... On November 26, 1916, a cavalry holiday of the Order of St. George the Victorious. That is, in honor of those who became the Knight of St. George in the battles at the theater of the Great European War - that is what the newspapers of those years called the first imperialist massacre. “To get George” meant to show genuine, personal courage, it was the highest award.

For many, Rasputin is an odious figure, but at the same time an extraordinary one. As numerous witnesses show, Rasputin used hypnosis and possessed a prophetic gift. And he treated the Tsarevich, a patient with hemophilia. To this end, Rasputin came in 1914 to Perm, to the local inventor of the miraculous electrolyte water. And he gained his first spiritual experience here, in the monasteries of the Perm province.

“Boris Stepanovich Ryabinin is a life-lover, a mischievous storyteller, a journalist,” - this is how his friends remember him. He is also a kunguryak. He spent the creative, active part of his adult life in the capital of the Urals, but he still proudly called himself "Kungur cucumber".

Vasily Tatishchev deservedly took an honorable place among the great minds of Russia. Calling him ordinary simply does not dare. He founded the cities of Togliatti, Yekaterinburg and Perm, led the development of the Urals. He wrote several significant works.

The era of Peter the Great was a time of major victories and achievements. And even if Peter I was the most significant figure of that time, his success would have been impossible without smart and energetic people, whom he noticed and appointed to the appropriate positions. One of them was Georg Wilhelm de Gennin. An engineer from God, dedicated to serving Russia for 53 years.

Somehow unexpectedly, in the fall of 2012, the news came about the death of the Vichy hermit Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kodolov (who is also grandfather Volodya, who is also grandfather Ay). One of those who are usually called the symbol of the place, its living embodiment, passed away.

James Aldridge (1918-2015) - English writer and public figure. He maintained good relations with the USSR. His works were translated into Russian and were popular among the inhabitants of our country. In 1971 he visited the Middle Urals.

The reason for the search was an unexpected message sent to me via the Internet by a resident of Yekaterinburg E.E. Yakovleva. Elena Erikovna is a descendant of three ancient Polev dynasties, interconnected by family ties - the Khmelinins, Vakurovs and Kalugins.

Ermak became famous for being the first person who began to develop Siberia for Russia. Since his deeds took place in distant times, and the first part of his life he was little known, there is little reliable data about him. For each page of his life, historians offer several versions. And it is impossible to understand which of them corresponds to the truth.

Almost all encyclopedias and biographical materials claim that Ivan Andreevich Krylov was born in Moscow. This version is not supported by a single fact! They say that on the eve of the next anniversary of the great fabulist, Stalin "advised" not to argue about his place of birth: "Let's assume that Krylov was born in Moscow." And the main Soviet fabulist Mikhalkov reminded about this "fact" at every opportunity ...

Many years ago, I literally fell in love with a Russian oligarch. True, he was no longer alive, he died in the 19th century, but the Polish nobleman and Russian subject Alfons Fomich Poklevsky-Kozell just mesmerized me. In the shabby post-perestroika Yekaterinburg, the story of a millionaire, the owner of fifty-six houses and nineteen estates, who generously invested in the construction of churches, hospitals, and schools sounded like a fairy tale ... However, the details of this forgotten biography had to be restored bit by bit. It seemed incredible that such great merits could be forgotten so easily and quickly.

For many years, together with my students, I was engaged in research activities on the history of the Cherdyn secondary school №2. We were especially interested in the fate of teachers who worked at school in the middle of the last century: the difficult, sometimes tragic life of Cherdyn teachers did not break them, did not harden, did not diminish their love for children and their profession. The fate of each of them, as in a mirror, reflected the history of our state.

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky is an outstanding Russian geologist, academician, the first president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an active member of many scientific communities, the discoverer of the Artinskian stage, the author of many geological maps and some inventions.

Not many people know that the first Marshal of the Soviet Union Klim Voroshilov was in exile in the village of Nyrob, Perm Territory. However, unlike another prisoner of Nyrob, Mikhail Romanov, he did not rot in a damp and cold pit, but lived in the best two-story house in the village.

“Durovskoe decade” - this is how one can characterize the years when captain V.A. Durov, the younger brother of the famous cavalry girl Nadezhda Durova, who participated in the battles of the Patriotic War of 1812.

