Lenino is an urban-type settlement. At the first quick acquaintance, I want to say the hackneyed: “... like many other villages.” And when you walk through the streets and talk to people, you discover some uniqueness, something unique only to this place.

The village itself is not that old: the emergence of the settlement was associated with the construction of the Vladislavovka-Kerch railway line at the end of the 19th century. However, people lived here much earlier: traces of the first local settlements date back to the Bronze Age.

Residents of a small village that arose near the station served the railway, as originally intended.

In 1913, only eighty people lived here.

People weren’t particularly eager to go to these places: there was poor drinking water here. For the needs of the locomotive industry, the Kurpensky pond was dug nearby and a water pump was built. Drinking water was brought in tanks from the Oysul station (now Astanino), twelve miles away. Sometimes, by agreement with the German colonists, it was delivered in barrels from a nearby village. Often, especially in the summer heat, people were thirsty. At that time, a legend was born among the people about the owner of seven wells - a rich man who forbade people to take water for free. He was so cruel that he beat and pushed the traveler, exhausted from thirst, out of the gate. Dying, the unfortunate man uttered a terrible curse. Since then there has been no water in the wells. The people became angry, and the rich man was forced to flee from these places.

Now the name Seven Wells remains behind the railway station, which is actually located within the village boundaries. But Lenino has grown, and its residents, in addition to servicing the station, are engaged in agriculture and work in small industrial enterprises in the area.

Lenino is not just an urban village, it is also a regional center. The Leninsky district is quite large: it occupies more than eleven percent of the entire territory of Crimea and includes sixty-eight settlements. Almost sixty-four thousand people live here.

It is clear that Vladimir Ilyich had nothing to do with these places. Then it was customary to name settlements and streets after the leader.

“Our village was the first in Crimea to take the name of Lenin - this happened in May 1921, Lenin was still alive,” says Nikolai Rak, director of the Leninsky District Museum.

Museum, of course, is a strong word for a rather small room, already in need of renovation and completely filled with all sorts of exhibits, so that you can get to the display cases with great difficulty: it’s very cramped. But, as it turned out, the museum had already been allocated another - a spacious, two-story building. Now there is “quite a bit” left - to make repairs there, create a new exhibition and transport all the exhibits from the old building. Nikolai Anatolyevich is an expert on the history of his region: just pick up some topic, and a flow of information will come out of a cornucopia.

— Why is the neighboring street named after Pushkin?
- So Alexander Sergeevich was in these places.

To my amazed, incredulous look, the answer is ready:

— Not far from the current village there was a postal station where horses were changed. Of course, the poet was simply forced to stop here. By the way, Stalin also passed by our station. It was in 1945, the event was associated with the Yalta Conference. Yes, what kind of celebrities has our land seen! During the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Simonov visited here more than once.

In 1965, the following cosmonauts came to us: Vladimir Komarov, German Titov, Valery Bykovsky, Andriyan Nikolaev. Later, Pavel Popovich came to rest, so not far from Semyonovka there is Cosmonauts Bay. We also remember a creative meeting with the poet Lev Oshanin.

— Nikolai Anatolyevich, which of your fellow countrymen are you proud of?

— There are war heroes. The famous underground fighter Astanin was captured by the Nazis and shot in the Bagerovo ditch. Few people know that our fellow countryman Surov, a tank driver, was one of the first to break into Berlin. There are heroes of labor. Our old people still remember Parelsky, the secretary of the district party committee. Many people now treat communists ironically.

But in vain. This man literally burned out at work, and yet he had the hardest time - the post-war years. And one more circumstance - Parelsky has not had a leg since he was sixteen. This was a heroic man. He introduced a water pipeline system in the area, was actively involved in tree planting, and construction. He was energetic and assertive.

The village's past was impressive. Here is a small station that will flash past the windows of the carriage and be forgotten. The past, frankly speaking, is heroic. What about the present?

On the second floor of the district state administration building there is an exhibition and sale of baked goods. It turns out that a meeting was taking place in the conference room on preparations for the holiday season. There are forty-one health resorts on the territory of the Leninsky district. True, these are mainly holiday homes and boarding houses; there are no pretentious sanatoriums or expensive hotels here.

Remembering the unique healing properties of the mud (they are an analogue of the famous mud of Lake Saki, differing from them in higher mineralization and less contamination with specific mud crystals), which are almost never used now, I sighed heavily. If only these healing muds could be used to develop resorts. But this is a separate topic.

In the meantime, a pleasant-looking woman tried to distract me from my sad thoughts. It turned out to be Irina Kolomiets, master of industrial training at the school for the sphere of consumer services. Before I had time to look back, I had already met her and photographed her charges, who were demonstrating rosy pies in starched clothes. Irina Nikolaevna managed to talk about the recently created multidisciplinary school in just a few minutes. In addition to cooks, tractor drivers, mechanics, drivers, and electricians are trained here. Unfortunately, this is the only school here.

