Belaya Kalitva is a small town in the Rostov region, located on the banks of two rivers, Seversky Donets and Kalitva. Belaya Kalitva can be called one of the monuments of the Cossacks on the Don. ( 78 photos)
Despite the small number of residents, just over 40 thousand, the city is quite large, relatively speaking, where approximately the same number of people live. Kalitva is located 170 km from Rostov-on-Don.
In a picturesque place, with beautiful nature, on the banks of the Seversky Donets River, which is the largest tributary. By the way, on the same Donets there is a small but beautiful village.
The city was founded in the 18th century as a Cossack village. Then, in 1703, Peter 1 granted the request of the Cossacks to create a farm. But archaeological evidence suggests that the first settlements were formed here already in the 4th century BC. e.
City square, always hungry pigeons do not let children get bored.
The village received city status in 1958, but the entire culture and atmosphere of the Cossack flavor has been preserved to this day. During the Great Patriotic War, the city was captured, and during its liberation, near Belaya Kalitva, the feat of Panfilov’s men was repeated. The Red Army soldiers captured and held the heights.
Lenin Square against the backdrop of the Palace of Culture - Belaya Kalitva photo
The city-forming enterprise is an aluminum smelter, which produces various types of goods, from dishes to load-bearing structures. There are also other types of enterprises, a large number of individual entrepreneurs. In general, it feels like there is money in the city.
There are a large number of monuments in the city. Mainly Cossack themed, many of them are inspired by the years of the Great Patriotic War. Two tanks were installed, one of them at the monument to fallen soldiers with an eternal flame.
Sports are well developed in the city. There is a sports complex (currently closed for renovation), a chess club, a rowing base, 4 sports schools, laser tag, paintball, etc.
Belaya Kalitva city photos
Despite the fact that the population in the city is declining, in general Kalitva continues to develop. This is how an entire microdistrict of nine-story buildings was built.
It is worth noting that children in the chess club study for free.
Chess club in Belaya Kalitva
Belaya Kalitva welcomes you with its comfort and unique flavor. Most of the buildings are low; you can hardly find old buildings above 3 floors here. There are many wooden Cossack houses, divided into “bottoms” and “tops”.
The city is rich not only in man-made monuments but also in natural ones. For example, the famous “Two Sisters” mountains. Two completely identical hills are located on the banks of the river, representing a beautiful natural monument.
There are many legends and stories around the mountains. They say that Vanga mentioned them and advised walking barefoot.
Beautiful nature in Belaya Kalitva
People in Kalitva are friendly and kind, easy to communicate with, but educated. You might be surprised when, on public transport, a woman of about 60 years old, with kind eyes, tries to figure out which center you need to go to, while her scream can be heard throughout the entire bus. Out of habit, it may seem that she is angry, but she is not, it’s just a way of communicating, they talk loudly.
And in the vicinity of Kalitva there is an almost abandoned farmstead called Dyadin, it is interesting because famous people, scientists and heroes of the Soviet Union grew up here, but the main thing is that there is a temple here.
There are many stories surrounding the temple. And during the Great Patriotic War, a shell hit it, but practically did not destroy the temple. It has been restored for many years.
Temple in the Dyadin farm
Stunningly beautiful place.
There are several parks in the city, one of them is an amusement park.
Center of Kalitva in the Soviet years.
Kalitva River
In one of the villages of Belaya Kalitva, the traditional annual holiday “Kayal Readings” takes place. At which, in addition to the festive concert, a reconstructed battle between the Russians and the Polovtsians takes place. This battle is sung in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.” Historians believe that the battle took place right here, in the interfluve of the Kalitva and Bystraya rivers.
Winter in Kalitva is always spent skating. In several places on the river you can find hockey fields and play with a friendly group.
Another natural monument of Kalitva is a pine forest. Centuries-old pine trees provide an opportunity to take a useful walk before bed and breathe in fresh air filled with the scent of pine.
Which federal district does the city of Belaya Kalitva belong to?
The city of Belaya Kalitva is part of the federal district: Southern.The Federal District is an enlarged territory consisting of several constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
In what region is the city of Belaya Kalitva located?
The city of Belaya Kalitva is part of the Rostov region.A characteristic of a region or a subject of a country is the integrity and interconnection of its constituent elements, including cities and other settlements that are part of the region.
The Rostov region region is an administrative unit of the state of Russia.
Population of the city of Belaya Kalitva.
