly;
• If you need to cover a long distance to the next object, you will travel on a comfortable bus from a travel agency.

A professional guide will lay out the route with ingenious precision, help you get your bearings and tell you such juicy details about the object that even grandmothers on the benches will be forced to admit defeat.

Interesting historical places of Kinel keep many secrets. You can have a good time listening to such stories, most of which are quite exciting. Particularly interesting are the mystical stories about the construction of the house and its famous inhabitants.

If you prefer to spend interesting leisure time with friends, looking for places associated with specific events, real or fictitious, you should contact travel agencies on our website. Professionals will organize for you a trip to places from books, in which the action takes place on the streets, in houses, shops, cafes and parks that actually exist. You can also take a tour to places associated with historical figures or events.

Active leisure in the city

Various thematic events, especially those based on the same books, are a good way to learn about your city and its history. Participants are given a specific task that needs to be completed, and for this they need to know some of the cultural places of Kinel. Anyone can participate in such an event by contacting the guides on our website. You will be offered sporting events where you will need to find an object and bring it to the finish line faster than others or collect puzzle pieces hidden in historical places.

Professionals also conduct quests with riddles, in which you must first understand what historical or cultural object we are talking about in order to find the desired item. This is a great way to actively spend time with your family, friends, and colleagues. Travel agencies offer many options for conducting such games to make it fun and interesting for everyone. In addition, their rates are very flexible.

Every city has places that are a must-see for any tourist. But, besides them, there are historical places in Kinel that are worth visiting in order to study the heritage of past eras, deepen your knowledge of history and your city. They're not well known, so being around them means you won't have to wait in line for a photo or worry about someone ruining your shot. Among these objects there are really interesting and unique ones, and the site’s guides are ready to show them to you. Walking and listening to stories about all the buildings around you is a great opportunity to have a good time in warm company.

Kinel is educational. Historical Kinel

This year, for reasons known to all, the birthday of our city, which, according to established tradition, we celebrate on the first weekend in August, turned out to be unusual. The idea of ​​a different format for the main day in the life of Kinel was supported by townspeople of all ages with a festive mood and their active participation. The newspaper (in the August 4 issue of Kinelskaya Zhizn) gave a large photo report from the event. Today we are adding individual moments to the palette of the celebration.

FROM VIRTUALITY TO REALITY

The holiday events, having started in the space of online communities, moved to the street space. Why were the sports grounds and public gardens created and landscaped in the city district in recent years identified, so it was easy to find them. The creative teams of the City House of Culture and the Center for Cultural Development who worked at the sites also helped in this, creating a festive atmosphere.

Creative competitions, a quiz on knowledge of the history of the city, sports competitions - the City Day program turned out to be interesting even under the restrictions. And, so to speak, the highlight of the program was the quest - a search game that took place throughout the day. Participants had to walk around a significant area of ​​the urban district, completing tasks. But the main prize that awaited the winner in the evening program of City Day was worth it.

The quest contained tasks that participants received in one of the online community groups. The organizers encrypted the places of the urban district into puzzles, riddles, including the villages of Gorny, Lebed, Elshnyagi, Ust-Kinelsky and Alekseevka. It was necessary to unravel the object, get to it and find the “treasure” - coins with the symbols of Kinel. Then confirm the find and further move along the route of the search quest, recognizing the next object “hidden” in the puzzle. The quest map included schools, public and administrative buildings, sports facilities, shopping centers, and parks. The organizers were pleased that this year the quest brought together participants of different ages - children, teenagers, youth and even representatives of the older generation.

As our newspaper said in the report “August begins with a holiday,” the results of the game were summed up in the evening in the Children’s Park - the winner was determined by the number of coins. The number “13” turned out to be lucky on this day for student Tatyana Chekhova. She found coins while playing a search game and also earned money by answering quiz questions and participating in a video competition. But it must be said that not a single participant in the festive events was left without prizes on City Day.

DO YOU KNOW YOUR CITY?

Subscribers of the official group of the municipality “Kinel Official” were asked to test their knowledge of the history and modernity of the urban district. Fifteen tasks contained questions about memorable places and significant events.

It is noteworthy that not only local residents showed interest in the history of Kinel. Nina Konovalova has been living in Ukraine, in the Lugansk region, for many years, but thanks to the global Internet she was able to take part in the quiz while being several thousand kilometers away.

