Urban-type settlement BEKOVO (Ozerye, Nikolskoye) of the Penza Region

Russian urban-type settlement, regional center, 154 km from Penza, railroad station on the Bekovskaya branch of the Tambov-Saratov line, highway to Penza. Until 1959 - the village of Bekovo. As of 1.1.2006 - 6561 inhabitants. Situated on the right bank of the river. Khoper. Large forest areas begin at the southern and eastern outskirts of the village. Founded at the end of the 17th century as c. Nikolskoye Lake, from the 18th century - with. Bekovo (by the name of one of the first owners, Prince A.A. Bekovich-Cherkassky). Peasants were transferred from Arzamas, Suzdal, Murom, Moscow and other counties. In 1771 the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in 1813 - the Church of the Intercession.

Due to its advantageous location at the intersection of tracks and the Khoper raftable river, by the beginning of the 19th century it became a major shopping mall districts, and by the middle of the 19th century surpassed county towns Serdobsk, Atkarsk and others. In 1800, when Major General and Cavalier Mikhail Zinovievich Durasov and his wife Agrafena Alekseevna owned Bekovo, a church was built in Bekovo in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the master's wooden house. On the day of the Protection Holy Mother of God The fair opened and lasted two weeks. There was a trade by visiting merchants in silk and woolen goods, products for peasant labor, tin, iron and wooden utensils, sugar, vodka and tea. Trade in running cattle was widely developed. In addition, every Sunday there were bazaars in Bekovo, where residents of nearby villages came to buy and sell products of peasant labor and small goods. For merchants, the owner of the village built ten wooden shops. The bazaar and the fair brought him up to 600 rubles of net income per year.

Subsequently, the Intercession Fair (funds from it continued to flow to the landowner) was known throughout Russia (trade in grain, horses, livestock products, handicrafts). In many ways, the prosperity of Bekovo was facilitated by the St. Petersburg merchant M.A. Ustinov (1755-1836), who bought an estate here in 1810 and built an urban-type estate on the banks of the Khopra.

Until 1861, part of the peasants was on quitrent, part on corvée. The quitrent was paid from 43 to 50 rubles. from tax. In 1861, the peasants went free, having bought the land from Ustinov as their property. The arable land was High Quality, chernozem up to 1.5 arshins (more than 1 meter) deep.

With the construction of a railway line in 1874, warehouses, steam mills, and grain barns were built here. By 1877 - 300 households, 2 schools, a church, a chapel, an almshouse, a hospital, a postal station, 11 shops, 10 inns, a steam carpentry factory, a brick factory, 2 windmills. In 1880, a private library was opened for public use. In 1886 there were 12 stone and brick residential buildings, 27 houses covered with iron, there were 31 industrial establishments, 13 taverns and taverns, 8 shops; the peasants have 342 working horses, 622 sheep, 267 pigs, 100 yards without horses, 67 without their own crops, 1 yard with a garden. The trade role of the village contributed to the well-being of the peasants. Of the 217 men who had fishing jobs at the end of the 1880s, 43 were engaged in trade, 43 renting apartments, 25 gardening, 25 farm labor, 18 day jobs, there were 5 butchers, 8 clerks.

In 1877, a koumiss clinic, a kursaal and a hotel with a bath, a boat pier on the lake for vacationers were opened on Mount Shikhan. By 1900 there was a post and telegraph office, a pharmacy, a library, a commercial and industrial bank, a two-class school, and a parochial school.

In the years civil war the village was in the zone of operations of the Red Army against the Antonovites. On March 29, 1926, a radio was heard for the first time in Bekovo, which was arranged by the radio engineer Utekhin. Until 1928 - the volost center of the Serdobsky district of the Saratov province, then the regional center of the Lower Volga Territory and Saratov region, since 1939 - Penza region. In the 1940s, the horticultural state farm "Bekovsky" was formed (971 hectares under gardens and berries), which was the largest in the region in this specialization. The farm has achieved a record fruit yield of 45–50 centners per hectare. After 1926, the Ustinovsky settlement (717 inhabitants) became part of the village of Bekovo; in 1985, the large neighboring village of Naryshkino became part of the village of Bekovo.