Today the Leninsky district is mainly agricultural. Wheat, oats, barley, rapeseed and vegetables, mainly root crops, are grown here. Industrial production, unlike most other areas, is also represented by oil and gas production, wind energy is being developed in the area, and there is a tendency to expand the network of wind turbines. The problems in the region are the same as everywhere else: lack of a sufficient number of jobs, low income levels, unemployment of young people.

But there is something good, how could it not be? Most recently, in three villages of the region - Ostanino, Gornostaevka and Zavetnoye - through international assistance, representatives of the Swiss Cooperation Bureau repaired about ten kilometers of water pipeline. Since 2007, the medical program “Mother and Child Health” has been operating in the district, the ultimate goal of which is to reduce the percentage of child mortality. Last year, through this program, seminars, trainings and advanced training courses for medical workers were held, and new equipment will be purchased this year.

Already leaving Lenino, I approached the taxi drivers clustered at the bus station. These are not timid people. He will have his say. When asked what significant positive events have happened in Lenino recently and what is bad for you, the quickest

Lenino village is located in the eastern part of the Crimean Peninsula. For many years, the village played an important role in the development of the region; the village was built as a transshipment base on the route of the Kursk-Kharkov-Kerch railway. It was this line, along with Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol, that provided a complete closed cycle of railway communication with strategically important objects in Crimea.

The name of the station from which life began in the village of Sem Kolodezey, founded in 1921 on March 22. It is from this starting point that the development of the village begins, this is industrialization, the opening of bakeries, a food processing plant, a cotton mill, and so on. The village received its maximum development under the USSR, after the collapse of the union the village fell into decay, 90% of enterprises were closed or are at the stage of degradation or bankruptcy.

Geographic coordinates of the village of Lenino on the map of Crimea GPS N 45°17′51 E 35°46′26

The population of the village is steadily falling from year to year. Now the population of the village of Lenino is about 7870 people. The village is the regional center of the Leninsky district of Crimea. It includes Shchelkino, Pesochnoye, Novootradnoye, Mysovoe and other resort villages of eastern Crimea.

The distance from the village of Lenino to the Sea of ​​Azov is closer - only 4.7 km, to the Black Sea about 30 km. The village is located on the highway connecting Feodosia and Kerch, the distance from Lenino to Kerch is 61 km, the distance from Lenino to Feodosia is 47 km.

The climate of the village of Lenino is mild, subtropical, due to its remote location 4.7 km deep into the peninsula, low temperatures are not felt so strongly in winter due to the relatively low humidity. The average temperature in summer is +26 C.

The tourist life of the village only began to gain momentum a few years ago; the village has good infrastructure, but hotels and boarding houses have only just begun to be built. The impetus was the increase in the flow of tourists from the Kerch crossing. In summer, a large supply of apartments is offered by the private sector; the sea can be reached by bus or taxi, due to the short distance, on average the road to the sea takes 20-30 minutes.

Sights of the village of Lenino - a monument in honor of the leader, by whom the city is named, and a cultural center in the center. But if you decide to visit excursion routes, then there is a whole range of cities that are worth visiting: Kara-Dag, and much more. All excursions can be done on your own; due to good transport links, it will be cheaper and you will be able to control the time for a particular tourist attraction yourself. All of the above mentioned places can be reached by minibuses or regular buses constantly running through the village.

Holidays in the village of Lenino are inexpensive and very relaxing; they are often an intermediate point for further visits to Crimea. But even the short time spent in this village passes peacefully and calmly.

Lenino village on the map of Crimea

A country	Ukraine
Autonomous Republic	Crimea
Area	Leninsky district
Local council	Leninsky village council
Coordinates	Coordinates: 45°17′51″ N. w. 35°46′26″ E. d. / 45.2975° n. w. 35.773889° E. d. (G) (O) (I)45°17′51″ N. w. 35°46′26″ E. d. / 45.2975° n. w. 35.773889° E. d. (G) (O) (I)
Postal codes	98200 - 98203
Village head	Novikov Gennady Evgenievich
Vehicle code	AK/01
Telephone code	+380-6557
Population	8451 people (2001)
Timezone	UTC+2, in summer UTC+3
Former names	until 1957 - Seven Wells
Center height	~30 m

Lenino (until 1957 Seven Wells; Ukrainian Lenіne, Crimean Catholicate. Yedi Quyu, Yedi Kuyu) is an urban-type settlement in the east of Crimea, in the western part of the Kerch Peninsula. The center of the Leninsky district of the republic.

The village is located on the Dzhankoy - Kerch railway (Seven Kolodezei station).

Social sphere

In the village there are: 2 secondary schools, a vocational school, a library, a music school, a youth sports school, a sports and technical club of the OSOU, a district House of Culture, a literary association “Siringa”; district hospital, hotel "Vostok". There is a Museum of the History of the District, a hotel, and a bank branch. There is an Orthodox church and a mosque.

