At the solemn meeting dedicated to the commissioning of the fourth blast furnace at the Orsk-Khalilovsk Metallurgical Plant, many kind words were said about the builders and installers, they were cordially congratulated on their great labor victory. And then over the square near the Komsomol headquarters, filled with thousands of people, the command sounded:

The winners of the competition - senior foreman Mikhail Vaschenkov, foreman Nikolai Stetsenko, senior foreman of gas facilities Grigory Gulyaev, foreman Sergei Mochalin, raise the construction site flag over the blast furnace!

All eyes are fixed on the top of the blast furnace. Standard-bearers climbed the ladders leading to the highest point. And now the wind unfolds a huge cloth almost at a height of one hundred meters - a symbol of the labor feat of the six thousandth collective of the All-Union shock Komsomol construction site.

It was a victory - important and joyful. But the path to her was difficult.

Now the day is distant when concrete workers came to the foundation pit where the foundation of the new, most powerful blast furnace at the plant was to be laid. The first to take the big concrete was the team of Peter Aptikeyev. We laid concrete under the streams of rain, got wet through and through, but did not leave. The brigades of Andrei Luchinin and Nikolai Stetsenko also performed heroically.

When the manager of the Novotroitskmetallurgstroy trust, PF Nikolaev, was informed that the last cubic meters of concrete had been laid in the foundation, he said:

Well done!

It took only 54 hours for the shock teams to lay a huge amount of concrete - 3200 cubic meters - into a powerful monolithic foundation. The norm for this work was 78 hours. We saved a whole day.

The installers were so ahead of their time that the suppliers, who generally worked well, could not keep up with the Novotroitsk rhythm. Due to the lack of metal, steel installers would not be able to assemble the last two air heaters at such a high rate as the previous two. And this meant that the Teplostroevites would also receive a work front later.

And what if we start assembling the third and fourth towers at once, - suggested at the meeting of the launch headquarters Vasily Ivanovich Kryukov, head of the Novotroitsk Stalmontazh department, one of those legendary foremen who were brought up quite a few by new five-year plans. - When we bring them to a certain height, say, to one third, we will make a reliable overlap ... At the bottom, the heat builders will lay the masonry, and we will go up.

The offer was unexpected, even daring. But when we soberly weighed all the pros and cons, it turned out that such a combination of installation and refractory works gives a big gain in time. The headquarters supported Kryukov.

From the first days of construction, a stubborn struggle began for hours and minutes, for being ahead of schedule. It was very important, the responsibility was taken - to put the blast furnace into operation ahead of schedule, on December 10, 1973. In the saved time, metallurgists could produce 50 thousand tons of pig iron above the plan.

The fourth blast furnace is exactly twice as large as the first and second combined. Its volume is 2 thousand cubic meters. It is designed to produce one and a half million tons of pig iron per year. The fourth furnace complex comprises 40 large objects. The builders had to carry out a huge amount of earth, concrete and installation work. About 100 thousand cubic meters of concrete and prefabricated reinforced concrete, 26 thousand tons of metal structures, 8 thousand tons of technological equipment were laid and installed. More than 500 kilometers of electrical cables, pipelines and various underground communications have been laid underground. All this had to be done in the conditions of existing production in the blast furnace shop, on a relatively small site, where it was not easy to turn around. Simultaneously with the installation of the blast furnace and its units, reconstruction of many objects and communications of the entire blast furnace shop was carried out. Despite these difficulties, to which were added also the weather troubles, each department, section, brigade (and there were 220 of them here) worked ahead of schedule.

The construction site went on the "three whales" - they joke in Novotroitsk.

The first condition is installation in enlarged blocks prepared in advance on the ground. This is how the multi-ton belts of air heaters were mounted, and then the giant parts of the blast furnace body itself. Second, extensive mechanization of construction and assembly work. This made it possible to carry out construction at a high pace, to prevent downtime. And the third is a fighting, truly effective competition. Trusts and administrations, sectors and brigades competed among themselves. Each team had its own socialist obligations, just like each builder - personal. The party organization headed the competition. The communists set an example of fulfilling obligations.

Work on the complex did not stop for one hour. At night, the blast furnace, illuminated by powerful searchlights, was visible from afar. But this was not a festive illumination. The city knew that the fate of the builders' counter plan was being decided there - to commission the blast furnace not on December 10, as it was planned in the obligations, but already in November.

One after another, units and assemblies were handed over for commissioning. Voltage was accepted at all substations, testing of air heaters was completed, hot testing of the filling machine was completed, the charge supply system was checked, the blast furnace was put into drying - such messages were promptly received at the complex headquarters.

After carefully checking the work of all services, the state commission allowed to start loading the furnace. On November 17, the voice of the chief engineer of the plant V.G. Nekrasov sounded in the speakers:

All builders leave the foundry yard! Let's start downloading!

During the year, metallurgists also had a competition for the right to work at a new blast furnace, to participate in the first production of pig iron. The most experienced machinists Vyacheslav Sukhorukov, Nikolai Filenko, Viktor Prokopchenko worked at the charge supply, as, indeed, in other areas. Under their guidance, coke and agglomerate are stacked in the oven like a layer cake. At 13 hours 45 minutes on November 18 from the charge feed path they reported: "Loading finished!"