In 1998, in Bekovo, a butter factory, a food processing plant (confectionery, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks), an elevator, a mill, a PMK (construction of residential buildings, livestock buildings, schools, kindergartens, etc.); sugar factory (built in 1936). Central district hospital, secondary and 2 incomplete secondary schools, 2 kindergartens, a vocational school, a cultural center, a cinema, a center. district library, children's library, Naryshkinskaya village library. Museum of History and Local Lore, rest house "Bekovo". Bekovskoe branch of the Russian Agricultural Bank, savings bank, post office, telegraph, telephone. Local transport company. Mass graves of soldiers who died of wounds in 1941-45 in the hospital (in the cemetery and in the area of ​​the sugar factory); memorial in honor of fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War. The mass grave of Soviet workers who died at the hands of bandits in 1921 (food procurement agent T.Ya. Yudison and people's judge Ya.P. Yashin). Architectural monuments: noble estate Ustinovs on the high bank of Lake Zaton with a park stretching towards Khopra (a two-story brick house and an outbuilding of the 19th - early 20th centuries have been preserved). The estate was turned into a holiday home, its appearance was distorted by later outbuildings rest houses. The koumiss clinic (end of the 19th century) was located on the territory of the estate. The son of the estate owner Alexei Mikhailovich Ustinov (September 17, 1879, the village of Bekovo - September 26, 1937, Tallinn) - a member of the revolutionary movement since 1901, a member of the Constituent Assembly, a former Socialist-Revolutionary, then began to support the Bolsheviks, was the leader of the Party who broke away from the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries revolutionary communists, who in 1920 became part of the RCP (b); in 1917-20, a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, then in diplomatic work: in the embassy of the USSR in Germany, Greece, Georgia, and Estonia. On the southern outskirts there is an archaeological monument of the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BC. e. (Bronze Age, Srubna culture).

Population: in 1745 - 400, 1859 - 1998, 1887 - 1354, 1897 - 2775, 1911 - 1456, 1926 - 2874, 1933 - 3129, 1939 - 4004, 1959 - 4545, 1970 - 4 587, 1979 - 4465, 1989 - 7301, 1998 - 7300 inhabitants.

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On September 13, 2011, the chairman of the Penza regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society, Pantyushov Igor Vladislavovich, and a member of the Academic Council of the Penza Russian Geographical Society, Ilyina Olga Mikhailovna, visited a wonderful corner of the Penza province - the Bekovsky district.

In the building of the district administration, a working meeting was held with the head of the Bekovo district administration - Rachkov Oleg Nikolaevich. Oleg Nikolaevich is a patriot of his small homeland. He himself knows the history, geography, and economy of his region well, and with pleasure supported the idea of ​​creating a regional branch of the Penza Russian Geographical Society in Bekovo.

At the meeting, the prospects for cooperation with the administration of the Bekovsky district were discussed on attracting the attention of people and authorities to important environmental issues, researching history and geography native land, patriotic education of youth, development of education and spiritual culture.

After the conversation, there was a study tour of Bekovo. We visited the regional museum of local lore, where people work - patriots of their region, who enthusiastically told about the history of the village of Bekovo. Bekovo can be called one of the ancient settlements of the Penza Province, dating back to 1621. The history of the region is very rich and full of events. Among the many exhibits of the museum are fossil weapons, Bronze Age dishes, weapons from the time of Emelyan Pugachev, and many other valuable artifacts.

Bekovskaya Land is rightfully proud of its six Heroes of the Soviet Union, bronze busts which are included in memorial complex military glory. The names of all fellow countrymen who laid down their lives in the Great Patriotic War are forever carved on the memorial plates. Every third inhabitant of the region did not return from the fields of that terrible war...