Story

The formation of the village is associated with the construction of a station on the Kerch line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol railway on the Kerch Peninsula at the end of the 19th century. The lack of water made it impossible for the settlement to develop. Until March 22, 1921, 34 residents lived at the Seven Kolodezey station.

On July 25, 1931, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic made a decision to move the center of the Petrovsky district to the village at the Sem Kolodezei station.

In the pre-war years, a grain collection point, a food processing plant, and a cotton mill began to be built in Seven Wells; in 1938, a secondary school was opened, which later began to bear the name of M. Gorky. In 1939, 1,683 people lived here.

During the Great Patriotic War, an underground organization operated on the territory of the village, which included K. Bogdanov, A. Bespalov, G. Ostanin, A. Pavlenko, E. Ivanov, G. Peremeshchenko. During the period of hostilities on the Crimean Front (1942), 6 military field hospitals were located at the Seven Kolodezey station. During this period, several large burials appeared here. To mention the location of one of the hospitals, a memorial plaque was installed on the village school building.

The territory of the village was liberated in April 1944.

In the post-war years, the Yuzmatskoe reservoir was built near the village. Ponds and reservoirs were created, wells were drilled, and a network of water pipelines was laid out. Since 1952, the first water pumps appeared in the regional center.

In 1957, the settlement at the Sem Kolodezei station received the name Lenino. The construction of the North Crimean Canal gave a new impetus to the development of the village. The start of work on the construction of the Crimean Nuclear Power Plant also caused revival.

Economy

The main enterprises of the village are: a feed mill, a winery, a grain receiving enterprise, Neftebaza JSC, the North Crimean Canal Administration, OATP “Mobile Mechanized Column 128”, which serves the bed of the North Crimean Canal (unfortunately no longer exists - disbanded), State Enterprise "Raiselkhozkhimiya", JSC "Raypost", bakery, bakery, Water Management Department, District Road Repair Department, printing house, OATP plant "Metallist" (equipment repair), ATP-14339, State Forestry, gas cylinder station, Incubation Station LLC , SE "Chernomorneftegazprom".

Population

• 1939 - 1074 people.
• 1989 - 8727 people.
• 2001 - 8451 people. (63.9% Russians, 19.3% Ukrainians, 12.5% ​​Crimean Tatars)
• 1926 - 372 people. (183 Germans, 115 Ukrainians, 57 Russians, 8 Crimean Tatars, 6 Belarusians, 2 Armenians, 1 Bulgarian)

Monuments

On the territory of the village there is a memorial sign to the fallen fellow villagers, soldiers, partisans, underground fighters, and civilians; a memorial sign to the residents of the area, internationalist soldiers who died in the Afghan War.

A story more than a century long...
to the 110th anniversary of the founding of the town. Lenino

On the project of the village coat of arms of our regional center, made by the talented artist and creative person Yu.F. Ioss for the 110th anniversary of the Lenino village, work on which was started on the initiative of the Lenin village head A.I. Kozitsky and a team of his like-minded people, in the central part of the exhibition there is a handsome steam locomotive flying into an unknown distance, the inscription “Seven Wells” and the proud numbers “1899”. And this is far from accidental. After all, the time and circumstances of the appearance of the settlement, which later became the regional center of the largest agricultural region in terms of its territory in Ukraine, were directly related to the construction at the end of the 19th century of the Vladislavovka-Kerch railway line, then called the Kerch line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol railway...

"DO YOU REMEMBER HOW IT ALL BEGAN"

The railway, known to everyone today, was built on the Kerch Peninsula as one of the last steel highways in the entire Tauride province and it was laid from west to east through the territory of the then Vladislavovskaya, Petrovskaya and Saraiminskaya volosts of the Feodosia district and ended in the Kerch-Yenikalsk city administration, where at that time the administrative leadership of a significant part of Eastern Crimea.

On the initiative of the Kerch-Yenikalsky mayor, Rear Admiral M.E. Koltovsky, back in July 1895, a thorough memo was prepared addressed to Nicholas II on the urgent need to build a railway on the Kerch Peninsula.

The last All-Russian Emperor Nicholas II on April 7 (19), 1898, highly approved the Regulations developed by the Committee of Ministers and the Department of State Economics, on the basis of which the Minister of Railways was ordered to begin construction of the Vladislavovka-Kerch railway line. On July 8 (20), 1898, the Decree of Nicholas II followed on the alienation (confiscation in favor of the state) of the necessary private lands for the construction of the railway and the payment of appropriate monetary compensation to their owners for the territorial and economic losses incurred.

The state archives have preserved original documents of the “pre-revolutionary” period, in one of which an inquisitive historian and attentive local historian can read: “Order No. 152 on the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol Railway, September 11, 1899 “On the opening of temporary traffic on the Kerch line under construction... The following stations are opened for the transportation of private luggage: Ak-Monay, Ak-Monay quarry and Seven Wells.”

