There is in the Ulyanovsk region, 170 km from the city, a working village called Bazarny Syzgan. Formed in 1638, it has changed over the past centuries with the country. There are a lot of such small villages with a population of about 5 thousand people in Russia. But residents of Ulyanovsk, hunters, are well aware of it, because the Bazarnosyzgan State Hunting Reserve is nearby. And how is he still famous?
The history of the village
Simbirsko-Karsunskaya Zaseka was built in the 17th century. With this construction begins the history of many settlements of the current Ulyanovsk region. Yes, and Ulyanovsk itself (Simbirsk) is a serf fortification. On the territory of the city and the region, sections of earthen ditches and ramparts of that time were preserved.
At the beginning of the century, the devastating raids of nomad tribes: Bashkirs, Kalmyks, Nogais, made devastating raids on the Moscow state. They captured Russian people, took carts with looted goods. Then it was decided to create a line of defensive structures in this direction - spotted. This type of defense was successfully used on the borders of Russia from the XII-XIII centuries.
At the approaches to the Simbirsk-Karsun serif line, they set up a border guard point and named it after the Syzganka river flowing here - the Syzgan settlement. Archers who came from Moscow served here.
A century later, in connection with the expansion of state borders, the fortress began to lose its defensive significance. People who settled in this place began to lead a more peaceful lifestyle. It was then that the modern name appeared: Bazarny Syzgan, obviously characterizing the direction of life of the population.
Village development
The settlement, being on the postal route of the Moscow-Penza direction and becoming a station on the Ruzayevka-Syzran railway line, by the beginning of the 20th century had become one of the commercial and industrial centers of the region. By this time, more than 4 thousand people lived here.
Two churches were built in the village: Vsesvyatskaya, established in 1868 at the local cemetery, and Dmitrievskaya. The first wooden church was not preserved. The stone Dmitrievskaya church, built at the expense of the local merchant A.K. Shcherbakov, has been standing since 1875 until today. It is a landmark of the modern Bazaar Syzgan of the Ulyanovsk region, as well as historical and architectural value.
For 1913, the Belousov cloth factory, the Shcherbakovs paper station, three sawmills, a distillery and a soap factory, two steam mills worked in the village. In addition, two schools were built here, a hospital and a post office. Fairs were held once a year, and bazaars once a week.
Revolutionary movement
The history of Bazarny Syzgan also knows this page in the life of Russia. The protest movement appeared here with the emergence of the proletariat. But the first propaganda work here was conducted by P.P. Viktorov, who later became a well-known psychiatrist.
Pyotr Petrovich studied in Simbirsk, took an active part in student populist circles, which were led by professional revolutionaries sent to Siberia. Having settled down as a tutor for merchant children in Bazarny Syzgan, he conducted propaganda among the workers of the Shcherbakov factory. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence, but Viktorov was declared unreliable. Subsequently, he was an active revolutionary.
In 1905, the Bazarnaya workstations not only took part in the revolutionary movement, but also led it along the Inza – Syzran line. Workers from local factories and factories also joined them.
On the eve of the revolution of 1917 there was a speech by the peasants of the county, who burned the estates of the landowners. To pacify them, troops were brought into the settlement.
Active fighting in 1918 was accompanied by an attempt to liberate Simbirsk by the Iron Division. Battles took place in these places. At the railway station there is a mass grave of the Red Army soldiers who died in those battles. An obelisk is installed on their grave.
Soviet workers' village
In the 30s of the last century, Bazarny Syzgan received the status of a working village. To the nationalized enterprises of the city was added the educated collective farm "Testament of Ilyich." Thus, industrial and agricultural production were successfully combined here. During the war years, the Red Metalworker factory was evacuated here from Gomel. Residents of the village, who did not go to the front, fought for victory in the rear: at the machine tools and in the field.
In the post-war 50-70s, the village was actively developing: the Teplopribor plant, new general education and music schools, and a library were under construction.
Modern village
The industry today is represented by three instrument-making enterprises (Teplopribor) and a cardboard and paper mill. There is everything necessary for life: educational and cultural institutions, shops and shopping centers, a bank and a stadium.
Such monuments have been preserved from past centuries: the temple of Dmitry Solunsky and the house of the manufacturer Shcherbakov. Already in the 21st century, the “Gun of Victory” and a monument to Vasily Dmitrievich Avdeev, a local native who died in Odessa during the Second World War, were installed.
Here, in these unusually beautiful places, residents of nearby cities like to come on vacation. Mushroom pickers and hunters travel from Ulyanovsk to Bazarny Syzgan for 170 kilometers. The local huntsman keeps order in his forestry.