And so Bekovo. Historical area - Bekovshchina.

One part of the Bekovsky district geographically lies in the floodplain and above the floodplain terrace of the Khoper River, the other part is located on the Central Russian Plateau Upland.

In Russian history, the first mention of a settlement on the site of Bekovo dates back to 1621. It is generally accepted that the beginning of the history of the village should be from 1671 - the opening of a church parish. The church parish could not have arisen from scratch, and long before its appearance on the banks of the Khopra there was a settlement of peasants. ancient name his - Lakes testifies that the settlement arose on the shores of the lake. The remains of the lake, already in the form of a swamp, were visible even in the second half of the 20th century next to the railway station. The lakes were one of the settlements founded by the Russian peasants of the Shatsk district, who hunted along the banks of the Medveditsa and Khoper rivers, after the Volga region became part of the Muscovite state. Dense forests grew along the Khopra at that time.

At the beginning of the 19th century (around 1813), the court councilor, a native of the merchant class, Mikhail Adrianovich Ustinov, who in 1821 brought his family into the third part of the noble family tree, became the owner of the village. The subsequent history of the village is inextricably linked with the noble family of the Ustinovs and, in particular, with the fourth son of M.A. Ustinov - Adrian Mikhailovich Ustinov (1802-1883), who made a huge contribution to the socio-economic development of the village.

Thanks to the efforts of our fellow countryman Adrian Ustinov, the village of Bekovo gained all-Russian fame as one of the most remarkable villages of the Russian Empire.

Adrian Mikhailovich Ustinov was a Bekov landowner for 53 years (from 1830 to 1883). He was a representative of the noble family of the Ustinovs, included in the third part of the noble family tree of the book of the Saratov province. According to his convictions, A.M. Ustinov was a liberal. From 1819 to 1829 He served in the Asian Department and the Archives of the Collegium (Ministry) of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire. He retired with the rank of collegiate adviser. He was intimately acquainted with many famous people during the reign of Alexander I. Surname A.M. Ustinova appeared in investigation cases on the Decembrists. However, due to the lack of hard evidence of involvement in secret societies, Ustinov was not arrested. In the personal archive of A.M. Ustinov kept documents on the history of the Decembrist movement, he also financially helped one of the Decembrists - F.F. Vadkovsky - in exile.

A.M. Ustinov was a good friend of A.S. Pushkin. Adrian Mikhailovich met the great poet in February 1831. In 1833, returning to St. Petersburg from the Orenburg province, where he collected material for the history of the Pugachev rebellion, A.S. Pushkin visited Ustinov at the Bekov estate. A.M. Ustinov left the warmest memories of his contemporaries, and his architectural heritage is still pleasing to the eye.

Bekovo was at that time a rich and prosperous urban-type settlement, where many merchants and artisans lived. Bek's fairs were famous throughout the Empire, and Khoper was navigable! Until now, if you pass through the village, you can see many brick buildings of the XIX century.

Preserved unique architectural monument bygone era. This is the "Gothic" estate of the Ustinovs. The Ustinovs' estate occupied a third of the village of Bekovo. The estate had 5 stone residential buildings, a garden, a greenhouse, a stone pantry, a two-story wooden grain barn, a wooden poultry yard, two stone stable yards, and a stone sawmill. Khoper had a water flour mill. On the Ustinov estate, cereals, cereals, and flax were cultivated. At their own distilleries, they received alcohol sold to the state. Almost two dozen acres were occupied by an apple orchard. In the estate there was a dairy herd of Simmental mestizos, flocks of sheep, a herd of horses.

