We are identifying abandoned villages. Everything else in Omsk region (Russia) Disappeared villages of the Lyubinsky district of the Omsk region

Village "New Field". Several houses are inhabited, several are destroyed, about 10 are abandoned, medical books were found in one of them, perhaps it was a first-aid post. There is a payphone attached to one of the houses; perhaps it was a post office. Also in the village are the ruins of a farm, a cemetery, and an old, rusty Muscovite. In total there are about five people living there. The entire village is surrounded by swamps and located deep in endless fields. There is a lot of junk in the houses...

An abandoned, quiet and inconspicuous holiday village. There are many abandoned houses, almost no residential ones. The dachas belonged to those who worked at the poultry farm; after closing, people fled. Inside the houses there are a lot of utensils and household items, and in some places there is no floor. The place is very beautiful and quiet. The only guards are the remaining people.

The village is located in the harsh Taiga. The construction of the village began around the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century. Currently, less than 20 people live in the village. Almost all the houses in the village are abandoned and household items still remain in them. The village stood on a marshy area, but was moved. The village is not marked on the map of new samples.

Village "Alekseevka", Gorky district. A godforsaken place in the Omsk region. It feels like you've stepped back into the last century. The store sign is made of cardboard and tape, and the most expensive car in the village is a 2008 Toyota Corolla. The streets are deserted, although there are residents (it’s easier to meet cows, geese, ducks, walking freely in the wide open spaces), apparently this is due to the fact that getting to the village is much easier than getting out of it....

There is no point in hiding that abandoned villages and other populated areas are the object of research for many people who are passionate about treasure hunting (and not only). There is a place for those who like attic searching to roam, to “ring through” the basements of abandoned houses, to explore wells, and much more. etc. Of course, the likelihood that your colleagues or local residents have visited this locality before you is very high, but, nevertheless, there are no “knocked out places”.

Reasons that lead to the desertion of villages

Before starting to list the reasons, I would like to dwell on the terminology in more detail. There are two concepts - abandoned settlements and disappeared settlements.

Disappeared settlements are geographical objects that today have completely ceased to exist due to military actions, man-made and natural disasters, and time. In place of such points one can now see a forest, a field, a pond, anything, but not standing abandoned houses. This category of objects is also of interest to treasure hunters, but we are not talking about them now.

Abandoned villages precisely belong to the category of abandoned settlements, i.e. towns, villages, hamlets, etc., abandoned by residents. Unlike the disappeared settlements, the abandoned ones for the most part retain their architectural appearance, buildings and infrastructure, i.e. are in a state close to the time when the settlement was abandoned. So people left, why? A decline in economic activity, which we can see now, as people from villages tend to move to the city; wars; disasters of various types (Chernobyl and its environs); other conditions that make living in a given region inconvenient and unprofitable.

How to find abandoned villages?

Naturally, before heading headlong to the search site, it is necessary to prepare a theoretical basis, in simple words, to calculate these most likely places. A number of specific sources and tools will help us with this.

Today, one of the most accessible and fairly informative sources is Internet:

The second quite popular and accessible source- These are ordinary topographic maps. It would seem, how can they be useful? Yes, very simple. Firstly, both tracts and uninhabited villages are already marked on fairly well-known maps of the Gentstab. It is important to understand one thing here: a tract is not only an abandoned settlement, but simply any part of the area that is different from other areas of the surrounding area. And yet, on the site of the tract there may not be any village for a long time, but that’s okay, walk around with a metal detector among the holes, collect metal garbage, and then you’ll get lucky. Not everything is simple with non-residential villages either. They may not be completely uninhabited, but may be used, say, as summer cottages, or may be occupied illegally. In this case, I don’t see any point in doing anything, no one needs problems with the law, and the local population can be quite aggressive.

If you compare the same map of the General Staff and a more modern atlas, you can notice some differences. For example, there was a village in the forest on the General Staff, a road led to it, and suddenly the road disappeared on a more modern map; most likely, the residents left the village and began to bother with road repairs, etc.