Officially, the title was established by the city executive committee on September 8, 1967, and on November 1, 1967, the oldest revolutionary Ivan Stepanovich Belostotsky became the first, as it was then believed, an honorary citizen of the city. However, this was not the case. At the beginning of the 20th century, engineer Konstantin Mikhailovsky and businessman and public figure Vladimir Pokrovsky were awarded the honorary title.

Konstantin Yakovlevich Mikhailovsky(1834-1909) in 1885 he was appointed head of work on the construction of sections of the Samara - Ufa - Zlatoust - Chelyabinsk railway. Building the Samara-Zlatoust railway, he erected the basis for the economic development of the Southern Urals and the future of Chelyabinsk. On October 25, 1892, the first train arrived at the Chelyabinsk station. Following this, Konstantin Mikhailovsky supervised the construction of the West Siberian and Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk railways.

Vladimir Kornilevich Pokrovsky(1843-1913) during the construction of the West Siberian railway contributed to the fact that the station was built near Chelyabinsk. Thus, the city found itself at a crossroads and received incredible opportunities for development. Vladimir Pokrovsky was the mayor, for several decades - a councilor of the Duma, was a member of many Chelyabinsk public organizations, was the chairman of the board of trustees of the women's gymnasium, chairman of the commission for the establishment of an orphanage, trustee of primary schools.

Ivan Stepanovich Belostotsky(1881-1968). Since 1904, he was a member of the Bolshevik Party, attended a party school in Longjumeau near Paris, and took part in the Civil War in the Urals. After the revolution, he organized a hospital network here, worked at ChTZ, during the Great Patriotic War - the head of the assembly shop. He was awarded the Order of Lenin three times.

Nikolay Semenovich Patolichev(1908-1989) was the first secretary of the Chelyabinsk regional committee and the city committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1942-1946, that is, he headed the city and the region during the most difficult years of the war. At the beginning of the war, the region took over 200 industrial enterprises, new defense plants were built in Zlatoust, Magnitogorsk, Chebarkul and Chelyabinsk. During these years the population of the region increased by 400 thousand people! All of them needed to be given shelter and food. Thanks to the energy and experience of Patolichev, the Chelyabinsk region has become the forge of Victory. His awards testify to the uncommonness of Patolichev. He was awarded 12 Orders of Lenin! This is an absolute record in the history of the USSR.

Evgeny Viktorovich Alexandrov(1917-2007) - an architect, he worked in the field of urban planning for more than half a century. Many buildings in Chelyabinsk were built according to his designs: a residential building on Revolution Square, a residential building with a store "Ural Souvenirs", a complex of FSB buildings, participated in the design of residential neighborhoods in the North-West, in Traktorozavodsky, Metallurgichesky and Leninsky districts. Evgeny Alexandrov is a co-author of many monuments: "Eaglet", to V. I. Lenin on Revolution Square, "Tale of the Urals", "Tankmen-volunteers", composer S. Prokofiev.

Together with E.V. Aleksandrov worked as an architect Maria Petrovna Mochalova(1922-2010). According to her projects, in the 1950s, a quarter and residential buildings were built along the Metallurgov highway, the CHIPS building at the intersection of Tsvillinga and Ordzhonikidze streets, a public library building and others. She is one of five women awarded "honorary citizenship" of Chelyabinsk.

Galina Semyonovna Zaitseva- Singer, People's Artist of Russia. Since 1976 she has performed at the Glinka Opera and Ballet Theater. She sang more than 30 parties, leads the theater's opera troupe, at the same time - a professor at the Chelyabinsk Academy of Culture and Art.

Naum Yuryeich Orlov(1924-2003) - People's Artist of Russia. For 30 years (since 1973) he was the chief director of the Chelyabinsk Drama Theater. Here he staged about 40 performances. In recent years, Naum Orlov has been involved in the implementation of the Chekhov Theater project on the stage of the theater, within the framework of which the performances of Fatherlessness, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and others were staged. Soon after the death of the artist, by the decision of the governor Pyotr Sumin, the drama theater was named after Naum Orlov.

Photographer Sergey Grigorievich Vasiliev since 1968 he has been working in the editorial office of Vecherny Chelyabinsk. With his creativity, Chelyabinsk glorified far beyond its borders. His photo exhibitions have opened in Switzerland, Germany, Cuba, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Spain. He has won the highest photographic award "Golden Eye" four times.

