Travel, aviation and railway. Illustrated magazine by Vladimir Dergachev “Landscapes of Life An excerpt characterizing Rudnaya Pristan”

17.11.2023

Rudnaya Bay(until 1972 - Tetyukha) is located in the Dalnegorsky district of Primorsky Krai on the western coast of the Sea of Japan. The Rudnaya (Tetyuhe) River flows into the bay. There is an oil pier on the northern shore of the bay, and on the southern shore there is a small harbor called “Bucket”. On the western coast of the bay is the village of Rudnaya Pristan, where the metallurgical workshop of the Far Eastern Mining and Metallurgical Combine "Dalpolimetal" is located, which creates an unfavorable environmental situation. The population of the village has decreased since 1959 from 6 thousand to 2 thousand people.

According to a 2006 study by the American non-profit research organization The Blacksmith Institute's list of the most contaminated places in the world, along with Chernobyl, included the Russian village of Rudnaya Pristan and the cities of Norilsk and Dzerzhinsk.

“Patriots” of Russia, as with the doping scandal regarding athletes, saw in this ranking the political machinations of the Americans and the “order” of foreign business competitors. It's much more convenient than solving problems. Or answer the question of how Norilsk, built on the bones of prisoners, became the private property of Russian oligarchs, often enraged by fat.

In my opinion, there was no need for Americans to travel to these Russian settlements; it was enough to get acquainted with numerous Russian environmental publications. In particular, you can learn about the environmental disaster in the valley of the Far Eastern Rudnaya River from the monograph by P.O. Sharov “Lead in the environment of the village of Rudnaya Pristan: assessment of the risk of poisoning of children. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2005. 132 pages.” In 2006, the author defended his Ph.D. thesis on this topic at the Far Eastern State University. Scientific supervisor of the dissertation, Doctor of Biological Sciences N.K. Khristoforova, I knew from work in Vladivostok back in the early 70s, when Nadya Khristoforova was the Komsomol organizer of the Komsomol Central Committee for work with scientific youth of the Far East Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences. To choose such a dissertation topic in the era of redistribution of property and criminal showdowns requires courage. Perhaps the Americans, who “awarded” Rudnaya Pristan with a high rating, were also familiar with the English version of the monograph.

Rudnaya Pristan and the valley of the Rudnaya River are polluted with heavy metal compounds. From a relatively small mountain spawning river, in the valley of which approximately forty thousand people live, in the course of one generation the river turned into a sewage silted and littered ditch. According to Russian publications, the ore Pristan occupied a leading place in the country on the total index of soil contamination with lead. The lead smelting plant of the Dalpolimetal mining and metallurgical plant was located approximately 1.5 km from the mouth of the Rudnaya River. The lead plant was the only enterprise in Russia that processed sulfide raw materials containing, in addition to lead, precious metals and sulfur. The plant was built in 1929/30 at the mouth of the Rudnaya River by Briner and Co. on a concession basis with the involvement of English capital. The capacity of the lead plant was determined to be 3 thousand tons of lead and 6 tons of silver per year.

Residents of the Dalnegorsk urban district have repeatedly appealed to the regional authorities with a request to inspect the production activities of MMC Dalpolimetal and the lead plant located in the village of Rudnaya Pristan. Many plant workers suffer from serious work-related illnesses. Children lose their health by inhaling lead concentrate.

The lead plant is very old, there are no treatment facilities or gas traps. They melt used batteries from cars and submarines. All emissions go to the village and the mouth of the river. Local authorities believe that the problem has already been solved. Officially, the plant no longer pollutes the atmosphere; it has stopped working with lead concentrate and is recycling batteries. Waste is not thrown into the sea, but collected for recycling.

From 2002 to 2005, Dalpolimetal's lead production decreased more than tenfold from 7.8 thousand tons to 600 tons. This had a positive effect on the statistics of emissions of lead and its inorganic compounds into the atmosphere, which is also associated with the reconstruction of the plant and improved environmental safety.