On the same day, in the office of Georgy Antonovich Sedach, director of the Orsk-Khalilovsk Metallurgical Combine, members of the state commission revised numerous documents on the readiness of the blast furnace and signed an act on acceptance of furnace No. 4 into operation. The command was sent to the control panel: "Blow out the blast furnace!" At 16 o'clock, the senior gasman, a member of the Novotroitsk city party committee, Dmitry Nikolaevich Popov, turned the key. Hot air rushed into the stove with frantic force ...

Hundreds of builders and installers came to the first production of pig iron, those who built and commissioned the blast furnace complex. The working positions were occupied by the senior foreman of the blast-furnace shop, Hero of Socialist Labor Nikolai Sergeevich Epifantsev, foreman Vladimir Baraikov, senior furnacemen Vladimir Romanenko, Alexander Tretyakov, gasman Anatoly Tolkachev, the son of the famous blast furnace operator Fyodor Ivanovich Tolkachev. Powerful electric drill cut the tap hole. A golden star flashed in the hole and a stream of molten metal poured down the trough in a cascade of sparks. The builders and blast furnaces warmly congratulated each other on the great labor victory.

This happened on November 19, 1973 at 15:25. The blast furnace began to provide the country with products six weeks ahead of schedule.

The launch of the largest blast furnace at the Orsk-Khalilovsk plant was a very important milestone in the history of Novotroitsk. The country generously appreciated the labor feat of builders and assemblers. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, more than 3,000 workers, engineers, technicians were awarded orders and medals for the early construction of the blast furnace, and the foreman of the complex brigade, Honored Builder of the Russian Federation Nikolai Sergeevich Kirienk and the manager of the Novotroitskmetallurgstroy trust, Pyotr Fedorovich Nikolayev, was awarded the title of Hero of the Socialist Party.

The entire young history of the city, which in the steppe region is called the Orenburg Magnitka, is full of such events. Rarely is a year issued when a large metallurgical unit, a new workshop, or even an entire plant would not be commissioned in Novotroitsk.

Novotroitsk is the second city in the Orenburg region, born on the basis of the discoveries of Soviet geologists. The first was Mednogorsk. But Novotroitsk confidently overtook him and is moving forward. The population of the city is approaching 100 thousand people. And Novotroitsk is only thirty years old.

It began in the pre-war years where in the eighteenth and nineteenth years the white and red regiments fought in severe fights, Soviet power was won in a fierce struggle. And to this day, on the slopes of the hilly ridge that lies between Orsk and Novotroitsk, they find traces of trenches, cartridge cases that have eaten away by time, fragments of shells that have not yet become corroded. As a memory of those days, there are obelisks around Novotroitsk.

By the road to Orsk, an obelisk with a flying seagull at the top and a sailor's cap lying at the foot is erected on a hillock. Not far from this place in 1918, the young commander of the 28th Ural Regiment, sailor Philip Ilyich Podzorov, died. On an armored car, together with two fellow sailors, Podzorov set off on reconnaissance in the direction of the village of Khabarnaya. We barely crossed the mountain when we ran into White Cossacks. In the heat of the battle, they did not notice how they flew into the urea. When the crew of the red armored car ran out of cartridges, the Cossacks grew bolder, came closer, offered to surrender.

The Bolsheviks don't give up! - shouted Podzorov.

Then the Dutovites surrounded the armored car with straw and set it on fire. Enemies were waiting for screams, requests for mercy. But from the flames they heard the words of the Internationale.

Another monument to Philip Podzorov and his comrades - an armored car on a pedestal stands in the city square opposite the entrance of the cement plant.

On the other side of Novotroitsk, on the crest of a hill, there is a ten-meter-high monument with a torch on top. On a silvery background, the inscription clearly stands out: "Scout Maria Koretskaya".

In the harsh August of the eighteenth year, from Aktyubinsk, where the Red troops retreated from Orenburg, a scout Maria Koretskaya came to Orsk besieged by the Dutovites. She informed the defenders of the city about the impending Dutov offensive and, having received information about the situation in Orsk, went to distant Orenburg. It was risky to go along the highway, and Maria made her way along country roads. But even there, Cossack outposts lay in wait for her everywhere. Maria more than once managed to lead the Cossacks around her finger, but then the unexpected happened - one Orenburg Cossack recognized her.

Knit her, - he shouted, - this is Manka Koretskova, the most Orenburg commissar.

Maria was driven to Khabarny, where the White Guard headquarters was located. For many days the White Cossacks mocked the captured scout, demanding to tell about the Red troops stationed in Orsk. Gritting her teeth painfully, Maria was silent.

And here she is standing by the side of the mountain in a torn white blouse with her hands tightly tied behind her back in front of the line of Dutovites. Calmly, the scout looks into the eyes of the executioners, not a shadow of fear on her face. At twenty-two, you don't want to think about death, even if it is nearby, a few steps away.
The bearded man commanded something, and the cold and merciless muzzles of the rifles looked into her eyes. Then, proudly raising her head, she shouted to the Cossacks:

You can't shoot everyone! Ours will take it anyway!

She wanted to say something else to these deceived Dutov people, but a volley interrupted her words ...

There is also a monument in the center of the village of Khabarny. On the face of the obelisk there are the names of Afanasy Lyamzin and Alexander Falkov. They are the first Komsomol members to be brutally killed by fists.

