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Yartsevo is a cozy green town in the Smolensk region. It is located on the Vop (a tributary of the Dnieper) and is the center of Yartsevo District . The city of Yartsevo is located 63 km northeast of Smolensk, in temperate latitudes, the climate here is temperate continental, dominated by hills and small rivers. The city has a museum, libraries, various public organizations, and two art song clubs. Much attention is paid to spiritual life. Recently, 3 churches have appeared in Yartsevo: the restored Church of Peter and Paul , the chapel “Joy of All Who Sorrow” , St. Michael’s Church , created by the efforts of the young priest Father Sergius. Construction of the church on Pionerny has begun. The birth of the city is reminiscent of the Clock Tower , built on the territory of the textile factory of Alexei Khludov at the end of the 19th century. The city of Yartsevo is quite young - the first mention of it dates back to August 2, 1610. This was the period of Troubles. After the overthrow of Vasily Shuisky, there was no Russian Tsar. In 1610, the Polish king Sigismund granted the village of Yartsovo to the Smolensk nobleman Timofey Shusherin. This letter of grant confirms the first written mention of Yartsev . In 1779, Yartsevo (Yartsovo) was mentioned in the “Geometrical plan of the Dukhovshchinsky district with all the city lands lying within it, with state and proprietary lands, with indications of each village in it with the separation of city and special boundaries from others.” The village of Yartsovo then consisted of 17 households, with a population of 136 people. It became famous in the mid-19th century as an industrial village in the Dukhovshchinsky district of the Smolensk province, in which the Khludov textile manufactory was located. The city was given life by the merchant Alexey Khludov , who founded a textile factory here in 1873. It received city status in 1926. During the Great Patriotic War, German troops stayed here for 2 months. In 1941, a fierce battle unfolded on the banks of the Vop . Residents of local villages were subjected to Nazi atrocities. Many Yartsevo residents fought heroically on the fronts. Thus, the feat of the five Sharshanov brothers is known, after whom one of the streets is named. Yartsevo was recaptured from Germany on July 19, 1941 by the forces of the 19th Army - part of the forces of the 38th Infantry Division (Colonel Kirillov Maxim Gavrilovich) and the 44th Infantry Corps (Divisional Commander Vasily Aleksandrovich Yushkevich). Then it was captured again, changing hands until it was finally occupied by the Germans until September 19, 1943. Units of the 31st Army took part in the liberation. In honor of the liberation of the city, a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns. After the liberation of Yartsev from the Nazi invaders, only 4,000 people lived in the city. Thus, during the Great Patriotic War, the city's population decreased by 11 times. City website: www.yartsevo.ru

“Where were you before?”

This year, 2021, when you read the article “The Long Path to Recognition of a Feat,” the question immediately arises: what did each of us, Yartsevo residents, regardless of position or position, do to recognize the immortal feat at the Yartsevo line in July-October 1941? Everyone has the right to say this, I will not exclude myself from this list. I will convey to the reader in a brief summary how I became the right-flank in the ranks when Yartsev was awarded the Honorary Title “City of Military Glory” of the Russian Federation. Became in this formation on August 2, 2002. But more on that later.

On June 6, 2012, senior officials of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation A.G. Rotov, V.V. Konnov, accompanied by senior officials of the Regional Administration, visited our city and held a meeting on the awarding of the honorary title “City of Military Glory” to the city of Yartsevo, the main reason for which was the historical information “DEFENSE OF THE CITY OF YARTSEVO IN JULY-OCTOBER 1941 "signed by the director of the OSU "State Archive of Contemporary History of the Smolensk Region" O.V. Vinogradova and the Resolution of the Smolensk Regional Duma with a petition to award the city of Yartsevo, Smolensk Region the Honorary Title "City of Military Glory" dated 02.21.2012. No. 3.

It should be noted that from the time of the release of the Federal Law of May 9, 20006. No. 68-FZ on the Honorary title of the Russian Federation “City of Military Glory” and Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1340 on the conditions and procedure for conferring the Honorary title of the Russian Federation “City of Military Glory” 6 years have passed.