The population of the city of Belaya Kalitva is 40,831 people.The year of foundation of Belaya Kalitva.
The year the city of Belaya Kalitva was founded: 1703.What time zone is Belaya Kalitva located in?
The city of Belaya Kalitva is located in the administrative time zone: UTC+4. Thus, you can determine the time difference in the city of Belaya Kalitva, relative to the time zone in your city.Belaya Kalitva telephone code
The telephone code of the city of Belaya Kalitva is: +7 86383. In order to call the city of Belaya Kalitva from a mobile phone, you need to dial the code: +7 86383 and then the subscriber’s number directly.- 16,495 km²
View of the Kalitva River and the park named after. Mayakovsky
Belaya Kalitva- a city (since 1958) in, the administrative center of the Belokalitvinsky district, as well as the Belokalitvinsky urban settlement.
Population - 40831 people. (2017) The area of the city of Belaya Kalitva is 2211 hectares.
City status
On August 29, 1958, the working village of Belaya Kalitva was transformed into a city of regional subordination.
From March 2005 to present Belaya Kalitva has the status of an urban settlement within the Belokalitvinsky district.
Geography
The city is located in the central part, on the eastern tip of the Donetsk Ridge, on the banks of the largest tributary of the Don River - the Seversky Donets. The city itself stands at the mouth of the Kalitva and Likhaya rivers flowing into the Donets. The right rocky bank of the Seversky Donets in the vicinity of the city has a highest elevation of 148.8 m above sea level.
Story
The city is located at the confluence of the Kalitva River and the Seversky Donets, 168 km from. The area at the intersection of four deep rivers has been inhabited since ancient times: excavations and random finds indicate that people lived here 4,000 years ago. Objects belonging to the Timber-frame culture of the Bronze Age were discovered. 30 years ago, in one of the city courtyards, the remains of a burial and objects of the catacomb culture of the Bronze Age (2000 BC) were also found. According to a number of researchers, the battle of the Russians with the Polovtsians in 1185, sung in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” took place between the Kalitva and Bystraya rivers. Historian V.A. Afonasyev believed that the path of Igor’s army lay through the present-day Donbass and ended on the left bank of the Seversky Donets near Kalitva. Fast - then full-flowing - Kayala. Another researcher V.I. Streletsky believed that Kayala is Kalitva.
The first Cossack settlement on the site of the current city appeared in 1703 by decree of Peter I - a military letter of permission for the Cossacks: Sysoy Ermolaev, Mikhail Nikitin and Emelyan Dorogalny and their comrades, according to their petition, to settle a new village on the river. Belaya Kalitva. This date is officially considered the year of birth of the village of Ust-Belokalitvenskaya (currently the city of Belaya Kalitva). The village itself was divided into four parts: Maidan, Nizovka, Bugor and Zayarovka. After the formation of the Rostov region on September 13, 1937, the Belokalitvensky district with its center in the village of Ust-Belocalitvenskaya became part of it. The entire pre-revolutionary and current history of Belaya Kalitva is connected with the Cossacks. In May 1918, the headquarters of the 5th and 3rd Ukrainian Red Armies under the command of K. E. Voroshilov was located in Ust-Belokalitvenskaya for several days. During the Civil War, during the Veshensky uprising - February 10 (23), 1919, the village of Ust-Belokalitvenskaya (now the city of Belaya Kalitva) decided to arm itself with everything and repel Soviet troops.
In 1941, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the village of Ust-Belocalitvinskaya was transformed into the working village of Belaya Kalitva.
During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the workers' village of Belaya Kalitva was under occupation by Nazi troops from July 20, 1942 to January 19, 1943. Her liberation took place in the area of the Battle of Stalingrad. In January 1943, liberating Belaya Kalitva, the horse guards of the saber squadron under the command of Annaklych Ataev from the Bashkir Cavalry Division at the cost of their lives defended an important height recaptured from the enemy, now called the height of Immortality. At the height, a memorial was erected in honor of the victims, the Eternal Flame was lit, and on the memorial stands there are more than a thousand names of Belaya Kalitva residents who did not return from the war. The saber squadron commander A. Ataev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union; one of the villages in the Belokalitvinsky district was named after him.
After the war, the coal industry was quickly restored, and construction of a large metallurgical plant resumed.