The manor's estate was located in the southeastern part of the village near the oxbow lake (bay) of Khopra and stretched along the coast in a narrow strip no more than 150 meters wide and about a kilometer long. The area of ​​the estate was no more than 10-13 acres. The estate was surrounded by a fence. In the north-eastern corner of the estate, near the river, there was the Church of the Intercession with a bell tower. Near the church there was a cemetery where the Ustinovs were also buried (it is quite possible that the grave of Adrian Mikhailovich Ustinov was also located here.)

In the opposite northwestern side of the greenery of the park, towered, as if medieval castle, stone house in pseudo-gothic style. Between " gothic castle"and the Intercession Church were three stone outbuildings, forming, as it were, the letter P, but with passages between them.

In the 1830s, the data of the wing were redone and in their place a luxurious "Mirror" Palace appeared, which burned to the ground in the early 20s of the XX century.

Over time, the area of ​​​​the residential estate of the Ustinovs turned out to be semi-surrounded by rural buildings, a large market square and near-station buildings and the settlement formed after A.M. Ustinov of a small railway line that connected the village of Bekovo with the Vertunovka station.

At present, the Ustinov estate has been preserved in a rebuilt form " gothic castle"and a fence. The Church of the Intercession was destroyed in 1934, and a quarter of a century later it was wiped off the face of the earth and the cemetery. The park is neglected. The territory of the Ustinov estate today is occupied by a nursing home. A sad all-Russian reality.

There is an interesting article about Bekovo "An echo of the glorious past."
"Outwardly, Bekovo does not at all fit the ordinary type of our villages. Bekovo surpasses Serdobsk in its significance and in its lively life, - the historian N.F. Khovansky reported in his "Essay on the Saratov Province". “Near the village itself is the charming estate of the local landowner Ustinov, washed by Khopr.”
Petersburg merchant M.A.Ustinov (1755-1836) acquired the Bekovo estate on the low and swampy left bank of the Khoper around 1810. During the flood, the river here reached a width of up to eight miles and even became navigable. The Saratov Museum of Local Lore has a romantic landscape with clouds running across the sky, painted by an unknown artist of the first half of XIX century. Behind the wide river we see a real palace with a colonnade along the entire facade and a six-column portico slightly advanced in the center. To the right and a little further away you can clearly see the high stone church of the Intercession of the Virgin. This temple, like many others, was destroyed in the 1930s.
The homestead was also damaged. By some miracle, the “Cabinet of Solitary Reflections” survived in the park - a castle house in a pseudo-Gothic style, although it was thoroughly rebuilt.
The now destroyed Bekovskaya church also adorns another landscape from the collection of the Radishchev Museum. It is possible that both paintings were painted by the same local artist commissioned by the owner of the estate.
Under M.A. Ustinov, a wealthy and zealous owner, stables and wine cellars, cellars and greenhouses, a mill on Khoper were built on the estate. Not bad, judging by the appearance of the peasant houses in the picture of an unknown artist, lived the ordinary inhabitants of the village. Sheep and horses were bred in Bekovo, and wheat, rye, oats, and millet were sown in the surrounding fields. The mood of the local market has always been noted as lively. Every year from September 25 to October 2, a lively Intercession Fair was held in the village. Presumably, at the fair, in the autumn of 1833, A.S. Pushkin visited the Bekovo estate. The poet was then returning from a trip to the places of the Pugachev rebellion and, possibly, made several pencil drawings in Bekovo. Pushkin was friendly with one of the sons of the organizer of the estate - Adrian Mikhailovich Ustinov (1802-1883). After graduating from Moscow University, Ustinov served in the Asian Department of the College of Foreign Affairs. After retiring, he settled in Bekovo. Adrian Mikhailovich played the cello superbly, was fond of home floriculture, loved horses and hunting. His friends and neighbors on the estate were the brothers N.I. and S.I. Krivtsov, B.N. Chicherin. Bekov's owners were related to the Stolypins and Shcherbatovs.
At the end of A. M. Ustinov’s life, a koumiss healing institution was opened in the village, a two-year public school worked, and since 1880, a library opened at private expense.
After the revolution, a part of the Ustinov family archive, several paintings and two German-made porcelain vases were taken from Bekov to Saratov and Penza. Everything else is lost.
Lyudmila Pashkova, Elena Savelyeva"

From the website of the Radishevsky Museum.