Thus, 110 years ago, on September 11 (23), 1899, the railway station, better known as Seven Kolodezey, came into operation, then named after a nearby settlement founded by immigrants from Switzerland - the village of Seven Kolodezey (the current village of Ilyichevo), known to history buffs and connoisseurs from the popular local history books “Legends of Crimea”.

The Kerch state railway, 85 miles long, was inaugurated on February 20 (March 3), 1900, when a special train headed by the head of the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol railway N.A. arrived in Kerch from Kharkov. von Renkuhl and the high-ranking officials accompanying him. Most newspapers of that time enthusiastically reported on the technical breakthrough of the eastern region of Crimea to the All-Russian market of the empire.

Meeting N.A. Renkul and noble persons of the Tauride province with the Kerch-Yenikalsky mayor, Major General M.D. Klokachev and the “city fathers” was held in the premises of the English Club, where Kerch gave a dinner in honor of distinguished guests. Colorful billboards with images of all the railway stations of the Kerch line were also placed here. Among others, the Sem Kolodezei station was presented, one of three IV-class stations on the Vladislavovka-Kerch railway section.

Construction of the district House of Culture is underway, 1959

The pace of construction of the railway is still amazing today with the scale and speed of the work being carried out. The report of the Kerch-Yenikalsky city administration for 1899 noted that within less than a year, “an embankment was built, rails were laid, stations and structures were built.”
On May 6 (18), 1899, in the spirit of that time, the clergy consecrated the work on the Kerch line.

Temporary passenger traffic on the railway opened on March 10 (22), 1900, and on November 3 (15), 1900, “regular” passenger and goods traffic on the railway opened.

With the entry into operation of the Kerch line in November 1900, the Feodosiya-Kerch postal route was closed, along with the five post offices located on it. All postal transportation from that time began to be carried out by rail.

History has preserved the name of the first head of the Sem Kolodtsev station, F.A. Fedorov-Avdievich.

The Seven Kolodezei station became the basis around which a new settlement was gradually formed on the Kerch Peninsula, which played its own, only allotted role in certain periods of the history of the 20th century, and more than a century anniversary of the founding of which is celebrated these days by the residents of Eastern Crimea .

“OUR STEAM LOGO, FLY FORWARD...”

The great upheavals of the early 20th century did not bypass the railway, which was the main artery connecting the Kerch steppe of the Feodosia district with the center and outskirts of the Russian Empire.

The nascent revolutionary movement, the February and October revolutions of 1917, the events of the Civil War, when power alternately passed from hand to hand, because of which the local population always suffered - all this took place before the eyes and with the feasible participation of the residents of the settlement, which gradually grew around railway station.

The events of October 25 (November 7), 1917, which took place in Petrograd and were called for a long time in our controversial and long-suffering history as the Great October Socialist Revolution, became known at the railway station thanks to a special telegram received by the experienced telegraph operator Varvara Persidskaya and her young assistant Geiko, distributed as “Everyone! Everyone! Everyone!” new government.

The head of the station at that time was an ardent monarchist and admirer of Nicholas II, a certain Kondratenko, who for a long time did not allow the progressive-minded team to remove the portrait of the emperor from its place of honor. He was sincerely confident that the coup d'etat in Petrograd was a random event, and the time would soon come when the beloved power of the “Tsar-Father” would be restored again.

It was that amazing time when a telegraph machine installed at a railway station was the only source of instantaneous information distributed by telegraph tapes throughout all the “corners and villages” of the once huge Russian Empire, which had split into many “multi-colored” fragments. The telegraph regularly served both whites and reds, who tried to inform both their supporters and opponents and impose new slogans and ideas on the broad masses of the people.

The railway workers of the station and the settlement around it, sympathetic to the affairs of the Soviet regime, helped the partisan detachment led by Stepan Katselov, operating in the Leninsky (Petrovsky) quarries in the spring of 1919. Among them were switchmen Y. Logvinenko and S. Kochegarov, former zemstvo doctor V. Serafimov. The latter was well acquainted with Lenin’s younger brother, Dmitry Ulyanov, who worked in the Feodosia district at the beginning of the century.

From the Seven Kolodezei station, the White Guard Colonel Konovalov reported to the higher command about the state of the fight against the Red Army on the Ak-Monai Front and about the Red partisans of the Kerch Peninsula.

On November 16, 1920, the 7th Cavalry Division of M. Chugunov of the 3rd Cavalry Corps of N. Kashirin of the Southern Front troops under the control of M. Frunze entered Kerch, liberating the peninsula from the troops of Baron P. Wrangel.

On March 22, 1921, 34 residents lived at the Seven Kolodezei station, and the station itself was part of the Kenegezsky (now the village of Krasnogorka) revolutionary committee (revolutionary committee) of the Petrovsky district, the newly formed Kerch district.

