The sun set in the sea and illuminated the fish. Nyuksenitsa - a treasury of folk traditions Events in the Nyuksensky district

At the confluence of the Nyuksenitsa and Sukhona rivers, the administrative center of the Nyuksensky district of the Vologda region is located - the village Nyuksenitsa.

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The year of foundation of the settlement is considered to be 1619; this year dates back to the watch book that was kept in the Totemsky district and in it there is an entry about the village of Nyuksenitsa, which at that time consisted of only five households.

There are several interpretations of the name “Nyuksenitsa”: someone believes that it comes from the word “nyuksa”, which means “sable”, of which there are indeed a large number in the surrounding area; someone - from the word “nyuksha” - “swan”. Today the swan is the symbol of the village of Nyuksenitsa.

The most important page in the history of the village is the visit of Peter I to these places at the end of the 17th century.

Tourism

Tourists in the vicinity of the village of Nyuksenitsa are attracted by the beauty of Northern nature. It is no coincidence that these places are called “Russian Switzerland”. To the most famous monuments nature include mineral spring in the Bobrovsky Salt Spring tract; geological outcrop of Permian rocks, which reach a height of up to thirty meters, they are located near the village of Ozerki on the left bank of the Sukhona River; Lesyutensky, Brusensky and Selmenga forest reserves, famous for their lingonberries, cranberry swamps and large beaver settlements.

Also in the vicinity of the village of Nyuksenitsa, a must-visit is the national Russian village of the 16th century - Pozharishche, where folk crafts such as embroidery of ancient Russian ornamental patterns continue to develop, and is also famous for its home brewing.

The village of Nyuksenitsa itself is interesting to visit local history museum, located in an old school building; House of Culture, occupying a wooden building from the mid-20th century; Center for traditional folk culture with clubs for both children and adults on weaving, folk dolls and embroidery, wood painting and birch bark weaving. At the folk culture center, tourists can book excursions around the Nyxen region. In 2000, an Orthodox church with a tented bell tower of Agapit Markushevsky was erected in the village of Nyuksenitsy. In addition, in the village of Nyuksenitsa there is a stadium and a sports and recreation complex.

Today, the life of the village of Nyuksenitsa is closely connected with the main gas pipeline and the compressor station located here, as evidenced by the monument to builders and workers of the gas industry.

From Vologda to Nyuksenitsa it is just over 300 kilometers. If you go by bus (561 rubles), the journey takes 6 hours; you can get there faster by minibus - in 4 hours, but it costs more (850 rubles). Taxi drivers arrive in 3 hours, asking for 5,000 rubles, if divided by four, it turns out to be 1,250. Expensive, but they say there are people interested.
At the end of the 19th century, Nyuksenitsa was an ordinary northern village, located near the confluence of the Nyuksenitsa river with the Sukhona, which is one of local residents in a conversation with me he called him Nyuksenka.
At the end of the 17th century, Peter the Great sailed past a village consisting of only five courtyards towards Arkhangelsk, and no other great people visited there. In the 19th century, there were already five dozen households in the village, and life there was the same as in all northern villages.
In 1924, Nyuksenitsa became a regional center, and began to slowly grow. District committee, district executive committee, district military registration and enlistment office, district police department, school, hospital, post office... All were built on the other, high bank of the Nyuksenitsa River, where there was a lot of free space.

Old Nyuksenitsa. House on Pervomaiskaya street.


An old warehouse has been preserved on the low bank of the Sukhona.



Not far from the old warehouse is the district court building. I looked from one side and the other, but I still didn’t understand when this building was built. Either at the beginning of the last century, but it was very well preserved, or after the war.


The confluence of the Nyuksenitsa River and the Sukhona.


If you go up from the river from the old Nyuksenitsa, then first there will be a bus station, and then a cemetery. I walked around there for half an hour, thinking that I would find ancient stone tombstones, but I didn’t find anything except this fence. Apparently, previously only wooden crosses were placed on graves, and wood is a short-lived material.


Just above the cemetery begins the settlement of gas workers, the construction of which began in the seventies. At that time, a gas compressor station was built on the outskirts of Nyuksenitsa, which is still operating. Against the backdrop of collapsed enterprises in the area (“The creamery is not working, the flax plant is not working,” the taxi driver told me), the station is now the place where many would like to find a job. But Gazprom is not rubber.
In the center of the village there is a kind of “monument”. For a bronze statue in the form of a man with a decisive face and the inscription “Gazprom” on the back, the authorities, it seems, spared the money and installed this piece of equipment for a gas compressor station. What a monumental thing, this is not a police officer’s pistol, or a surgeon’s scalpel.


A dozen and a half men in Gazprom jackets were fussing around. Some were mowing the grass, others were sweeping paths, others were carrying barrels and hoses.
-What are you going to do? – I asked one of them.
-The authorities ordered it to be painted, we will paint it.


The Gazprom village club turned out to be surprisingly minimalist, like in a refugee camp.


The children have grown up, and no one plays in the sandbox anymore.


It’s clean near the houses, there are no trash cans, and I didn’t immediately understand where the residents throw their garbage. It turns out that instead of tanks they have this structure. People go up the stairs, throw out bags of garbage, then a car comes and takes everything away. Conveniently, the dogs won't get it.


Local diner. Air conditioning in the dining room is, of course, good, but when it’s hot outside, the sweaty shirt inside immediately freezes. I took cold okroshka, steak with mashed potatoes, and compote. Delicious, large portions. Paid one hundred and fifty rubles.


When I walked back, I saw that the “monument” had already been painted, or rather, primed. The workers sat nearby on benches, smoked, and waited for everything to dry. I didn’t think to ask what colors they would paint it. I wouldn’t be surprised if I learn that the “monument” has become white, blue and red.


Nyuksenitsa (founded in 1619) - a village, the center of the Nyuksensky district of the Vologda region Russian Federation(North-Western District).
Nyuksenitsa is located on the East European Plain in the northeastern part of the Vologda region, on the left bank of the Sukhona River (basin of the Northern Dvina) at the confluence of the river on the left. Nyuksenitsa, 316 km northeast of the regional center - Vologda.

Transport connection: waterways (pier); by airlines - local airport and Helipad on the eastern outskirts (irregular flights); highways - highway "Sukhonsky Trakt" Veliky Ustyug-Totma-Vologda (bypassing the village, 7 km to the west) and roads local significance , there is a bus station. Nearest railway station in Arkhangelsk region

At present, the village is located on both banks of the river.

Nyuksenitsa and stretches for 4 km along the left bank of the Sukhona. The development is mostly represented by private houses and occupies an area of ​​5.2 thousand square meters. km, where 4.63 thousand people live (2010).
Nyuksenitsa is not only a regional center, but also a center of spiritual culture of the Vologda region - “a treasury of folk traditions of the Russian north.”

Economic potential: enterprises of the agricultural complex, timber and food industries.

 

Sights: local history museum, monument to the “Warrior-Liberator”, Church of Agapit Markushevsky, local pristine nature of the surrounding area.