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Sanatorium "Solotcha" is located in the village of the same name not far from Ryazan. The complex has a swimming pool, free Wi-Fi and parking.

The number of rooms is represented by comfortable rooms, which are located in the buildings. Each room has a private bathroom and appliances. Some have a kitchenette and all the necessary utensils.

Accommodation includes three meals a day. On request, it is possible to compose a menu, taking into account the doctor's recommendations or individual wishes. There is a restaurant just a step away, where new visitors are always welcome.

Help is available at the front desk 24 hours a day. The boarding house provides health and entertainment services, and is also excellent option for both adults and children.

The terrain is great for active species sports, walks on fresh air... Grocery stores and a supermarket are located 300 meters away, where everyone can buy groceries.

Spa services

Services included in the price of the voucher for the "Climatotherapy" program:

• accommodation in a room of the selected category
• three meals a day according to the "buffet" system
• wireless internet Wi-Fi
• animation program on weekends and holidays organized by walking tours on Solotcha
• use of a playroom by a child under the supervision of a teacher (the mode of operation of a playroom for all days, except Sunday and Monday), use of a skating rink, playgrounds for children, an outdoor pool (in accordance with the mode of operation).

Treatment procedures included in the cost of the tour for the "Main program":

• examination by a general practitioner
• baths
• physiotherapy: electro-phototherapy (UFO, KUFO, laser: ICL and GIL, color therapy), pulse currents, ICHPEMP, ultrasound and phonophoresis, EP UHF, UHF, UHF fields, VIMT, electrosleep, transcerebral electroanalgesia, CHENS
• thermotherapy (paraffin-ozokerite)
• manual massage of 1 zone
• inhalation
• treatment room
• Russian bath, Turkish bath (hammam), Finnish sauna
• SPA pool with cascade and counterflow
• low pressure showers (needle, ascending)
• high pressure shock shower (Charcot)
• medium pressure showers (circular, swiss)
• contrast (scottish) shower
• vibration back massage with heat effect
• mineral water 1,5 l / 3 days
• physiotherapist consultation
• nordic walking
• consultation with a neurologist
• massage using a couch "NUGA-BEST"
• consultation with a cardiologist;
• Exercise therapy (physiotherapy exercises)
• aeroionotherapy

The types of procedures, number, sequence, methods, are formed individually for each patient, depending on the state of his health, taking into account indications and contraindications.

Wellness programs:

• Healthy child
• Healthy heart
• Lose weight with pleasure
• Cleansing the liver
• Main program
• Antistress - Relax
• Infertility treatment
• New in fertility treatment
• Forces of nature against arthrosis
• Back without pain
• Take care of your health from a young age
• Correct posture, healthy foot
• Healthy joints
• Diabetes mellitus - no !!!
• Light leg
• It's clear in my head
• Pain Healer (DENS)
• It's great to live ... without cigarettes!

How to get to the sanatorium

Directions from the railway station to the sanatorium:

bus number 71, 110 to the stop "Monastyr".

Other ways of getting to the sanatorium.

Every traveler, going on a trip, creates for himself a list of Solotcha attractions, which must be seen. Some are developing independent routes acquaintance with the city, the rest order special sightseeing excursion tours... As a rule, they allow you to visit the main attractions of Solotchi and give an idea of ​​the historical and cultural development of the city.

Fans of creativity are primarily looking for sculptural attractions on the map of Solotcha. In the main city squares, you can often see traditional sculptural compositions, with which all tourists are photographed. But in parks, beloved by the local population, one can see exhibitions of conceptual statues and installations. They are made from the most unpredictable materials and represent unthinkable variations of various forms, over which you will need to ponder.

Among the main attractions of Solotcha, religious buildings play a special role. They are the center of the architectural ensemble of the Russian city, many of them have survived iconic religious and historical events... In Solotch and beyond, you can go to the monastic cloisters known throughout the country: Kazan Convent, Holy Trinity Monastery, Solotchinsky Pokrovsky Monastery, admire the graceful appearance of large Orthodox churches: Church of the Savior on Yar or look into the cozy and miniature chapels, so popular with the locals.