Where there is a city of metallurgists, there was in the past the village of Strong, and then a small village. It was founded by peasant settlers. In memory of the village of Troitskoye, from where they came to the South Urals, they named their settlement Novotroitskoye.

What did this village look like? The city museum contains a photograph - a dusty street, on both sides of the squat houses, half with flat clay roofs. Nowhere is there a tree or a bush, only wherever you look - everywhere feather grass panicles are silvery. In the snowy winters, all of Novotroitskoye was brought up to the rooftops. And when the stoves were stoked, huge drifts seemed to mysteriously smoke.

In 1929, geologist Iosif Leontievich Rudnitsky discovered deposits of brown iron ore to the north of the Khalilovo station. No one could have thought then that the fate of the village had already been decided, that time would pass and the drowsy silence would be awakened by the whistle of steam locomotives, that a new city would emerge here and the chimneys of the plant would smoke.

For several years Rudnitsky and his comrades continued to explore and study the Khalilovskoye deposit. It turned out that its area reaches two thousand square kilometers, and the thickness of the ore body at a shallow bedding, available for open-pit mining, reaches fifteen to twenty meters. The reservoir began at the borders of Bashkiria and stretched almost parallel to the meridian in two strips to the south, to the borders of Kazakhstan. The ore ended up with very valuable companions - nickel, chromium and manganese. This made it possible to smelt natural alloyed metal.

It was necessary to check how the Khalilov ore would behave in the blast furnace. Joseph Leontyevich went to Sverdlovsk, to the specialists of Vostokstal. Not without fear, they agreed to test the Khalilov ore at one of the old domains of the Verkhne-Turin plant. The blast furnaces of Verkhnyaya Tura accurately calculated the technological mode of the furnace operation on unfamiliar ore and at the appointed hour received the first naturally alloyed cast iron.

But those of little faith and skeptics still resisted. Then the Central Volga regional committee of the party wrote a detailed letter to the people's commissar of heavy industry. Ordzhonikidze replied with a telegram:

“Narkomtyazhprom shares and supports your point of view. Prepare urgently proposals on the rational use of ore reserves in the Orsk-Khalilov basin. "

In 1933, the institutes Gipromez and Giproruda developed a design assignment for the construction of the Khalilovsky metallurgical plant. It was proposed to build a mine, a sorting plant, a blast furnace and a rolling mill.

The first builders began to come to the then unknown village of Novotroitsky. At the Orsk station, the first carriages with building materials, tents, and food were unloaded. There was nothing to deliver all this to the site. The first construction manager Stepan Korshun found a way out. He went to the nearest auls, with the help of a teacher who knows the Kazakh language, told people about the construction site, about its needs. And the next day a caravan of camels departed from the Orsk station, loaded with cargo for the construction site.

The construction site was taking its first timid steps. Later, it expanded to its full extent.

In those years, one of the famous captains of the Soviet industry, the old communist Sergei Mironovich Frankfurt, was the Commissioner of the People's Commissariat for Construction in the Orsk District. In July 1936, he personally delivered to Ordzhonikidze samples of nickel smelted in Orsk in reflective furnaces of a pilot plant. The director of the Moscow Automobile Plant I.A.Likhachev, who was present at the same time, asked Frankfurt:

When will you give me Khalilovsky cast iron? I overuse 30 percent of the metal without alloyed cast iron ...

And now it depends more on Grigory Konstantinovich, - Frankfurt smiled, - we are ready to start building the plant even today.

Insatiable Frankfurt we have, - Ordzhonikidze laughed. - He doesn't have enough construction projects. Serve one more. Well, well, you will get it soon.

Taking a paper from a drawer, he handed it to Frankfurt. It was an order to develop control figures for the construction of a ferrous metallurgy giant like Magnitogorsk in the Orsk region.

On October 22, 1936, by order of Ordzhonikidze, the Orskhalilstroy trust was created. SM Frankfurt was appointed its managing director. The institutes resumed designing, but now not just a plant, but a large combine.

"To master the smelting and to introduce into production as much as possible low-alloy steels, primarily from natural-alloyed cast irons at the ores of the Khalilovskoye and other deposits ..."

"To begin construction of new metallurgical plants in the South Urals (at the Khalilov and Bakal ores)."

The first tents of the builders were erected on the hillside, and the barracks settlement Maksai grew up. In other places, the tarpaulin villages of Stroygorodok and Yurga appeared. Carpenters, namesakes Semyon and Nikita Pankratovs, together with other new settlers, set up the first tents here.

A production base for the construction of the plant was created. All forces were thrown into the construction of woodworking and brick factories, a concrete unit, the preparation of sand and stone quarries, and the construction of housing.

The party organization of the construction site raised people to the competition, urged every builder to overlap the norms. In those days, the Komsomol member Katya Belomyttseva worked very well. The first of the girls, she mastered the profession of a carpenter and began to teach others.

At that time, there was one truck for the whole construction site - a lorry with a gas generator engine. Most often, the necessary materials were brought by horses, camels, and even donkeys. There was not a single tower crane. The main mechanisms were winches and jibs, but they were also lacking.

