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The blog "Get to know your native land" is virtual trip for children in the Pskov region and is the embodiment in the Internet space of the main materials of the project of the Centralized Library System of Pskov “Know your native land!”

This project was developed and implemented in the libraries of the Centralized Library System of Pskov in 2012-2013. - Library - Center for Communication and Information, Children's Ecological Library "Rainbow", Library "Rodnik" named after. S.A. Zolottsev and in the innovation and methodological department of the Central City Library.

The main goal of the project is to give a basic idea of the historical past of the Pskov region, its present, about the people (personalities) who glorified the Pskov region, about the richness and originality of the nature of the Pskov region.

The project united library workers, participants in the educational process and parents with a common goal.

"Cultivating love for native land, to native culture, to native village or city, to your native speech is a task of paramount importance and there is no need to prove it. But how to cultivate this love? It starts small - with love for your family, for your home, for your school. Gradually expanding, this love for one’s native land turns into love for one’s country - its history, its past and present” (D. S. Likhachev).

Pskov. Phot. Petra Kosykh.

Our region has made a significant contribution to the formation, development and defense of Russian statehood, to the spiritual life of society. The Pskov region, both in the past and in the present, has more than once set an example of understanding all-Russian interests, generated local experience that became the property of society, and put forward bright heroic personalities, prominent scientists, writers, and artists.

Project implementation partners:

City schools:
· Secondary school No. 24 named after. L.I. Malyakova (primary school teacher Valentina Ivanovna Grigorieva)
· Secondary school No. 12 named after. Hero of Russia A. Shiryaeva (primary school teacher Tatyana Pavlovna Ovchinnikova)
· Border - customs - legal lyceum (primary school teacher Ivanova Zinaida Mikhailovna)

Pskov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Education Workers:
Pasman Tatyana Borisovna – methodologist in history, social studies and law POIPKRO

Pskov State University
Bredikhina Valentina Nikolaevna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Humanitarian Education of Pskov State University.

Blog Editor:
Burova N.G. - manager Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the Central City Hospital of Pskov

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The Loknyansky district is capable of falling in love with anyone who is not indifferent to the wonderful nature, lakes and forests, ancient churches, ancient estates and parks.

There are more than 50 lakes in the area, home to many species of fish, and mushrooms and berries abound in the forests.

In the village of Chernushki, Loknyansky district, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov performed his famous feat.

In the village of Loknya they are actively developing sports: there is a boxing school headed by V.V. Golik, known not only outside the region, but also at the international level, and the football team also pleases with its successes.

Story:

Loknya is an urban-type settlement in the Pskov region, which arose in 1901 in connection with the construction of the railway. However, the Vlytsa churchyard, which has now become part of the village, is mentioned in the chronicle back in 1488.

At the end of the 18th century in Vlitsy on the site of a demolished building due to disrepair wooden church(XV century) the Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya stone church was built, the building of which has survived to this day within the boundaries of the village of Loknya. The name comes from the Loknya River, which flows nearby. The word “Loknya”, according to the writer Lev Uspensky, means “damp place”, “swampy place” in translation from Finnish.

Now Loknya is a small village where you can relax from the bustle of big cities and enjoy nature.

How to get there:

The village has a railway station of the same name, where ambulances and passenger trains, both Russian and international purposes. Transit routes also pass through the village. bus routes to Moscow, Velikiye Luki, Pskov and St. Petersburg.

Attractions:

Temples:

(XVIII century), the brother of Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov is buried in front of the church porch.

The church dates from the 18th century. The church has four altars: the main chapel is Spaso-Preobrazhensky, the left one is Nikolsky, the right one is Ilyinsky and the warm one in the refectory is in the name of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.

In front of the church porch, the brother of the commander S.I. Kutuzov, a famous liberal who gave freedom to his peasants long before the abolition of serfdom, was buried.

In the ancient village of Mikhailov Pogost, attention is drawn to a very beautiful church, built in 1864 by the local landowner Alekseeva over the ashes of her husband.