Urban areaBekovsky CoordinatesCoordinates: 52°2754 s. sh. 43°4236 E / 52.465° N sh. 43.71° E (G) (O) (R) 52.465 , 43.71 52°2754 N sh. 43°4236 E / 52.465° N sh. 43.71° E d. (G) (O) (I) ChapterChulanov Sergey Ivanovich Based2nd half of the 17th century 1st mention1621 Former namesLakes, Nikolskoye, Bekovshchina PGT with1959 Center height149 meters Population^ 6939 people (2010) demonymbekovchanin, bekovchanka, bekovchane TimezoneUTC+4 Telephone code+7 84141 Postal codes442940, 442941 automatic code58 OKATO code56 209 551 Official sitelink

Bekovo- an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the Bekovsky district of the Penza region Russian Federation. In the Russian Empire, it was part of the Serdobsky district of the Saratov province. As of January 1, 2012, the population of Bekovo was 7110 inhabitants. The village of Bekovo became a laureate of the All-Russian competition "The Best Equipped Settlement of Russia" in the nomination "The active role of the population in landscaping native village» for 2010.

Geography

The village is located on the right bank of the Khoper River, 154 km from Penza. Railway station Bekovo on the South-Eastern metal road (opened on February 22, 1874), the terminal station of the Bekovskaya branch of the Tambov-Saratov strip.

Story

Main article: History of Bekovo (Penza region)

The first mention of a settlement on the site of Bekovo dates back to 1621, although the beginning of history dates back to 1671, the date of opening a church parish in the village: in the village of Ozyory, a church was opened in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. With the opening of the church, the village of Ozery turned into the village of Nikolskoye (the name of the village was given by the built church). . However, the church parish could not appear from scratch, and long before its appearance on the banks of the Khopra there was a settlement of farmers. This is supported by one of the names of Bekovo, noted in the documents of the 18th century - Lakes. It testifies that the settlement was founded on the shores of the lake by Russian peasants of the Shatsk district, who hunted along the banks of the Medveditsa and Khoper rivers, after the Volga region became part of the Capital Country.

Bekovo. Entrance to the former estate of the Ustinovs. 2011

In 1691, the village of Nikolskoye (Ozery) was owned by Lev Kirillovich Naryshkin, uncle of Peter I. Since 1700, the owners of the village of Nikolskoe (Ozery) were Kozma and Kondraty Bibikov, brothers of the steward of Peter I Yakov Bibikov. Yakov Bibikov sold in 1723 the land of his personal brothers to Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Bekovich-Cherkassky, the offspring of Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky, an associate of Peter the Great, who was in charge of the expedition to Khiva. In 1725 the village was renamed Cherkasy. Since 1745, the village began to be called Bekovshchina or Bekovo (in honor of the father of Alexander Alexandrovich Bekovich-Cherkassky-Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky (Devlet Kizdem Murza before Christian baptism) (-1717), who died at a diplomatic post in 1717 in the Bukhara Emirate).
In 1780, the Serdobsky district was created, the Saratov governorship. The village of Bekovo was included in the Serdobsky district. In 1783, A. A. Cherkassky sold the estate together with the peasants to General S. P. Melgunov. In 1790, the village of Bekovo passed through a bill of sale into the hands of the landowner Agrafena Alexandrovna Durasova, the wife of Lieutenant General of the Russian army Misha Zinovievich Durasov, who built a palace-estate in a classical style on the shores of Lake Zaton and a house with a 23-meter tower.