As you travel around the area, you can also see unusual religious sites. These can be national religious objects, antique cult associations, or in general mystical places strength. Not far from Solotcha there is an opportunity to meet the following: Church of the Savior on Yar, St. John the Theologian Monastery, Nikolo-Radovitsky Monastery, Resurrection Church in Lovtsy, Solotchinsky Pokrovsky Monastery.

Pedestrian promenades along Solotcha have a special romance. You have a choice: get a map of Solotcha with sights and routes in advance, or simply go wherever your heart desires. Then it's even more fun. Let yourself get lost in the old streets or take a walk in the squares. And if you get tired, you can refresh yourself or have a cup of coffee in some pleasant cafeteria. By the way, in Solotcha there are several popular at all times places that every tourist dreams of.

If you plan to gain in-depth knowledge of the history of the city, come on an excursion to museum complexes Solotchi. They contain extensive collections on ethnology, artistic skill, folk art and everyday life, from archaeological site... Traditionally, these attractions are located in the center.

At the same time, open thematic museums can often be found in the suburban area. They present entertaining expositions dedicated to national life and folk crafts. In addition, it can be a museum reconstruction of historical settlements or defensive forts. Such sights of Solotcha will be very informative for children: the Poschupovskaya Toy Museum, the S. Yesenin Museum-Reserve, the Museum of Academician I.P. Pavlova.

For family tourists the question is always relevant: where to go with the children. Most popular option- go to one of the Solotchi aqua complexes. There are often discounted fares when buying a family ticket for the whole day.

If you are planning a trip during the winter or spring season, we advise you to consider for active leisure ski resorts Solotchi. There is a lot of entertainment for young and old alike: various slopes for skiers and snowboarders, cheesecake riding, interesting fan parks for experts. Typically, such complexes are located several tens of kilometers from the city, for example: Ski resort Chulkovo, Borovskoy Kurgan, Alpatevo. So it is more convenient to arrive at the place by personal transport or rent a car.

An excellent prospect for a family weekend is active nature tourism. These sights are located near Solotcha. These can be rivers, gorges, famous reserves. Where better to go, you always choose: Meshchersky national park... It is possible to get here both on its own and by public transport... Look in advance for the schedule of intercity buses running from suburban bus stations in the direction you need. In such an adventure, you will receive a lot of unforgettable emotions from being outdoors, replenish your reserves of health and good spirits.

If you are visiting the city on business, then for long excursion programs you don't have enough free time. In such a situation, we advise you to find for yourself a concise index of Solotchi attractions with photos and descriptions.

A similar guide can always be found after arriving in the city for railway stations either at the airport. There is a list of the most interesting places, where to go in Solotcha, with names and photos of attractions. Agree, this greatly facilitates the question of what to see in Solotch, in case you are limited in time.

However, if the manual describes the most popular places Solotchi, then on the network you can find the top "not promoted", but no less interesting sights with reviews from experienced travelers. Abandoned adits, mysterious quarries, old narrow-gauge railways, bridges - these attractions attract adventure lovers.

When planning a trip to Solotcha, we advise you to get information not only about the sights, but also about other significant infrastructure facilities of the city. To move around the city, it is worth understanding the scheme of urban transport, the localization of railway and bus stations or ports, metro stations. At the same time, these important public buildings of Solotchi can become objects of tourist interest. Often they are the ones who become business card cities.

Solotcha is a city microdistrict within the Soviet district of the city of Ryazan.

It is located 11 kilometers from the left-bank part of Ryazan at the entrance to Meschera on the banks of the Oka oxbow. Near the territory of the district, the river Solotcha of the same name flows into the oxbow. The area is surrounded on all sides by the Meshchera National Park; Forests located on the territory of the region are reserved - multi-storey buildings are prohibited here.