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Local attractions of Rudnaya Bay are the lighthouse on Cape Brinera (built in 1950) and the relict oak grove in the village of Rudnaya Pristan. Cape Briner is a two-headed rock, on the smaller of the peaks of which the lighthouse was erected. The second, higher peak offers magnificent views of the coast. Cape Briner got its name in honor of the merchant Julius Briner, owner of mining enterprises and steamships. He was also involved in charity work, with his help the Society for the Study of the Amur Region was founded.

Valery Blazdynya

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In the bay there are kekurs (pillar-shaped rocks of natural origin) “Two Brothers”.

Vladimir Dergachev, digitized slide from 1973

Vladimir Dergachev, digitized slide from 1973

A unique photograph of “Two Brothers”, where one of them seems to be looking at the shore and the result of human activity.

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Rudnaya Pristan- town, Primorsky Krai. Originated as a village. at the floating plant, which was based in Tetyukhe Bay during the war, and was simply called Floating Plant. In 1945 the village. renamed Tetyukhe Pristan, which indicated the expansion of its functions. In 1972,... ... Toponymic dictionary

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(I) Coordinates: 44°21′00″ n. w. 135°48′00″ E. d. / 44.35000° N. w. 135.80000° E. d. / 44.35000; 135.80000(G) (I)

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Story

Status of a settlement since 1927

In the 1930s - 1940s. The village was called Plavzavod after the smelter (lead) plant built in 1930.

In 1945 it was renamed Tetyukhe-Pristan (approximate translation from Chinese - pier of the country of wild boars) by the sea pier on its outskirts and by its location next to the bay. Tetyukhe (now Rudnaya).

Climate

Climate of Rudnaya Pristan (norm 1981-2010)
Index	Jan.	Feb.	March	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Year
Absolute maximum, °C	6,2	9,5	19,7	30,4	33,0	32,3	37,8	34,5	31,1	25,7	17,6	10,5	37,8
Average temperature, °C	−10,6	−7,6	−1,9	3,8	8,1	11,8	16,3	19,0	15,0	7,8	−1,2	−8,5	4,3
Absolute minimum, °C	−27,7	−26,1	−17,4	−7,3	−2,6	1,6	7,6	6,9	−1,4	−6,5	−21,2	−30,1	−30,1
Precipitation rate, mm	20	13	28	49	73	89	119	127	105	65	42	20	750
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Water temperature in Rudnaya Bay.
Index	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	But I	Dec	Year
Absolute maximum, °C	1,8	2,5	5,8	9,1	14,4	17,8	22,3	23,0	22,4	17,5	11,0	5,7	23,0
Average temperature, °C	−1,4	−1,2	0,0	2,5	6,0	10,4	15,2	17,5	15,0	8,8	3,4	−0,2	6,3
Absolute minimum, °C	−2	−1,9	−1,9	−0,7	0,7	3,6	7,3	8,6	3,1	0,5	−1,7	−1,9	−2
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Ecology

In the village there is a metallurgical workshop of the Far Eastern Mining and Metallurgical Combine (lead processing), which creates an unfavorable environmental situation. According to the study, the area is included in the list of the most polluted in the world.

Population

Attractions

Cape Brynner is a double-headed rock, on the smaller of the peaks of which the lighthouse was erected. From the second, higher peak there is a magnificent view of Rudnaya Bay, the village, as well as the coast to the north of it. True, getting there is not so easy - to do this you need to walk along the edge of a sheer cliff several tens of meters high. Kekury Two Brothers, which became famous throughout the country thanks to the non-denominated 1000 ruble banknote, is located some distance from the coast. However, similar stone pillars exist in many places on the coast - the coast north of Rudnaya Pristan is replete with sheer cliffs and steep cliffs, which have been eroded by sea waves over thousands of years.

In the village Rudnaya Pristan was the final station of the Dalnegorsk narrow-gauge railway.

