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January 16, 2005
Gorodets: A brief history
Gorodets was a former hunting reserve. Before Konstantinov (the founder of the Tournament of Towns), there were three grannies. When they passed away, Konstantinov’s rich student, a business man, bought Gorodets for Konstantinov to set up his school. The place was composed of two buildings, a large shed and a water tower. Actually there were a few more structures, including a full-sized industrial chimney, but I doubt they were of any use to Konstantinov.
When Konstantinov acquired the area, the main building was missing a roof. Konstantinov rapidly set off to renovate the area. He set up a well, the toilets; brought in an oven, cooking supplies and his prized electric keyboard (battery powered). The only form of communication was Konstantinov’s cell phone. But since, the place was in the middle of nowhere, it worked only from atop of the water tower. Since people don’t live on the water tower, phone calls originated only in Gorodets (one-way dialing).
Electric lines passed through the area, but since the old owners did not pay for them - there was no electricity. Getting to Gorodets wasn’t easy. First, we had to take a train to Maloyaroslavets (a well-populated town), then a bus to Uhnov (a small village), then finally a taxi (and even that didn’t carry us all the way). Getting out of Gorodets was harder (taxis don’t stop there). Gorodets was a historic place. In surrounding woods, we saw the remains of barbed wire left from World War II. But thats for another time.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at January 16, 2005 12:35 AM
Comments
Sounds like a lovely place to do math!
Posted by: Tout at January 16, 2005 08:33 PM