The third source is local newspapers, local people, local museums. Communicate more with the natives, there will always be interesting topics for conversation, and in between, you can ask about the historical past of this region. What can locals tell you about? Yes, a lot of things, the location of the estate, the manor’s pond, where there are abandoned houses or even abandoned villages, etc.

Local media is also a fairly informative source. Moreover, now even the most provincial newspapers are trying to acquire their own website, where they diligently post individual notes or even entire archives. Journalists travel a lot on their business and interview, including old-timers, who like to mention various interesting facts during their stories.

Don’t hesitate to visit provincial local history museums. Not only are their exhibitions often interesting, but a museum employee or guide can also tell you a lot of interesting things.

Omsk designer Anton Voronov spent two weeks in the taiga in the Tara region - he lived in an abandoned village, was engaged in photo hunting and communicated with hermits.

33-year-old Anton Voronov works as an industrial designer and enjoys photography. He leads a healthy lifestyle and eats almost no meat. Omich believes that life in the city is not suitable for people, and draws inspiration from nature. To take a break from the hustle and bustle, he went on a trip to the taiga.

“In the summer of 2017, I went to the taiga for two weeks. There was no desire to prove anything. A path for the sake of a path. I didn’t set myself any mileage goals. I just wanted to be alone with myself, take a break from the Internet and mobile communications. The city had already drained all my energy; I wanted to go to Knyazevka. This place is famous, accessible and interesting. It’s like a gateway to the taiga,” Anton begins the story.

According to him, Knyazevka is a village in the Tara region that was abandoned several years ago. The buildings have been preserved, but the spirit of desolation reigns everywhere.

The Omsk resident had never gone on serious hikes before, so he prepared for the trip for six months: he thought through the route, calculated the time, and took the choice of equipment very seriously. “I read various serious literature, sat on forums, watched on Youtube the channels of taiga people who go [on trips] one at a time,” says Anton.

Omsk spent about 200 thousand rubles on equipment and travel in general. According to Anton, he tried to take only high-quality items, which received positive reviews from experienced tourists. He took with him a backpack with a capacity of 40 liters, a tent, a change of clothes, trekking poles, a gas cylinder against bears and other things needed for traveling through the forest.

“I took an axe, now I don’t need an axe, and in the forest I can easily get by with a big knife. When an inexperienced traveler takes with him many unnecessary things. With experience, you begin to reduce the contents of your backpack. On my next trip I’ll carry seven to eight fewer kilograms,” the traveler shares.

Anton took a small supply of food for two weeks. “I rarely eat meat, so I took sublimates with me: dry soybeans, buckwheat. I also took instant soups and instant noodles. I don’t take stewed meat - the cans weigh a lot,” he says.

Anton took a bus from the Omsk bus station to Tara, where he transferred to a rattling little bus, which took him to the turn to the village of Grinevichi. This was the extreme point that could be reached by such a transport, further only a swamp rover. You can get to Knyazevka through the forest or the old winter road - a road with logging tracks and swamp water. This clearing in the taiga was done back in Tsarist Russia. At rest stops, he checked the GPS map, and then followed the compass.

On his first trip, the Omsk resident tried not to move away from the road. He set up camp in a clearing and went for a walk in the forest with a camera. During the trip, Anton really wanted to photograph the bear.

“I have a special lens that allows me to shoot at long distances. But I only found a trace, it was a big bear, about four hundred kilograms. In general, there are bears there. They stole nine horses from Knyazevka,” says Anton.

But he saw beavers, chipmunks, owls that had eaten all the sparrows in Knyazevka, and a nest of vipers, next to which he spent the night at the beginning of the trip, without immediately noticing it.

Usually an Omsk resident spent the night in a tent in places where villages used to stand (he even spent one night in an old abandoned hut), in the forest itself or near taiga rivers. One night, moose came out to his tent.