Manor A. Mtr. Ustinov, 1st half of the 19th century

In 1800, the state councilor, a native of the merchant class, Misha Adrianovich Ustinov (1755-1836), became the owner of the village. In 1825, the Church of the Intercession was built in the village of Bekovo, named on the day of the feast and the opening of the Church of the Intercession. Since 1830, Adrian Mikhailovich Ustinov (1802-1883) became the owner of the village, having inherited Bekovo from his father, Mtr. A. Ustinova. A. Mtr. Ustinov made a huge contribution to the socio-economic development of the village. The palace estate was rebuilt (1830-1832), greenhouses were built in which lemons, peaches, and pineapples were grown; in 1845 a distillery was built; in 1840, the Gostiny Dvor, White Like Snow, was opened (construction began in 1810, the building has survived to our times). In 1870, a koumiss clinic with dachas and a kursaal (for the treatment of tuberculosis patients) were built near Mount Shikhan, where rich magnates came for healing from Finland, Germany, Poland, and Bekovo was called the Crimea of ​​Muscovy. In 1872, a fire tower was erected; a parochial school was opened (1867); city ​​bank, elevator (1872-1876); in July 1875, a 2-class men's school was opened. 1873 on his own savings A. Mtr. Ustinov, a railway line was built to Vertunovskaya station and the railway station to Bekovo station. Every year, from September 25 to October 5, the Intercession Fair was held, where horses, cattle, grain, haberdashery products were sold. In 1875, the owner of the village of Bekovo-Misha Adrianovich Ustinov (1825-1904).

Ustinov's estate, 2nd half of the 19th century

Under him, the following were built: the Pechenkin tannery, a water flour mill; 2-storey hospital; a folk theater and a library were opened. In 1901, in Bekovo - 2.5 thousand inhabitants, a church in the name of the Intercession, a post and telegraph office, a volost administration on the street. Large, private pharmacy on the street. Pokrovskaya (a building made of wood has been preserved, in this moment auto parts store), schools: 2-class ministerial, church-parish, 2 schools: male 2-class and female. In the aftermath of the death of Mtr. A. Ustinov, the possessions of the village of Bekovo pass to his wife Maria Alekseevna Ustinova (ur. Serebryakova), who in 1913 sold the estate with a koumiss clinic to the merchant P.P. Makarov (in 1917, she donated her estate to the Russian authorities).

Church of the Intercession in the village of Bekovo, early 20th century

During the Civil War, the village was in the zone of operations of the Red Army against the Antonovites. On March 29, 1926, in Bekovo, the radio was heard for the first time, which was arranged by the radio engineer Utekhin. Until 1928 - the volost center of the Serdobsky district of the Saratov province, later that the regional center of the Lower Volga Territory and the Saratov region, since 1939 - the Penza region. In 1934, the Intercession Church was destroyed, the brick from which was used in the construction of a sweet factory. In the 1940s, the horticultural state farm "Bekovsky" was formed (971 hectares under gardens and berries), which was the largest in the region in this specialization. The farm has achieved a record fruit yield of 45-50 centners per hectare. After 1926, the Ustinovsky settlement (717 inhabitants) became part of the village of Bekovo. In 1955, the central estates of the collective farms "Red October", named after Khrushchev and the Bekovsky fruit and berry state farm No. 38 were located in the village, in 1972 - the fruit farm "Bekovo" and the state farm "Novobekovsky". In 1959, the village of Bekovo was given the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1985, the huge neighboring village of Naryshkino became part of the Bekovo village.

Population

Population dynamics in Bekovo:

Economy

The main branches of the economy of the village are represented, first of all, by enterprises of the food industry and agriculture:

• Bekovsky RPK Oktyabr LLC and Bekovsky Souvenir LLC - creation of confectionery products;
• IP Kuznetsova Litr..V. - release of bread and bakery products, confectionery products;
• Bekovohleboprodukt LLC - flour production;
• LLC "Nectar" - production of jam;
• PMK - construction of residential buildings, livestock buildings, schools, kindergartens, etc.;
• elevator;
• mill.

