Komsomolsk

Historical information
Accommodation    The appearance of the settlement, the town of Komsomolsk, was connected with the construction of Ivanovo State Power Hidroelectric Station (IvGRES). Fulfilling the plan of electrification of Russia and 14-th Party Congress Resolutions concerning industrialization of Russia, the Soviet of Labor and Defense adopted on 6 of May 1927 the Decree of construction of Ivanovo- Voznesenski regional power station with the capacity of 40,000 kw. The construction on this power station was very important for supplying of textile factories with electricity, it also solved the problem of local fuel utilization and made the working conditions of people in town and village better. The station was built in a very quick period of time. The first builders came to the construction site of the power station in 1927 and in 1930 the main building was erected near the village of Milovskaya in the place of impassable swamps and marshes, and assembling of the equipment began. Hard labor of thousands of builders and assemblers was a success. On 5 of October 1930 the first small turbo generator for self using was put into operation. This date is the begging of the stations life and work.
    The settlement of power specialists appeared near the construction site of the station, it began developing quickly. First the builders lived in the barracks and earth houses in near by villages. One after another appeared stone apartment houses, the first streets of the working settlement stretched in the place of swamped empty spaces.
    The workers named their living place Milovskoe by the name of the village or simply Ivgresstroi. On the 26 of January 1931 plenary session of the village soviet of power station was considering the question of the settlement‘s name, the decision to name the settlement Komsomolsk was taken unanimously.
    The birth of the new name of the settlement after the Union of Soviet Young People was appointed legally by the Decree of Presidium of All Russia central Executive committee from 20 of November 1931.
    The settlement became different with the growth of the power station, individual and apartment houses took place of temporary hostels, dozens of communal buildings appeared. The streets became green. The settlement of power engineers was united with the settlement of railway workers. On the 28 of August 1950 the working settlement Komsomolsk was reorganized into a regional town by the Decree of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russian Federation.
    The earliest history of our regions inhabitation is not enough studied, but by some findings of stone axes and other articles of human activity in the antiquity we may come to the conclusion that people had been settling here in the primitive communal system period. Many settlements had emerged in the years of Tatar Yoke.
    The stories and legends popular among local inhabitants and the names of the villages prove this fact. The ancient Russian village Shatri has also a very rich history. If you come here you will learn the fact about a very ancient legend: long long ago there was a big mooring place of Tatar horse regiment in the place of the settlement. Thus appeared the name of Shatri ( Shatri means marquee in Russian). The appearance of the big settlement Gugaevo also refers to the same ancient times.
    A small Pischugovo was lost among swamps and peat-bogs filled with water. From a far distance you can see an ancient white - stoned church decorating the village. Long ago there was a monastery named Pischigovo hermitage. The first historical reference about Pischugovo hermitage refers to 1665. By the end of 17- the beginning of 18 centuries the hermitage was accomplished, and by the second half of 18 century the monastery had already 4 cathedrals. The monastery had no particular investors, that’s why in 1764 it was eliminated because of state regulating. Only 3 monks had been living in it at the moment of its closing.
    The history of the region will not be complete without the history of the village Pistsovo situated on the post way from Ivanovo- Voznesensk to Nerehta. The first mentioning of Pistsovo refers to 1568. In 1660 the village was granted by tsar Aleksey Mihailovich to prince Yuri Dolgoruky for his victory over the Polish at Vilma in 1658 and for imprisoning the hetman Gonsevski with the artillery and transport. Later the village belonged to the heirs of Dolgoruky.
    The village had been inhabited long ago by scribe masters of dye works. The village got it’s name from this trade. The village Pistsovo was known for it’s dye manufacturers who were wondering along different towns and villages of Kostroma and Vladimir region. The carpenters of Pistsovo were widely known all over Russia. And later textile factories begin to develop intensively in Pistsovo. In 1889 a weaving factory was built and put into exploitation. Now it is the only factory there.
    There are some industrial enterprises in the region beside Ivgress subsidiary of “Ivenergo” Ltd, including: experimental mechanical plant ( for hidroapparatus repair and making of spare parts for motor cranes); low voltage electrical apparatus output plant; bread- baking plant; milk processing plant; timber industry plant for laying in and taking out of timber, firewood and saw - timber production and other.