Athlete Haris Munasipovich Yusupov(1929-2009) was a master of sports in several types at once: classical and freestyle wrestling, sambo, national kuresh wrestling. In 1960, in Chelyabinsk, he founded the Ural Sambo School. For two decades he was a coach of the USSR national judo and sambo teams among youths, juniors and adults. Raised 3 world champions, 14 European champions, more than 250 masters of sports

Anton Chekhov:"The people here inspire a kind of horror."

When I was in Yekaterinburg: In 1890, during his famous trip to Sakhalin, Chekhov also stopped in Yekaterinburg. Here he wanted to meet with the writer Mamin-Sibiryak. But the meeting did not work out: Mamin-Sibiryak at that time traveled around the Urals himself. As a result, Anton Pavlovich stayed in Yekaterinburg for three days and hastened to go further to Tyumen. He really didn't like it with us.

Impression: Here are some notes about Yekaterinburg left by Chekhov: “I came to Yekaterinburg - it’s raining, snowing and groats. Cabbies are something unimaginable in their wretchedness. Dirty, wet, without springs; the horse's front legs are apart, the hooves are huge, the back is scrawny ... The local droshky is a lurid parody of our chaise. A ragged top is attached to the chaise, that's all. They do not drive on the pavement, on which it is shaking, but near the ditches, where it is dirty and, therefore, soft. The bells are ringing splendidly, velvety. I stayed at an American hotel (very good one). (Now in this building - an architectural monument at 68 Malysheva, - the Shadr Art School. - Ed.) Local people inspire a visitor with something like horror: Cheekbones, forehead, broad-shouldered, with small eyes, with huge fists. They are born in local iron foundries, and at their birth there is not an obstetrician, but a mechanic. ".

Boris PASTERNAK:"This is such inhuman grief"

When I was in Yekaterinburg: In 1932, an entire literary brigade was going to land from Moscow to the Urals. The most famous writers of that time: Boris Pasternak, Alexey Tolstoy, Yuri Olesha, Demyan Bedny and Mikhail Zoshchenko. They were supposed to raise the level of our provincial literature. But in the end, only Pasternak came to us. They settled him first in the Ural hotel. He could not live for a long time in the center of an industrial city, and therefore he was soon moved to an obkom dacha village on the banks of the Shartash. The conditions there were gorgeous: clean air, beautiful nature, a four-room house, and hot cakes and black caviar in the dining room every day. But even here Pasternak did not like it. Walking through the neighboring villages, he saw the poverty of dispossessed families. To help the unfortunate, Pasternak, together with his family, secretly carried bread out of the regional committee's canteen even at night. But in the end, Boris Leonidovich suffered a nervous breakdown and, unable to bear it, returned to Moscow.

Impression: Pasternak wrote about the month of his life in Sverdlovsk in a letter to his first wife, Evgenia Vladimirovna: “There is a disgusting continental climate with abrupt transitions from extreme cold to terrible heat, and the wild homeric dust of a Central Asian city, which is constantly being repainted and contorted by numerous construction projects. During this month I have definitely not seen anything specifically from the factory or something that would be worth going to the Urals. " And here is what he wrote about the village on Shartash: “This is such an inhuman, unimaginable grief, such a terrible disaster that it was already becoming, as it were, abstract, did not fit into the boundaries of consciousness. I got sick".

Vladimir Vysotsky:"Here the body grows decrepit"

When I was in Yekaterinburg: The bard first came to Sverdlovsk in 1962. He then worked at the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, which toured the Urals and Siberia with the play "A Journey Around Laughter". Vysotsky did not like the city so much that almost every day the actor was in a bad mood. In March, when the tour ended, he was fired with the wording "for the complete lack of a sense of humor."

Impression: Vysotsky told how badly he felt in Sverdlovsk in several letters to his future wife Lyudmila Abramova: “Already at the entrance I felt the influence of strontium-90, because the smell of burning smells, and the mood deteriorated sharply, in the city itself, as they say, radiation bloomed in double color, and people are dying like flies. Outside the window - nasty little rubbish falls from the sky, and all the "miniature" artists are running around the shops and looking for anti-radiation clothes. We settled in the hotel "Bolshoi Ural" in a small room with scanty conveniences ... ", “But in general - disgusting. And the city, and the people, and everything. During all this time, I never once laughed, nothing happened, I don’t even sing or write songs ”“ The city is so dim, the time is two hours faster. The body grows decrepit. And according to the theory of relativity, I will age 19 years ".