In the village there are the Bekovskoye branch of the Russian Agricultural Bank, a branch of Sberbank.

Railway station station Bekovo. 2011

Transport

In the village there is the end station Bekovo of the South-Eastern metal road, a branch of the Vertunovskaya - Bekovo strip. The nearest metal road station where trains stop long distance, is Vertunovskaya. Currently, only cargo operations are carried out at Bekovo station, Passenger Transportation missing. Every day, bus passenger transportation is carried out to Penza along the Bekovo-Nikolskoye-Penza highway, to Serdobsk and Rtishchevo.

Social sphere

The activities of the social sphere of the village of Bekovo are aimed at providing educational, cultural, leisure, physical culture and sports services and social protection of the population.

Education

Education in the village is represented by the following institutions:

• MDOU Kindergarten No. 1 and MDOU Kindergarten No. 2;
• MBOU secondary school No. 1 and MBOU secondary school No. 2;
• Bekovsky branch of the Serdobsk multidisciplinary technical school;
• The House for arts and crafts for children;
• School of Music.

culture

On the territory of the village there are:

• district house of culture;
• inter-settlement central district library;
• local history museum;
• prayer house;

Sport

The following sports facilities are located in the village:

• sports and recreation complex "Khopyor";
• stadium "Start";
• sports and gyms;
• hockey box;
• BMX-track.

Such sports as football, volleyball, athletics, towns, chess, tennis, billiards are developed.

Medicine

In the village there is a central district hospital with 58 beds of a round-the-clock hospital, 25 beds of a day hospital and a polyclinic for 250 scheduled visits per day.

social facilities

There are further public service institutions in Bekovo:

• public service center;
• boarding house for war and labor veterans;
• rehabilitation center for children and adolescents with disabilities.

Media and the development of mass communications

Printed publications

Connection

Communication is represented by telephone, facsimile, telegraph, postal and other types of communication. Wired communication services are provided by Volgatelecom, Internet services are provided by Volgatelecom and Megafon. Services mobile communications provide mobile companies:

• Beeline
• Megaphone
• Smarts Penza-GSM

radio stations

The following radio stations are broadcast in Bekovo:

• Autoradio at a frequency of 100.1 (since November 2009).
• Golden FM at a frequency of 107.0 (since April 2010; broadcasting from Serdobsk).
• Russian Radio at a frequency of 100.9 (broadcasting began on November 17, 2011).

Attractions

• the estate of the Ustinovs;
• a memorial in honor of fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War;
• mass graves of soldiers who died from wounds in 1941-45 in the hospital (in the cemetery of the village);

Familiar residents

• Aravin Petr Vasilyevich - a famous historian, studied the history of Russian and Kazakh music;
• Glotova Nina Mikhailovna - doctor, familiar Russian ophthalmologist;
• Kalinin Pavel Vasilievich (1905-1981) - a well-known mineralogist and teacher, doctor of the Moscow State Research Institute, explorer of the Baikal region, Aldana and others, one of the pioneers of Russian mica geologists, the mineral kalininite is named after him;
• Kryukov Adrian Aleksandrovich (1849-1908) - an acquaintance of a Russian ophthalmologist, in the revision of V.P. Odintsov "Course of Eye Diseases" was a textbook of Russian ophthalmologists;
• Menshchikov Leonid Petrovich (1869-1932) - leader of the Russian political investigation, publicist;
• Ustinov Petr Mikhailovich (1879-1937) - a well-known diplomat;
• Chervyakov Vladimir Ivanovich (b. 1923) - pilot, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Russian Union (1944).