Where Club Square is now, there was then a pillar with the only loudspeaker in the entire district. People came here to listen to music, to find out what the world breathes. One hot summer day, the transmission was interrupted. And then Levitan spoke. And he said a few words: “This is Moscow speaking! All radio stations of the Soviet Union are working! " Then he repeated these words again. And still not knowing anything, everyone understood that some kind of trouble had struck. A few minutes later, from tent to tent, from dugout to dugout, a terrible word rushed: "war."

The construction crews were thinned. But the rest gave their word to work for two, for three. People were malnourished, lacked sleep, but they worked really heroically. The carpenter Semyon Romanovich Pankratov together with his brother Fyodor decided to fulfill two norms a day for himself and two more norms for his brother Tikhon, who fought at the front. They worked from dark to dark, while the hands held the ax. We brought the production up to 10 norms per day for housing construction. Together, in a day, they completely assembled the roof of the house. Previously, six carpenters did the same job in three days. But their record did not last long. Andrey Esin and his partner for daylight hours fulfilled the norm by 1100 percent. Such development was not known yet at construction sites. Such masters were then called home front guards, and they were very proud of it.

In the summer of 1942, the construction of the first shops of the metallurgical plant began. More than 24 million rubles were spent by the end of the year. The builders laid the foundations for the refractory, molding and mechanical shops, and began the construction of auxiliary facilities. There was not enough people, building materials, equipment. But the construction site lived on, it got out of the zero cycle. Settlements grew along with production facilities. On the site of the first tents, the construction of two-storey residential buildings began on Gorky and Pushkin streets.

The Komsomol committee was located in an unfinished barrack, without a ceiling, - recalls one of the first Komsomol members of the city, Klavdiya Nikitin, - the youth had no other premises. Meetings and classes of amateur art circles took place right there.

Once the secretary of the party committee, AS Biryukov, entered the committee. He looked and said:

Closely, closely live. It is necessary to spend youth evenings in a real club.

But he is not.

If you hope that someone will build it for you, you will have to wait a long time. You understand that now we do not have the strength for this. And there is no money either. But we will find materials for the club. And if the Komsomol members take it as they should, then how great it would be to celebrate the 25th anniversary of October in their club ...

Let's take it! Let's do it! - everyone who was then in the committee spoke in unison.

The next day, all the youth of the construction site came to an open Komsomol meeting. The agenda was called: "About the club". AS Biryukov made a presentation. It was short: if every boy and girl contributes to the construction of the club, we will be able to build it in a few months. In the decision, they wrote down: celebrate the holiday on November 7 in the club.

This was the very first Komsomol construction project in the city. After the shift, the guys hurried to the construction site of the club and worked for two or three, or even four hours. Often they caught the night time. But how much joy there was when the club was built and at the holiday the first kind word was said about the Komsomol members, about the young builders.

May 31, 1943. Old-timers remember this day well. The first workshop of the plant was put into operation - a refractory one. Then the builders presented the children with the first school.

On August 11, the first plenum of the Novotroitsk District Party Committee took place. The first issue of the newspaper "Guardsman of Labor" was published.

One of the old residents of Novotroitsk, a worker, artist, communist, author of almost all the city's monuments and just a good man, Grigory Nastich told me how difficult it was for the young city to get on its feet. The first maternity ward was located in a dugout. And when they managed to carve out a part of the barracks under the maternity hospital, the doctors were just happy. The first "ambulance" rode around the city on a horse harnessed to a light sled, and in the summer - to a spring tarantass. The first pupils of Novotroitsk studied in a barrack made of adobe. The station was located in a railway carriage.

By the spring of 1945, the population of Novotroitsk reached 17 thousand people. The construction of a cogeneration plant and coke oven batteries was in full swing, and the construction of a molding and forging workshops was nearing completion.

From now on, a rare year here goes without a major event.

1946 year. Construction of the largest cement plant in the South Urals began.

1950 year. The first boiler was put into operation at the CHPP under construction.

1951 year. The preparation of the site for the construction of the blast furnace shop began.

1952 year. The first three-storey building was built on the central street of Sovetskaya.

1953 year. The by-product coke plant was commissioned. The first four coke oven batteries began to produce products.

1954 year. The crushing and sorting plant of the Akkermanovsky mine was commissioned for permanent operation.

1955, March 5. This day can be considered the birthday of the metallurgical plant - blast furnace No. 1 produced the first pig iron. There were no blast furnaces in Novotroitsk yet. Fyodor Ivanovich Tolkachev, a famous metallurgist in the Urals, came here from Nizhny Tagil, and Ivan Frantsevich Trubko from Novokuznetsk. They prepared the most complex unit for launch, transferred the skills to the first crews of furnaces.

The Novokievsky and Akkermanovsky mines began to issue raw materials for the Orsko-Khalilovsky metallurgical plant.

A cement plant was commissioned.

1956 year. On a holiday on November 7, metallurgists first arrived for their shift in brand new tram cars. The first line stretched from the construction technical school to the by-product coke plant.

This year has been special. Seven blast furnaces were built on 15 1958 in our country. All of them were the same in volume, and therefore a combat competition unfolded between the builders - whose furnace would give out pig iron earlier.