At this extended meeting, nine Yartsevo residents presented convincing material to representatives from Moscow and the region. The last to speak was the author of this article, who noted that, at the first conscription, 4,126 men left the city of Yartsevo and the region for the Red Army, joining the 64th Infantry Division, which was reorganized into the 7th on September 26, 1941, for courage, perseverance and mass heroism. guards division. According to the second conscription, 4,000 women and girls went to build defensive structures near Smolensk. To fight infiltrators and saboteurs in the city and region, two destroyer battalions were created from men unfit for the first draft, high school graduates, Komsomol members, military registration and enlistment office workers and police. The author also noted that we should not forget about the “Barbaros” plan: in 6-8 weeks, in the main direction of attack Brest-Minsk-Smolensk-Moscow, complete the campaign with a victory parade on Moscow’s Red Square. On the 19th day (2 weeks and 4 days) from the beginning of the war - Wehrmacht troops on the southern outskirts of Smolensk. The entire Smolensk battle lasted for 88 days (the battle for Smolensk on July 10-16, the Vyazemsky cauldron on October 5-8, in which the Red Army lost 600 thousand killed, 400 thousand captured, and the battle on the Yartsevo line lasted from July 15 to October 5, 1941 years, that is, 11 weeks and 4 days, the Wehrmacht lost over 100 thousand soldiers and officers, 150 tanks. Of course, the Yartsevo line is the epicenter of the Smolensk battle, it was here that the plan for a lightning war was thwarted, and this is confirmed by the strategy and tactics of the Wehrmacht waging war from the beginning of the Second World War, which was expressed in attacks with tank wedges with the support of aviation in converging directions to close the ring, destroy the enemy who was surrounded. So it was on the northern side that Velizh was occupied on July 13, Dukhovshchina on July 15. On the southern side - Roslavl, Pochinok, Yelnya (Yelnya was captured on July 19. The counterattack of Soviet troops near Yelnya is a separate issue. At the same time, we can remember that France capitulated in 3 weeks.

A group of troops of General K.K. Rokossovsky (38th Rifle, 101st and 107th Tank Divisions) at the turn of the Vop River repelled numerous attacks by the Nazis rushing to Vyazma. Having stopped the enemy troops, this group itself launched a counterattack on July 28. At that difficult time, her actions were of great importance for the entire Western Front; they ensured a break in the enemy ring, in which the 16th and 20th armies found themselves at the end of July. A corridor about 10 kilometers wide was formed along the Dnieper from Solovyov to Ratchino. On the night of August 4, sappers made 5 crossings across the river. Units of these armies, which heroically fought for 7 days surrounded by significantly superior enemy forces, broke out of the encirclement at the beginning of August and retreated beyond the Dnieper, joining the main forces of the front. Most of the units of the 16th and 20th armies that emerged from the encirclement crossed the Dnieper, strengthening the defense at the Kholm-Zhirkovsky, Yartsevo, Yelnya line. (TsAMO is the central archive of the Ministry of Defense).

General K.K. Rokossovsky (second from left) with his headquarters in the Yartsev area

At the very beginning of the war, the British, military attaché workers, visited Yartsevo in August 1941 and were convinced of the courage and heroism of the defenders of the line of the Wehrmacht’s main attack on Moscow. The result was the beginning of negotiations on the creation of an anti-Hitler coalition (the British did not forget about this at the end of the war, when in May 1945 they presented K.K. Rokossovsky with the highest award of Great Britain). In August 1941, Turkey and Japan refused to enter the war against the Soviet Union on the side of Nazi Germany.

Representatives of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation and the Regional Administration listened carefully to the residents of Yartsevo and, in conclusion, said to everyone present in the hall of the regional Administration: “Your city is a bright embodiment of courage. We are actively involved in your work and summarize materials. We are with you! And yet, upon leaving, they noted with disappointment: “Where were you before?” To answer this question, we must remember what was done by public organizations and city authorities to perpetuate the feat at the Yartsevo line, starting in the 60s.

Visiting memorable places

My task is to give the post-war generations of Yartsevo residents accurate information about the events in the city and region since the late 50s. to the present time to perpetuate the memory of the immortal feat at the Yartsevo line in July-October 1941.

August 1957. 12 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. The Iron Curtain, as they said in capitalist countries, has collapsed. There is an international festival of youth and students in Moscow. Road and rail connections from the West to Moscow again pass through Yartsevo. On the platform of the railway station during train stops, foreign guests were greeted by Yartsevo youth.

