Small cities of Russia, how little we know about them. It seems that at the end of the 20th century life there completely stopped. Everything is ruined, people leave their apartments and go to megacities. Moscow becomes a special magnet. It is like a vacuum cleaner sucks in the entire population with a radius of more than 200 km. Life beyond the MKAD should stop.
But, in the 21st century, the soul of small towns suddenly comes to life again. This is clearly seen in the example of Naro-Fominsk, today the regional center of the Moscow Region in the South-West, located just 53 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, on the M-3 highway.
History of education
Where the city of Naro-Fominsk is located, at the beginning of the XIV century there was a large village: the will of Ivan Kalita mentioned the hereditary Nara. Later, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich gave it to the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery.
During the First World War, Napoleon, with the main part of the army, stops here after fleeing from devastated Moscow. This is mentioned by the famous work "War and Peace."
The beginning of the 19th century was marked by the active development of trade in the territory of the Russian Empire. There is a factory production. At this time, the small village of Nara was leaving to the rich landowner D.P. Skuratov, who, together with his partner N.D. Lukin, organized a paper spinning factory. This event for many years determined the fate of the settlement.
By the beginning of World War II, it is already a city with a population of just over 30 thousand people.
City of Military Glory
In the places where the city of Naro-Fominsk is located, in the fall of 1941, according to the Wehrmacht, the main blow was to happen: the Nazis were eager for Moscow. Army Group Center managed to keep this direction: from mid-October to early December, fierce battles were fought here. The threat of surrender of the city hung. But, already on December 6, under the blows of the Soviet army, the occupier had to move away from the city. And on December 26, the Red Army went on the offensive.
58 years after the heroic events, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree granting Naro-Fominsk the honorary title perpetuating the memory of the defenders - “City of Military Glory”.
The post-war reconstruction was not easy in the places where Naro-Fominsk is located. However, by 1976, there were no dilapidated buildings in the city. New comfortable neighborhoods have grown. Unfortunately, in the 90s ruin and devastation came again. Almost all production was stopped. Life has stopped.
Present day
By the end of the first decade of the new century, the city began to come to life. Today it is the new Naro-Fominsk where the meat processing plant and the dairy factory are located. Also successfully working here:
- Naro-Fominsky house-building plant;
- knitting factory;
- Keralit LLC;
- LLC Ball Beverage Packaging Naro-Fominsk;
- Naro-Fominsk Machine-Building Plant;
- Naro-Fominsk Plant of Plastics.
With the advent of jobs, the dynamics of population decline stopped at around 62 thousand people.
Naro-Fominsk is being improved, new residential areas are being built.
Regular bus routes, serviced by comfortable cars, connect the city with Moscow. Also, the capital can be reached by high-speed train.