“Kinel is my hometown, I was born here, and spent my youth in Ust-Kinelsky,” a community subscriber shared. — Any news from my small homeland makes me happy. I’m happy that Kinel has been transformed, has become modern and well-groomed. I wish my hometown prosperity!”

We invite our readers to answer some quiz questions:

• In December 1875, a junction station was built, named after the landowner who owned the land. What was it called?

• January 7, 1774 was the last military day of the Alekseevsk fortress. What happened to her?

• Ust-Kinelsky is rightfully considered the center of agricultural science in the Volga region, because these three institutions are located there. Which?

• What was depicted on the banner of the 31st Alekseevsky Infantry Regiment?

• On December 25, 1936, an act was signed on the completion of construction and commissioning of the plant - one of the largest industrial enterprises in Kinel at that time. What kind of plant is this?

• How many Honorary Citizens are there in the Kinel city district?

• In the village of Ust-Kinelsky there are two natural monuments. Name them.

• On May 5, 1930, the first issue of the newspaper was published in Kinel, which was the fighting mouthpiece of the district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. What was it called?

How little Kinel saved a big country

On August 12, 2021, at the Vystavochnaya metro station in Moscow, the opening of the exhibition “Kuibyshev - a reserve capital” took place, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the decision by the State Defense Committee of the USSR to evacuate the capital of the USSR, Moscow, to the Volga. The deeper you study the history of the emergence of such a phenomenon as the “reserve capital” into which the city of Kuibyshev turned during the Great Patriotic War, the more you are amazed at how clearly the conditions that ensured this fateful choice converged in our region. One of the main ones is transport accessibility. It was through Kuibyshev that the main trains passed - from the European part of the country to Central Asia, Trans-Urals, Siberia and the Far East. The key to this transport hub was the Kinel station. Back in 1888, during the construction of the new Zlatoust branch of the Samara-Orenburg railway, it became “administrative”. And from that moment on, the life of the local population turned out to be mostly connected with the “piece of iron”. Former peasants of the village of Students, the estate of the Charykov nobles, gradually became hereditary railway workers. Their skills, dedication to their work, and love for their homeland were subjected to severe tests during the Great Patriotic War. It is no coincidence, according to local historian Viktor Lazyuk, that about 80 workers of the Kinel branch of Russian Railways received the title of Honorary Railway Worker. And most of them were awarded this title for their hard work during the war.

Vladimir Chikhirev, Head of the Kinel City District:

– These days, in the capital, on the initiative of the Governor of the Samara Region, Dmitry Azarov, a large-scale exhibition is being held, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the decision by the State Defense Committee of the USSR to evacuate the capital of the USSR, Moscow, to the Volga. Kuibyshev, the reserve capital, received about one and a half thousand organizations, dozens of large industrial enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of evacuees during the war. From Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East, reinforcements went to the front through our section of the railway. The role of Kinel as the largest hub station in ensuring all these processes is invaluable. Modern Kinel is a rapidly developing city of railway workers, builders, and a center of agricultural science in the Volga region. However, we remember to whom we owe our peaceful and happy present. Local historians, local historians, and schoolchildren, under the guidance of teachers, are studying the pages of the heroic history of our city. Several wonderful books with the memories of veterans and valuable documents have been published. One of the latest is “Our fellow countrymen on the roads of war.” None of them are forgotten. The names of the heroes are engraved on granite slabs of the new memorial complex in the city center. We want all residents of the Samara province to know how much the Kinel residents did to bring Victory closer during the Great Patriotic War.

City around the railway

According to the 1897 census, Kinel had 1,700 inhabitants. By 1910, after the formation of the Samara Agricultural School (1903), the population had increased significantly and amounted to 3,013 people. By 1916, Kinel became a 1st class station and was classified as one of the largest in Russia. Before the Patriotic War, in 1939, 17,160 people already lived here.

Many settlements of the Samara province owe their formation to the construction of the railway on its lands. The section that reached Samara in the mid-19th century was originally called Samara-Orenburg. On August 12, 1875, a locomotive whistle sounded for the first time in Samara. The official opening of the movement took place on January 1, 1877. In October 1876, the Charykovskaya station was inaugurated on the Samara-Orenburg section.

