The life of the single -industry detention center in the USSR

Omutninsky Metallurgical Plant (1950s (?))

When it comes to a single -industry, many imagine a small settlement, the urban environment of which froze in the “bright” Soviet past, in which, in addition to the only rusty smoke from the plant’s pipes, there is nowhere to work, and only discos in the old house of culture ... and, unfortunately, most often this idea is accurate.

If we take a more or less official concept, then the single -industry (monoprophic municipality) is a settlement whose main part of the working population of which works at one or more (few) city -forming enterprises, as a rule, of one profile. In Russia, according to the order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 07.29.2014 No. 1398-r "On approval of the list of monoprophic municipalities of the Russian Federation (single-industry towns)", there are 319 such cities and 11 of them are located in the Kirov region.

Omutninsky Metallurgical Plant (until 1988)

The city of Omutninsk is also included in this list under number 267 ( I recently told you about it ), which appeared back in 1773 in connection with the construction of an iron-melting plant on the River, but for two and a half centuries of its history remained a city city.

The reason for this was the fact that in Soviet times, under the team economy, the city was built for industry, and not for people (it was for this period that the peak of the growth of the number of single -industry towns in our country came), which now creates certain difficulties both for maintaining the single -industry towns in good condition and for their development ...

But let's get back with you 30 years ago and see how Omutninsk looked at the time of the USSR, try through the photos to feel how it lived in it then, and whether something has changed over the past decades:

St. Vorovsky (until 1988)

St. Vorovsky (January 2017)

Cinema "Spartak" (until 1988)

Cinema "Spartak" (January 2018)

The building of the cinema sold to the local entrepreneur several years ago, instead of becoming one of the points of attraction of the inhabitants, continues to collapse.

Culture Palace "Metallurg" (until 1988)

Culture Palace "Metallurg" (January 2017)

The Palace of Culture as was one of the main leisure institutions, so it remained.

Well, in the photographs below, almost nothing has changed:

School (until 1988)

Department of Communications (until 1988)

Railway station (until 1988)

Dam and Omutninsky Metallurgical Plant (until 1988)

View of the pond and the central part of the city (until 1988)

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