To build the temple in Starye Lipy, brick production was established, which was then transferred through a chain of people to Mikhailov Pogost to the construction site. Built from brick, granite, marble and sandstone, the temple is an excellent example of neo-Russian style. According to local residents, an underground passage was built from the Brianchaninov Palace to the church.

Monuments:

In the area, in the village of Chernushki, there is a memorial at the site of the heroic death of Alexander Matrosov.

Alexander Matveevich Matrosov(February 5, 1924, Ekaterinoslav - February 27, 1943, Chernushki village, Pskov region) - Hero of the Soviet Union, private infantry. Known for his self-sacrificing feat, when he covered the embrasure of a German bunker with his chest. His feat received wide publicity in the Soviet media and became a stable expression in the Russian language. The ashes of the hero rest in the city of Velikiye Luki on the banks of the Lovat River. A monument was erected at the grave. A bronze statue of Matrosov stands on a granite pedestal.

Estates:

Manor Starye Lipa, Loknyansky district, village. Mountain

The manor dates back to the end of the 19th century. In the past, this was the estate of Senator Brianchaninov. This is one of the most luxurious estate ensembles with a huge house and a variety of exotic style interiors. There are two preserved from the estate observation towers and a fragment of the two-story east wing.

At that time, the style of historicism dominated in Russia and the Bryanchaninovsky Palace had a large number of rooms (according to some sources - 120), decorated in the spirit of that time. There were both Russian and greek styles, Egyptian and Byzantine; there were also mirror and glass bead rooms, an extensive library and showroom, art gallery and house church.

Next to the palace there was a large glass greenhouse in which amazing and rare flowers brought from Europe were grown. There was an extensive fruit and berry garden.

Where to stay:

Where to eat:

Cafe "Podvorye-2"(Loknya village, A. Evstifeenkova St., 467th km) - the cafe offers European, Russian, homemade and mixed cuisine, there is free wi-fi.
Cooking RAIPO (Loknya village, Sovetskaya st., 11)
Bar "Ball"
Cafe "Behemoth"

Sport:

Sports and military-patriotic work is carried out at a high level in Lokna. The Kolos Stadium hosts regional football teams participating in championships or cup games.

The boxing school, headed by V.V. Golik, is known not only outside the region, but also at the international level. It educates ring champions, candidates and masters of sports, winners of many prestigious tournaments. Students of this famous coach are included in the Olympic reserve school and are part of the Russian youth boxing team.

Holidays:

Nature of the region:

The nature of the region is simply magical! There are a lot of beautiful places, lakes, rivers and forests, there is clean air and a lot of greenery. All nature lovers will undoubtedly appreciate this beauty.

November 11th, 2015

Loknya is a small regional center in the Pskov region, created by the railway. In 1904, a steel main line connected St. Petersburg with Vitebsk (the Dno-Novosokolniki section was built three years earlier), and the Loknya station got its name from the river flowing nearby, a tributary of the Lovat. A railway village of the same name arose at the station, which grew significantly during the Soviet years thanks to the development of light industry. Now this is a completely ordinary urban village with a population of three and a half thousand inhabitants, and it is unlikely that a traveler will find anything interesting here. But firstly, as I never tire of repeating, my travel principle assumes that literally any place is interesting, and secondly, Loknya has recently been a special case for me. A year ago (or six months before the trip) I had a very colorful dream in which, finding myself in Lokna under very unusual circumstances (being behind the train and then trying to catch it on my own two feet), I discovered a functioning trolleybus system in the village! And then he began to actively promote this topic to the masses. But this post is not about the trolleybus - I leave the dream and the humor that accompanies it entirely out of brackets here (although there will still be mentions of the trolleybus), and this post is dedicated to the real Lokna, which I visited in early May.

