Beryozovsky Settlement — a residential settlement in the lowland part of MK in Nizhny Novgorod, near the Kostarikha railway station. It stands within a belt of old lowland villages — Varya, Burnakovka, Kostarikha, Gordeevka — which from the second half of the 18th century formed part of the Gordeyevskaya volost of Balakhna District. The settlement shares its name with Beryozovskaya Street, which runs from here toward Varya station.[1]
The old lowland villages
The lowland villages among which Beryozovsky stands are older than the city itself within its present boundaries: Varya, Burnakovka, Gornushkino, Knyazhikha, Kostarikha, Staraya and Novaya Ratmanikha, and the selo (larger village) of Gordeevka were all part of the Gordeyevskaya volost of Balakhna District from the second half of the 18th century.[1]
The boundaries of this part of the city can be described simply: from west to east — from Orlovskiye Dvoriki to Burnakovka; from north to south — from the Levinka River to the Moscow railway line.[1]
The district around the settlement
Moskovsky District, to which this entire area gravitates, was established on 9 December 1970 by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, carved out of parts of the Sormovsky and Kanavino Districts. Its predecessor was the Kaganovichsky District, which existed from 1936 to 1945: at the time of its formation it had a population of forty thousand.[1]
Today Moskovsky District covers 59.3 square kilometers — 9.8 percent of the area of the urban okrug; as of 1 January 2018, it had a population of 123,898, with a density of 2,097 people per square kilometer. The settlement of Beryozovaya Poyma, with a population of 930, is listed separately within the district.[2]
Factory Environs
The industrial character of this area was shaped by the plants that took root here in the 1930s: an aviation factory and a machine-building plant both came on line in 1932, joined by the Plant named after the 26 Baku Commissars, Krasny Yakor (Red Anchor), the Kirov Fat-Processing Plant, and the Kutuzov Factory. Today the district is home to the Nizhny Novgorod Machine-Building Plant, the I. I. Afrikantov OKB Mashinostroyeniya design bureau, the Sokol aircraft-building plant, and the TsNII "Burevestnik" research institute.[1][2]
The Beryozovsky settlement grew up as housing for this industrial zone, situated between a forest and the railway line. Kostarikha station still operates today on the suburban run — along the Kostarikha–Pochinki section.[3]
The street that gave it its name
Beryozovskaya Street stretches from the settlement across the whole of Moskovsky District. On building No. 118, a mosaic panel entitled "Faster, Higher, Stronger" has been preserved; it was created in 1980 for the Moscow Olympics by Valentin Lyubimov, Honored Artist of Russia.[4]
In August 2024, the damaged sections of the mosaic were dismantled, but the panel was not lost: restoration had been under way since October 2023 and was completed on 4 November 2024. The process involved reviving the technology of Soviet smalt — it was melted in the same way as in the original artist's time.[4]
Opposite the administration of Moskovsky District, at building No. 10, a small park was landscaped in 2023: the contractor was selected on 25 January, work began on 1 April and was due to be completed no later than 15 July, at a cost of 28,755,754 rubles. Tram tracks run along the street and are periodically closed for replacement.[5]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| second half of the 18th century | the surrounding villages were part of the Gordeyevskaya volost of Balakhna Uyezd |
| 1932 | launch of the aviation and machine-building plants |
| 1936–1945 | Kaganovichsky District — predecessor of Moskovsky District |
| 1980 | the mosaic "Faster, Higher, Stronger" on building no. 118 on Beryozovskaya Street |
| 9 December 1970 | Moskovsky District established |
| 2023 | landscaping of the square near building no. 10, costing 28.75 million rubles |
| 4 November 2024 | restoration of the Olympic mosaic completed |
During the restoration, the techniques for producing Soviet smalt were revived — it was fired identically to the original[4]
See also
Sources
- biblmr.r52.ru — History of Moskovsky District — Centralized Library System — Centralized Library System of Moskovsky… (archive)
- biblmr.r52.ru — District Profile — Centralized Library System — Centralized Library System of Moskovsky District — Profile of Moskovsky… (archive)
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Train fatally strikes Nizhny Novgorod woman on the Kostarikha–Pochinki section (archive)
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Unique mosaic on the facade of a building on Berezovskaya Street fully restored (archive)
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Square on Berezovskaya Street in Nizhny Novgorod to be landscaped for 28.75 million rubles by July 15 (archive)