The total length of Pekhorka is 42 kilometers, and the area on which water flows is more than 500 square kilometers. The location of the beginning of the current is one and a half kilometers to the Balashikha (Lukinsky) district. Pekhorka is a river rushing to the south, leaving the north. The coast is full of life of the city of Balashikha and nearby villages. Pekhorka approaches the settlement of Zhukovsky. The Moscow River takes its waves to its own. This happens at a distance of 4 kilometers near the railway station Bykovo. We will learn about the features of this river further from the article.
Hydraulic structures
The source of Pekhorka is located in the Akulovsky water canal in the national park called "Elk Island". The river touches with its waves to the Alekseevsky pond, it is also called Bulganinsky. This contact occurs close to the national park, north of the settlement Lukino.
In the nineteenth century, in the east, to the village of Akatovo, a dam was built, stretching for 0.2 km. This building is useful because the course of the Pekhorka River has a fixed depth. The same goes for the full-flowing Chernavka.
Worthy of attention are the local ponds, which are called S altykovsky. These reservoirs began to form in the seventeenth century. They arelocated close to the places where the Pekhorka flows. The Chechera River directly touches these water formations.
Evolution of the Edge
Toward the end of the seventeenth century, ponds already began to appear on the Malashka (a tributary on the left of the Pekhorka) and directly above the river itself. By that time, both a dam and a water mill were standing there, functioning together.
Pekhorka is a river on which such ancient structures still stand. If we pay attention to the study of the Plan of the Moscow District, we will find that the existence of these buildings at that distant time is a historically confirmed fact.
In the nineteenth century, there were many mills that were replaced by new textile factories. The rivers of the Moscow region supplied these enterprises with the water resources necessary for their work. Virtually every obsolete dam has been demolished and refurbished, building size and productivity have increased.
Pekhorka-Pokrovsky, Leonovoye, Bloshikha, Akatovo got a dam and a water-retaining structure, the vital activity of which was supported by Pekhorka. The river found Malanin Pond in its northern side. You can see this reservoir when you find yourself on the Shchelkovo highway.
The Boloshinskaya factory also acquired its own pond, it reached 0.15 km in breadth. Moving south, we will come across a reservoir 0.8 km long and 0.13 km wide. Many water bodies into which the Pekhorka flows were created by human hands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The people of Balashikha liked to spend their free time there.
History
Found traces of an ancient settlement in the place where the Pekhorka water artery adjoins Gorenka. The river washed a we althy settlement, where the Akatov boyars ruled. Artifacts that came to our time from the 16th-17th centuries were found here.
Pekhorka, like many other rivers of the Moscow region, was mastered by the Slavs a very long time ago, the Vyatichi and Krivichi, who lived on these lands during the first millennium of our era. The Moscow region was actively settling in at that time. The Finno-Ugric peoples were forced out to the north. Those who remained were forced to assimilate. This is how the inhabitants of the Moscow region appeared as a community. In the 14th-15th centuries, life here became especially lively.
Popular among the aristocracy
The 18-19 centuries were marked by the fact that the inhabitants of the Balashikha district became famous throughout Russia. There was a lot of knowledge here. Both Prince Dolgorukov and Count Razumovsky were born here. Nearby lived Golitsin, S altykov. The Alekseevsky Palace became famous for the fact that Menshikov A. D. spent his leisure time there, and Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky P. A. appeared in the neighboring estate
The empress herself arrived at the estate in the midst of October 1775. The reason for her arrival was the victory over the Turks in the war that took place from 1678 to 1774. It was Pekhorka that witnessed these important visits, it united the Russian nobility and their estates. Thanks to the settlements that developed in the 18th century, the estates of the Pekhorskaya volost were created as a result, which was the prototype of the Balashikha district, near Moscow.
The alleged origin of the name from the verb word "pkh", which came from the speech of the Slavs. This word means "pushing motion".
This name turned out to be part of the list of objects that were united by the Master Plan for the Development of Moscow, drawn up during 1971. The construction of a canal for navigation on the eastern side was a major task. The Lyubertsy reservoir promised to include the waters of Pekhorka in its composition.
Territory under special protection
The plants and animals of Pekhorka now live in a territory protected in a special regime, which began to be such in the late nineties of the last century. A special regime applies to the surrounding land and the river itself.
Channels and tributaries
Tributaries on the left:
- Malashka washes the Shchelkovo region. The location of the mouth is 37 kilometers, if you follow the left of the Pekhorka River. The length of Malashka is 430 meters, the drainage basin has an area of 21.5 square kilometers. This tributary is part of the Oksky basin district. The river basin for this waterway is the Oka.
- Serebryanka (aka Chechera) has a length of 7000 m. Its part is an underground collector 2500 meters long. S altykovka is the place where the river originates, then washing the city and the region. At Fenino, Chechera merges with Pekhorka. And there are famous ponds here. Serebryanka partially destroyed by urbanization.
Right tributary Gorenka- a small river flowing through the Gorensky forest park. It flows from the waters of the Mazury Lake. Above it lies the road called "Volga", which previously bore the name of the Gorky highway. The former Gorenka post station is located to the left of Gorenka.
The Bykovka Channel has practically no flow. This waterway is more like a chain of lakes. In the 19th century, this river did not yet exist; it was born in the second half of the 20th century. Pekhorka parted ways with Bykovka near Mikhnev, allowing her younger sister to sail southeast. If we follow a little more than a hundred kilometers on the left along the Moskva River, we will just come across the mouth of Bykovka.
Ecology
Wastewater coming from the Lyubertsy aeration station is discharged into Pekhorka. In winter, the water flowing into the river from the plant keeps the temperature warmer than the environment.
Thus, the water does not freeze even in cold weather, when the air cools down to minus 20 degrees.
Today, the river is very polluted with household garbage and waste, so swimming in it is not recommended.