On May 4th at 9-40 in the morning, a yellow PAZik departed from the Velikiye Luki bus station on the Velikiye Luki - Nasva - Loknya route, where I was among the few passengers. If I had already been to Luki two years earlier, now I am going to places where I have never been, but I have traveled a huge number of times, starting from early childhood, by train. The St. Petersburg-Vitebsk Mainline is completely dear to me - all trains from St. Petersburg to Belarus go along it (and I went and go to Minsk), and the places through which the train passed were always interesting to me, and sometimes I just wanted to see them, did not sleep at night. By the way, Velikiye Luki, where I spent the night on my May trip, is already very close to Belarus - only 75 kilometers to the border and 160 kilometers to Vitebsk. But this time I moved in the direction of St. Petersburg. The bus first went through the outskirts of Velikiye Luki, where there are mass graves at every height - a reminder of the bloody Velikiye Luki operation in the winter of 1942-1943, then it went to the Vitebsk railway and drove along it (from the window I saw the small Kiselevich station). Then there was a 10-minute stop in the village of Nasva, and another forty-five minutes of travel to Lokni, where the bus passed through the village of Golenishchevo, where the now restored St. Nicholas Church is located, in which M. I. Kutuzov was married. Finally at 11:45 the bus arrived in Loknya.

2. A small and very modest-looking bus station with a sign, probably from Soviet times:

For clarity, here is the route of my movement around Lokna. Green numbers indicate the numbers of photos in the post (not all, but only selectively), green arrows next to the numbers indicate the direction of the camera.

3. Interior in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. In the distance on the wall you can see a rare wooden map of bus traffic in the Loknyansky district. Also clearly still Soviet. From the Loknyanskaya bus station you can take direct flights to Luki, Pskov, and even St. Petersburg.

4. The bus station, as usual, is located next to the railway station, which is visible in the background.

5. On railway station quiet and deserted. Most trains long distance passes here at night (including those on which I am used to driving between St. Petersburg and Minsk), and there are almost no suburban ones left. I will have to use one of the few remaining ones on the same day, late in the evening. The photo shows a view to the south, that is, towards Novosokolniki and Vitebsk.

6. And the opposite view, towards Dno and St. Petersburg. The weather was excellent for the beginning of May - sunny and even a little hot, I walked around calmly in a T-shirt and without a jacket.

It must be said that there are not as many long-distance trains here now as there were before. The fact is that the trains to Ukraine, canceled due to well-known events, have reduced traffic. At the beginning of this year, the Belarusian train St. Petersburg - Brest was also canceled, which, however, now, when I write, has already been returned.

7. A beautiful post-war station, the same as at the Zemtsy station in the Tver region. By the way, in my opinion, this is the case when the corporate colors of Russian Railways did not significantly damage the building. The red stripe is almost invisible, and the light gray color suits the station as a whole. Before repainting, I remember it was either turquoise or red-pink.

8. I have seen this station many times, passing here by train. But every time I saw him at night, when it was dark, the lights were on at the station, and there was light inside the station. It’s even unusual to see this place in the daytime in the light of the sun.

9. Station interior. Here, as in Zemtsy, they did not fence off half the room.

And this is what the pre-revolutionary station built in 1901 looked like. But it did not survive - it burned down during the Great Patriotic War. This region was greatly devastated by the war, which is why the architectural appearance of most settlements create post-war standard buildings.

10. There are other station buildings. This is apparently the luggage compartment.

11. Post EC:

12. Another view to the north, where I will be going in a few hours. On the right you can see stacks of wood ready for loading.

13. And this is what the station looks like from Lenin Square - the village station square. “So, did you like the station?” — a woman passing by asked, smiling. “Well, yes, he’s beautiful,” I say, continuing to take photographs. Of course, I didn’t say anything about the trolleybus :)

14. This is what the station area looks like. Sovetskaya Street runs along the railway.

15. The shabby pink building is, if I’m not mistaken, a public bath that is no longer in use.

16. Lenin Square and trolleybus ring No. 1. The station is located slightly to the right of the frame.

17. On the square, opposite the station, there is a village administration and a monument to Ilyich in a cap in front of it.

18. Last year's stand. Which, by the way, would be more logical to put on the next street - near the cultural center.

19. Quite an interesting two-story brick building with an attic on the roof. Possibly pre-war.

20. The post office building is a former department store. Typical post-war project of the 1950s. for small towns.

21. And in this building, most likely from the 1950s, some kind of imitation of the classicism of the 19th century is already noticeable.