Alexander RADISHCHEV:"Worthy of his position"

When I was in Yekaterinburg: For the first time, Radishchev visited us in 1790. After his "Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow" the writer was exiled from St. Petersburg to Siberia. He came to Yekaterinburg under escort as a state criminal and lived here for a week. During this time, Radishchev, despite his position, even managed to inspect the city a little.

Impression: On the way to Ilimsky Ostrog in Siberia, Radishchev wrote travel notes. There are several lines about Yekaterinburg: “December 8th. It is 23 versts to Yekaterinburg. The mountains become less than an hour. The Verkh-Isetsky Iron Works is located 1 1/2 versts or less. A pond, it is 20 versts long, 10 versts wide, there are islands on it. The view is beautiful in summer. The village is large. If the dam of this plant breaks through, as the danger insisted four years ago, then most of the city will be sunk and the courtyards will be demolished. We arrived in Yekaterinburg on December 7 in the evening. The city is built on both sides of the Iset River, which flows in solid stone ground. Notes are worthy in the reasoning of his position, the mint, the stone mines, the grinding mill, the cutting art and the marble business. Copper and iron crafts are expensive. All copper in all factories in excellent years is smelted from 170 to 180 thousand poods ".

Fedor Dostoevsky:"Finally brought the Lord to see the promised land"

When I was in Yekaterinburg: Dostoevsky visited our town twice. The first time in 1850, when he was sent to hard labor. The second time was in 1859, when he was returning from exile with his son Pavel and his wife Maria Dmitrievna, whom he met and got married in the settlement.

Impression: You can read about a return visit to Yekaterinburg in one of the letters that Dostoevsky sent to his friend Artemy Geibovich: “We stood in Yekaterinburg for a day, and we were seduced: we bought various products for 40 rubles - a rosary and 38 different rocks, cufflinks, buttons, and so on. Bought for gifts and, there is nothing to sin, paid terribly cheap. One fine evening, wandering in the spurs of the Urals, in the middle of the forest, we finally came across the border of Europe and Asia. An excellent pillar with inscriptions was erected, and with him in the hut an invalid. We left the tarantass, and I crossed myself, which finally led the Lord to see the promised land. Then your wicker flask, filled with bitter orange (from the Shtrieter plant), came out, and we drank with the disabled one goodbye to Asia, and the coachman drank too (and how did he take it later) ".

Vasily ZHUKOVSKY:"The views are beautiful"

When I was in Yekaterinburg: The poet Zhukovsky was in our city in 1837, when he accompanied the 19-year-old heir to the throne, Alexander II, during his travels across the country. On May 27, together with the royal retinue, the poet arrived in Yekaterinburg and immediately went to see the local sights. The city then lived in a special position. Yekaterinburg had its own army, laws and courts. In addition, gold was mined in the city literally without going beyond its borders.

Impression: During the trip, Zhukovsky kept a diary in which he very dryly and strictly described everything that he was able to see. Unfortunately, he did not leave any comments in it. One of the pages is dedicated to the arrival in Yekaterinburg: "26 of May. Moving from Bisersk to Yekaterinburg. Dinner. Inspection of the plant, gold-washing plant, lapidary factory, mint. Menshenin. In the evening, a trip around the city. Illuminations. Kharitonov's apartment. Thursday. Stay in Yekaterinburg and transfer to Nizhnetagilsk. Inspection of the Verkhneisetsky plant. Hospital. House of Kitaev. An amazing device. Iron production. Prison castle. The thief of emeralds in prison with the murderers ... Court Shemyakin. Hospital. Lunch. Missionary Conversation. A trip to Tagil by tarantasses. I am together with Menshenin. About Zotov. About Kharitonov. The case of the chief of police who killed a non-commissioned officer. The case of the doctor who stole the gold. At first, the road is unsightly and wild. Then the views are beautiful; the view of the Urals and the groves are frequent. Nevyanovsk plant. The old house of Demidov. Bell tower near the ancient church and courtyard. They drank tea here ".

The editorial board of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda Yekaterinburg" thanks the staff of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals for their help in preparing the publication.

The most famous Ural writers are Sergei Aksakov, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak and Pavel Bazhov.

