Transcript Welcome to Chistopol

Welcome to Chistopol
Done by O.G.Kulyasova, the teacher of English
“Kadetskaya boarding school”
We invite you to join us in
our exciting cultural tour
around our native town
Chistopol. It’s lovely
indeed.
Chistopol is an old, small and quite town. It is situated on the left bank
of the Kama river. It was founded in 1781. The town has rich and unique
history. The area of the town is about 23 square kilometers. The
population is about sixty three thousand people. People of different
nationalities live there.
The best place to begin our exploration of Chistopol is here - in the
beginning of K.Marks Street. There are many architectural monuments of
the 19-th century. One of them is the masterpiece - NIKOLSKY Cathedral.
Nickolsky Cathedral
was built in 1838 for
money of merchants
G.A. and D. A.
Polyakov by the
famous Kazan
architect Pyatnitsky,
who built the main
building of the Kazan
University. This
cathedral was built in
a classical style. The
gate and the fence
were built by the
famous Kazan
architect Petondy.
It is interesting to note that our town is
famous for its outstanding people, who
were born, lived, studied or worked here:
the great Russian chemist A.Butlerov, a
well-known flier Nickolay Kostin,
academician N.Lihachev, a Tatar writer
Gayaz Ishaki.
Let’s go on our excursion.
Now we are near the
building of our town
Museum. It was built in the
19-th century and was the
house of merchant Staheev.
Here we can learn the
history of our town.
A small settlement of the peasants appeared
on the bank of the Kama river. Those peasants
run from their landowners and were engaged
in agriculture, hunting and fishery. But soon
those peasants were arrested and sent back to
their former landowners. Instead of that
settlement only bare field Chistoe Pole was left.
Because of the advantageous location, in 1781
Chistoe Pole became one of the main towns of
Kazan Province. Gradually Chistopol became
the centre of grain-trade of Kazan Province.
Grain was exported to France, England,
Germany.
Now, please, pay attention to the building of Teachers House. Chistopol was like a
hospitable shelter for many writers and poets, actors and musicians during the Great
Patriotic war. B.Pasternak , M.Isakovsky, S.Marshak, l.leonov and others were
evacuated to Chistopol. They gathered in this house, read their works, performed
their plays. Tvardovsky read there the first parts of his poem Vasily Tirckin, L.Leonov
read his play « Invation».
Now we are going on
with our excursion. To
the left of you there is
the architectural
monument of the 19-th
century - merchant
Melnikov’s house.
Now we are making our way to the Alley of Heroes. 18 thousand citizens of Chistopol with
weapons in their arms stood up to defend the Motherland and about 12 thousand were killed
during that war. Such names of the heroes of the Soviet Union as Marinin, Valeev, Chekin ,
Kalashnikov, Mironov,Privalov are well-known to any man of our town. We have the Alley of
Heroes and the Eternal Fire in the center of Chistopol .In honor of 15 Heroes of the Soviet Union
basrelievs were installed.
A lot of factories and plants were evacuated in
Chistopol at the beginning of the war, such as
the Watch plant from Moscow, Kiev knitting
factory, Gomel haberdashery factory ,
Stalingrad and Kalachinsk ship-repearing
plants. All they issued products for the war
front: warm woolen socks, mittens, sweaters,
the products of strategic importance torpedo, armored motor boats and other
weapons. «Everything for the front,
everything for victory!» This slogan was on
everybody’s lips.
Now we are turning to the right. We are in former Tatar Street.
This place is connected with a tatar writer Gayaz Ishaki.
Let’s have a rest now in our central park. This garden was founded in 1868 on the
former bread square. The founder of this garden was the Governor of Kazan
N.Skaryatin. Chistopol merchants Chelishev, Maklakov, Chukashov and others
made money donations for this garden, which became the most popular place for
rest.
Now we are crossed the central park and we are in Lenin Street. There is
Pasternak’s Museum. In 1990 Pasternak’s museum was founded in our town. It
was opened in the house where B.Pasternak lived in 1941-1943. This house is
situated in 81, Lenin Street (former Volodarsky Street).
The exposition is telling us about Pasternak’s difficult life in evacuation, about
his friendly and creative contacts. There are a lot of letters, photos,
manuscripts and books written by B.Pasternak.
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