History

The village of Solotcha grew up around the male Solotchinsky Nativity of the Mother of God monastery, founded in 1390 by the Ryazan Grand Duke Oleg Ivanovich - according to legend, at the meeting place of the prince and his wife with two hermits, Vasily and Euthymia. The conversation with the hermits sunk deeply into the prince's soul; having founded the monastery, he took monastic vows and ruled for the last 12 years, being a prince-monk. At the same time, he lived for a long time in a monastery, on the territory of which he was buried in 1402. The origin of Solotcha is from the Old Russian word (solot - swampy, marshy)

After 1917, the Solotchinsky monastery was closed; later, a colony for juvenile offenders was located on its territory (in 1993 the Solotchinsky monastery was revived - but already as a female one).

In 1939-1959 the village was the administrative center of the Solotchinsky district of the Ryazan region.

In 1954, by the decision of the Ryazan Regional Executive Committee, the village of Solotcha was assigned to the category of summer cottages. In 1958, the holiday village of Solotcha was transformed into a resort village; thus, from a rural-type settlement, it passed into the category of urban-type settlements.

By the Decree of the Head of the Ryazan Region Administration No. 128 of March 3, 1994 "On the Approval of the Administrative Boundaries of the City of Ryazan and the Solotchinsky District", the Solotchinsky resort village was included in the Soviet District of the city of Ryazan. By Decree of the Governor of the Ryazan Region No. 799-III of September 22, 2004, the resort village of Solotcha was excluded from the records of the administrative-territorial structure of the Ryazan Region.

sights

There are many old wooden houses in Solotch with carved porches and colored stained-glass windows. On one of the streets there is a house that belonged to the famous painter-engraver academician I.P. Pozhalostin at the end of the 19th century. V.V. Veresaev, K.G. Paustovsky, A.P. Gaidar, A.A.Fadeev, K.M.Simonov, V.S.Grossman, F.I. Panferov, A. I. Solzhenitsyn, V. T. Shalamov and others.

Outstanding architectural monument on the territory of the region is the Church of St. John the Baptist over the Holy Gates of the Solotchinsky Nativity of the Mother of God of the monastery, built in 1696-1698, presumably by the famous Russian architect YG Bukhvostov.

The Ryazan-Vladimir narrow-gauge railway, praised by K.G. Paustovsky, passed through the territory of the district. Railway... Here was the Solodcha station, which retained its ancient spelling through "d".

On the territory of the district there is a specially protected natural area - a natural monument of regional significance "Solotchinskaya Staritsa".

Square: Population census: Population: Postal codes: Telephone codes: Coordinates: 54 ° 47'28 "s. NS. 39 ° 49'58 ″ in. etc. /  54.79111 ° N NS. 39.83278 ° E etc./ 54.79111; 39.83278(G) (I)

Solotcha- an urban area within the Soviet administrative district of the city of Ryazan.

Geography

It is located 11 kilometers from the left-bank part of Ryazan at the entrance to Meschera on the banks of the Oka oxbow. Near the territory of the district, the river Solotcha of the same name flows into the oxbow. The area is surrounded on all sides by the Meshchera National Park; Forests located on the territory of the region are reserved - multi-storey buildings are prohibited here.

History

Village Solotcha grew up around the male, founded in 1390 by the Ryazan Grand Duke Oleg Ivanovich - according to legend, at the meeting place of the prince and his wife with two hermits, Vasily and Euthymia. The conversation with the hermits sunk deeply into the prince's soul; having founded the monastery, he took monastic vows and ruled for the last 12 years, being a prince-monk. At the same time, he lived for a long time in a monastery, on the territory of which he was buried in 1402.

In 1939-1959 the village was the administrative center of the Solotchinsky district of the Ryazan region.

By the Decree of the Head of the Ryazan Region Administration No. 128 of March 3, 1994 "On the Approval of the Administrative Boundaries of the City of Ryazan and the Solotchinsky District", the Solotchinsky resort village was included in the Soviet District of the city of Ryazan. By the Decree of the Governor of the Ryazan Region No. 799-III of September 22, 2004, the resort village of Solotcha was excluded from the accounting data of the administrative-territorial structure of the Ryazan Region.

sights

There are many old wooden houses in Solotch with carved porches and colored stained-glass windows. On one of the streets there is a house that belonged to the famous painter-engraver academician I.P. Pozhalostin at the end of the 19th century. V.V. Veresaev, K. G. Paustovsky, A. P. Gaidar, A. A. Fadeev, K. M. Simonov, V. S. Grossman, F. I Panferov, A. I. Solzhenitsyn, V. T. Shalamov and others.