I gradually move away from the station, that is, I go beyond the field of view of the train passenger passing Loknya. Still, this is an interesting feeling - when I have passed through some place many times on a train, the stop of which was only a couple of minutes, and now I have arrived here, I can leave the station, take a walk and see what is there, outside this “field” vision." And my childhood impression plays a role here - such names as Soltsy, Dno, Dedovichi, Loknya and other Novosokolniki - were familiar to me from childhood from the train schedules hanging in the carriages. It seems clear that there is hardly anything unexpected in all these places, but it’s still interesting!

22. View across the northern passage (alley) of Lenin Square back towards the station, which closes the perspective well. Almost the same view is presented in the title frame.

As already mentioned, the village of Loknya arose during the construction of the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk railway at the beginning of the 20th century. Before the revolution, there was Velikoluksky district of the Pskov province. In 1927, Loknyansky district was formed, and in 1941 Loknya received the status of an urban-type settlement. Then the war began... Loknya, like the entire territory of the Pskov region, was under Nazi occupation for almost two and a half years. After the liberation of Velikiye Luki in January 1943, Soviet troops failed to develop a further offensive to the west, and Loknya, like this entire section of the Leningrad-Vitebsk railway, was liberated by troops of the 2nd Baltic Front only at the end of February 1944.

23. Pervomaiskaya street - parallel to Sovetskaya, and, accordingly, to the railway.

24. View in the other direction:

In the post-war years, Loknya began to develop thanks to the timber and food industries. There was also a radio products factory, which closed in the post-Soviet years along with the butter factory. Of the previously operating industries in Lokne, only a bakery and a furniture factory remain. But it must be said that despite the economic depression, outwardly Loknya leaves a very pleasant impression - a poor, but at the same time well-groomed and comfortable urban settlement, without much devastation. It's quite cozy here, especially on such a warm May day.

25. The House of Culture - a modest Stalinist building - closes the perspective of the alley on the other side, exchanging glances with the station building.

26. Column capital. Soviet symbols were skillfully combined with antique architectural elements.

27. But this stand is dedicated to the already mentioned St. Nicholas Church in the village of Golenishchevo, Loknyansky district - the family estate of Kutuzov. Until recently, this church was abandoned, but is now being restored. I saw it from the bus window, but I would like to make a separate trip there.

28. Pervomaiskaya street:

29. I walk along Oktyabrskaya Street, perpendicular to it, continuing to immerse myself in the atmosphere of another regional center of the Pskov region that I visited. In 2014, I got acquainted with the Pskov regional centers on the frosty sunny days of January, but now I do it in the spring.

30. On the right we found some unfinished building, and a little further - a school.

31. Spring of the fifteenth year...

32. So I went out onto the central street of Lokni - Sharikov Street. No, the character of “Heart of a Dog” has nothing to do with it - the street is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union, a native of the Loknyansky district, Alexander Sharikov, who died in 1944 during the battles for Sevastopol.

The street also runs parallel to the railway and on the southern outskirts of Lokni it turns into a highway leading to Velikiye Luki, which is actually where I came from. I turn onto Sharikov Street in south direction to eventually make a circle.

33. Sharikov Street is also full of all sorts of interesting entities. Like, for example, Loknyansky Agricultural College!

34. And the essence of this street, as already mentioned, is that it is the “core” of the village and part of the P-51 highway passing through it. Therefore, anyone coming to Sharikov Street along the perpendicular Socialist Street is greeted by this sign. A crossroads, however! You go left, as they say, and so on...

35. And here is Socialist Street itself. It is noticeable in the frame that there is also relief in Lokna. We'll walk along this street a little later.

37. Then I turned onto Uritsky Street. Now I'm already on the outskirts of Lokni. By the way, pay attention to the interesting local peculiarity private sector - almost all houses stand sideways to the street.

As in the southwest of the Tver region, there are also many summer residents from neighboring regions, judging by the license plates of their cars. Children are playing on the street - some of them are probably visiting relatives on the weekend. They even said "Hello" to me when I walked past them :)

38. I am approaching the southwestern outskirts of Lokni, and this place is especially interesting. Do you see the church behind the trees? And she, by the way, is much older than the village itself. The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in the 1770s.