Previously, in this area, on the lands of the Charykov nobles, there was the village of Studenets. After it was destroyed by fire, the village of New Students was formed. The builders of the railway station decided, as a sign of respect for the landowners, to assign their name to their brainchild. Indeed, the Charykovs were extraordinary people. Valery Ivanovich Charykov was elected Samara district marshal of the nobility and an honorary justice of the peace. His son Nikolai was a famous diplomat, comrade of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was an honorary justice of the peace for the Samara district. Engineer and writer Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky married his sister Nadezhda Valerievna Charykova. Garin-Mikhailovsky was one of the most important figures among the railway builders: he conducted research and supervised work on the Ufa-Zlatoust section. For almost ten years, the railway station on the Bolshoi Kinel River was called Charykovskaya. But in 1885, after the death of Valery Charykov, his son Nikolai turned to the district government with a request to rename it. Soon the station received the name Kinel. Its development, as well as the workers' settlement formed during its creation, was rapid during the years of Soviet power. Kinel railway workers played a huge role during the Great Patriotic War. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of March 16, 1944, the village was renamed the city of district subordination of Kinel.

Sunny day June 22, 1941

Students from boarding school No. 9 of PJSC Russian Railways in the city of Kinel talk interestingly about how Kinel residents perceived the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Under the guidance of their teacher Maria Kuderova, they collected eyewitness accounts. They say that that distant Sunday in June 1941 turned out to be sunny and warm in Kinel. A football match took place at the railway stadium. There were no signs of trouble. And suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, an announcement sounded on the radio. The terrible word “war” was passed from mouth to mouth. By lunchtime, messengers were delivering mobilization notices. And in the evening, such heavy rain broke out that the water level in the Yazevka river rose sharply. The roads turned into a mess. But that didn't stop people. Young and old walked towards the military commissariat building. Many rode horses from villages and hamlets to go to the front. Everyone thought then, confident in the power of their state, that the war would be short and victorious. And no one yet suspected the hardships that awaited them ahead.

Without losing your presence of mind

Already on June 24, 1941, the plenum of the Kinel district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted an appeal to all workers, engineers and technicians. He called on workers of local enterprises to increase labor productivity, and collective farmers - no matter what, to reap the harvest on time. Everyone understood that during the war the importance of railways increased many times over. Workers will have to ensure the movement of many trains with cargo for the front. Party members called on railway workers to strengthen discipline and maintain a precise work schedule. They were supported by the highway workers themselves. Speaking at rallies and expressing the will of their comrades, train compilers Starostin, Igonin and others promised to work, regardless of time, fatigue, or difficulties. And at a unit-wide meeting a resolution was adopted: “We are all, as one, ready to come out in defense of our socialist Fatherland and give a crushing rebuff to the treacherous enemy. With our honest and dedicated work, we will provide the transportation needs of our valiant army and navy.”

General mobilization

The mobilization announced by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR proceeded as usual. History has preserved the names of the first volunteers. These were very young people. Komsomol members S. Klyuev, M. Sysoev, A. Brusnigin, I. Panarin were the first to submit applications to the military registration and enlistment office. In total, almost 11 thousand residents of the Kinelsky district were drafted into the war. More than half of them - 5847 people - remained on the battlefield. From many families, three or four or more people of military age went to the front. And from the village of Alekseevka the Volodichkin brothers went to battle with the enemy. Six of them remained on the battlefield, two subsequently died from their wounds. Spouses Maria and Ivan Tsybenkov from Buzaevka escorted their five sons to the front. None of them returned home. The Levagins from Syreika and the Makhanovs and Molodtsovs from Bobrovka each sent four sons to the active army. The parents never saw their children again. The names of each warrior from the Levagin, Makhanov and Molodtsov families are included in the Book of Memory. Today, the names of all Kinel residents who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War are engraved on granite steles surrounding the memorial with an eternal flame and a magnificent temple in the center of the city.