Accident at Belaya Kalitva station
On May 9, 2013 at 1 hour 40 minutes, when freight train No. 2035)) with a locomotive at the head 3TE116 No. 1594/1179, registered with PM-4 Maxim Gorky Privolzhsky railway, arrived at the first main track of the Belaya Kalitva station in the Rostov region. under the control of the locomotive crew at the same depot, a locomotive and 51 cars were derailed, followed by the fire of 7 and the detonation of 1 gas tank (propane). Section “B” of diesel locomotive No. 1594 on its side, with all wheel pairs aligned. Section “B” of diesel locomotive 2TE116 No. 1179 with all wheel pairs on its side burned out completely due to a fire. Section “A” of diesel locomotive 2TE116 No. 1594 with all wheel pairs assembled, inclined at an angle of 60 degrees to the track. The 1st and 2nd gondola cars after the locomotive are assembled with all wheel pairs, lying on their sides. The next 46 cars in the derailment are piled on top of each other with all their wheel pairs. As a result of the derailment, three sections of the locomotive, 45 cars were damaged to the point of exclusion from the inventory fleet, 3 cars were damaged to the extent of major repairs, 3 cars were damaged to the extent of depot repairs. Number of victims as a result of the fire at the station Belaya Kalitva amounted to 52 people, 18 of them were hospitalized. About 3,000 people were immediately evacuated from the emergency area.
Population
| Population | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1745 | 1775 | 1800 | 1860 | 1896 | 1926 | 1939 | 1959 | 1967 | 1970 | 1979 |
| 447 | ↗ 1134 | ↗ 2463 | ↗ 9638 | ↘ 7558 | ↘ 3745 | ↗ 8200 | ↗ 23 533 | ↗ 29 000 | ↗ 30 857 | ↗ 38 038 |
| 1989 | 1992 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| ↗ 47 803 | ↗ 48 800 | ↗ 49 500 | ↘ 48 600 | ↘ 47 700 | ↘ 47 300 | ↗ 47 347 | ↘ 47 300 | ↘ 46 200 | ↘ 45 600 | ↘ 45 100 |
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
| ↘ 44 800 | ↘ 44 205 | ↘ 43 651 | ↗ 43 700 | ↘ 42 923 | ↘ 42 441 | ↘ 42 185 | ↘ 41 734 | ↘ 41 220 | ↘ 40 831 | |
As of January 1, 2018, the city ranked 385th out of 1,113 cities in the Russian Federation in terms of population.
- 1745 - there were 92 parish yards, with 235 male residents and 212 female residents.
- 1775 - 160 households, 562 males, 572 females.
- 1800 - there were 270 parish yards, in them there was a husband. item - 1231. female p. - 1232.
- 1860 - there are 990 courtyards in the village, 895 courtyards in farmsteads, the number of inhabitants is 9638.
- 1896 - husband's shower. gender - 3740, women. - 3818.
- 1926 - total number of households 946, men - 1728 (of which Cossacks - 1107), women - 2017 (of which Cossacks - 1376)
Administrative structure
The Belokalitvinsky urban settlement includes the following settlements:
- the city of Belaya Kalitva (which is the administrative center of the urban settlement);
- Borodinov farm;
- Dyadin farm;
- Khutseluev village.
Economy
The city-forming enterprise is the Belokalitvinsky Metallurgical Production Association (BKMPO, since 2008 - Alcoa Metallurg Rus CJSC), founded in 1941. In 1969, the plant was the first in the world to master the casting of ingots into an electromagnetic crystallizer (the invention was patented in 17 countries around the world). The specialists became laureates of the USSR State Prize. The plant was the first in the USSR to master the production of Teflon-coated cookware. Participated in projects for the construction of the Ruslan aircraft and the Buran spacecraft, and received the 1997 Government Prize No. 1 in the field of quality.
Enterprises of the Belokalitvinsky district produce: rolled aluminum, building profiles from aluminum alloys, stamped aluminum cookware and cookware with non-stick coating, forgings, coal, coal concentrate, crushed stone, bakery, confectionery and pasta products, clothing, meat products, silicate bricks, mixtures asphalt concrete roads, corrugated cardboard containers.
Transport
The city has the Belaya Kalitva railway station on the non-electrified Likhaya - Morozovskaya line.
On the territory of the city there is a Belokalitvinsky stopping point of PJSC "Donavtovokzal", through which intercity bus transportation is carried out.
Intracity transport is represented by low-capacity buses (PAZ) and minibuses (GAZelle). There is also a suburban network of bus routes to all settlements of the Belokalitvinsky district.