On the night before the new year, 1958, the excavator driver Yevgeny Berdnikov took the first ladle out of the pit for the foundations of the new blast furnace. A few days later, the Komsomol meeting of Domenstroy decided to start a competition for the early start-up of the furnace by September 15. Novotroitsk city Komsomol organization took patronage over the construction site. The initiative of the Komsomol members of the young city was approved by the regional committee of the Komsomol and the regional party committee. A Komsomol headquarters headed by Vladimir Maksimenko was created on the site. And from the first day a small house with a red flag above the roof became a real military headquarters. Brigadiers and chiefs of sections came here, the manager of the trust, Alexander Nikolaevich Svistunov, who would later be awarded the Lenin Prize.

At each site of the construction, the headquarters had their posts, they promptly reported about the heroes of the day, and about any disorder. The headquarters immediately released "lightning", "traffic jams", "alarms", "cold flushes". Such operational leaflets with biting caricatures worked sometimes better than the most severe penalties.

You will get into the "cold wash", then you will run for a week like scalded, - the builders joked.

But the main thing is that the headquarters, the Komsomol committees raised the heroes of the construction site high. Every day the radio center of the headquarters spoke - the best programs were devoted to labor exploits, the wall press and newspapers of Novotroitsk, Orenburg and Moscow told about them.

A hurricane wind cut the wires of the high-voltage line at night. The supply of energy to the quarry has ceased. A storm raged in the steppe. And then volunteers came to the track - it was impossible to allow the supply of rubble to be interrupted - the concrete plant would stop, all plans would be thwarted. The fierce wind knocked him off his feet and threw handfuls of prickly snow in his face. But the electricians Boris Bogdanov, Semyon Litsin, Alexander Ryzhov, falling down to the waist, wandered from mast to mast until they found a break. They connected the ends, dragged the heavy wire to the mast. Boris began to slowly climb up to a ten-meter height. Gusts of wind more than once almost threw him to the ground. The icy breath of the cold burned. A heavy wire pulled to the ground. But the electrician stubbornly moved towards the goal and did not go down until he fixed the wire at the top. The guys then rubbed Boris's frostbitten fingers with snow for a long time.

Every day of construction was celebrated with exploits. Labor enthusiasm pushed deadlines to the limit. Already on August 9, the oven was put to dry. And on the night of August 27, at 4 hours 7 minutes, the chief foreman of the blast-furnace shop, Hero of Socialist Labor, F.I.Tolkachev, opened the gate of cold and hot blast. Hundreds of people were waiting all night for this moment. The second Komsomol was blown out 35 days ahead of schedule.

No sooner had the house builders left the oven than appeals appeared on the streets of Novotroitsk: "We will declare the construction of the 2800 mill as a shock Komsomol construction site!"

The day came when the Komsomol members of Novotroitsk sent a report to Moscow: "With a feeling of great joy we report to the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Soviet government, the Central Committee of the Komsomol and our heroic people that the Komsomol rolling mill OHMK on March 29, 1960 gave the Motherland the first steel sheet." The Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR and the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation congratulated the mill builders on a major production victory.

Then the 1120 blooming mill, new open-hearth furnaces and coke oven batteries, blast furnaces No. 3 and 4, large billet mill 950/800 were put into operation.

In the ninth five-year plan, the Orsk-Khalilovskiy Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the metallurgical plant produces almost as much metal per year as it was given in 1913 by all Russian factories.

Completely new enterprises also appeared in Novotroitsk. The Chromium Compounds Plant produces several types of very valuable chemical products. Recently, by the efforts of the plant's staff, a complex of facilities for the production of lead crown - raw materials for the paint and varnish industry was built here. The production of other substances very necessary for the national economy has been considerably increased.

Almost a year ahead of schedule, the builders of Novotroitskmetallurgstroy put into operation a complex of a poultry farm - one of the largest in the region.

Where there were once the first tents and dugouts - a new construction industry enterprise is being built on Maksai - the largest silicate brick plant in the Orenburg region. It will produce 120 million bricks per year.

For each of these objects, the selfless work of thousands of builders and installers of the renowned team of one of the oldest and most powerful construction organizations in the region - the Novotroitskmetallurgstroy trust. It is with their hands that a young and beautiful city was built, stretched out on a narrow strip that stretches parallel to the blue ribbon of the Urals.

Particularly beautiful is the Soviet, the main thoroughfare of the city. It swung nearly seven kilometers - from the automobile and railway stations to the western outskirts, energetically advancing on the steppe in bulk of multi-storey buildings. Sovetskaya connects the Pryvokzalnaya, Parkovaya, Lenin squares and the new square, which does not yet have a name.

On Lenin Square there is a massive building of the first large-format cinema "Ekran" in the region. And on the opposite side in the center of the green square rises the monument "Forever Alive". Here the flame of eternal fire beats, people come here to honor the memory of their fellow countrymen who gave their lives for their Motherland.

On Sovetskaya there is the largest hotel in the city, the Metallurgists' Palace of Culture, a hospital town, a park, the stadium of the Metallurg sports club, a construction college, a training center, and numerous shops.

Not only Soviet is beautiful. There are many green, well-maintained streets. And among them there are those who are named after the builders of the city. These are Svistunov and Cheremnykh streets.

Wonderful people live in this city. The most honored of them were awarded the title of honorary citizens of Novotroitsk. The oldest geologist of the Orenburg region, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, Joseph Leontyevich Rudnitsky, was the first to receive this high title, whose discoveries gave life to the city. This amazing person has a truly legendary biography. He worked in the Odessa underground together with Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky and Vaclav Vatslavovich Vorovsky. For his revolutionary activities he was exiled to Siberia. He worked at a gold mine, then became its first red director. After graduating from the mining institute, he came to the Orenburg steppes for several months and stayed here forever. In the Orsko-Khalilovsky region, he discovered several large deposits that gave birth to new factories and cities.