Photo of Bekovo and its surroundings

Notes

1. ^1 2 Preliminary results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census
2. ^ The village of Bekovo became the winner of the competition "The Best Equipped Settlement in Russia"
3. ^ Order of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation of September 19, 2011 No. 451 "On the results of the All-Russian competition for the title "The most equipped urban (rural) settlement of the Russian Federation" for 2010."
4. ^1 2 3 4 Nalyotova R. Bekovsky region-impact, facts (chronicle-chronicle). Samara, 1999 - p. 46
5. ^ Murashov D. "Stands in the middle of the Bekovo plain, one of the Russian villages" // newspaper "Bekovsky Vestnik" No. 61 of 08/10/1994
6. ^ Yurovsky Liter.. N. Saratov estates. Saratov, 1923. P.7
7. ^ On the history of the colonization of the Serdobsky district. Materials for the historical-geographical dictionary. B.mtr. B.g.

• Information about Bekovo from the site "All Penza Territory"
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Bekovsky urban district of the Penza region
Administrative center- town Bekovo
Administration of the workers' settlement Bekovo	townBekovo
Vertunovsky Village Council	villages:Vertunovka| Coordination | village Sugar factory | locality Third Branch
Volynshinsky Village Council	villages:Volynshchino| Khovanshino | settlements: Fruit farm | Russian | village Zhukovo
Ivanovo village council	villages:Ivanovka| Nikolskoye
Mitkireysky village council	villages:Mitkirey| Zatolokino | village Lugovaya
Moshkovsky Village Council	villagesMidges| galleys
Pyashinsky Village Council	villages:Pokrovka| Anichkino | Pyasha | village Treskino
Sosnovsky Village Council	villages:Sosnovka| Vlasovka | villages: Kryukovka | Malenovka | village Marmots settlements: 1st branch (Razdolny) | 2nd Branch
Yakovlevsky Village Council	villages:Yakovlevka| Macha Springs | Aleksandrovka (former Macha-Rodnikovsky village council) | villages:| Aleksandrovka (former Svishchevsky village council) | Mykolaivka | farms: Hanging | Steep
Total: 35 settlements in 9 village councils, including urban settlements Bekovo Bold marked administrative centers urban formations

Settlement Bekovo is located in the southwestern part of the Penza region, spread out on the left bank of the Khoper River. Bekovo is located 154 kilometers from regional center along the highway Penza - Tambov. In the village there is a dead-end railway station of the same name on the line leading from Vertunovskaya (Sosnovka village). Bekovo among others like himself settlements is considered one of the most comfortable villages.

Story

Bekovo was founded in the first half of the 17th century by peasants from the Shatsk district. Here, on the oxbow lakes of Khopra, they hunted by catching fish and beavers. The settlement was originally called Lakes. In 1671, a church was consecrated in Ozyory, and the village was renamed in honor of the temple - Nikolskoye. In those years, it was the outskirts of the Muscovite kingdom, and robbers hunted in the vicinity. Therefore, there was a bad reputation about Bekovo.

The village became Bekov in 1745, when the owner of the village Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky renamed it in honor of his father. The crown of the Bekovichi-Cherkassky family is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of the village. In the 19th century, the village was part of the Serdobsky district of the Saratov province. The development of Bekovo in that period is associated with the Ustinov family - the next owners of the village.

Adrian Ustinov did his best. He completed the construction of the estate, where there were greenhouses with peach, pineapple and lemon gardens. Also, on his initiative, a guest yard, a distillery, a parish school, a college, a bank, an elevator, a fire tower appeared in the village. At the expense of Ustinov, a railway was brought to the village.

Near Mount Shikhan, not far from Bekovo, Ustinov founded a hospital for patients with tuberculosis and a koumiss clinic. Rich people came here for treatment not only from the surrounding provinces, but from abroad. Bekovo received the fame of a health resort and the nickname "Crimea of ​​Muscovy".

In 1928, the former volost center became the center of the Bekovsky district.

Attractions

Unfortunately, very few objects have survived from the former splendor in Bekovo. The estate of the Ustinovs is well preserved, within the walls of which a nursing home operates. Also, the estate of the merchant Makarov, the Gostiny Dvor and some other buildings have survived to this day.

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