The monument to the Volodichkin family is a stele made of pink and gray granite 11.5 meters high. 9 bronze cranes (100 kilograms each) rise into the sky like a wedge. In the iconic airy space is a bronze sculpture of Mother Praskovya Eremeevna Volodichkina (4.5 tons and 5.5 meters high). Father and son Anatoly and Alexander Golovnin, members of the Union of Artists of Russia, worked on the sculptural composition. The architect of the complex was Yuri Khramov, the author of many famous Samara buildings. One of the streets (where the house-museum is located) in the village of Alekseevka is named Volodichkin Brothers Street. Alekseevskaya school teacher Nina Kosareva, on her own initiative, began to create a museum of the legendary family back in the eighties, placing it in a small room of the house in which the Volodichkin family lived. Over the years, she managed to collect many exhibits and documents. The initiative to build the monument belongs to the working group of the regional Book of Memory. The decision to erect a memorial complex to perpetuate the memory of the nine Volodichkin brothers and their mother Praskovya Eremeevna who died defending the Fatherland was made by the administration of the Samara region in December 1993. On May 7, 1995, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the grand opening of the Volodichkin family memorial took place. On the opening day of the monument, which managed to become a landmark of international importance, the memorial was visited by more than five thousand people. Over the 10 years of the museum’s existence, about 150 thousand people from all over the world visited it. Among the visitors were American millionaires, Norwegian tourists, and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The large Volodichkin family consisted of eleven people - Pavel Vasilyevich, Praskovya Eremeevna and their nine sons: Alexander, Andrey, Peter, Ivan, Vasily, Mikhail, Konstantin, Fedor and Nikolai. Praskovya Eremeevna’s husband died early, so she had to raise the children alone. When the Great Patriotic War began, the mother took all her sons to the front one after another. And then the funerals began to come. The Great Mother gave her nine sons to defend the Motherland and in her grief did not live to see the bright Victory Day. Only three sons returned from the front, but they also soon died from their wounds. The memorial dedicated to the feat of the Volodichkin brothers is located in the village of Alekseevka, which is part of the Kinel city district. The descendants of this glorious family still live on the Kinel land.

In the exhibition center of the city of Kinel there is a board with photographs of heroes and descriptions of their exploits. War participant and Honorary Citizen of the city of Kinel Pyotr Aleksandrovich Trebunskikh, former editor of the local newspaper “Kinelskaya Zhizn”, was personally involved in the preparation and publication of the Book of Memory. His veteran friends constantly made sure that each edition included the well-known names of his fellow countrymen - soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, those who died in battle, those who died after the war, and all those still living in Kinel.

Price of Victory

Almost six thousand of the residents of the city of Kinel and Kinelsky district died. 927 people did not return to Kinel, 336 to Alekseevka, and 205 to Ust-Kinelsky. Villages and hamlets lost 4,400 people.

Formed in Kinel

The command of the Volga Military District made Kinel a place for the formation of military units to be sent to the front. The 356th Infantry Division is formed from Kinel residents and residents of nearby areas. The 134th separate rifle brigade was born here, on the basis of which the 74th Kiev-Danube Red Banner Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky rifle division was then deployed. From August to November 1941, the territory of the Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute became the base for the formation of the 356th Infantry Division. The main building and other buildings of the institute housed the division's administration and headquarters, the 918th artillery regiment, a separate communications battalion, engineer and medical battalions, and a reconnaissance company. The division was almost entirely formed from residents of the Kuibyshev region. The command consisted of experienced commanders. The first division commander was Colonel Pererva, and from December 1942 - Major General M.G. Makarov. The chief of staff was G.P. Volchkov, commissioner - Sh. Miftakhov. The main units were commanded by: BC Gavryushin - division artillery, A.S. Sirotin - 1181st, Major Kuznetsov - 1183rd, and Major Ponyakin - 1185th rifle regiments. From the walls of the Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute, the division fought its way to Berlin and the Elbe.

In January 1943, soldiers of the 356th division wrote in a letter addressed to the workers of Kuibyshev and the Kuibyshev region: “Breaking the stubborn resistance of the enemy, destroying his military equipment, clearing his native land inch by inch from Hitler’s evil spirits, the formation liberated more than 200 settlements. About 80 thousand Soviet citizens again received the right to creative work in the fraternal family of the peoples of our country.” Almost all the division's fighters received military awards for their participation in battles, and dozens of people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The regional newspaper “Volzhskaya Kommuna” has repeatedly written about the exploits of the soldiers of the 356th division. For the courage and heroism shown by the personnel of the division, on January 15, 1944, it was awarded the honorary name “Kalinkovicheskaya”. In 1944, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov, II degree.

Warlords

During the most difficult years for the country, many people from Kinel showed high organizational skills. Thus, having purely peaceful professions, former agronomists N. Shchibraev, I. Pronin, V. Pozdnyakov, V. Ivannikov, as well as I. Isaev, I. Sychev, A. Volkov and others became talented military leaders. All of them were awarded high government awards for their heroism on the battlefields.

