PERVOURAL SK FROM 1952 TO SEPTEMBER OF 1953

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
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2') Pervomayskiy; 3) L?nasovyy,; and the town by the cop'er
foundry. Pervoural'sk now occupie-s roughly the area shown on the
zkztkz sketch. All of this area is settled.
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the population would soon reach one million. The inhabitants
l ave' not yet gotten used to calling the entire area nov^: encompassed
Pervoural'sk by its new name - they still use the old names for
the variois parts of town - Pervomaysk, Pervoural'sk, LLnesovyy, etc.
The railroad station still ka has its
,.IO?fflcia,lly called Sotsjal,
Work on this settlement''
pleted
3 km. '0-3 km. and contains abcu
schools,-.nurseries,
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Perr'ia '
oural'sk was fo~med by-merging at-least four towns
1) the smaller area formerly occupied by Pervoural'sk;
and the ru1Id.'fngsa ad joining it, u
batlildi X#.
Living c,uartere,
such an extent
now.. The rem L,
repair.
not
hospital
of Culture, any other '
-47, have already deteriorated to
they should be torn down
ings also will not hold un without continual
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The German prisoners of war threw them together, bein :.cre Interested
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txxfxt in exceec:ing the plan than in the permanence of the hoses
ixxZI in Sotsialisticheskiy gorodok. he reason for tI-is .-as that,
in order to -;ay for their upkeep at camp, they had to exceed the
norm by at least 180 per cent.
The settlement begs sabo i.t meters west of the highway lead-
ing to Sverdlovsk, and about 2 km. from the rompik station (see
sketch). The settle.nept is crossed by streets that run parallel to
each other xxi; and form rectangular blocks. TIost of t`-e corner
buildings are three-story L-shaped buildings with shops on the
ground floor and apartments on the two up^er stories. the remaining
build; ngs in ',e block,`are two-story houses, with 12 a %artaents in
each and .iii two entrances. Lach apart::ent consists of t-o )r t .ree
rooms plus kitchen, bath, and toilet. The roof: are ~2i1 x~gx~g
$kxxxkicxg?x made of gray corrugated ?Tlates (a mixture of ce.,ent and
asbestos). The roofs are - -bled.
The streets are asphalt, with sidewul;s a.ad planted strips along
both sides (grass, bushes, flowers) . .
The 1i ms finished' houses a -e inhabited by the cream of oociety.
orCi ary workers :,.,ere not giver apartments
in Sotsialisticheskiy g?oroc:ok.
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1. Palace of Culture. 1 large new rectangular building. The first
story (ground floor) is tall an: evidently held a publ~c hall.
2. Park of Culture anL. Lest. ;here are ';all pines in the hart
3.
4.
traversed by the railvway. In the other half are flo -ei plots
and greenery. `s'he' park is crclosed partly by an iron fence and
nartly by a vwoodenl one.
:ospital, ,'ispensary, r morgue, -.nd isolation ward for infectious
diseases. The rain hospital building is rectanFul-r and has,
three stories. ':7h. ere are anai tment houses on the matIx side
of'.the hospital facing the gorodok. In the fall of 1;53 the
_-:,.ain hospital building was almo:ft finished. he en in ch rge
of construction had rep orted the building f'rnir'-.ea earlier, but
then it rained, the roof lea'ced and: t' e stucco came off, and
the inter or has, to be re-finished.
The area occupied by the old PervouJal'sk. `.:"_-.e hou_uses are old,
i^nooden, and have only one story. he roof :in(, t" e shutters
5.
are. decorated xmx designs in relief. 'he gates are a '.e
of boards xxR are covered .ith a small gabled roof. 'here
are rrany old trees.
Pipe-rolling mill (,2ru'bzavod).
6. 2atxxf Central transformer station for the c; ty and the plant.
High tension T :nires, led into the city from the southwest.
gorodok
7. aac ma~ r_..lporary installation for supplying '"
central 'eating. It was planned to 'neat the .-e+~t'en iectly
from the pipe-rol.l4r_g .gill Later-.
Lailroad l_ .e lead ng to the old co~ per i' urc.ry . 1 r'_rs
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circumvent an elev
vi looked so well fed.
9. T.his old copper foundry. ,
10. P,ailroad bridge over the Chusovaya river. It is a two-track line
going from Molotov
bridges, one for e
11. Water tower (still
Sotsia 1. ticheski or dok:
Block
Construction begun in 1953.
Almost. finis4ed. For details see ii separate F tch of this
,Same.
t~ 'f the settlement goirI
? - 'hi?_s is also finished as are t? c, the other
-:tct ,the construction.
pipe- ing mill. Th
ti on.
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to Sverdlovsk. There are actually two separate
ch tarixkx pair of tracks.
un_'er construction
ployed by the construction office of the
main office of the mill and the main con-
sti u.. ?i -ff i ce were in Sverdlovsk. The directors sometimes came
from th
stoou c
An o i
superintc
prices ir-
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uction worker male 350 to 400 rubles. `Jhe
e 11,000 rubles and over.
ipKtka 1 kilo butter - 25 rubles; dark bread
comet` ing C\ I
ej; sugar (1 kilo) - 11 rubles; 1 kilo potatoes
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1..,iiuary schools. Two story buildings with two wings.
~rkers were e
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bay before important ' oli ays.
'.'here .,.ere _,. ,ny ,:rainiGns &nd Tratais ink the :ervourai's_:
,,,,ere
area. TheyNbro~_,,~='t there u'ter tbbe var for connloalsory 7esettle2ent.
They .ere hcasec. in : I unties beyonc the city limits U -c on
outskirts.
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SKETCH SHOWING LOCH ^1I ON OF SOTSIALISTICHESKIY GORODOK IN PERVOURAL' SK
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1. Clothing store (ground floor).
2. Lestaurant (grounu floor).
3. butcher (grounu floor).
4. Kindergarten.
;. _ursery.
The rerr~ini, g, buil-ings are living. cuurter?s.
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