Long before the appearance of the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk railway, in an amazing time when the word Loknya meant only a river, the Vlytsa churchyard already stood in this place, first mentioned in 1488 (yes, this number also means a year in history!). Thus, Vlitsy in Lokne is approximately the same as the village of Yotkino within the city of Nelidovo.

39. This is how history decreed. This temple, standing on a hill, remembers those times when there was no Lokni, and train whistles and the sound of their wheels were not heard among the local forests.

40. At this point Loknya ends, and Uritsky Street turns into a highway that goes somewhere further to the west, into the wilderness of the Loknyansky district, to the forests and lakes and hills of the Bezhanitsky Upland... Immediately after leaving Loknya there is the village of Ignatovo.

41. Reverse view. To the right of the road there is a sign for the entrance to Loknya.

42. The Bezhanitskaya Upland is clearly visible already here. Loknya stands on its eastern spurs. And from the graveyard of Vlytsa and the village of Ignatovo it opens good view towards the center of Lokni, beyond which the forests extend further. In the photo, by the way, you can see the optical effect of the rise of air heated by the May sun.

43. To the east of Loknya, towards the border of the Pskov region with the Novgorod region, there are rather remote places with forests and wide swamps and a very small number of settlements.

Then I walked back, again past the church and along the streets of Uritsky and Sharikov. In order to complete the circle in the center of Lokni, I turned from Sharikov onto Socialistheskaya Street.

44. Which goes towards the railway at a noticeable slope.

45. This is what it is like - the outskirts of the Bezhanitskaya Upland (which, by the way, is named after the neighboring regional center, located a little to the north).

46. Typical residential quarters of Loknya:

47. Reverse view. In the background you can see the Magnit store - a constant attribute of our charming Russian outback. At Magnit I bought provisions for the rest of the day.

48. And a company store of the Velikoluksky meat processing plant, specific to our region. You can see it throughout the North-West of Russia (right up to Vorkuta, where I discovered it in August of this year), but here the manufacturer is very close.

49. Quiet Loknyansky courtyard. Here I sat down to have a snack. As already mentioned, it is a pleasant and interesting feeling when you can examine in detail a place where you have passed by train so many times.

50. But this inhabitant of the yard looks as if he is guarding the entrance to the entrance.

51. Loknyansky bakery. By the way, on the left side of the frame you can see a truck transporting his products.

52. And the company store:

Closing the circle, I turned north, onto Pervomaiskaya Street.

53. Another remarkable Stalin. It looks like a former cinema. Now, as we see, it has been converted into a store.

54. Pervomaiskaya street. Everything is clean and tidy.

55. Then I passed by the already shown recreation center and went further, in the direction of the northern outskirts of Lokni.

Second card:

56. Another yard:

57. Sharikov Street again:

58. View north:

59. And this is the name of one of the streets adjacent to Sharikov. The famous war hero Alexander Matrosov accomplished his feat in these very places - near the village of Chernushki, Loknyansky district. And on the way to Loknya from Velikie Luki, I passed a sign to the memorial dedicated to him.

There is also a monument to Matrosov as part of the Great Patriotic War memorial in the center of Velikiye Luki - the monument was erected there, since after the war the Loknyansky district was part of the Velikiye Luki region, which was abolished in 1957.

60. And this is what this street looks like. Again, houses are standing sideways, almost everywhere in these parts.

61. Houses, vegetable gardens, apple trees... And woodpiles!

62. And here is this sign on one of the houses, apparently from Soviet times.

63. Sharikov Street, going further north, turns right and becomes Komsomolskaya, which then crosses the railway and leaves Lokni, turning into a highway leading east to Kholm, Staraya Russa and Veliky Novgorod. Before the railway crossing, a highway leading to Bezhanitsy and Porkhov leaves Komsomolskaya Street to the north.