Without sparing yourself

The general misfortune forced the workers and collective farmers of the region to work without sparing themselves. According to local historian Viktor Lazyuk, in addition to transferring their own enterprises to a military footing, the Kinel residents had to set up five more evacuated industries. The motto of the collectives of such significant enterprises for the military industry as the capping products plant, the Alekseevsky sulfur plant, the alabaster factory, the Red Banner sewing artel, the 15 Years of October artel, and all Kinel workers, was: “Everything for the front, everything for Victory "

Particularly serious trials fell on the teams of the Kinel railway junction. Engineers and management had to urgently change their working methods, rearrange schedules, and employees quickly acquired new skills and gave their best at their jobs as much as 300%. The regional newspaper “Banner of Communism” reported that depot worker Starostin became a master of high-speed train formation, that drivers Efimov, Anishin, Kozhmetyev, Avtaikin drive trains weighing 500-700 tons above normal, that car depot mechanics Serebryakov, Lyubukhin, Startsev perform daily tasks by 300 percent or more. Sometimes it came to complete self-sacrifice. We read the message dated December 16, 1942: “A steam locomotive entered the equipment tracks, which should carry the train heading to the front. But a grate fell in the locomotive's firebox. It is necessary to cool the firebox in order to put it in place, but this will take a lot of time and the schedule of the special route will be disrupted. To prevent this, the driver Andrei Tikhonovich Yashin, risking fatal burns, climbed into the hot firebox, and his assistant Kuzma Tarasovich Bobrov climbed into the ash pit, and the patriotic locomotive workers, in the unbearable heat and with strong steam pressure, put the grate bars in place.” Men went to the front, the volume of work grew, and the depot did not have enough drivers, their assistants and stokers. Men have been replaced by women. After three-month courses, Balevskaya, Akimova, Kuznetsova, Sergeeva, Karpova and others replaced the male specialists working on shunting locomotives. Then family locomotive crews began to emerge.

All node services worked harmoniously. Thanks to this, the capacity on the busiest section of Kinel - Kuibyshev increased by 1.6 times. The entire staff of the Kinel station twice during the war years became the winner of the road competition, and in 1943 they were awarded the Challenge Red Banner of the Ministry of Railways.

Doing the impossible

Speaking about the work of railway stations during the war and in the first years after the end of the war, one cannot help but touch upon the level of technical equipment and the state of the railway economy. And they left much to be desired even at that time.

Train and shunting locomotives were freight locomotives of the E, Shch, SO and L series, passenger locomotives of the SU series, mostly all of them ran on solid fuel - coal. Kerosene lamps were used on freight and shunting locomotives. Freight locomotives of the "E" series were produced without any major changes from 1912 to 1958. The passenger fleet cars were three- or four-axle cars of an outdated design with kerosene and paraffin lighting without basic comfort. Freight cars included a large percentage of two- and three-axle lightweight platforms and covered cars. Almost the entire fleet of cars was based on sliding bearings, hand brakes and screw clutches. The main method of communication when sending and receiving trains was semi-automatic blocking with semaphores. Routes for trains and shunting units were compiled manually. They were accompanied by numerous switchmen who manually locked the switches with Melentyev locks. The station attendants supervised the switchmen and compilers exclusively by telephone, since there was still no public address system at this stage. It was used only on sorting humps. The cars lowered from the hump were manually regulated in direction and speed by hump switchmen and shoemakers. Both they and the railway workers who took over the functions of automatic semaphores that could not cope with the load often risked their lives. One can only imagine how, night and day, winter and summer - in any weather, replacing the male switchmen who had gone to the front, women and teenagers, with the help of lanterns and flags, indicated to the locomotives going through Kinel which path was clear and which was not.

The track facilities, the basis of the railway, were in even worse condition. Along the way, even on stretches, light-type rails lay in pieces up to three to four meters long; the ballast was sandy, highly contaminated, more than half of the sleepers were rotten, in some places six to eight in a row; There were many defective rail fastenings. There was nothing to say about the station tracks: from under the slag and debris, nothing was visible except the head of the rails. There was nothing to repair the path with - the old materials were used up, new ones did not arrive. All types of repair work were carried out manually. The repairmen worked manually until exhaustion. To transport tools, material and people there were no railcars or vehicles; only two-axle hand trolleys were used. There were no loading and unloading mechanisms. Snow removal equipment also did not meet basic requirements. The three lightweight and low-speed snowplows of an outdated design that were available at the site, servicing stages and stations, could not even satisfy current needs. Almost every day, a large number of people worked at the Kinelsky junction, as well as human draft power. Hundreds of horses harnessed to sleighs with baskets, and several thousand people on foot with shovels cleared the paths as quickly as possible. In such conditions, foremen, track foremen and track workers even forgot when the day began and when it ended. If necessary, at any time of the day they were called from home by messengers; there was no telephone connection.

