Dmitriev-Lgovsky , as the locals call him, never officially bore this name. According to all the documents in the Kursk region, the city of Dmitriyev is on the river Swap. It occupies a small area of only 8 km 2 , and today there are less than 7 thousand people living there. But these 7 thousand are very fond of their small and quiet town, take care of its past, preserve the memory of their countrymen and support traditions.
Today, the head of the city is a young leader. A group of enthusiasts has created a great site that helps local residents not only get the information they need, but also to keep abreast of all city news, discuss exciting moments, get answers to questions. Undoubtedly, such a guide is the best guide for tourists who come here. In Dmitriev-Lgovsky there are very active youth who do not allow their city to age.
From Prophetic Oleg to ...
The fortress on the right bank of Swapa was erected in the 9th century to protect the lands of the Old Russian principality, which was at hand of Oleg, nicknamed the Prophet. From here begins the history of the city.
The internecine wars of the Russian princes, the raids of the Polovtsy and other nomadic tribes erased the settlement from the face of the earth, it was rebuilt again. Khan Batu, who “walked with fire and sword” through the lands of Russia, did not spare him.
Only in the 17th century did a new settlement rise from the ruins, called Dmitrievskoe, which, by decree of Catherine the Great, was granted the status of the city and the name Dmitriev-on-Swap (to distinguish it from Dmitrovsk, Oryol province) at the end of the 18th century . Later, only Dmitriev of the Lgovsky district remained.
The city grew and developed. The main income residents received from animal husbandry and agriculture. Constructed factories for the processing of their products: oil mill, flour mill, peas. At the end of the 19th century, a railway was laid near the city, which together with the waterway gave a new impetus to the growth of production and trade. A female gymnasium opened, a hospital was built.
Soviet authority
If factories worked in the city, then there was the proletariat. The revolutionary movement of 1905, which stirred up Russia, did not pass by Dmitriev-Lgovsky . The peasants smashed the manor houses, took the bread, chopped wood. The uprising was crushed by the incoming troops.
In December 1917 the power of the Soviets came. In the first Soviet years, social life revived. Gradually, everything went its way: enterprises worked, bread was sown, five-year plans were implemented and exceeded. Two cinemas, several schools, a pedagogical school worked in the city.
War
The Germans entered the city of Dmitriyev-Lgovsky, Kursk region on October 8, 1941. The destruction of people and their homes has begun. They led everyone to the shootings, spared neither old nor small.
Four days after the start of the occupation, the Dmitrievsky detachment stood up to fight the invaders, turning the city into the center of the partisan movement in the Kursk region. Gaining experience, the partisans made increasingly bold attacks, destroying the Nazis in their rear, distracting the forces and equipment of the enemy from the front. The population of the occupied regions in every possible way helped the partisans, their fathers and grandfathers, husbands and brothers. The city was liberated in March 1943.
Many residents of a small town went to the front in the early days of the war and defended their country there. Fifteen Dmitrievites became Heroes of the Soviet Union, two became full holders of the Orders of Glory.
The modern city of Dmitriyev-Lgovsky
After the war, the ruined city was completely restored, rather, built anew. In a modern, but still small and calm town, several enterprises operate, including Dmitriyevkonserva, a hospital, the House of Culture, an agricultural technical school, schools, and kindergartens. The newspaper Dmitrievsky Vestnik is published.
Tourists have something to see. The city has several monuments to the heroes of the front. Of course, there are monuments to the partisans, and the church of Dimitry of Solunsky, in whose honor the city was named, and the Museum of Local Lore named after A.F. Wangenheim.
The famous fellow countryman of the Dmitrievites - A.F. Wangenheim
Anatoly Feodosievich lived from 1881 to 1937. He is known to us as the man who organized and headed the USSR Weather Bureau, which today is called Roshydromet. Shortly after his birth, his father, Theodosius Petrovich, a national teacher and a famous meteorologist, moved his family to an estate located in the Dmitrievsky district of the Kursk province. There he equipped a weather station, where, together with his grown-up son, he made observations and conducted experiments.
Anatoly, after graduating from high school, entered the Moscow University, where he joined the Bolshevik party. For participation in student unrest, he was expelled and imprisoned for six months, and then sent to exile in the estate to his father. Later, he completed his studies at both the university and the agricultural institute.
The revolution of 1917 was immediately accepted with all my heart and was appointed inspector of public education in Dmitriev-Lgovsky .
Two years later, the museum of “homeland studies” organized by him was opened there, which has been working and bears his name to this day.
In 1922, returning to his main activity, he moved to Petrograd, where he held high managerial posts. In 1934 he was arrested as an "enemy of the people", sent to Solovki. In 1937 he was shot and buried in the mass grave of the Sandarmokh cemetery near Medvezhyegorsk.
Dmitriev-Lgovsky, Kursk region of Russia, keeps a memory of his fellow countryman, giving his name to the museum of local lore founded by him.