At one of these meetings, the First Secretary of the Yartsevo City Committee of the Komsomol Vasily Kuzovkin told the festival delegates that Yartsevo was the epicenter of the Smolensk Battle in July-October 1941, where the fascists’ plan for a lightning war was thwarted. An impressive group of Komsomol members and youth, to the accompaniment of Tamara Dubenkova's accordion, performed the "Hymn of the Democratic Youth of the World." The words sounded especially clear...

“Everyone who is honest, stand with us together against the fire of war!”

This anthem was sung by young people whose childhood was scorched by the war.

Military memorial in Yakovlev, installed in 1963.

I have been in responsible work in the city of Yartsevo since 1957, in 1963 (only 20 years after the liberation of Yartsevo from the Nazi invaders) I was included in the team for the meeting of a high delegation from the Polish People's Republic (by the way, this was my second participation in the meetings foreign delegations). The delegation was headed by the First Secretaries of the Lodz and Krakow Voivodeships of the Polish United Workers' Party. By 1963 the city was completely restored. At the city-forming enterprise, the Yartsevo Cotton Mill, 12,000 textile workers worked, the construction of finishing production began, the foundry-mechanical plant (LMZ) provided its products not only to KhBK, but also carried out orders for the textile industry of the entire Union and the Ministry of Defense, in addition, it produced consumer goods, the Piano factory supplied its products not only throughout the country, but also abroad, the furniture production association provided Yartsevo residents and the region with its products, the SU-7 construction department not only revived the city from ruins, but also built facilities in other areas of the region. There were 7 state farms and 5 collective farms in the region. The budget of the city and district was deficit-free, which indicated the self-sufficiency of the city and district at that time. The city was clean, green, beautiful, and attracted guests, including foreign delegations. The Polish delegation expressed a desire to get acquainted with the organization of children's recreation in the summer. They visited the pioneer camp “Orlyonok”, where 300-320 children rested in each shift. There they saw matches of volleyball and football teams, competitions for young artists: singers, readers, dancers and the Neptune festival on Lake Svyatec. It all ended with a ceremonial assembly, at which N.S. Sharaev, director of the Yartsevo KhBK V.P. Bespalov and representatives of the Polish delegation spoke, who expressed deep satisfaction from visiting the city and the pioneer camp “Eaglet”.

The beginning of October 1971, it was the thirty-first year since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The city and region continued to develop. 11.5 thousand children studied in the city schools. The city department of public education had 7 full-time employees. There were over 850 teachers and educators in extended day school groups and kindergarten teachers. The trade union district committee was common to urban and rural educational institutions.

On October 5, Tuesday (then they required keeping work logs), the chairman of the regional committee of the trade union of public education workers, Yuri Pavlovich Kalinin, called me, the head of the city department of public education, and said that in three days the city of Yartsevo would be visited by a high trade union delegation of educators from the Czech Republic and Slovakia and Moravian Ostrava, accompanied by the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Public Education of the RSFSR Lidia Georgievna Chuprakova. By the end of the day it was necessary to report on the plan for the reception of the delegation and the places of visit. When coordinating these issues with the executive committee of the city council and the city party committee, the following places of visits were planned: the museum of secondary school No. 1, a mass grave in the village of Yakovlevo, the location of the Vadin partisan brigade, and at this final point to summarize and arrange a guest reception in nature. The admission plan was approved.

On the morning of October 7, secondary school No. 1 (located on Sovetskaya Street, 24) received guests. The school director, Pyotr Grigorievich Oreshchenkov, met the delegation in front of the school entrance and invited them to the school museum. He briefly said that the school was founded in 1932, during the war the building was completely destroyed (like all buildings in the city), until 1948 classes were held in adapted premises, from September 1, 1948 they began to study in this building, and that all the work The school is being built in accordance with the “Internal Labor Regulations” approved at a general meeting of the entire teaching staff, party, trade union and Komsomol organizations of the school (according to the standard rules of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR) with the organization of student self-government. Having highlighted the work of the school to complete the transition to universal secondary education, to organize educational work in the school based on the October, Pioneer, Komsomol organizations and the school’s student committee, Pyotr Grigorievich drew the guests’ attention to the documents presented in the museum about the battle at the Yartsevo line in 1941, including the original “Memo to a German Soldier” presented on the tablet and next to it a short translation - this is a truly cannibalistic teaching: “You have no heart and nerves, they are not needed in war. Destroy pity and compassion in yourself - kill every Russian, Soviet, don’t stop if there’s an old man or a woman, a girl or a boy in front of you - kill, by doing this you will save yourself from death, ensure the future of your family and become famous forever.”