Having won the battles of the Civil War, the Soviet government began an unprecedented experiment in implementing the transformations formulated by the leader of the world proletariat V.I. Lenin in terms of building socialism “in a single country.”

With the beginning of the forced and widespread introduction of the collective farm “movement” into agriculture and the formation of machine and tractor stations (MTS), Seven Wells became the center of the Semikolodezyanskaya MTS, which was headed by a cadre worker, a representative of the plant named after. Voikova, Kerch M.P. Dementeev.

The presence of the railway, well-established communications with other regions of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic formed in 1921 and the entire country, contributed to the economic development of the Seven Wells, albeit a slow, but still steady growth of the population settled around the railway.

Pyotr Surov (third from right) with his combat crew

On May 25, 1931, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic decided to move the center of the Leninsky (former Petrovsky) district from the village of Leninsky to the Sem Kolodezey station. It was the presence of a railway that provided stable connections with other regions that was the main prerequisite for this.

In the pre-war years, a grain storage elevator, a hospital, a food processing plant, a cotton collection point began to be built in Seven Wells, and new administrative buildings and streets appeared. On March 6, 1933, the regional newspaper “Leninsky Collective Farmer” began to be published, covering life and everyday life in the rural areas of the Kerch Peninsula. In 1938, a secondary school was opened here, named after the founder of socialist realism, Maxim Gorky.

Famous traveler and geographer I.I. Puzanov in his fundamental book “Across the Untrodden Crimea” notes how in 1925 he, together with the botanist E.V. Wulf, after a detailed study of the steppe part of the Kerch Peninsula, spent the night in Seven Wells, and went by morning train to Simferopol. Their attention was drawn to the “witty” inscription on the station lamp: “Seven Wells, and not a drop of water,” which in one phrase characterized the state of the steppe part of the Eastern Crimea, which had suffered for centuries from a lack of life-giving moisture.

According to the All-Union Population Census, in 1939 the number of residents of the regional center reached 1,683 people.

Residents of Seven Wells remember the meeting in the spring of 1941 with the legendary Soviet pilot Konstantin Kokkinaki, later a Hero of the Soviet Union, and then a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, after his participation in battles with Japanese pilots. The Soviet aviator Kokkinaki provided international assistance to the Chinese people in repelling the Japanese aggressors.

From the balcony of the House of Soviets (now the building of the district council and district state administration), the famous ace, who shot down seven enemy planes in air battles with Japanese kamikazes, called on residents of the area to be prepared for possible and inevitable events “if tomorrow there is a war, if tomorrow there is a campaign...”.

“AND IN WAR, AS IN WAR...”

During the Great Patriotic War, the settlement of Seven Wells played its heroic and tragic role assigned to it by world history.

More than a hundred residents of the regional center died fighting bravely on the fronts of World War II, in partisan detachments, and in underground work. Their graves are spread over a vast area of ​​the entire globe from the Seven Wells to Berlin. In memory of them, grateful descendants erected an Obelisk of Glory in the village park, on the memorial slabs of which names dear to all are cast in metal.

This was the entrance to the village of Lenino in 1960

Already on June 28, 1941, on the sixth day of the war, the first echelon with our fellow countrymen, residents of the Leninsky and Mayak-Salynsky districts, set off from the Seven Kolodezey station to defend the sacred borders of the Fatherland. The road from their father's house for most of them in the terrible June of '41 turned out to be the last. They never returned home...

Opening of an agricultural exhibition in the regional center in the fall of 1959.

Many of our fellow countrymen went to the Old Crimean forests and joined the ranks of the people's avengers - the detachments of the Eastern Union of Crimean partisans. Among them were N. Velikaya, T. Stroganova, A. Derevianko, S. Sagaidak.

During the period of hostilities of the Crimean Front, which fought to the death from January to May 1942 in bloody battles with the Nazi invaders on the Akmonai Isthmus, several military field hospitals were located in Seven Wells, to which the railway line along the Koi - Asan Russian - Seven section Seriously wounded soldiers and commanders of the Red Army came to the well for treatment. During this period, several large military burial grounds appeared here. The most famous of them is the hospital fraternal cemetery on Nekrasova Street, where over five thousand Crimean Front soldiers who died from wounds are buried in eternal sleep - a sponsored memorial for teachers and students of village schools.

In memory of one of the military hospitals on the school building named after. A memorial plaque was installed to M. Gorky.

During the second occupation of the Kerch Peninsula, the Seven Kolodezei railway station became the center of action for an underground group, which included patriots K.I. Bogdanov, A.V. Bespalov, A.P. Pavlenko, E.G. Ivanov, G.A. Peremeshchenko and other residents of the village. Fearless fighters of the “invisible front” organized a series of sabotage on the railway, derailing enemy trains and exploding fuel tanks.

Former head of the district cotton point G.A. Ostanin, left by the Soviet party bodies to develop an underground movement in the region, fell in an unequal struggle with an insidious and ruthless enemy in the winter of 1941.