64. Among the various trees planted here near one of the houses, a Siberian cedar was unexpectedly discovered!

65. In fact, Sharikov Street, in fact, continues further, but takes on a completely rustic appearance. And by the way, according to, again, my dream, a trolleybus runs here!

66. On this trip, in the east of the Pskov region, I discovered an unusual type of hut roof that I had never seen before. Namely, a four-slope half-hip. Houses with a skylight, where another incomplete one (half hip) is added to two slopes on the front side, are often found. But somehow I’ve never seen one like this where the light is double-sided...

67. Then I went out onto the Loknya - Bezhanitsy highway. Loknya itself ends here, and the village of Rysino is in the frame. According to my dream, here is the end of the second trolleybus route, and there is a park nearby :)

The remaining hour and a half before the departure of the Novosokolniki-Dno commuter train (on which I had to travel further north - to Chikhachevo), I decided to walk along the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk railway.

68. And there she is already - perfectly visible from the road!

69. We need to figure out how to get there. It seems that here it is, the railway. But it’s difficult to get to it - there are some thickets around and a ditch flooded with water. But then I found a side street and walked past a couple of village houses. The grandfather sitting next to one of them even looked after me questioningly. Eh, if only he knew that my subconscious brought a trolleybus to their village :)

70. Found a crossing! An improvised bridge made of some kind of metal structure was laid across the ditch. Having crossed it, I walked another fifteen meters along the path and came out to the rails.

At first I had the idea to walk eight kilometers along the railway to the former Tigoshchi junction and board the train there, but then I abandoned this idea, including due to the presence of a bridge across the Loknya River on the stretch, which I was not sure was unguarded was completely sure (although the likelihood of this is extremely low, even if the bridge across Oredezh is not guarded). Therefore, I walked a couple of kilometers in the northern direction (where I had to go) and returned back - straight to the Loknya station, exactly to commuter train to the bottom. But I'll tell you more about this later.

November 12th, 2015

Loknya is a small regional center in the Pskov region, created by the railway. In 1904, a steel main line connected St. Petersburg with Vitebsk, and the Loknya station got its name from the river flowing nearby, a tributary of the Lovat. A railway village of the same name arose at the station, which grew significantly during the Soviet years thanks to the development of light industry. Now this is a completely ordinary urban-type settlement with a population of three and a half thousand inhabitants, and for it, as for many places in the east of the Pskov region, the city-forming industry and, one might say, bread is the railway.

2. A small and very modest-looking bus station with a sign, probably from Soviet times:

4. The bus station, as usual, is located next to the railway station, which is visible in the background.

5. The railway station is quiet and deserted. Most long-distance trains pass here at night (including those on which I am used to traveling between St. Petersburg and Minsk), and there are almost no commuter trains left. I will have to use one of the few remaining ones on the same day, late in the evening. The photo shows a view to the south, that is, towards Novosokolniki and Vitebsk.

6. And the opposite view, towards Dno and St. Petersburg. The weather was excellent for the beginning of May - sunny and even a little hot, I walked around calmly in a T-shirt and without a jacket.

9. Station interior. Here, as in Zemtsy, they did not fence off half the room.

And this is what the pre-revolutionary station built in 1904 looked like. But it did not survive - it burned down during the Great Patriotic War. This region was greatly devastated by the war, which is why the architectural appearance of most settlements is created by post-war standard buildings.

10. There are other station buildings. This is apparently the luggage compartment.

11. Post EC:

12. Another view to the north, where I will be going in a few hours. On the right you can see stacks of wood ready for loading.

14. This is what the station area looks like. Sovetskaya Street runs along the railway.

15. The shabby pink building is, if I’m not mistaken, a public bath that is no longer in use.

16. Lenin Square - near the station. The station is located slightly to the right of the frame.

17. On the square, opposite the station, there is a village administration and a monument to Ilyich in a cap in front of it.

18. Last year's stand. Which, by the way, would be more logical to put on the next street - near the cultural center.

19. Quite an interesting two-story brick building with an attic on the roof. Possibly pre-war.

20. The post office building is a former department store. Typical post-war project of the 1950s. for small towns.

21. And in this building, most likely from the 1950s, some kind of imitation of the classicism of the 19th century is already noticeable.