In this topic, I want to introduce you to the Ural writers, my compatriots, fellow countrymen. Someone was born in the Urals, someone came, but for every writer the Urals became an inspiration for stories, novels, tales. Here they are, the Ural gems.

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak - his real name is Mamin. Born on October 25 (November 6), 1852 in the Visimo-Shaitansky plant of the Perm province in the family of a plant priest. He was educated at home, then studied at the Visim school for workers' children. In 1866 he was admitted to the Yekaterinburg Theological School, where he studied until 1868, then continued his education at the Perm Theological Seminary (until 1872). During these years he took part in a circle of advanced seminarians, was influenced by the ideas of Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Herzen.

The first fruit of this study was a series of travel essays "From the Urals to Moscow". Later, many Russian writers will draw inspiration from this very place (1881-1882), published in the Moscow newspaper "Russkie vedomosti"; then in the magazine "Delo" his essays "In the stones", stories ("At the turn of Asia", "In thin souls", etc.) were published. Many were signed by the pseudonym D. Sibiryak.

The first major work of the writer was the novel "Privalov Millions" (1883), which was published throughout the year in the magazine "Delo" and was a great success. In 1884, the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski published the novel Gornoe Nest, which cemented Mamin-Sibiryak's reputation as an outstanding realist writer. Two long trips to the capital (1881-1882, 1885-1886) strengthened the writer's literary ties: he met Korolenko, Zlatovratsky, Goltsev. During these years he writes and publishes many short stories and essays. The novel Three Ends. The Ural Chronicle (1890) is devoted to the complex processes in the Urals after the Peasant Reform of 1861; the season of gold mining in the novel "Gold" (1892), famine in the Ural village 1891-1892 in the novel "Bread" (1895), which conveys the author's reverently loving attitude to the disappearing details of the old way of life (characteristic of the cycle of stories "Near the Gentlemen" (1900) The gloomy drama, the abundance of suicides and catastrophes in the works of Mamin-Sibiryak, the "Russian Zola" recognized as one of the founders of the Russian sociological novel, revealed one of the important facets of the social mentality of Russia at the end of the century: the feeling of complete dependence of a person on socio-economic circumstances, performing in modern conditions the function of an unpredictable and inexorable ancient rock.

The rise of the social movement in the early 1890s contributed to the appearance of such works as the novels "Gold" (1892), the story "Okhonin's eyebrows" (1892). The works of Mamin-Sibiryak for children became widely known: "Alenushka's Tales" (1894-1896), "Gray Neck" (1893), "Zarnitsy" (1897), "Across the Urals" (1899), etc. The last major works of the writer are the novels "Traits from the Life of Pepko" (1894), "Falling Stars" (1899) and the story "Mumma" (1907).

Bazhov Pavel Petrovich (January 27, 1879 - August 31, 1967) - famous Russian Soviet writer, famous Ural storyteller, prose writer, talented processor of folk legends, legends, Ural tales.

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was born on January 27, 1879 in the Urals near Yekaterinburg in the family of the hereditary mining foreman of the Sysertsky plant Pyotr Vasilyevich and Augusta Stefanovna Bazhev (this is how this surname was written then).

The surname Bazhov comes from the local word "bazhit" - that is, to enchant, to foreshadow. Bazhov also had a boyish street nickname - Koldunkov. And later, when Bazhov began to publish his works, he signed one of his pseudonyms - Koldunkov.

He also liked to listen to other old experienced people, connoisseurs of the past. Sysertsky old men Aleksey Efimovich Klyukva and Ivan Petrovich Korob were good storytellers. But the best of all whom Bazhov happened to know was the old Polevska miner Vasily Alekseevich Khmelinin. He worked as a keeper of wood warehouses at the plant, and children gathered at his gatehouse on Duma Hill to listen to interesting stories.

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov spent his childhood and adolescence in the town of Sysert and at the Polevsky plant, which was part of the Sysert mountain district.

In 1939 Bazhov's most famous work was published - a collection of fairy tales "The Malachite Box", for which the writer received the State Prize. In the future, Bazhov replenished this book with new tales.

Bazhov's career as a writer began relatively late: the first book of essays "The Urals were" was published in 1924. Only in 1939 were his most significant works published - a collection of tales "The Malachite Box", which received the USSR State Prize in 1943, and an autobiographical story about childhood "Green filly". In the future, Bazhov replenishes the "Malachite Box" with new tales: "Key-stone" (1942), "Tales about the Germans" (1943), "Tales about the gunsmiths" and others. His later works can be defined as "tales" not only because of their formal genre characteristics (the presence of a fictional narrator with an individual speech characteristic), but also because they go back to the Ural "secret tales" - oral legends of miners and prospectors, differing in real - everyday and fabulous items.