The oldest builder, one of those who laid the first stones of Novotroitsk, Hero of Socialist Labor Pyotr Naumovich Gubin, is crowned with the ribbon of the Honorary Citizen.

Here lived a notable blast furnace operator of our country, Hero of Socialist Labor Fyodor Ivanovich Tolkachev. He blew out about two dozen blast furnaces in his life, including the first, second and third at the Orsk-Khalilovsky metallurgical plant. Once in Novotroitsk, I heard a phrase said with pride: "All over the Urals, the Tolkachevs stand by the stoves." And this is really so - from Novotroitsk to Nizhny Tagil, the sons and grandsons of Fyodor Ivanovich are on fire.

Heroes of Socialist Labor, senior foreman of the blast-furnace shop Nikolai Sergeevich Epifantsev and crane operator Nina Ivanovna Bulat, work at the plant. In the Novotroitskmetallurgstroy trust, the Hero of Socialist Labor, the foreman of the complex brigade, Nikolai Kiriyonok, works.

Among those who have recently received high government awards are steelmaker Nikolai Kirillovich Bayanov, press operator of the metallurgical plant Nina Vasilievna Antipova, senior apparatus operator of the chromium compounds plant Boris Petrovich Serdyuk, rotary kiln operator of the cement plant Yuri Andreevich Razumov and many others.

The people of Novotroitsk generously share their rich experience not only with the collectives of other factories, but also with foreign friends.

On Stroiteley Square, where a monument to those who laid the first foundations of the city and the plant is erected, there is a beautiful three-storey building of vocational school No. 5. Here, for more than ten years, young men and women from Mongolia and the Soviet Union have been studying construction skills together. About two thousand qualified builders who studied in Novotroitsk are already working on construction sites in fraternal Mongolia.

Today Novotroitsk is in the forests of new buildings, - says the chairman of the city Council of Working People's Deputies Leonid Sidorovich Shchur. - Construction is especially intensive in the southwestern region. Over time, it will be one of the most beautiful residential areas. An excellent House of Culture of Builders has already been settled here, the first nine-story houses in the city have been built. The public center of the city is also being created there. The monumental building of the House of Soviets will rise on a large square. A metallurgical technical school complex will be built at the intersection of Sovetskaya and Komarova streets. Many new houses and cultural and service buildings will appear in the districts that we have somehow got used to calling old, although in general everything is still young in our city. Already now Novotroitsk is one of the most comfortable and beautiful cities in the Orenburg region. Residents of the city will spare no effort to make it even more beautiful in the future.

Literature:

1. VG Altov "The cities of the Orenburg region". Chelyabinsk, South Ural pr. publishing house, 1974.254 p. with silt.

October 29, 2013 marks the 95th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union. This organization can be treated in different ways. But it cannot be denied that the Komsomol became a significant milestone in the biography of millions of our compatriots. “This is our biography with you,” say those who wore the Komsomol badge on their chests, who, rightfully walking in front, were the first to build roads and cities, to develop virgin lands and the North Pole.

Starting countdown
The official date of birth of the Komsomol is October 29, 1918. From October 29 to November 4, 1918, the First All-Russian Congress of Workers 'and Peasants' Youth was held in Moscow. The Russian Communist Youth Union was created on it. And then Komsomol organizations began to be created throughout the country. They were entrusted with social, political and ideological work with young people, involving them in the revolutionary movement, and later - active participation in the construction of the young Soviet state.
Already in June 1919, the II provincial party conference was held in the Orenburg province, at which a decision was made to create the Communist Youth Union.
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The history of the Komsomol organization of Novotroitsk begins its account as early as the 20s of the XX century, when the battles of the civil war died down on the Orenburg land. And the names of the first Komsomol members were included in the chronicle of our city.

