Teriberka is a village located in the Murmansk Region, on the Kola Peninsula. The village is located near the confluence of the river of the same name in the Barents Sea. Once it was a working village, but in the nineties the enterprises closed, local residents lost their jobs and gradually began to leave their homes. Teriberka was transformed into a village, which today is in a rather poor state.
Nevertheless, tourists often come here. What draws them to these godforsaken places? Are there any attractions in Teriberka ? Or the charm of these places only in the wild and remoteness from the big city?
First settlement
As already mentioned, there is a village on the banks of the Teriberka River. It is easy to guess that people who appeared here several centuries ago were engaged in fishing. It is known that the first settlement arose in the 17th century. But then, of course, there were very few people here. In 1608, no more than six families lived on the territory of modern Teriberka . The Murmansk region borders on Finland and Norway, and therefore the residents of these places did not always live in peace. In 1623, the village was attacked by a military squadron, but not Finnish and not Norwegian, but Danish. Opponents drove the Russian army deeper into the mainland, seized supplies and destroyed trophy boats.
Teriberka in the 19th century
Restlessly, the inhabitants of the camp lived two hundred years later. In 1809, the settlement was burned by the British. However, after 14 years it was restored, and it became one of the best in the Murmansk region. In the middle of the XIX century, the active settlement of Teriberka began . Russian colonists arrived here. The government created rather favorable conditions, for example, new residents received good benefits. True, the first time I had to live in dugouts, but this people, apparently, was quite hardworking. Local residents were engaged in fishing, whaling, livestock.
In the second half of the 19th century, the first Orthodox church appeared in Teriberka . It was built on a donation from industrialists. And in 1875, the church of the Prophet Elijah was opened, and ten years later the church of the Icon of the Mother of God. At the end of the 19th century, a lighthouse with a pneumatic siren was launched.
By the beginning of the XX century, Teriberka became a full-fledged settlement. There were churches, a lighthouse, and a hydrometeorological station, founded in 1893. In addition, a feldsher’s point worked - the only one on the entire coast. At the same time, schools and a people's house were opened - a type of cultural and educational institution, prevalent in pre-revolutionary Russia.
At the beginning of the century, sharks and cod crafts were particularly developed. True, the majority of the people involved in this type of activity were the Norwegians, who had their own store and a trading post here. The cod trade was quite active. Five years before the revolution, Teriberka became a regional center, by the beginning of World War I more than one and a half thousand people lived here.
Soviet time
After the revolution, of course, much has changed. Norwegians had to stop their business. A collective farm was organized on the territory of the village , which included, in addition to fishing shnyak , a dairy farm, a deer herd. By the end of the 20s, the village was already the center of the district of the same name. And in the early thirties, nurseries for collective farm workers opened here.
In addition to the above trades, fishing for herring and salmon was also developed. In February 1930, a new collective farm was created, called the Red Banner. Significant support was given to him by the revolutionary and military leader Kliment Voroshilov . In 1932, a motor-fishing station was opened, which became one of the first on the peninsula. This station included both a mooring and ship repair workshops.
In the 30s, the majority of the population were dispossessed peasants from Astrakhan. Local residents equipped a radio center, carried out electrification, built a cinema, club, hospitals, and began to publish a newspaper. Teriberka received the status of a working village in 1938. But the real prosperity of the settlement occurred in the postwar years.
During the Great Patriotic War, air defense troops were stationed here. Despite the fact that Teriberka was behind the front line, she was attacked several times by German bombers. The collective farm continued to work, but almost all of the products went to the front.
In the fifties, Teriberka had a dairy factory, a poultry farm, a large herd of deer, and an American mink breeding enterprise. In those days, the inhabitants of the village earned good money. And this, in turn, contributed to an increase in population. The village began to decline in decline not after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but much earlier - in the sixties.
Such is the brief history of Teriberka , whose inhabitants once lived in abundance. Today, less than a thousand people live here. Of these, nearly two hundred are unemployed. So what are the attractions of Teriberka attract tourists to these cold lands? After all, today the village is included in the most popular routes.
Teriberka (Murmansk): attractions
First of all, it is worth saying that it was here that the famous film " Leviathan " was shot. Before the release of the Zvyagintsev film nominated for an Oscar, the sights of Teriberka were not so visited. However, hundreds of thousands of residents from other regions come to the Murmansk region every year in order to go fishing and skiing. As for Teriberka , there are about twenty sights here. Among them:
- Teriberka River.
- Church.
- Abandoned port.
- Ship cemetery.
- Old weather station.
- Coastal battery on the harrow .
Harsh landscapes
One of the attractions of Teriberka is a waterfall. The river itself is wide but shallow. Already on the way to her, the gaze of the traveler reveals mesmerizing severe paintings. Something like this was seen only by those who have been to volcanoes. Stones, lichens, wild berries, fog are the components of the Teriberka landscape of the Murmansk region. Sights, photos of which are made by tourists, will not interest everyone. The local landscape may seem too gloomy. You can capture a waterfall from several sides.
Batteries
Strong winds blow here. The climate is quite severe. Shrubs and trees are found mainly in areas that protect the hills from the wind. The village was attacked during the Great Patriotic War. The most visited attraction of Teriberka reminds of wartime. Guns and other weapons can be seen where in the war years the air defense forces were located.
In the cemetery of ships you can see the ships that were used back in the thirties of the last century. The village discussed in this article is also notable for the fact that this is the only place on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, which can be reached by car. And finally, almost every winter night you can see the northern lights.