Small towns of Russia, how little we know about them. It seems that at the end of the 20th century, life there stopped completely. Everything is ruined, people leave their apartments and go to megacities. Moscow becomes a special magnet. Like a vacuum cleaner, it sucks up the entire population with a radius of more than 200 km. Life outside the Moscow Ring Road must 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, along the M-3 highway.
Educational History
Where the city of Naro-Fominsk is located, a large village existed at the beginning of the 14th century: Ivan Kalita's testament mentions hereditary Nara. Later, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich presented it to the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery.
During the First Patriotic War, Napoleon, with the bulk of the army, stops here after fleeing devastated Moscow. The famous work "War and Peace" mentions this.
Beginning XIXcentury was marked by the active development of trade in the territory of the Russian Empire. There is a factory production. At this time, the village of small Nara goes to the rich landowner D. P. Skuratov, who, together with his partner N. D. Lukin, organizes a spinning mill. This event determined the fate of the settlement for many years.
By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, this 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 plan of the Wehrmacht, the main blow was to take place: the Nazis rushed to Moscow. Army Group "Center" managed to keep this direction: from mid-October to early December, fierce battles were fought here. There was a threat of surrender of the city. 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 conferring Naro-Fominsk an honorary title perpetuating the memory of the defenders - the "City of Military Glory".
The post-war reconstruction in the places where Naro-Fominsk is located was not easy. However, by 1976 there were no dilapidated buildings left in the city. New well-maintained neighborhoods have grown. Unfortunately, in the 1990s, ruin and devastation came again. Almost all production was stopped. Life stopped.
Today
By the end of the first decade of the new century, the city began to revive. Today it's newNaro-Fominsk where there is a meat processing plant, a dairy plant. Also successfully working here:
- Naro-Fominsk house-building plant;
- knitwear factory;
- Keralit LLC;
- Ball Beverage Packaging Naro-Fominsk LLC;
- Naro-Fominsk Engineering Plant;
- Naro-Fominsk plastics plant.
With the appearance of jobs, the dynamics of the population decline stopped at around 62 thousand people.
Naro-Fominsk is being improved, new residential areas are being built.
The city is connected with Moscow by regular bus routes served by comfortable cars. You can also get to the capital by high-speed trains.