Let's flip through the pages of the history of the Novotroitsk Komsomol organization.
1918th
Maria Koretskaya did not manage to become a Komsomol member: she died heroically in August 1918, two months before the creation of the Russian Komsomol. But if she had stayed alive, she would have certainly been among the first Komsomol members. In memory of this brave girl, on July 10, 1966, the city's Komsomol members on the funds earned from the Komsomol subbotniks, according to the project of G.V. Nastich, erected a ten-meter monument with a torch on top. On a silver-colored background, the inscription clearly stands out: “ Scout Maria Koretskaya».
Such a short life
In the harsh August of the eighteenth year, from Aktyubinsk, where the red troops retreated from Orenburg, a reconnaissance officer Maria Koretskaya came to Orsk besieged by the Dutovites. She informed the defenders of the city about the impending offensive and, having received information about the situation in Orsk, went to distant Orenburg. It was risky to walk along the highway, and Maria made her way through country roads, although even there she was trapped by Cossack outposts, which she successfully passed. But the unexpected happened: one Orenburg Cossack recognized her.
- Knit her, - he shouted, - this is Manka Koretskova, the most Orenburg commissar.
Maria was driven to Khabarny, where the White Guard headquarters was located. For many days, the White Cossacks mocked the scout, demanding to tell about the Reds who were in Orsk. Gritting her teeth painfully, Maria was silent.
... And here she is standing at the slope of the mountain in a torn white blouse with her hands tightly tied behind her back in front of a line of Dutovites. Calmly looks into the eyes of the executioners, not a shadow of fear on her face. At twenty-two, you don't want to think about death, even if it is nearby, a few steps away. The bearded man commanded something, and I looked into her eyes with the cold and merciless muzzles of rifles. Then, proudly raising her head, she shouted to the Cossacks:
- You can't shoot everyone! Ours will take it anyway!
She wanted to say something else to these deceived Dutov people, but a volley interrupted her words ...
Forever in the Komsomol
After the end of the civil war, peasant settlers from land-poor regions, mainly in the western part of the country, came to our region. It was they who founded the farm here, naming it after the village of Troitsk, where they came from, Novo-Troitsky. There were also young people among them. The first Komsomol members were part of the Komsomol cell of the village of Khabarny. As representatives of the new government, they carried out a new policy of the country on the spot. The year 1929 became a landmark in the history of our region in the revolutionary upheaval in the countryside - the collectivization of agriculture. Komsomol members were active assistants of the communists in the struggle for a new life. It was difficult for them then. The kulaks did their best to preserve the old order in the village. Fiercely resisting Soviet power, they went to extreme measures: intimidated peasants, set fire to public buildings, beat and even killed young activists.
The Komsomol members were not afraid of kulak bullets: they boldly entered the battle for a better future. In the village of Khabarny, such were Alexander Falkov and Afanasy Lyamzin. Growing up in families of poor people, they were the first to join the Komsomol in November 1928, and became leaders of the youth of their native village.
Together with the communists, the guys discovered bread hidden by their kulaks, took care of every kilogram of grain handed over to the state, and advocated the deprivation of the kulaks of the suffrage. Komsomol members tried to persuade all the youth of the village to their side.
84 years ago, on June 23, the kulaks brutally dealt with the first Komsomol members. The religious population celebrated Trinity. The atheistically minded young people celebrated the church holiday in their own way. The accordion played merrily. Ditties, in which witty guys ridiculed the kulaks, were carried far away. The fun was in full swing when a drunken company of kulak sons appeared from the direction of the village.
The metallic sheen of the knives did not escape Alexander Falkov. He calmly met Andrei Yakovlev's dim eyes.
Another persecution of the poor man began. The fists tried to provoke Falkov into a scandal. Alexander did not let the enemies descend.
“All of you Komsomol members must be beaten,” someone shouted. Yakovlev stuck a knife into Falkov. Alexander's heart stopped.
Afanasy Lyamzin was quiet, modest, but he could not leave a friend in trouble. Resolutely he made his way through the circle of numb fellow villagers. A terrible blow to the stomach also stopped Lyamzin. A little alive they brought him home under the arms. Athanasius was bleeding. It was impossible to save him. By evening, the Komsomol member died.
Falkov and Lyamzin were buried in a mass grave. The killers were arrested and severely punished.
In 1957, Komsomol members erected a memorial at the grave of Falkov and Lyamzin. After 12 years, it was reconstructed. Students of school №4 take care of the monument.
Less than a year was the Komsomol experience of Alexander Falkov and Afanasy Lyamzin during their lifetime. In 1975, by the decision of the Novotroitsk city committee of the Komsomol, they were forever enlisted in the lists of the city Komsomol organization.

Prepared
Antonina OVSYANNIKOVA.
Photo from the archive. Monument to Maria Koretskaya. Monument to A. Lyamzin and A. Falkov in the village of Khabarny.

This will be the last part, the final one. Here I will tell you about how we collected information from local residents and the administration in the village of Khabarnoe, and of course we examined the area nearby, even found a gravestone of the former chieftain near the church in the old cemetery. We ran a little over the mountains, the view from the mountains is simply amazing, beautiful))
There will even be a little romantic story :)

Village history:
The settlement emerged at the end of the 18th century as the Khabarny redoubt. Here, to the south, closer to the Urals, the redoubt was moved from the Razboyki River of the Orenburg military border line. A postal road from Orenburg to Orsk passed here, hence the name - "khabar", which means "news" (Turkic origin).

Redoubt Razboiny was part of the Krasnogorsk distance of the Verkhne-Yaitskaya line. The Orsk distance also belonged to the same line. Krasnogorsk distance was made up of the following fortifications: Nizhinsky and Vyazovsky redoubts, Ozernaya fortress, Nikolsky redoubt, Ilyinskaya fortress, Podgorny redoubt, Guberlinskaya fortress and Razboyny redoubt.

In the redoubts and outposts there were military teams mainly in the summer, and in the winter there were very small garrisons.