Every year for ten

The Great Patriotic War was the greatest test for railway transport. Her first year was the most difficult. The forced retreat of Soviet troops significantly complicated the work of transport. The temporary loss of a number of roads in the west and south led to an increase in freight traffic on the railways of the Volga region and Siberia. The importance of the Kuibyshev road and especially the Kinel station has increased as never before. The huge flow of cargo led to an oversaturation of the Kuibyshev branch of the road with rolling stock. To increase capacity at the beginning of the war, when trains from West to East moved in an almost continuous stream, from October 13, 1941, a “live block” was first introduced on the Syzran-Kinel section. Signalmen were stationed on the tracks at every kilometer of the track, and trains followed their signals.

1942 was even more tense. Hitler's troops came close to Stalingrad. In May 1942, a new train schedule was introduced taking into account the increased demands of the front and rear. The All-Union Socialist Competition, which began in 1942 at the initiative of the railway workers of the Moscow junction, was of great importance. It played an important role in ensuring the smooth movement of trains. To reward frontline workers, the Challenge Red Banners of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the State Defense Committee, the People's Commissariat for Transport and the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Railway Transport Workers were established. From May 14, 1942, monthly state bonuses were also established for transport workers for fulfilling the government transportation plan. The Kinel station staff was awarded the third State Prize for their work in 1942.

After the defeat of the fascist troops at Stalingrad, a turning point in the course of the Great Patriotic War began on the Kursk Bulge in 1943. The mass expulsion of the enemy from Soviet soil began. However, the work demands of railway workers continued to grow. On April 15, 1943, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On the introduction of martial law on all railways” was issued. According to this decree, workers and employees were considered mobilized during the war and assigned to work in transport. General management in the village of Kinel and at the railway junction was carried out during the war years by the Kinel district committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, headed by the first secretary of the district committee G.A. Chelyshkov.

The country lacked rolling stock. The fight was waged for each additionally released carriage. Monthly events were held repeatedly to reduce the idle time of cars at marshalling yards. At this time they worked as chiefs of the Kinel station: from 1939 to 1942 - M.I. Dagaev, from 1942 to 1944 - A.N. Ivanov and from 1944 to 1948 – F.F. Surkov. Under their leadership, the station ensured the processing and passage of car flows and contributed to the approaching victory of the Red Army over the fascist invaders. During the war, A.I. worked as the head of the locomotive depot. Kotyakov, and the head of the carriage depot - M.S. Poleshchuk. The senior assistant to the station chief, A.F., did an excellent job, sparing no effort and health. Manturov, station shunting dispatcher and so on.

Victory directly depended on them

During the war, Kinel was not part of the front line. The explosions of shells, the whistle of bullets, the roar of tanks were not heard here; it was simply a junction railway station. However, the strength of the defense and the success of the offensive of our troops at the front largely depended on the rhythm and coordination of the work of the railway workers at the Kinel junction. With their help, the fronts were supplied with manpower, weapons, ammunition, food, uniforms, and medicines. All national aid to the front from the rear of the eastern and Central Asian regions was almost entirely transported through the Kinel station throughout the war years. The western territories of the country, liberated from the German occupiers, received construction materials, raw materials and equipment for industry and agriculture mainly through Kinel. So, during the war, the Kinelsky junction played a decisive role in the transportation of strategic national economic goods.

Almost all enterprises of the railway junction of Kinel station have built monuments to the fallen participants of the Great Patriotic War, who went to the front from their workplaces. Our fellow countrymen and fighters of the formed military units on our land have covered themselves with unfading glory. The faithful sons of their multi-million people in the fierce battles of Moscow and Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge, near Kiev and Berlin - on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War did not disgrace the honor of their native Kinel.

Vitaly Dobrusin, journalist and local historian:

– When discussing the issue of turning Kuibyshev into a reserve capital, the presence of such a large railway junction nearby as Kinel undoubtedly played a big role. At that time, trains with soldiers and weapons from the Urals, Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia passed through this station to the front day and night. And trains with refugees and equipment from evacuated factories arrived from the west. The traffic was so intense that the semaphores failed. Then they switched to live blocking: railway workers stood along the tracks around the clock.

But these were mostly women and teenagers! They used lanterns and flags to show the drivers which section of the track was clear. The risk of being run over was very great for them. The great feat of the residents of the rear Kinel must not be forgotten.

The publication was prepared by Tatyana Gridneva