An outstanding architectural monument on the territory of the district is the Church of St. John the Baptist over the Holy Gates of the Solotchinsky Nativity of the Mother of God of the monastery, built in 1696-1698 by the supposedly famous Russian architect Y. G. Bukhvostov.

The Ryazan-Vladimir narrow-gauge railway, praised by K. G. Paustovsky, passed through the territory of the region. Here was the Solodcha station, which retained its ancient spelling through "d".

On the territory of the district there is a specially protected natural area - a natural monument of regional significance "Solotchinskaya Staritsa".

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Panorama of the Solotchinsky Monastery

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Kazan Church

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House of I.P. Pozhalostin

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Excerpt from Solotch

“That’s not the point, my soul.
- This is your protegee, [darling,] your dear Princess Drubetskaya, Anna Mikhailovna, whom I would not wish to have as a maid, this vile, disgusting woman.
- Ne perdons point de temps. [Let's not waste time.]
- Ax, don't say! Last winter she rubbed herself in here and said such nasty things, such nasty things to the count on all of us, especially Sophie — I can't repeat — that the count became ill and did not want to see us for two weeks. At this time, I know that he wrote this disgusting, disgusting paper; but I thought this paper meant nothing.
- Nous u voila, [This is the point.] Why didn't you tell me anything before?
“In the mosaic briefcase he keeps under his pillow. Now I know, - said the princess without answering. “Yes, if there is a sin behind me, a great sin, then it’s hatred of this scum,” the princess almost shouted, completely changed. - And why is she rubbing herself in here? But I'll tell her everything, everything. The time will come!

While such conversations were taking place in the reception room and in the princess's rooms, the carriage with Pierre (for whom it was sent) and with Anna Mikhailovna (who found it necessary to go with him) drove into the courtyard of Count Bezukhoi. When the wheels of the carriage softly sounded on the straw laid under the windows, Anna Mikhailovna, turning to her companion with comforting words, made sure that he was sleeping in the corner of the carriage, and woke him up. Waking up, Pierre followed Anna Mikhailovna out of the carriage and then only thought of the meeting with his dying father that awaited him. He noticed that they had arrived not at the front door, but at the back entrance. While he was stepping off the step, two men in bourgeois clothes hurriedly ran away from the entrance to the shadow of the wall. Pausing, Pierre saw in the shadow of the house on both sides several more people of the same kind. But neither Anna Mikhailovna, nor the footman, nor the coachman, who could not help seeing these people, paid attention to them. Therefore, this is so necessary, Pierre decided with himself, and followed Anna Mikhailovna. Anna Mikhailovna hurried up the dimly lit narrow stone staircase, beckoning Pierre who was behind her, who, although he did not understand why he had to go to the count at all, and even less why he had to go up the back staircase, but judging by Anna Mikhailovna's confidence and haste, he decided to himself that it was necessary. Halfway down the stairs, they were nearly knocked off their feet by some people with buckets, who, with their boots knocking, ran to meet them. These people pressed against the wall to let Pierre and Anna Mikhailovna pass, and did not show the slightest surprise at the sight of them.
- Are half princesses here? - Anna Mikhailovna asked one of them ...
“Here,” the footman answered in a bold, loud voice, as if now everything was possible, “the door is to the left, mother.
“Maybe the count didn’t call me,” said Pierre as he walked out onto the platform, “I would have gone to my place.
Anna Mikhailovna stopped to catch up with Pierre.
- Ah, mon ami! - she said with the same gesture as with her son in the morning, touching his hand: - croyez, que je souffre autant, que vous, mais soyez homme. [Believe me, I suffer as much as you do, but be a man.]
- Right, I'll go? - asked Pierre, affectionately looking through his glasses at Anna Mikhailovna.
- Ah, mon ami, oubliez les torts qu "on a pu avoir envers vous, pensez que c" est votre pere ... peut etre al "agonie. - She sighed. - Je vous ai tout de suite aime comme mon fils. Fiez vous a moi, Pierre. Je n "oublirai pas vos interets. [Forget, my friend, what was wrong against you. Remember that this is your father ... Maybe in agony. I immediately fell in love with you as a son. Trust me, Pierre. I will not forget your interests.]
Pierre understood nothing; again it seemed to him even more strongly that all this should be so, and he obediently followed Anna Mikhailovna, who had already opened the door.
The door opened into the forward reverse. In the corner sat an old servant of the princes, knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been in this half, had never even imagined the existence of such chambers. Anna Mikhailovna asked the girl who was overtaking them with a decanter on a tray (calling her sweet and dear) about the health of the princesses and drew Pierre further along the stone corridor. From the corridor, the first door to the left led into the living rooms of the princesses. The maid, with a decanter, in a hurry (as everything was done in a hurry at this moment in this house) did not close the doors, and Pierre and Anna Mikhailovna, passing by, involuntarily glanced into the room where, talking, the elder princess sat close to each other with Prince Vasily. Seeing the passers-by, Prince Vasily made an impatient movement and leaned back; The princess jumped up and, with a desperate gesture, slammed the door with all her might, closing it.
This gesture was so unlike the princess's usual calmness, the fear expressed on the face of Prince Vasily was so unusual for his importance that Pierre, stopping inquiringly through his glasses, looked at his leader.
Anna Mikhailovna did not express surprise, she only smiled slightly and sighed, as if showing that she had expected all this.
- Soyez homme, mon ami, c "est moi qui veillerai a vos interets, [Be a man, my friend, I will look after your interests.] - she said in response to his glance and walked even faster down the corridor.