In 1773-1774, during the first period of the Pugachev uprising, this area remained in the hands of government troops almost to the Ilyinskaya fortress. Major General Stanislavsky, who was on his way from the Orsk fortress to help the garrison of the Ilinskaya fortress, in his report to the Orenburg governor Reinsdorp of December 4, 1773, said: “In one Rogue Redoubt there are three huts, in which a major general, headquarters officers, chief officers and privates were accommodated alternately and were heated by laid out lights. "

The map of the Orenburg province (published by A. Ilyin, 1910) shows the Khabarnynsky farm (aside from the Urals) and Khabarny (almost on the Ural banks). In 1805-1806, Cossacks from Chebarkul village (now Chelyabinsk region) were forcibly resettled to the Khabarny detachment, as well as to the Guberlin fortress. An interesting legend was recorded in Khabarny in 1890 from a 78-year-old resident Fyodor Mikhailovich Lyamzin: “... Chebarkul Cossacks were sent to settle and, reluctantly resettling, they staged resistance in Chebarkul, even women armed themselves with grabs and pokers and settled in the reeds on the island ... Two companies of infantry and a gun were required. One company drove them out of the reeds, while the other performed the execution with rods. They were punished because the harvest spoke of soil fertility and took away an extra trump card in favor of returning to their old native places. "

From the Khabarny redoubt, only the name "Mayachny Mountain" has survived. The name of the Plakunka river speaks of the past military border significance of the village. There was a guard observation post on Mayachnaya Gora. Plakunka is a small stream flowing into the Urals. In those days, Kazakh cattle-breeders were transported in detachments to the right bank of the Urals and stole with them the cattle from the inhabitants of Khabarny, and sometimes people. And so, supposedly here, on Plakunka, Russian women, taken by the Kazakhs to the steppe, said goodbye to their homes, shedding bitter tears.

And here is another legend. The village's old resident Pyotr Ivanovich Gugnin (born in about 1890) believed that the name “Plakunka” arose simply from the name of the Cossack Plaksin, who fished in these places.

The postal road from Orenburg to Orsk passed through the settlements of Nezhinsky, Kamenno-Ozernaya, Vyazovsky, det. Krasnogorsky, Giryalsky, st. Verkhne-Ozernaya, neg. Nikolsky, Art. Ilyinskaya, neg. Podgorny, neg. Guberlinsky, neg. Khabarny, Orsk. This was the only road that ran along the Ural River in its floodplain.

But part of the road leading from Orsk to Orenburg, the so-called "Tsar's Road", passed along the Guberle River, among the steep rocky mountains, north of Khabarny, along a gorge known as the "Tsarskoye Gorge". Here, a wall was laid with a stone in the most dangerous places, steep slopes.

Khabarnoye was located within the territory of the Orenburg Cossack army and belonged to the village as the Khabarny detachment.

On September 9-10, the defenders of Orsk launched a raid on the headquarters in Khabarny from the side of the Silnova farm and from the left bank of the Urals. The result of this raid was the seizure of some staff documents and ammunition. The command, officers and privates of the 14th Cossack regiment fled from an unexpected raid without resistance, retreating from Khabarny.

Through Khabarny, down and up the Urals, the Cossack regiments passed, then the detachments of the "red".

So, on March 3, 1918, the 15th Ural Cossack Regiment (under the command of Chertykovtsev) passed through Khabarny, where negotiations were held with representatives of the Orsk City Council.

In May 1918, a detachment of the "red" Cossacks under the command of N.A. was passing through Khabarny down the Urals. Kashirin, heading to Orenburg.

Here, on August 14, 1918, Maria Petrovna Koretskaya, a scout of the "red" detachments, was shot. By order of the command from Aktyubinsk, she made her way to the besieged Orsk in July, and then went to Orenburg. On the way, in the Khabarny area, the White Cossacks identified her, took her to the headquarters, interrogations and tortures of the twenty-two-year-old intelligence officer lasted for several days. She was shot on the outskirts of the village.

Well, of course photos:

It feels like a real village ... the boys are playing war, the roosters are running around))

We stopped by to visit Maria Timofeevna Lyamzina, she is the grand-niece of the Cossack P.I. Goognin. The last one left from the indigenous inhabitants of the village.
We learned a lot of interesting things from her, but did not tell much, people of the Soviet era were brought up so that they are still afraid to talk about those times.
Long life to her ..

They even wrote about her in the book

then we decided to stop by the local church, right next to it is the old cemetery.

At the cemetery they found the tombstone of Ataman Alexander Pavlovich Deryshev, born on November 15, 1826, died on September 6, 1861.

And this is already on the wall in the administration building.

Reading a book about the village :)

And this is a local resident :)

I went for a walk in the mountains :)

I ran to the top pretty quickly

Anton decided to go on exploration to her, at the same time he will meet :))

Waiting for Anton))

he decided to go around from the rear, but she noticed him)

So we met))

In general, it was found out that she walks in the mountains to lose weight), often walks like that, lives here for a long time and she is about 15 years old))

Nature always spoils different factories

And these mountains are already on the side of Kazakhstan abroad

Some bright colors

Our search squad

The road to the forest, most likely to the border

Our Russian flag was seen on the side of Kazakhstan, probably our border guards were joking :)

And this is a monument to the red scout Maria Koretskaya, who was shot by whites at the age of 22.

Camp.

We sort the finds, as usual most of all.

Beautiful buttons used to be

Medallion for works on the first population census, Sarmatian arrowhead and pectoral cross.

Bullets from the Berdan rifle, large and heavy, it is scary to think what kind of injuries a person had when hit.

When they found it was bent inward, straightened as best they could))

Nikolay 2

On the way back, we stopped at Giryal, gave some of the finds to the museum to Alexander Khopreninov, he was very happy to see us, gave him the finds, grunting little stacks :) and talked like life in the village used to be, oh there were times ...
The village still has a monument to soldiers who did not return from the war.

And lastly, our search party