L.S. Korpusheva

Next, Pyotr Grigorievich gave the floor to Lyudmila Semyonovna Korpusheva, a researcher at the city museum, who analyzed the advance of the Nazi troops from Brest to Yartsev (they covered 730 km in 25 days). There were 330 km left from Yartsev to Moscow, but the battle on the Yartsevo line thwarted the plan for a lightning war of the fascist troops, they were suspended here for 81 days and suffered heavy losses: over 100 thousand soldiers and officers and 150 tanks were killed, which amounted to half of the Wehrmacht’s losses for during the entire Smolensk battle. The success of such a long bloody confrontation on the Yartsevo line was largely ensured by the talented leadership of General K.K. Rokossovsky, who by the beginning of the war had managed to thoroughly master the strategy and tactics of Nazi Germany’s warfare throughout Europe, taking this into account, he held back the enemy’s onslaught and probed with reconnaissance troops, from which flank an unexpected blow could be delivered to the enemy, and forced the German troops to fight surrounded, which the Wehrmacht always feared.

Guests from Czechoslovakia

The next place the delegation visited was a mass grave in the village of Yakovlevo, near the monument erected in 1963. There, the guests were solemnly welcomed by the pioneer detachment; tenth grade student of secondary school No. 1 Nadezhda Naumova spoke in detail about the battle on the Yartsevo line from July 15 to October 5, 1941 and about the emergence of a mass partisan movement in the Yartsevo region. One of the main reasons for the emergence of the mass partisan movement was the atrocities committed by the fascists, who were guided by the “Memo to the German Soldier.” In 1942-1943 On the territory of the Yartsevo region, a particularly rebellious region, Hitler’s punitive forces destroyed 82 villages out of 200 villages burned throughout the Smolensk region. In the village of Priselye, Kharkov village council, Yartsevo district, an underground group was created in the fall of 1941, which by the end of the year grew into the Shchors partisan detachment. It was in this detachment that the Czech Jan Kubat fought. Those from the ranks of the so-called invincible Wehrmacht also joined the ranks of the partisans; a striking example of this was the German Fritz Schmenkel, who was accepted into the Yartsevo partisan detachment “Death to Fascism” in February 1942. For bravery and courage in battles with the occupiers, Fritz Schmenkel was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and on October 6, 1964, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The guests learned about this in more detail at the base of the partisan detachment named after Shchors of the 1st Vadin partisan brigade, 15 kilometers from Yartsev. In 1967, an obelisk was installed here, two dugouts were restored and a unique museum was created.

Obelisk at the site of the partisan camp of the Shchors detachment

The weather that day was clear and sunny. The guests expressed deep gratitude and satisfaction from visiting memorable places.

We will be worthy of the memory of the fallen

In 1961, in the Kuntsevo district of Moscow, at the request of veterans of two divisions, the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division and the 64th Motorized Rifle Division, in which mostly Yartsevo residents served, the street connecting Molodogvardeyskaya Street and Rublevskoe Highway was named YARTSEVSKAYA. (Both divisions were reorganized into guards divisions by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on September 24 and 26, 1941, respectively, for courage, steadfastness and mass heroism at the Yartsevo line.) In the same year, 1961, the Lenfilm studio began work on the creation of the film “There is such a city as Yartsevo.” " Veterans contributed to the perpetuation of the immortal feat at the Yartsevo line, recognition of its role and significance in the Battle of Smolensk.

In 1965, everyone was preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Great Victory: young Yartsevo residents, but especially veterans. The correspondence between Yartsevo residents and out-of-town veterans was intense. Veterans from out of town wanted to see the city and region where they fought, to bow to the places where their fellow soldiers remained. They really wanted to see the life of the city and the region two decades later, after the difficult confrontation in July - October 1941 at the Yartsevo line. Not only the author of these lines, but also many old-timers of Yartsevo can confirm that meetings between guest veterans and Yartsevo veterans took place with teams of enterprises, seven state farms, five collective farms, and in schools in the city and district.