Medicine
Medical care in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the municipal healthcare system is provided by the following treatment and preventive institutions:
- Municipal Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Belokalitvinsky District "Central District Hospital" (address: Rossiyskaya str., building 5): inpatient for 535 beds: cardiology department 40 beds, surgical department 50 beds, therapeutic department 60 beds, neurological department 30 beds, urology department 30 beds, gynecological department department 35 beds, trauma department 60 beds, otolaryngology department 40 beds, ophthalmology department 40 beds, pediatric department 40 beds, obstetric department 40 beds, infectious diseases department 45 beds, anesthesiology and resuscitation department 6 beds, paraclinical departments: radiology department, physiotherapy department , department of functional diagnostics, clinical diagnostic laboratory, emergency department, pathological and anatomical department, department of paid services; outpatient department for 36 specialties.
- Municipal Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Belokalitvinsky District “City Clinic” (address: Bolshaya St., building 25): outpatient care.
- Municipal Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Belokalitvinsky District "Children's City Clinic" (address: Engels St., building 34): outpatient care.
- Municipal Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Belokalitvinsky District “Dental Clinic” (address: Svetlaya St., 6a).
Education
The following educational institutions are located on the territory of the city of Belaya Kalitva:
secondary vocational education
- GBPOU RO "Belokalitvinsky Humanitarian-Industrial College"
- Belokalitvinsky Multidisciplinary College (formerly SPTU No. 103)
secondary general education
- MBOU secondary school No. 1
- MBOU secondary school No. 2
- MBOU secondary school No. 3
- MBOU secondary school No. 4
- MBOU secondary school No. 5
- MBOU secondary school No. 6
- MBOU secondary school No. 17
- GBOU RO "Belokalitvinsky Matvey Platov Cossack Cadet Corps". In 2006, the Mariinsky Gymnasium, the women's department of the cadet corps, began operating.
elementary education
- MBOU primary school - kindergarten No. 1
preschool education
- kindergarten No. 1 "Topolek"
- kindergarten No. 3 "Little Red Riding Hood"
- kindergarten No. 6 "Fairy Tale"
- kindergarten No. 7 "Sun"
- kindergarten No. 8 "Cheburashka"
- kindergarten No. 16 "Goldfish"
- kindergarten No. 41 "Tsvetik-semitsvetik"
- kindergarten No. 42 "Thumbelina"
- kindergarten No. 43 "Kolobok"
- kindergarten No. 46 "Alyonushka"
- kindergarten No. 56 "Smile"
additional education
- MBU DO "House of Children's Creativity"
- MBU DO "Children and Youth Sports School No. 1"
- MBU DO "Children and Youth Sports School No. 2"
- MBU DO "Center for Technical Creativity".
Culture
The following cultural institutions are located on the territory of the city of Belaya Kalitva:
- MBUK Belokalitvinsky district “Palace of Culture named after V.P. Chkalov"
- MBUK Belokalitvinsky urban settlement "Belokalitvinskaya club system"
- MBUK Belokalitvinsky district "Inter-settlement central regional library"
- MBUK Belokalitvinsky district "Belokalitvinsky Museum of History and Local Lore"
- MBU DO Children's Art School of Belokalitvinsky District.
Sport
The city has the State Budgetary Institution RO "Specialized School of Olympic Reserve No. 25" in Belaya Kalitva (kayaking and canoeing, athletics, swimming, judo, football, rhythmic gymnastics, boxing, rock climbing), the school has at its disposal a Sports Palace with a swimming pool. swimming pool, gyms, stadium, rowing bases. The All-Russian competition named after Hero of the Soviet Union B.I. Bykov is held at the rowing base.
Famous people
- Solopov, Vladimir Alekseevich (1925-2015) - actor of the Yaroslavl Drama Theater, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1967).
- Bykov, Boris Ivanovich (1925-2008) - native of the village of Verkhniy Popov, Belokalitvensky district, Rostov region, participant in the Great Patriotic War, commander of a mortar company squad of the 1176th rifle regiment of the 350th rifle division of the 13th army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, sergeant, Hero of the Soviet Union (1944).
- Kopaev, Grigory Ivanovich (1916-1988) - a native of the village of Sestryonka (now the Petrovsky district of the Tambov region), before the war he lived and studied in Belaya Kalitva, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, navigator of the 59th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (2nd Guards Assault Aviation Regiment Division, 16th Air Army, Central Front), Guard Major. Hero of the Soviet Union (1944).