Solotcha is called "the gateway to the Meshchera". Let's walk a little through this small village and, at the same time, remember the history of both Solotchi and the Meshchera region. In addition to my photographs presented in the post, there are photographs taken on the Internet. ... Let's start our tour of Solotcha from Monastyrskaya, formerly Leninskaya Square, where, in addition to the Lenin monument and the Borovnitsa hotel, there is a monastery in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

One of beautiful places middle zone of Russia, Meshchera forests - are located at the turn of the Moscow, Ryazan and Vladimir regions, but it is the Ryazan Meschera that is called the Meshchera region. The Meshcherskaya lowland got its name from the ancient Finnish tribe Meshchera, who lived here along with the Mordovians and Muroma even before the Slavs appeared in these places. Meshcheryaks lived mainly along the banks of rivers and lakes, were engaged in cattle breeding, hunting, fishing and agriculture.




Meshchera's forests are dense, dense and mysterious. The marshes stretch for kilometers. Overgrown with birch, aspen and tall, human-sized marsh grass - this is a real marsh jungle of our middle zone. Here, 20 km from Ryazan, is the resort village of Solotcha. From Moscow by car along the Ryazan-Vladimir highway, it is relatively short-lived - about three hours. Solotcha is called “Ryazan Italy”, “Ryazan Switzerland”, and sometimes “Ryazan Sochi”. In the past, Solotcha was known as an all-Union health resort.




Once the Oka flowed near Solotcha itself, having laid here a high sandy terrace, later overgrown with a dense forest. Now a rather long, quiet backwater is left of the river - an oxbow, - behind which flood meadows stretch for ten kilometers. To the east of Solotcha, the boron passes into the mixed Meshchera forest. All this is “Ryazan Italy”. Who gave this name to Solotche is unknown, it is found in pre-revolutionary publications. There is another river here - Solotcha (Solodcha, Bolshaya Kanava), which begins in the swamps of Radovitsky Mokh and collects water from the vast territory of the Meshchersky forests, flows south and flows into the oxbow of the Oka river near the village. Its natural runoff was regulated at the end of the 19th century, when a state-owned expedition headed by General Zhilinsky was conducting drainage work in the Meshchera forests. The expedition dug a network of canals, the total length of which, according to the book "History of a province" published recently in Ryazan, exceeded 2000 kilometers, and a significant part of these canals is quite recognizable even now.