V.I. Kryazhev, Hero of the Soviet Union

At the final meeting at the Palace of Culture, Hero of the Soviet Union V.I. Kryazhev addressed all those present: “I must tell you, dear Yartsevo residents, this is how my service turned out that I received baptism of fire in August 1942 near the city of Rzhev at the age of 24 rank of lieutenant. It’s not entirely good to compare battlefields, but everything can be learned by comparison. During the heaviest bloody battles for Rzhev, where more than a million Soviet soldiers and officers died, we knew about the immortal feat at the Yartsevo line in July-October 1941, when 9 units and formations held the defense in front of the fascist armada for 81 days, and this example inspired us . Historians are late to properly illuminate this feat, but history is not made on paper, it is made by people. I appeal to the local authorities - the immortal feat in July-October 1941 at the Yartsevo line, on the Vop River, should be immortalized in a memorial complex - this is the unanimous opinion of all veterans. I can only add: since August 1943, as a battalion commander of the 961st Infantry Regiment of the 274th Infantry Division, I took part in the battles for the liberation of the city of Yartsevo.

P.S. Sharaev, Chairman of the Yartsevo City Council

On August 2, 1966, a decree was issued on the creation of a memorial complex to perpetuate the memory of the feat at the Yartsevo line in July-October 1941. A location was chosen near the city highway bridge across the Vop River, opposite the railway bridge. It was decided to make an embankment for the memorial complex on the right (and this is not a small volume - more than 150 thousand cubic meters of soil) and on the left an embankment for the guest site (about 80 thousand cubic meters). The memorial is represented by a stele in the form of a Russian village stove in memory of 82 villages burned by the Nazis. Text on the stele: “Here, on the banks of the Vop River, from July 16 to October 5, 1941, Soviet soldiers and Yartsevo residents fought fierce battles with the Nazi invaders. The massive heroism and courage of the Soviet people in the Battle of Smolensk thwarted the plans of the Nazis. Eternal glory to the heroes of the Battle of Smolensk."

To the left of the stele there are symbolically located hollows (as it was then customary to arrange hedgehogs on tank lines), tied with a barrier on which there are 9 slabs. Each of them contains a list of units and formations that fought at this line. And the idea is simple: this is where the Gotha tank wedge was stopped.

To be continued

Nikolay POTAPOV

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Some 10 years ago I didn’t even know about this town. Later, it’s worth saying, I heard a lot, but it still wasn’t possible to visit here. Everything changed with the birth of children. North, north, but the children need to be taken out. The city is home to approximately 50,100 people, has production, architectural and museum values, picturesque nature and, most importantly, people living in it. Here's my story.

The first thing that catches your eye is the roads, or rather the lack thereof. And there is no need to talk about sidewalks along roads or in courtyards of houses. When such an event as a walk with a child without a stroller becomes like some kind of reality show with somersaults and, as a result, falls.

Most often we go for a walk to the “From and Do” store, which has installed a playground with a low slide, a sandbox and a swing, or to a square where there are absolutely no children’s play areas, except for a daisy painted on the asphalt. I like the cleanliness, spaciousness and lack of passing cars on these pieces of land. There is also a park where you can take a walk with your children without harm to your health.

And where can you actually go for a walk with your children? Two years ago I would undoubtedly have said in the apple orchard. At that time, I was very impressed by the proximity to the house, the cleanliness and, of course, the presence of metal, albeit not modern, but still serviceable swings and carousels. Now I don't think so. It is worth saying that even now people with and without children gather there, but most likely this is due to the stall standing on the site. In general, there is nothing to do there, and there is no need to talk about what happens there during the period of fruit ripening. A year ago, there was a perfectly acceptable site in the yard next to the Dixie store. Now these are broken, scribbled and broken slides, swings, and destroyed sandboxes. For the most part, this is the “credit” of the students of the school located next door.

If the theater begins with a coat rack, then cultural institutions, educational institutions and public catering establishments here, oddly enough, begin with garbage dumps. The situation in the city is sad with regard to garbage disposal, which is found both in spontaneous and in specially designated places.