- Petrov, Roman Ilyich (August 1, 1919 - June 14, 1944) - native of the village of Ust-Belokalitvenskaya, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945 posthumously), tank commander of the 46th Guards Separate Tank Regiment (23rd Army, Leningrad Front), guard junior lieutenant .
- Fesin, Ivan Ivanovich (June 12 (24), 1904 - December 24, 1991,) - a native of the Muravlev farm, now Kamensky district, studied in the village of Ust-Belokalitvenskaya, in 1917-1920 he worked as a farm laborer twice at the Dyadin farm (now Belokalitvinsky district, Rostov region) , Hero of the Soviet Union (01.3.1943, 01.11.1943), Major General (17.11.1943), Candidate of Military Sciences (24.9.1953).
Heroes of Socialist Labor
- Nosov, Ivan Elizarovich (1915-2002) - native of the village of Tatsinskaya, Rostov region, lived and studied at school No. 1 in Belaya Kalitva, railway worker, driver-instructor, Hero of Socialist Labor.
Sights of Belaya Kalitva
- On Mount Karaul, in 1970, the only monument in Russia to the Tale of Igor’s Campaign was erected.
- Belokalitvinsky Museum of History and Local Lore. The museum was opened in 1998 with the support of the city and district administration. The museum is housed in a building - an architectural monument of the 19th century. The basis of the museum fund was the collected collections of the district military registration and enlistment office in the “Museum of Revolutionary, Military and Labor Glory”, the ethnographic collection of the Palace of Culture named after. V. Chkalova and the archaeological collection. The archaeological collection was donated to the museum by the Belokalitvinsky Metallurgical Plant. Currently, the museum has collected about 7,000 exhibits. The collections presented here are: archaeology, military history, decorative and applied arts, natural science, painting and graphics, icon painting and church objects, historical and household items, metallurgy, numismatics, instruments and mechanisms. The archaeological collection presents materials from the excavations of the Yasinovsky III mound , collected in 2007 by an expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of Roman Mimokhod. The icon painting collection contains icons from the 18th-20th centuries, lamps, bells, breast crosses, and candlesticks. The collection contains items from the Old Believers: folding crosses, crosses, and pectoral crosses.
- Avilova Cave is a landmark on the Belaya Kalitva Mountains.
The city has several cultural monuments of regional significance. These include:
- Mill - on Bolshaya Street, 2;
- Church of the Entry of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple on the street. Bolshaya, no. 4;
- The building of the Cossack gymnasium;
- Shop of the merchant Sevryugov;
- Merchant House (Bolshaya St., 13);
- Residential house of the merchant Sevryugov (Gagarin St., 51);
- Residential building of the merchant Suichmedov, where the Don writer, former editor-in-chief of the magazine “Don” (1975-1986) Suichmezov Alexander Mikhailovich was born;
- Alley of Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialist Labor and Internationalist Soldiers;
- Ataman's Board building;
- Monument to Lenin on Theater Square.
- The monument “Eternal Glory of the Hero” over the mass grave of soldiers who died during the liberation of the city from the invaders in January 1943. The height of the monument is 10 meters; a sculpture of a soldier stands on a 7-meter pedestal.
Religion
In the city of Belaya Kalitva there are:
Orthodox church built in the 19th century - Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Vvedenskaya Church).
Temple of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God.
In the village of Ust-Belokalitvenskaya on the Maidan there was a church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, moved here from the first place of settlement of the village and stood in the same place for about 100 years. Until 1777, there was a dilapidated wooden church in the name of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary..
Notes
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2017 (July 31, 2017). Retrieved July 31, 2017. Archived July 31, 2017.
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2017
- master plan of the Belokalitvinsky urban settlement of the Belokalitvinsky district of the Rostov region
- USSR. Administrative-territorial division of the Union republics. Addition to the directory of 1958./Moscow, 1959, p.20.
- By Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of February 1, 1963
- A.V. Venkov “Vyoshensk Uprising”, 2012, Moscow, ed. Veche. ISBN 978-5-9533-6038-8
- Cities and districts of the Rostov region, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov book publishing house, 1987, page 57
- News. RU Emergency near Rostov
- People's encyclopedia "My City". Belaya Kalitva
- All-Union Population Census of 1959. The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender (Russian). Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
- All-Union Population Census of 1970 The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
- All-Union Population Census of 1979 The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. Archived April 28, 2013.
- All-Union population census of 1989. Urban population. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011.
