Pamyat’ Parizhskoy Kommuny, Russia

History

The first mention of the village dates back to 1869. In the same year, the lands of the Zhukovsky backwater were purchased by the merchant Ivan Milyutin for one and a half thousand silver rubles. The first workshops providing repair of ships appeared.

In 1886, the active development of the town began: the construction of the first houses for the purpose of permanent housing.

In 1917-1918 the ships were nationalized. During the civil war, when military operations were going on on the Volga, the Volga military flotilla was organized in Nizhny Novgorod. Ships were being re-equipped at the plant: for hospitals and the headquarters ship Markin.

In 1923, the Zhukovsky backwater was renamed the Pamyat Parizhskoy Kommuny backwater, and in 1932 it was given the status of a small town. In 1938, Vladimir Alexandrov, a well-known physicist and one of the main authors of the “nuclear winter” concept, was born there. During the World War II, the workers of the plant carried out defense orders: they made mines and snowmobiles. Vessels of the Volga military flotilla were sent to the town for repairs. Most of the inhabitants of the town went to the front and the defense of Gorky from German air raids. More than three hundred of them died. In memory of them, a memorial complex was erected on the square of the town.

From the History section of Pamyat Parizhskoy Kommuny on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.