I often wonder what kind of aesthetics children can learn if in front of the main entrance of school No. 1 a huge mountain of garbage is visible every day, and a bustling market is visible from the windows.

The premises of the House of Culture also look untidy. Shabby and scribbled walls, poorly maintained plantings and piles of garbage.

The dining room at Nadezhda's is where most weddings take place, but it too is surrounded by long-overflowing containers. I wonder what young people think about when contemplating such beauty...

Some people see the city as green and calm. I see only one advantage with northern cities - natural conditions. But no conditions will erase the lack of infrastructure. In Soviet times, the Yartsevo Cotton Mill worked seven days a week in 3 shifts. Now it stands almost idle; most of the equipment has long been sold for scrap.

A little higher up the plant is the Yartsevo Foundry. The main activity is the production of sewer manholes. Does it work? Don't know. I got the impression that someone had converted it into a huge funeral home.

There was also a Piano factory in the city, which at one time operated not only for the needs of the country, but also for export. I can say for sure that there is no smell of a piano there now. You can see destroyed workshops and premises that are trying to be rented out somehow.

There is one plant in the city that could be proud. They even specially built a multi-storey residential microdistrict “Pionerny” for it with 9 and 16-storey buildings for 30 thousand people, imagine what strength and power!!!! It was planned to produce diesel engines for the automotive industry. Currently, they produce piston rings, piston pins, and valve guides for cars and trucks. The large-scale project was not destined to come true. Sad, funny and offensive. At one time it was a small town with developed production. There was enough work for everyone. Now the city faces a very pressing issue of employment. According to unofficial data, about 20,000 people regularly travel to work in Moscow, the Moscow region and other cities. Only there you can earn relatively normal money. In the absence of production, the majority of the remaining working-age population is left to work either in budgetary organizations, where salaries range from 4,000 to 8,000 thousand, or retail outlets, of which quite a lot have appeared recently. As before, there are stalls in the city that have long since become a thing of the past.

Many self-service stores have opened, such as “Magnit”, “Dixie”, “Ot i do”, “all sorts of “Dashans”, and of course the market, where without it. I don’t see any particular difference in the quality and range of products.

Do you want to know how the city authorities and circles close to them manage land plots and real estate now? Listen further. What can you say about when, within the city limits, relict pine trees protected by law are destroyed, sports facilities are demolished, as they did with the only tennis court, and cottages grow in this place?

More details about the destruction of relict pine trees in Yartsevo: https://youtu.be/ralnmbt3mPc

On the territory of a city park in a birch grove, which, according to rumors, has already been sold out, are buildings without clan or tribe growing up? What are these objects?

Despite the large private sector, the only city bathhouse is closed and resold in order to open another “Magnit” in it.

But what plunged me into shock and a certain stupor was another place with pine trees, but we are not talking about them. I'm talking about the old cemetery, closed in 1947 and located on the street. Przhevalsky, on which a high-rise building grew in the late 70s. Those who died during the war and after it remained and were buried in this cemetery. What was the point of building a house on bones? A mere mortal will never understand.

For the sake of a bit of positivity, I want to name the places that I really like.

These are residential buildings of royal construction, the Khludov barracks and an ancient clock tower, on the territory of the Yartsevo cotton mill, which could become a symbol of the city. Only there is no one to repair it. According to the city’s official website, “The tower was built in 1870 and is the very first capital structure in the city. Her age is only 20 years younger than London's Big Ben. Against the background of the cloudy glass of the dial of a huge clock, some mechanism darkens. — This small gearbox is all that remains of the famous Yartsevo chimes. A little over forty years ago, this clock was ticking. And before the revolution, they also rang melodiously - bells were installed on the roof of the tower. A unique watch, what can you say..." So it is gradually being destroyed, on the territory of an enterprise founded by the merchant Khludov.

There are monuments in Yartsevo, as in any other city. Almost all of them are in very poor condition, only Lenin was lucky in the park and those pedestals that relate to the Great Patriotic War. They are remembered as much as twice a year. On May 9, and on the day of the liberation of the Smolensk region, the rest were abandoned.