Bazhov's works, dating back to the Ural "secret tales" - oral legends of miners and prospectors, combine real-life and fantastic elements. Tales that have absorbed plot motives, the colorful language of folk legends and folk wisdom, embodied the philosophical and ethical ideas of our time.

He worked on the collection of tales "The Malachite Box" from 1936 until the last days of his life. It was first published as a separate edition in 1939. Then, from year to year, the "Malachite Box" was replenished with new tales.

The tales of the "Malachite Box" are a kind of historical prose, in which the events and facts of the history of the Middle Urals of the 18th-19th centuries are recreated through the personality of the Ural workers. Tales live as an aesthetic phenomenon thanks to a complete system of realistic, fantastic and semi-fantastic images and the richest moral and humanistic problems (themes of labor, creative searches, love, fidelity, freedom from the power of gold, etc.).

Bazhov strove to develop his own literary style, looking for original forms of embodiment of his literary talent. He succeeded in the mid-1930s, when he began to publish his first stories. In 1939 Bazhov combined them into the book "Malachite Box", which he later supplemented with new works. Malachite gave the name to the book because in this stone, according to Bazhov, "the joy of the earth is gathered."

Directly artistic and literary activity began late, at the age of 57. According to him, “there was simply no time for this kind of literary work.

The creation of fairy tales became the main business of Bazhov's life. In addition, he edited books and almanacs, including those on Ural regional studies.

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov died on December 3, 1950 in Moscow, and was buried in his homeland in Yekaterinburg.

Aksakov Sergey Timofeevich (1791-1859) - Russian writer, government official and public figure, literary and theater critic, memoirist, author of books on fishing and hunting, lepidopterist. Father of Russian writers and public figures of the Slavophiles:

Konstantin, Ivan and Vera Aksakov. Corresponding Member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Describing the famous natives of Ufa in particular and the entire Southern Urals as a whole, of course, one cannot but ignore the great Russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov, as one of the brightest figures in Russian culture of the first half of the 19th century. A man who praised nature dear to his heart, and to ours, Orenburg province. What we now call the South Urals. There are few well-known immigrants from Ufa who would be so closely associated with this city.

At the entrance to the former park named after Krupskaya, now named after Salavat Yulaev, at the intersection of streets again Salavat and Rasulev, there is a wooden house at the corner, known as the house of Aksakov. The future great writer was born in this house on October 1, 1791. They say that in the house that now houses the Aksakov Museum, the ghost of the old owner, Nikolai Zubov, still appears in the former office. Aksakov's childhood years were also spent here, in this house. About what the writer Aksakov wrote "The childhood years of Bagrov's grandson" - a biographical book.

Aksakov did not live in Ufa for a long time and at the age of 8 he was taken to Kazan, where he entered a gymnasium. From Kazan, after years of study, he left for Moscow. It was there that he became all that we know him and for which fame came to him. Including the fairy tale "The Scarlet Flower". But the childhood years spent in Ufa and the estate in the Orenburg province, most likely, remained with Aksakov for life. And they've been immortalized in the family trilogy. In the "Notes of a rifle hunter of the Orenburg province" and about fish eating. It was thanks to Aksakov that many in the world learned about the existence of Bashkiria, koumiss and the South Ural steppes. And despite the fact that the Aksakov syllable was in many ways heavy, he wrote about nature with undisguised love. And you can feel it in everything. Aksakov's work, Aksakov's stories, is primarily a story about the beautiful nature of the South Urals. Probably, you need to be infinitely in love with these lands in order to write about them the way Aksakov did. Although most of his contemporaries know first of all Aksakov's fairy tale "The Scarlet Flower".

Officially, the title was established by the city executive committee on September 8, 1967, and on November 1, 1967, the oldest revolutionary Ivan Stepanovich Belostotsky became the first, as it was then believed, an honorary citizen of the city. However, this was not the case. At the beginning of the 20th century, engineer Konstantin Mikhailovsky and businessman and public figure Vladimir Pokrovsky were awarded the honorary title.