- All-Russian population census 2002. Volume. 1, table 4. Population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, districts, urban settlements, rural settlements - regional centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more. Archived from the original on February 3, 2012.
- The permanent population of the Russian Federation by cities, urban-type settlements and regions as of January 1, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2014. Archived January 2, 2014.
- Results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population of the Rostov region
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2014. Archived May 31, 2014.
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. Population of urban districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements). Retrieved November 16, 2013. Archived November 16, 2013.
- Table 33. Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2014. Archived August 2, 2014.
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2015. Archived August 6, 2015.
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016
- taking into account the cities of Crimea
- Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2018. Table “21. Population of cities and towns by federal districts and constituent entities of the Russian Federation as of January 1, 2018” (RAR archive (1.0 Mb)). Federal State Statistics Service.
- website of Russian poets and writers in San Francisco “Literary meetings - 40 years later, Vladimir Dordopolo”
- Settled results of the 1926 census in the North Caucasus Territory, Rostov-on-Don 1929.
- Official website of the Belokalitvinsky urban settlement | (Russian) . belokalitvinskoegp.ru. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- Municipal health care institution Central District Hospital (unavailable link)
- Department of Education of the Administration of Belokalitvinsky District / bkobr.ru
- Home (Russian) . www.politehbk.ru. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
- http://www.bus.gov.ru/pub/home (Russian). www.bus.gov.ru. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
- Belokalitvinsky Historical and Local Lore Museum
- Belokalitvinsky Metallurgical Plant
- Archeology
- Belaya Kalitva. Church of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God.
Links
- Belaya Kalitva in the encyclopedia “My City”
- History of the coat of arms of Belaya Kalitva
- Belaya Kalitva
- Ust-Belokalitvyanskaya// Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg. , 1890-1907.
What is Kalitva? Surprisingly, toponymists, who seem to know the answers to all questions, did not think about the meaning of this word until the forties. And only M. Makarov, commenting on Mr. Linde’s dictionary, noted: the word probably consists of two “Russianized” derivatives: kolo (about) and Litva.
Indeed, in a city with this name one can still hear words that are clearly of Lithuanian origin. In the south of Russia there is even the city of Belaya Kalitva. The Rostov region, the map of which reflects the diversity of nationalities living here, is proud of this small city, but with a glorious history.
A little history
More than a million people live in the territory called the Rostov region. Belaya Kalitva, which received city status only in 1958, is far from the first place in terms of population. But there are unique monuments here, one of which is known throughout Russia. This is the only monument in the world to the heroes of the Tale of Igor's Campaign. Installed in 1970, it has become one of the pearls of the urban settlement. The entire Rostov region is proud of this monument. Belaya Kalitva is also known for other literary compositions. Sholokhov’s Aksinya and Grandfather Shchukar, the Three Bears from a Russian fairy tale, and other small sculptural forms have long “lived” in the city. Sculptures are one of the main attractions of Belaya Kalitva. The smaller ones decorate lawns and flower beds. The larger ones are installed in gardens and parks. People make dates around them and make marriage proposals. Sculptures are an important part of city life.
However, the Rostov region is known not only for its literary monuments. Belaya Kalitva is also the battle of the Russians with the Polovtsians in 1185, which Boyan sang. This is the history of the Cossacks, directly related to the formation of the city. This is a revolution and a civil war (this is where Voroshilov’s headquarters was located). This is the Great Patriotic War. For six months the city was occupied by the Nazis, but managed to fully recover and heal its wounds. However, the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region is famous not only for its history.
Kalitva today
The first thing that catches the eye of visitors today is the scaffolding of new buildings. The city is gradually moving deeper into the steppe, turning green spaces into cozy residential areas. Like the entire Rostov region, Belaya Kalitva participates in several housing construction programs. However, the growing modern areas harmonize well with the “old city”.
The residents of Belokalitvina are very fond of their park, founded in the 19th century. Today it bears the name of V. Mayakovsky, and its architecture reflects the entire history of the city. The park has themed corners and attractions, a beach on the banks of the Donets and a modern embankment. With the same love, residents treat Karaul Mountain, which is the highest place in the city, Maidan, on which stands the revived Vvedensky Church, a monument to victims of repression, “Horses” rushing into the steppe (sculpture by S.P. Kalchenko). You can talk about the city for a long time. It is one of the most beautiful places for which the Rostov region is so famous. Belaya Kalitva... It’s worth coming here once and then again and again with pleasure returning to the hospitable city.