In 1943-1944, fascist monsters and their henchmen set up a dungeon in Seven Wells, where they brutally tortured patriots of the Marfov-Mariental underground and partisans of the Baghero quarries, prisoners of war and civilians. On the outskirts of the regional center there is a brotherly cemetery for victims of fascism, where several hundred Soviet patriots who died at the hands of the barbarians of the 20th century are buried.

May Day demonstration in the main village of the region, 70s

On the wall of the railway station building in the village. Lenino, a memorial plaque was erected in honor of the underground woman, resident of the North Caucasus Front and the Separate Primorsky Army, Alima Abdennanova, the leader of the Jermay-Kashik underground group, which operated behind enemy lines on the Kerch Peninsula and died along with other participants in the resistance to the fascists in the spring of 1944. The station square of the regional center also bears her name.

Pyotr Surov, a graduate of the M. Gorky school on June 22, 1941, who was soon called up from the Seven Kolodezey station to the front, was presented with the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union when, as part of an advanced tank detachment on April 20, 1945, he broke into the outskirts of Berlin, receiving seriously wounded in battle. The combat vehicle of our fellow countryman, a brave officer, the T-34 tank with tail number 422, froze in an eternal parking lot near the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Nizhny Novgorod, from whose walls it emerged during the war.

In the February days of 1945, after the completion of the Yalta (Crimean) conference of the leaders of the three powers of the anti-Hitler coalition, Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin traveled on a special train along the route Simferopol - Dzhankoy - Vladislavovka - Kerch along the Kerch Peninsula at night. He crossed the Kerch Strait to the Taman Peninsula via a railway bridge. After February 18, a natural disaster caused the bridge to collapse.

The second time Joseph Stalin traveled through the entire Kerch Peninsula on a letter train along the Kerch-Vladislavovka railway line in the summer of 1946 during his visit to Crimea to familiarize himself with the progress of the restoration of the peninsula after the hard times of war.

On September 15, 1945, residents of the peninsula with bouquets of autumn flowers met on the railway platform of the Seven Kolodezei station the first echelon with the victorious soldiers who had completed an honorable mission in European countries to defeat fascism and returned to their native region, where the people closest to them, yearning for their loved one, were waiting for them .

“THE WHEELS DICTATE THE CARRIAGE WHEELS...”

On April 12, the troops of the Separate Primorsky Army, in cooperation with other military formations, breaking through the resistance of the hastily retreating enemy in the Ak-Monai positions, completely liberated the Kerch Peninsula and the regional center of Seven Wells.

The center of the Leninsky district was temporarily moved again to the village of Leninskoye, where it operated until the beginning of 1947, after which district institutions were again transferred to the settlement at the Seven Kolodezei station, which was being revived after the horrors of the war.

The restoration of the national economy of the Leninsky and neighboring Primorsky (formerly Mayak-Salynsky) districts in the post-war period is associated with the name of a wonderful person and talented leader N.I. Parelsky, who in the post-war years held the position of chairman of the Primorsky district executive committee, and from August 1950 - the first secretary of the Lenin district party committee.

In the May days of this year, residents of the area widely celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of N.I. Parelsky, and in memory of his titanic work on the revival of the Kerch Peninsula, a memorial plaque was installed in the regional center on the street bearing his name.

Together with Nikolai Ivanovich Parelsky, his associates and closest assistants P.S. “raised” the region. Titorenko, N.A. Turbaba, G.H. Dunda and many other top and middle managers who mobilized the people for labor achievements.

The problems of landscaping the Kerch Peninsula were successfully resolved. Forest belts and entire forest areas appeared. A young man-made forest, planted in the 50s, forms a “green ring” around the current regional center.

Water shortage on the peninsula has long remained one of the main problems. The construction of the Yuzmak reservoir near the village of Leninsky Yuzmak was carried out using the method of popular construction, declared a Komsomol strike. Stations and reservoirs were built, wells were drilled, and a network of water pipelines was laid.

In 1952, the first water pumps appeared in the regional center and the acute problem of shortage of drinking water was alleviated.

On May 25, 1957, by decision No. 371 of the Executive Committee of the Crimean Regional Council of People's Deputies of Working People, the center of the Leninsky district, a settlement at the Sem Kolodezey station, was given the name Lenino, it received the status of an urban-type village and the Leninsky Village Council was formed.

In the village of Lenino in the 50s, neat wooden “Finnish” houses appeared, decorating the village in their own way, where families of geologists and oil workers who carried out exploration and production of oil and gas on the peninsula settled. Geologicheskaya Street in the regional center is named after the profession of craftsmen and craftsmen who extract natural resources useful for humans from the depths of the earth.

The appearance of the North Crimean Canal region on the lands, its construction and operation gave a new impetus to solving national economic problems in agriculture.