Konstantin Yakovlevich Mikhailovsky(1834-1909) in 1885 he was appointed head of work on the construction of sections of the Samara - Ufa - Zlatoust - Chelyabinsk railway. Building the Samara-Zlatoust railway, he erected the basis for the economic development of the Southern Urals and the future of Chelyabinsk. On October 25, 1892, the first train arrived at the Chelyabinsk station. Following this, Konstantin Mikhailovsky supervised the construction of the West Siberian and Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk railways.

Vladimir Kornilevich Pokrovsky(1843-1913) during the construction of the West Siberian railway contributed to the fact that the station was built near Chelyabinsk. Thus, the city found itself at a crossroads and received incredible opportunities for development. Vladimir Pokrovsky was the mayor, for several decades - a councilor of the Duma, was a member of many Chelyabinsk public organizations, was the chairman of the board of trustees of the women's gymnasium, chairman of the commission for the establishment of an orphanage, trustee of primary schools.

Ivan Stepanovich Belostotsky(1881-1968). Since 1904, he was a member of the Bolshevik Party, attended a party school in Longjumeau near Paris, and took part in the Civil War in the Urals. After the revolution, he organized a hospital network here, worked at ChTZ, during the Great Patriotic War - the head of the assembly shop. He was awarded the Order of Lenin three times.

Nikolay Semenovich Patolichev(1908-1989) was the first secretary of the Chelyabinsk regional committee and the city committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1942-1946, that is, he headed the city and the region during the most difficult years of the war. At the beginning of the war, the region took over 200 industrial enterprises, new defense plants were built in Zlatoust, Magnitogorsk, Chebarkul and Chelyabinsk. During these years the population of the region increased by 400 thousand people! All of them needed to be given shelter and food. Thanks to the energy and experience of Patolichev, the Chelyabinsk region has become the forge of Victory. His awards testify to the uncommonness of Patolichev. He was awarded 12 Orders of Lenin! This is an absolute record in the history of the USSR.

Evgeny Viktorovich Alexandrov(1917-2007) - an architect, he worked in the field of urban planning for more than half a century. Many buildings in Chelyabinsk were built according to his designs: a residential building on Revolution Square, a residential building with a store "Ural Souvenirs", a complex of FSB buildings, participated in the design of residential neighborhoods in the North-West, in Traktorozavodsky, Metallurgichesky and Leninsky districts. Evgeny Alexandrov is a co-author of many monuments: "Eaglet", to V. I. Lenin on Revolution Square, "Tale of the Urals", "Tankmen-volunteers", composer S. Prokofiev.

Together with E.V. Aleksandrov worked as an architect Maria Petrovna Mochalova(1922-2010). According to her projects, in the 1950s, a quarter and residential buildings were built along the Metallurgov highway, the CHIPS building at the intersection of Tsvillinga and Ordzhonikidze streets, a public library building and others. She is one of five women awarded "honorary citizenship" of Chelyabinsk.

Galina Semyonovna Zaitseva- Singer, People's Artist of Russia. Since 1976 she has performed at the Glinka Opera and Ballet Theater. She sang more than 30 parties, leads the theater's opera troupe, at the same time - a professor at the Chelyabinsk Academy of Culture and Art.

Naum Yuryeich Orlov(1924-2003) - People's Artist of Russia. For 30 years (since 1973) he was the chief director of the Chelyabinsk Drama Theater. Here he staged about 40 performances. In recent years, Naum Orlov has been involved in the implementation of the Chekhov Theater project on the stage of the theater, within the framework of which the performances of Fatherlessness, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and others were staged. Soon after the death of the artist, by the decision of the governor Pyotr Sumin, the drama theater was named after Naum Orlov.

Photographer Sergey Grigorievich Vasiliev since 1968 he has been working in the editorial office of Vecherny Chelyabinsk. With his creativity, Chelyabinsk glorified far beyond its borders. His photo exhibitions have opened in Switzerland, Germany, Cuba, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Spain. He has won the highest photographic award "Golden Eye" four times.

Athlete Haris Munasipovich Yusupov(1929-2009) was a master of sports in several types at once: classical and freestyle wrestling, sambo, national kuresh wrestling. In 1960, in Chelyabinsk, he founded the Ural Sambo School. For two decades he was a coach of the USSR national judo and sambo teams among youths, juniors and adults. Raised 3 world champions, 14 European champions, more than 250 masters of sports