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Newspaper “Vladivostok” for January 12, 2011

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An excerpt characterizing Rudnaya Pristan

- Well, my dear, what a battle we fought! God only grant that what will be its consequence be equally victorious. However, my dear,” he said fragmentarily and animatedly, “I must admit my guilt before the Austrians and especially before Weyrother. What precision, what detail, what knowledge of the area, what foresight of all possibilities, all conditions, all the smallest details! No, my dear, it is impossible to deliberately invent anything more advantageous than the conditions in which we find ourselves. The combination of Austrian distinctness with Russian courage - what more do you want?
– So the offensive is finally decided? - said Bolkonsky.
“And you know, my dear, it seems to me that Buonaparte has definitely lost his Latin.” You know that a letter to the emperor has just been received from him. – Dolgorukov smiled significantly.
- That's how it is! What is he writing? – asked Bolkonsky.
- What can he write? Tradiridira, etc., all just to gain time. I tell you that it is in our hands; It's right! But what’s funniest of all,” he said, suddenly laughing good-naturedly, “is that they couldn’t figure out how to address the answer to him?” If not the consul, and of course not the emperor, then General Buonaparte, as it seemed to me.
“But there is a difference between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general Buonaparte,” said Bolkonsky.
“That’s just the point,” Dolgorukov said quickly, laughing and interrupting. – You know Bilibin, he is a very smart person, he suggested addressing: “the usurper and enemy of the human race.”
Dolgorukov laughed cheerfully.
- No more? - Bolkonsky noted.
– But still, Bilibin found a serious address title. And a witty and intelligent person.
- How?
“To the head of the French government, au chef du gouverienement francais,” said Prince Dolgorukov seriously and with pleasure. - Isn't that good?
“Okay, but he won’t like it very much,” Bolkonsky noted.
- Oh, very much! My brother knows him: he has dined with him, the current emperor, in Paris more than once and told me that he has never seen a more refined and cunning diplomat: you know, a combination of French dexterity and Italian acting? Do you know his jokes with Count Markov? Only one Count Markov knew how to handle him. Do you know the history of the scarf? This is lovely!
And the talkative Dolgorukov, turning first to Boris and then to Prince Andrei, told how Bonaparte, wanting to test Markov, our envoy, deliberately dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stopped, looking at him, probably expecting a favor from Markov, and how Markov immediately He dropped his handkerchief next to him and picked up his own, without picking up Bonaparte’s handkerchief.
“Charmant,” said Bolkonsky, “but here’s what, prince, I came to you as a petitioner for this young man.” Do you see what?...
But Prince Andrei did not have time to finish when an adjutant entered the room, calling Prince Dolgorukov to the emperor.
- Oh, what a shame! - said Dolgorukov, hastily standing up and shaking the hands of Prince Andrei and Boris. – You know, I am very glad to do everything that depends on me, both for you and for this dear young man. – He once again shook Boris’s hand with an expression of good-natured, sincere and animated frivolity. – But you see... until another time!
Boris was worried about the closeness to the highest power in which he felt at that moment. He recognized himself here in contact with those springs that guided all those enormous movements of the masses of which in his regiment he felt like a small, submissive and insignificant part. They went out into the corridor following Prince Dolgorukov and met coming out (from the door of the sovereign’s room into which Dolgorukov entered) a short man in civilian dress, with an intelligent face and a sharp line of his jaw set forward, which, without spoiling him, gave him a special liveliness and resourcefulness of expression. This short man nodded as if he were his own, Dolgoruky, and began to peer intently with a cold gaze at Prince Andrei, walking straight towards him and apparently waiting for Prince Andrei to bow to him or give way. Prince Andrei did neither one nor the other; anger was expressed in his face, and the young man, turning away, walked along the side of the corridor.
- Who is this? – asked Boris.
- This is one of the most wonderful, but most unpleasant people to me. This is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski.
“These are the people,” Bolkonsky said with a sigh that he could not suppress as they left the palace, “these are the people who decide the destinies of nations.”
The next day the troops set out on a campaign, and Boris did not have time to visit either Bolkonsky or Dolgorukov until the Battle of Austerlitz and remained for a while in the Izmailovsky regiment.