At this time, in the early 70s, accelerated housing construction, landscaping of the village and asphalt paving of streets were underway in the regional center. The first two-story houses appeared.

A new “boom” in housing construction began with the start of work on the construction of the Crimean Nuclear Power Plant in the second half of the 70s, which was largely facilitated by the emergence of a large-panel housing construction (LPP) plant on the eastern outskirts of the village near the railway. New microdistricts emerged on Shosseynaya and Kurchatov streets with multi-storey buildings that transformed the village.

Today, when the Leninsky district from a once purely agricultural region is becoming more and more, including a resort and recreational one, and every year - “all the flags will come to visit us,” the importance of the railway and the Seven Kolodezei station is increasing geometrically progression. The team of railway workers, led by the station manager O. N. Yanova, is doing everything possible to make our distinguished guests feel comfortable from the first minutes of their stay on the Kerch Peninsula. The motor transport services of the regional center are also a match for them: fast and reliable buses, minibuses and taxis will take tourists and holidaymakers to any point in the region, and, if the latter wish, even to Crimea.

The former head of the Sem Kolodezey station, P.V., devoted many years of his long and conscientious life to serving the Vladislavovka-Kerch railway line. Dmitrienko. Back in 1942, he, together with other railway workers, established uninterrupted railway traffic during the period of hostilities on the Kerch Peninsula. The former sailor of the Baltic Fleet was awarded the Order of Lenin for his selfless work and courage in assisting Soviet troops in transporting manpower and equipment.

The country also awarded the same award to travel master P.I. Sergodeeva.

The names of A.S. remain in the history of the railway. Goryunova, M.V. Osaulenko, A.N. Tyunina, V.Kh. Indyukova, A.A. Babin, S.S. Prokhoda, V.N. Chuvakina, V.P. Zhdanov and many others who devoted their entire career to serving the steel artery of the peninsula.

At the end of the 19th century, the Kerch Peninsula was cut through by the Vladislavovka-Kerch railway line. In the middle of the 20th century, a man-made river appeared on the peninsula - the North Crimean Canal. Today, at the beginning of the new 21st century, a state program for gasification of the peninsula is being implemented in the Leninsky district and its regional center.

Leninsky village head A.I. Kozitsky, a man respected by the residents of the locality, who thoroughly knows his business and skillfully resolves the inevitable daily large and small problems of the regional center, in his tireless work relies on competent assistants, including his deputy V.P. Gritsenko, secretary of the council A.A. Khodyreva, specialist of the council V.K. Lagutin, the entire deputy corps of the village council. It is gratifying to note that this is a team of like-minded people.

Among those who will always lend their reliable shoulder and help the village mayor with good advice is the chairman of the district council A.D. Petrishchev, head of the district state administration P.I. Protsenko and their deputies A.N. Verteletsky, N.B. Kolesnichenko, G.V. Ostakh, A.A. Khokhlov, E.S. Abdulmedzhitov.

Speaker of the Crimean Parliament A.P. Gritsenko and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Region V.T. Plakida, who often travel on business to the Leninsky district, always find time to meet with representatives of the village council and relevant services, providing timely and effective assistance to their fellow countrymen.

“MY VILLAGE IS MY DESTINY!”

These words have always been able and have the right to be spoken with pride by people, without whom the regional center would not have existed as a populated area, with its own military and labor biography that belongs only to it.

P.Ya. Chumak and N.F. Gurenko, A.S. Gonchar and L.P. Gavrilova, I.A. Marchenko and V.E. Kustov, A.D. Vernitsky and L.E. Shcheglenko, L.N. Palamarchuk and M.F. Wolfson, A.V. Dubodel and G.E. Novikov, A.M. Fomkin and G.K. Tertychny, I.A. Astafurov and A.A. Brager, Z.T. Shabolda and Yu.A. Balashov, P.D. Poltavsky and L.F. Romashova, G. P. Karastash and F. P. Drozd, V. N. Malakhov and M. G. Frolov, and many, many others, the list of whose names would not fit even on the pages of one newspaper issue...

Ten years ago, on the day of the 100th anniversary of the village, a memorial plaque dedicated to this significant event in the history of Crimea was unveiled on the building of the railway station.

Congratulatory telegrams on the centenary anniversary were sent to residents of the regional center in September 1999 by the President of Ukraine L.D. Kuchma, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine A.N. Tkachenko, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Our fellow countryman, an original poet and composer Nikolai Notechalov, in 1999, for the 100th anniversary of the regional center, wrote a wonderful song, which contains capacious and heartfelt words filled with deep meaning. Words for all generations of village residents: “Seven Wells, Seven Wells - a great meaning penetrated my heart. Seven Wells, Seven Wells - here is my father’s house and my spring...”

September 2009

Nikolay Rak

The area of ​​the village is 772.8 hectares, the population is more than 8 thousand people.

The village was formed in 1899.