“I wake up because someone is snorting. I look, and these are moose. I quickly grabbed the camera, while I was taking it out and unsheathing it, they left. Everything near the tent was trampled underfoot,” he recalls.

“City dwellers think that in the forest they will be immediately eaten by a bear or a wolf. When the villagers hear this, they look at them like fools. A bear, of course, can attack, but because of the wrong behavior of the person himself or in a hungry year. There are a lot of tricks against bears: before going to bed, throw firecrackers, smear yourself with a little gun oil. There are a lot of different subtleties that a beginner needs to know,” shares Anton.

When he was not photographing, he walked through the forest with a music speaker so that the beast would not come at him.

“A hike is a serious matter, not a vacation in a warm country. You are alone, the nearest person is several tens of kilometers away. Swamps. There are a lot of blood-sucking insects; repellents do not help against them and you cannot brush them off with a twig. A huge cloud flies over you, and you can’t even breathe, horses even hide in houses from midges in the summer,” says the Omsk resident. According to him, he did not receive any serious injuries during the hike - he escaped with small cuts, his face scratched by branches and his collarbones rubbed from the straps of his backpack.

But different people may meet along the way. One of the unpleasant memories is a meeting in the forest with a company driving past with a large amount of alcohol.

“Men passed by on a swamp rover and looked at me strangely. I didn’t even approach them, although in another case I would have asked for a ride. When you’re alone, you try not to get into such situations,” says Anton.

Having reached Knyazevka, he learned that two hermit men, Vasily and Leonid, lived in an abandoned village.

An abandoned pioneer camp on the territory of a pine forest in the floodplain of the Irtysh River. It is a forest area on which one-story residential buildings and outbuildings are located. On one side the camp faces the river bank, on the other it faces the road. Security is located in a booth at the gate. Doors and windows are closed in all buildings and buildings. Getting inside is problematic. There are minimal remains of furniture in the buildings. The area is abundantly overgrown...

A huge plant engaged in processing and processing, as well as storing grain crops. On the territory there is a grain drying complex, a crushing complex, grain storage facilities, garages, a bathhouse, and a boiler room. Everything looks very gloomy, devastated, you can feel the atmosphere of the Soviet Union. Abandoned at the beginning of the two thousandth. As of 2014: the boiler room and bathhouse have been turned into ruins, the garages are used for their intended purpose, all other buildings...

The camp is in relatively good condition. On the territory there is a residential building with a guard, a dog on a chain. If a guard sees you, he will ask you to leave. The camp has standard wooden houses, living quarters, a dining room and a first aid station. A small football field and sports ground.

The camp has long been abandoned, but is still an interesting object. The windows are boarded up. There is a security guard sitting in the house near the entrance. On the territory there are houses for living (at least 7) ​​and one 2-story building, a wooden club, a water tower and a boiler room.

A cemetery for agricultural machinery deep in the industrial zone, in the village of Luzino. The area is fenced and is in contact with existing repair buildings. Belongs to the company OJSC Luzinskoe zerno. There are carts, trailers, tractors, and spare parts for combine harvesters. Closer to the work buildings, tractors and ZILs are being repaired; if they see you, they’ll go look for you.

The unfinished camp is located on the territory of the national natural and archaeological park "Batakovo" in the Bolsherechensky district of the Omsk region. The nearest settlement is the village of Borovyanka. A forest road runs past the camp, along which power lines (not functioning) are connected to the camp building. The building itself was supposed to be two-story, with several “wings” and a basement (the entrances to which were blocked from the outside)....

Former children's health camp. Located in a deciduous forest, next to a pine forest. On the territory there are one-story residential buildings, a dining room, a laundry room, an assembly hall, a shower, presumably a bathhouse, toilets, gas cylinders.. There is an outdoor swimming pool with tanks for settling water. In many buildings the floor is rotten and collapses underfoot. The fence has been preserved in places, but there is a very impressive gate at the entrance. The security guard lives on site, has...