22. View across the northern passage (alley) of Lenin Square back towards the station, which closes the perspective well. Almost the same view is presented in the title frame.

23. Pervomaiskaya street - parallel to Sovetskaya, and, accordingly, to the railway.

24. View in the other direction:

In the post-war years, Loknya began to develop thanks to the timber and food industries. There was also a radio products factory, which closed in the post-Soviet years along with the butter factory. Of the previously operating industries in Lokne, only a bakery and a furniture factory remain. But it must be said that despite the economic depression, outwardly Loknya leaves a very pleasant impression - not rich, but at the same time well-groomed and comfortable urban settlement, without much devastation. It's quite cozy here, especially on such a warm May day.

25. The House of Culture - a modest Stalinist building - closes the perspective of the alley on the other side, exchanging glances with the station building.

26. Column capital. Soviet symbols were skillfully combined with antique architectural elements.

28. Pervomaiskaya street:

30. On the right we found some unfinished building, and a little further - a school.

31. Spring of the fifteenth year...

33. Sharikov Street is also full of all sorts of interesting entities. Like, for example, Loknyansky Agricultural College!

35. And here is Socialist Street itself. It is noticeable in the frame that there is also relief in Lokna. We'll walk along this street a little later.

37. Then I turned onto Uritsky Street. Now I'm already on the outskirts of Lokni. By the way, pay attention to an interesting local feature of the private sector - almost all houses stand sideways to the street.

41. Reverse view. To the right of the road there is a sign for the entrance to Loknya.

42. The Bezhanitskaya Upland is clearly visible already here. Loknya stands on its eastern spurs. And from the Vlytsa churchyard and the village of Ignatovo there is a good view towards the center of Lokni, beyond which the forests extend further. In the photo, by the way, you can see the optical effect of the rise of air heated by the May sun.

43. To the east of Loknya, towards the border of the Pskov region with the Novgorod region, there are rather remote places with forests and wide swamps and a very small number of settlements.

Then I walked back, again past the church and along the streets of Uritsky and Sharikov. In order to complete the circle in the center of Lokni, I turned from Sharikov onto Socialistheskaya Street.

44. Which goes towards the railway at a noticeable slope.

45. This is what it is like - the outskirts of the Bezhanitskaya Upland (which, by the way, is named after the neighboring regional center, located a little to the north).

46. Typical residential quarters of Loknya:

47. Reverse view. In the background you can see the Magnit store - a constant attribute of our charming Russian outback. At Magnit I bought provisions for the rest of the day.

50. But this inhabitant of the yard looks as if he is guarding the entrance to the entrance.

51. Loknyansky bakery. By the way, on the left side of the frame you can see a Gazelle cargo truck leaving its territory.

52. Which a minute later drove up to the company store opposite and began to ship the goods.

Closing the circle, I turned north, onto Pervomaiskaya Street.

53. Another remarkable Stalin. It looks like a former cinema. Now, as we see, it has been converted into a store.

54. Pervomaiskaya street. Everything is clean and tidy.

55. Then I passed by the already shown recreation center and went further, in the direction of the northern outskirts of Lokni.

Second card:

56. Another yard:

57. Sharikov Street again:

58. View north:

60. And this is what this street looks like. Again, houses are standing sideways, almost everywhere in these parts.

61. Houses, vegetable gardens, apple trees... And woodpiles!

62. And here is this sign on one of the houses, apparently from Soviet times.

63. Sharikov Street, going further north, turns right and becomes Komsomolskaya, which then crosses the railway and leaves Lokni, turning into a highway leading east - to Kholm, Staraya Russa and Veliky Novgorod. Before the railway crossing, a highway leading to Bezhanitsy and Porkhov leaves Komsomolskaya Street to the north.

64. Among the various trees planted here near one of the houses, a Siberian cedar was unexpectedly discovered!

65. In fact, Sharikov Street, in fact, continues further, but takes on a completely rustic appearance.

67. Then I went out onto the Loknya - Bezhanitsy highway. Loknya itself ends here, and the village of Rysino is in the frame.