At dawn on the 16th, Denisov's squadron, in which Nikolai Rostov served, and which was in the detachment of Prince Bagration, moved from an overnight stop into action, as they said, and, having passed about a mile behind the other columns, was stopped on the high road. Rostov saw the Cossacks, the 1st and 2nd squadrons of hussars, infantry battalions with artillery pass by, and generals Bagration and Dolgorukov with their adjutants passed by. All the fear that he, as before, felt before the case; all the internal struggle through which he overcame this fear; all his dreams of how he would distinguish himself in this matter like a hussar were in vain. Their squadron was left in reserve, and Nikolai Rostov spent that day bored and sad. At 9 o'clock in the morning he heard gunfire ahead of him, shouts of hurray, saw the wounded being brought back (there were few of them) and, finally, saw how a whole detachment of French cavalrymen was led through in the middle of hundreds of Cossacks. Obviously, the matter was over, and the matter was obviously small, but happy. Soldiers and officers passing back talked about the brilliant victory, about the occupation of the city of Wischau and the capture of an entire French squadron. The day was clear, sunny, after a strong night frost, and the cheerful shine of the autumn day coincided with the news of the victory, which was conveyed not only by the stories of those who took part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, officers, generals and adjutants traveling to and from Rostov . The heart of Nikolai ached all the more painfully, as he had in vain suffered all the fear that preceded the battle, and spent that joyful day in inaction.
- Rostov, come here, let's drink out of grief! - Denisov shouted, sitting down on the edge of the road in front of a flask and a snack.

Rudnaya Pristan is a village (until October 2004 - an urban-type settlement) in the Dalnegorsky urban district of Primorsky Krai. Population - 2107 people. (2010). Located at the mouth of the Rudnaya River, on the shore of Rudnaya Bay in the Sea of Japan.

Status of a settlement since 1927. In the 1930s - 1940s. the village was called Plavzavod after the smelting (lead) plant built in 1930. In 1945 it was renamed Tetyukhe-Pristan (approximate translation from Chinese - pier of the country of wild boars) after the sea pier on its outskirts and because of its location next to the bay. Tetyukhe (now Rudnaya). In 1972 it was renamed Rudnaya Pristan after the bay. In 2004, the urban-type settlement of Rudnaya Pristan became a village.

Geography

The village is located 35 km from Dalnegorsk and 540 km along the Osinovka - Rudnaya Pristan highway from Vladivostok.

The climate in the village is windy, winter is warmer than in other places of the Primorsky Territory (−9.0 °C), summer, on the contrary, is colder (July +16.3 °C, August +19.0 °C), which is associated with cold The coastal current, which noticeably loses its influence only near Cape Povorotny. Absolute maximum +37.8 °C Absolute minimum -30.1 °C Relative air humidity - 65.9%. Average wind speed is 2.8 m/s.

Ecology

In the village there is a metallurgical workshop of the Far Eastern Mining and Metallurgical Combine (lead processing), which creates an unfavorable environmental situation. According to a study by the Blacksmith Institute, the area is among the most polluted in the world.

Population

Attractions

The main local attractions are the Two Brothers kekurs and the lighthouse built in the early 1950s, which is located on Cape Brynner, covering the entrance to the tiny port. To get to them, you need to turn right, before reaching Rudnaya Pristan, to the small village of Smychka, located on the shore of Lake Vaskovskoye. Cape Brynner is a double-headed rock, on the smaller of the peaks of which the lighthouse was erected. From the second, higher peak there is a magnificent view of Rudnaya Bay, the village, as well as the coast to the north of it. True, getting there is not so easy - to do this you need to walk along the edge of a sheer cliff several tens of meters high. Kekury Two Brothers, which became famous throughout the country thanks to the non-denominated 1000 ruble banknote, is located some distance from the coast. However, similar stone pillars exist in many places on the coast - the coast north of Rudnaya Pristan is replete with sheer cliffs and steep cliffs, which have been eroded by sea waves over thousands of years. In the village Rudnaya Pristan was the final station of the Dalnegorsk narrow-gauge railway.