How many times have I been to the monument to the heroes of 1812? There was always a state of neglect and oblivion.

The monument to Lenin, near the former Palace of Culture "Metalist", stands not only in slabs overgrown with grass, but also for many years in dead larches.

Recently I managed to see another monument; I realized that it was Gorky when I climbed through the thicket of bushes. .

I also heard that there were museums in the city that had their own buildings, such as the Yartsevo Historical-Revolutionary and Local Lore Museum.

I know that the local history department sheltered the cinema mentioned below. According to the stories of people living in the city, in the park near the central square about 30 years ago there were beautiful carved wooden figures, and on the central alley there was a sundial surrounded by flower beds of roses, and a spring lined with stones flowed. Since those times, there are only ruins and a lonely pre-war cinema that stands alone, requiring major repairs both inside and out. 1.

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What is left of the Union is living out its life; in terms of culture and arrangement, nothing new is being built. If it is being built, it is not being taken care of. The only alley lined with bricks on the street. Sovetskaya, with benches along it, wakes up every morning in heaps of garbage, bottles and seed husks. Why? This is a mystery to me, because on each side of the bench there are empty, oddly enough, trash cans. 1.

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It depends on everyone, but to me the city seemed completely abandoned. The bushes have not been trimmed for a long time. The trees are very overgrown, with damaged trunks, and a dry lower layer of branches. It’s high time to replace a good half with new ones. Standing dry trunks are also quite common. After a hurricane, you can see trees broken by the wind. At the time of writing this article there were no strong winds, but I came across this masterpiece in the form of a fallen pillar. 1.

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Corruption, thanks to which the city will never be clean and beautiful. Just look at the suicide attempt of the deputy head of the city. More details here: https://youtu.be/ZXFbO0sDnF8 You can listen to how business is done here: https://youtu.be/KgpStm-i90g A small town where everyone is someone’s matchmaker and brother. It’s also not clear to me how public utilities treat local residents. When I receive my next payment, what do people pay for remains a mystery to me? Ungroomed surrounding areas, lack of lighting in the courtyards and lack of cleaners cleaning the entrances (tenants clean the staircases themselves), cracks on the houses and balconies and stones falling down, unpruned trees creating darkness in the apartments, and of course the irrepressible greed of the energy companies who install outside home lighting as they please. 13.

Sometimes it seems that all household appliances are on site. 1.

If you are unfortunate enough to end up in hospital, they may provide you with a list of medications and the number of syringes. This is if you have a medical insurance policy. Personally, in my opinion, complex people live in the city. If you accidentally encounter rudeness from sellers and more, don’t get lost on another planet. While here, I realized that for some of the local population, rudeness is a way of life. Young people especially surprise me with their tactlessness. Perhaps this is a consequence of financial personal problems, lack of propaganda of culture and education. Judging by the number of syringes and empty bottles found on the streets, I can conclude that the city has not escaped such a problem as drug addiction and alcoholism, which are flourishing in certain segments of the population. This has been repeatedly recorded by central television channels.

4. BY ORDER of April 28, 2005 N 270-r ON RESTRICTION OF VEHICLE TRAFFIC For the purpose of road safety and due to the emergency condition of the dam and bridge over the Vop River, traffic on the bridge connecting Yartsevo and the so-called To Yartsevo by local residents was stopped . The bridge was closed for about 7 years. Rare cars and not only private ones drove by under the hanging brick. The rest were forced to take a detour along the highway. Let me remind you that the city has been without a bridge for 7 years. In the spring of this year, its renovation began; according to rumors, the opening is planned for City Day. For the sake of dust in the eyes, cosmetic cleaning will begin in the city; they have already begun to mow the grass that has stood all summer, despite the unprecedented number of insects. By the end of the season, the carousels in the park will be painted, broken benches will be repaired, and road markings will be applied. They will smear, forge, slander... 1.

Apparently, as a reminder of this, there is a bench in the square with the once written motto “WE HOPE WE BELIEVE”; it, like no other, so closely resembles the city. 1.

In 1812, the French walked through the city, during the Second World War - the Germans. After each war, the city rose from its knees and became even more beautiful. Oddly enough, it fell into decay in peacetime and thanks to the Russian people. PS Collecting photos took 4 days, while walking with a stroller.

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