68. And there she is already - perfectly visible from the road!

70. Found a crossing! An improvised bridge made of some kind of metal structure was laid across the ditch. Having crossed it, I walked another fifteen meters along the path and came out to the rails.

At first I had the idea to walk eight kilometers along the railway to the former Tigoshchi junction and board the train there, but then I abandoned this idea, including due to the presence of a bridge across the Loknya River on the stretch, which I was not sure was unguarded was completely sure (although the likelihood of this is extremely low, even if the bridge across Oredezh is not guarded). Therefore, I walked a couple of kilometers in the northern direction (where I had to go) and returned back - straight to the Loknya station, as if to the commuter train to Dno. But I'll tell you more about this later.

Don’t let the young, by historical standards, age of the village of Loknya, Pskov Region, deceive you. He stands on ancient land, that she has seen and absorbed so much over the past millennium. Military and peaceful achievements, surrounded by fascinating nature, left behind a lot memorable places, events and personalities

When a curious person wants to find out information about the Loknyansky district, he usually finds only the most general statistical data. They will talk about the historical childhood of the village, its location and transport links. But she's relatively young Loknya, Pskov region, is old enough for any of its districts to include one of the many historical ones, or simply interesting places. The subject of our today's review was no exception.

History of Lokni

Before appearing on maps in 1901 Loknya, Pskov region was known to the ancient district center- Trinity-on-Hlavice churchyard (now the village of Podberezye). Founded by herself in 947, it can only be called a center with irony, because at that time it was lonely and small in number, at a considerable distance from Pskov. And what kind of areas are there in the 10th century? The main source of income for churchyards was the accommodation of travelers moving goods along the famous route “from the Varangians to the Greeks.” With the extinction of the trade route by the 13th century, a large part of the Loknyansky district was included in the Kholmsky district of the Novgorod land, until the 14th century. Due to its location on the western border of the Russian state, which is remembered on the coat of arms of the region, these lands were the first to stand in the way of foreign invaders. And only by 1667, with the end of the Russian-Polish war, the border moved further to the west, allowing Lokna and the Pskov region to breathe a sigh of relief. And already in the 20th century, when laying railways, a settlement grows near one of the stations, which eventually became a regional center.

Attractions Lokni

At first glance, the area does not inspire hope, a small-town pastoral, everything interesting should be concentrated in the regional center... Nothing of the kind! From the train station at Loknya, recognized as an architectural monument, to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, where Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov was married. Just ten kilometers from the center of the region, in the ruined Brianchaninov estate, there are two buildings, representing a puzzling example of early twentieth-century architecture, using “futuristic” reinforced concrete technology. On the site of the Vlytsa churchyard there is an ancient one, both for Lokni, Pskov region, and in Russia in general, the Transfiguration Church. Built of wood in the 15th century, it was updated to stone in the 1770s to cater for the growing flock. According to legend, it was in it that M.I. was baptized. Kutuzov, and his brother Semyon is buried next to the church porch, as evidenced by a dilapidated granite monument. And as if confirming the glorious tradition of the guards of the Russian land, in the village of Chernushki there is a military memorial on the site of the feat of Alexander Matrosov.

Nature of Lokni

The landscape is characterized by marshy areas with many lakes, occupying mainly the western part of the area. The natural water artery is the Loknya River, originating from Loknovo. And 43% of the land is covered by coniferous-deciduous forests. In them you can find modest-sized populations of forest inhabitants coexisting in a balanced ecosystem, which should be protected in every possible way from the shrinking environment of technological civilization. For example, you should not pick the reserved mushroom - coral blackberry. For the protection of which a covering Loknyu, Pskov region and part Novgorod region Polistovsky state reserve. As you might guess, protected species also include two other kingdoms. Fauna numbering 305 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. The flora consists of lichens, mosses and higher plants, a total of 654 species. If you have been wondering since childhood what those protected forests with talking animals and miracles from Russian fairy tales looked like, then you are at the right place. Although silent pikes and unsociable golden eagles can undermine children's fantasies, the wonders of virgin nature still remain here.