The southern part of the village is an urban-type settlement, and the northern part is a typical village with estate development. The housing stock is represented by one-story buildings, there are 2- and 5-story buildings.

On the central square of the village there is a district state administration, a House of Culture, a cinema, a cafe, a restaurant leading to the station square.

The industrial zone and warehouses are located along the railway, forming a large industrial zone in the east of the village. The North-Western industrial zone adjoins Azovskaya Street on both sides in the area of ​​the previously existing winery.

On the territory of the village there are 2 squares, 46 streets and 5 alleys; There are 35 enterprises and organizations, 7 government agencies and 11 enterprises.

The social infrastructure of the village is represented by 2 secondary schools, 3 preschool institutions, a regional House of Culture, and a museum.

In two out-of-school sports educational institutions - the Children and Youth Sports School "Kolos", the Children and Youth Center for Physical Culture and Sports - there are federations of boxing, football, kickboxing, and the regional sports society "Kolos".

On September 11 (September 23, new style), 1899, the Seven Kolodesey railway station was opened, named after a nearby settlement founded by immigrants from Switzerland.

In the popular local history books “Legends of Crimea” there are stories related to wells dug in the waterless steppe of the peninsula. The legend of the Seven Wells allows us to imagine the life of the population of the railway station and nearby villages suffering from lack of water.

The lack of water largely prevented the development of the village. The Seven Kolodezei station, which emerged as an administrative unit, for a long time, due to the slow growth of the population around the station, served purely as one of the 3 1st class stations on the 98-mile section Vladislavovka - Kerch.

Great upheavals at the beginning of the 20th century. did not bypass the railway, which is the main artery connecting the Kerch steppe of Feodosia district with the center and outskirts of the Russian Empire.

In 1921, most of the Kerch Peninsula comprised the Kerch district with two districts: Kerch (the center of the city of Kerch) and Petrovsky (the center of the village of Petrovskoe). 34 residents lived at the Seven Kolodezei station; the settlement was part of the Kenegez Revolutionary Committee.

The presence of the railway and well-established communications with other regions of Crimea and the country contributed to the economic development and growth of the station’s population.

On July 25, 1931, the center of the Leninsky (former Petrovsky) district was moved from the village. Leninskoye to Sem Kolodezei station.

In the pre-war years, a grain collection point, a food processing plant, a cotton plant, administrative buildings, and streets were built. In 1938, a secondary school was opened.

According to the All-Union Population Census, in 1939 the population of the regional center was 1,683 people.

During the Great Patriotic War, the settlement of Seven Wells played the heroic and tragic role assigned to it by history.

More than 100 residents died on the war fronts, in partisan detachments, and in the underground. In Seven Wells there was an underground organization consisting of K.I. Bogdanova, A.V. Bespalova, A. Pavlenko, E.G. Ivanova, G.A. Peremeshchenko and other residents.

During the hostilities of the Crimean Front (January-May 1942), the station housed 6 military field hospitals, to which the seriously wounded were delivered from the Aknonai positions. During this period, several large burial grounds arose, the most famous being the hospital cemetery on Nekrasov Street.

In memory of the deployment of one of the hospitals, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the Gorky Secondary School.

On April 12, 1944, troops of the Separate Primorsky Army, in cooperation with other formations, completely liberated the territory of the Kerch Peninsula and Seven Wells.

In the village, an obelisk was erected to the dead fellow villagers, on which their names are carved.

The district center was temporarily moved to the village of Leninskoye, where it operated until the end of 1946, when district institutions were again transferred to a revived point at the Seven Kolodezei station.

The restoration of the Leninsky district and regional center in the post-war period is associated with the name of a remarkable person, the first secretary of the Leninsky district party committee N.I. Parelsky. Party and Soviet workers P.S. “raised” the area with him. Titarenko, N.A. Turbaba, G.H. Duyala.

Forest belts and entire forest areas appeared. A young man-made forest, planted in the 1960s, forms a green ring around the current regional center with forest plantations 150-500 m wide. Green plantings, managed by the forestry agency, form a windbreak belt.

One of the main tasks was the problem of water on the peninsula. The construction of the Yuzmak reservoir was carried out in the village using the method of popular construction. Stakes and reservoirs were built, wells were drilled, and a network of water pipelines was laid. In 1952, the first water pumps appeared and the problem of water shortage was eliminated.

Over the 110-year history of the village, many residents left a noticeable mark on its history, including: government employees V.L. Kubrushko, N.S. Kravchenko, I.Z. Astafurov, A.V. Oakmaker; teachers V.E. Kustov, A.S. Potter; medical workers G.K. Tertichnik, R.V. Chursinova; business executives P.Ya. Chumak, A.A. Brager; cultural workers L.E. Shcheglenko, L.M. Fomkina; veterans of the Great Patriotic War P.P. Surov, N.S. Velikaya, K.A. Khmelnitskaya, T.I. Stroganov; writer-journalist M.F. Wolfson and many others.