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1921-1928

The Villa of Z.I. Yusupova in Pavlovsk Road (its present address is the house no. 12) was given for the summer for the A.Ya. Vaganova Choreographic School. The future stars of the Russian ballet Galina Ulanova, Marina Semyenova
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1926

The Centre of the Communist Party Education, where 6-month courses of Marxism-Leninism for functionaries of the Communist Party, Young Commuinist League and Trade Union were organized, was opened on S.M
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1927

January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961)
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1928

May. The writer Aleksay Nikolayevich Tolstoy, his wife, the poet Natalya Vasilyevna Krandiyevskaya, sons Nikita (a future physicist) and Dmitry (a future Composer), Fiedor (a son of Krandiyevskaya), Marianna (a daughter of Tolstoy)
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1930

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First")
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1931

The building of the Palace Greenhouse was given to the Leningrad Chemical-Engineering Institute of Dairy
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1931-1941

Valeryan Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, a composer and musicologist, the author of memoirs about the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of his time, lived in a flat placed in the semi-circular part sided with the Church wing of the Catherine Palace
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1932

January. The science-fiction writer Aleksandr Romanovich Belyayev, the author of novels "Zvezda KETs" ("The Star of KETs"), "Chelovek-Amfibiya" ("The Man-amphibian"), "Golova profssora Douelya" ("The Head of Professor Dawel") and many others
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1933

The experimental snowplough train designed by Gavrichenko was made in the "Rempuymash" Plant. Its mass production was begun at the Tula City Machine Plant of the People's Commissariat of Transport
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1933-1934

The composer B.V. Asafyev, who lived in the country house (24 Novaya Street) from 1926 until 1934), composed the music for his ballet "Bakhchisaraysky fontan" ("The Fountain of Bakhchisaray") in Detskoye Selo
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1933-1937

The famous publisher P.P. Soykin worked as a proof-reader in the district printing-house (the house no. 8 in Leontyevskaya Street). P.P. Soykin was burried in Kuzminskoye Cemetery in 1938, his grave is preserved
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1934

1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1935

August. A.N Tolstoy broke off his relations with N.V. Krandiyevskaya and she has gone to Leningrad with sons. August. Detskoye Selo was visited by delegates of the 15th International Congress on Physiology, taken place In the Tauride Palace; I
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1936

2 November. The Detskoye Selo Bread-Baking Plant of the First Leningrad State Bread-Baking Trust was put into operation in Moscow
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1937

10 February. The Central Executive Committee of the USSR published the resolution "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of great Russian poet A.S
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1938

3 March. The district newspaper "Bolshestskoye slovo" ("Bolshevik Word") was founded, on 3 February 1953 it was renamed the newspaper "Vpered" ("Forward") and on 1993 it was renamed "Tsarskoselskaya Gazeta" ("The Tsarskoye Selo Newspaper")
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1939

This year the palace-museums of Pushkin Town were visited by 1,790,000 people; the budget of the museum was Rb 2 million. Evening excursions with the electric light were organised in the Alexander Palace on the initiative of its director A
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1941

March. The former study of A.S. Pushkin, in the house of Kitayev, was vacated from tenants and the appartment-museum of the poet was opened in it according to the decision of the Executive Committee of Pushkin Town. 22 June
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1941-1942

The autumn - winter. All working people were registered by the German occupation authority. The registrations and the forced evacuations of Pushkin Town citizens to the rear regions were conducted permanently
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1942

6 January. The science fiction writer A.R. Belyayev died from starvation in occupied Pushkin Town, he was burried in a common grave in the Kazanskoye Semetery
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1944

13 January. Igor Rybakov, a fearless member of an underground organization, graduate of the secondary school of Pushkin Town, was executed by firing squard in Gatchina. 16 January
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1945

February. The restored city hospital for 120 beds began to work in Pavlovsk Road (now it is the building of the tubercolosis hospital). 15 February. The regular lessons began at the Pushkin Agricultural Institute with students who returned from
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1946

April. Mortar man - Lieutenant Abram Yakovlevich Shalyt, a pre-war citizen of Detskoye Selo, returned from the front and began to work as a correspondent of the district newspaper "The Bolshevik Word"
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1946 – 1949

Ensemle of Railway Station Square was constructed to the design of architects E.A. Levinson and A.A.Grushke (Stalin Prize of
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1948

The Higher Navy Engineering College was opened on the basis of the former barracks of the 4th Life-Guard Infantry Regiment (military barracks were here under the Soviet rule too)
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

1949

10 June. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR S.I. Vavilov cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony of the first exposition of the Museum of A.S. Pushkin which was placed in the Alexander Palace (the museum worked until 1951)
Source: Tsarskoe Selo