2020-01-01Where Yurga Begins: XVII–XVIII CenturiesYurga is older than it seems. Before the city, before the station, before the factories — there was a small Russian settlement called Ust-Iskitim. Late XVII century. Quiet life by …
2020-01-02First Mention of Yurga (1734)1734 — the first line about Yurga in a document. During the Second Kamchatka Expedition, student S. P. Krasheninnikov traveled along the Tom River, carefully recording all …
2020-01-03Why Yurga is Called So: VersionsThe name “Yurga” is a mystery with several answers. There were many versions: Selkup — “fat river” (in spring the banks turned yellow from buttercups); …
2020-01-04Old Yurga: First Houses and SettlersThe first houses of Yurga were offshoots of the village of Polomoshnoye. Approximately 1875–1876 (officially — 1886). People were drawn here by the fertile banks of the Yurga …
2020-01-05Trans-Siberian Railway: The Event That Changed EverythingWithout the railway, Yurga might have remained a village. But the Trans-Siberian Railway passed nearby — and this became a turning point. The great road connects the country, and …
2020-01-06Birth of Yurga StationYurga station opened in 1906. But the siding plan was approved back in 1902: 4 tracks — main, passenger, passing, and military. From 1906, Yurga became a railway settlement. Steam …
2020-01-07Yurga Before the Revolution: Daily Life and TradeBy 1910, Yurga station had everything needed for life. A station building, military barracks, warehouses, merchants’ houses, a confectionery shop. After Stolypin’s …
2020-01-081917–1919: Soviet, Govorov, and the Civil WarThe Revolution in Yurga wasn’t stormy, but it was real. In 1917, the Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies was established. Chairman — Alexey Grigoryevich …
2020-01-091920s–1930s: NEP, Collectivization, and SiblagThe 1920s — Yurga learns to live anew. Subbotniks, wagon repairs, help for starving Volga region, evening schools, libraries. Komsomol — the engine of new life. NEP revives trade. …
2020-01-10The Factory and the War: 1940–19451940 — construction of the factory began. And in 1941, evacuation trains arrived in Yurga: workers and equipment from Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Kramatorsk. They built in …
2020-01-11Post-War ProsperityAfter the war, Yurga grew together with the factory. City status: 1949 — city of district subordination, 1953 — regional. The machine-building plant became a city-forming giant. In …
2020-01-12The 90s and Beyond: Crisis, Survival, and FaithThe 90s were hard on Yurga. Barter, income stratification, privatization. And in 1994, the crisis hit the machine-building plant: wages weren’t paid for months, strikes …