I have never found an explanation of where this name came from: Solotcha. There are assumptions: first, in the distant past there were many salt pans in these places; the second explanation - from the word - "malts" - springs - of which there are a lot along the banks of the oxbow. Perhaps from the Russian word "solotchina" - a swampy swamp with stagnant water or "slotina" - a lowland with steep banks.




These dense forests and impassable roads at one time protected the Meshcheryaks from many storms and hardships, sheltered them from the raids of nomads. During the greatest prosperity of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality, the Grand Duke Vsevolod extended his power to the Ryazan land and Meschera. One of the chronicles tells about the campaign of his soldiers to the Pre river: "In 1210, the great prince Vsevolod sent an ambassador with a regiment to Kuzma Ratishich, his swordman, and took Pru, and returned with much more to Vladimir."
In the second half of the XIV century, we see the Meschera, already divided between four principalities. Her Northern part belonged to the Murom, Vladimir, and later to the Moscow principalities, while the southern (Meshcherskaya side) to Ryazan. By the middle of the 15th century, Meshchera belonged to the Kasimov kingdom, which existed as part of the Moscow state until the end of the 17th century. The ancient capital of the Meshchera region was Gorodets-Meshchersky, mentioned in the annals under 1152 and named Kasimov after the Tatar prince Kasim.




Meshchera forests have repeatedly been a refuge for thousands of Ryazan people fleeing the raids of the Tatars.
When the hordes of Mamai invaded the Ryazan principality in 1379, then, as one of the chronicles says, “Prince Oleg Ryazan did not have time to gather an army, left the city and went beyond the Oka River with his people.” Tradition says that in 1390, while staying two dozen miles from Pereyaslavl, the Grand Duke inadvertently met two monks, the venerable elders Basil and Euthymius, who had set up a skete here. “Having delighted in the spiritual conversation with them and captivated by the beauty of the location” of the modest monastery of the schemniks, Oleg Ryazansky ordered to establish a monastery here in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, during which the village of Solotcha was founded. But I'll tell you about the monastery in another post.




Like many settlements along the Oka River, Solotcha played the role of a sentry post guarding the approaches to Ryazan and Moscow. After the Ryazan principality was annexed to the Moscow one, the question arose of how to secure the southern borders from the raids of the Tatars. In the 16th century, during the time of Ivan the Terrible, the construction of a notch line was begun "to protect the entire Moscow state, and not for nine villages." For hundreds of kilometers stretched from west to east forest heaps with fortified wooden fortresses - "towns", which contained small garrisons. For a long time Meshchera served as a place where serfs who fled from the oppression of landowners and schismatics who sought to hide in dense forests from the watchful eye of the Orthodox Church found shelter.




In 1892, a rival, a narrow-gauge railway, appeared on the dirt road from Ryazan to Meschera, broken by carts and carriages. It was built in 1892 for the removal of timber from the Keletsko-Solotchinsky dacha. During these years, terrible forest fires and famine completely ruined the Meshchera peasants. Fearing the unrest of the peasants, the government was forced to arrange public works for logging in the Keletsko-Solotchinskaya dacha. In a short time, such a huge amount of timber was harvested that it was simply impossible to take it out on horseback. It was then that a narrow-gauge railway forty-three miles long was built. Then it was extended to the Tuma station, equipped with passenger and freight wagons, and for a long time it was the only means of communication between Ryazan and the Meshchersky region. On the narrow-gauge railway we went to work in the city, to the bazaar, transported timber and peat.




The road gave the impression of some kind of toy. Small locomotives (popularly called "goats") were working hard to drag unpretentious carriages full of passengers. Wooden train stations were built along this path. It is only 20 kilometers from Solotcha to Ryazan, but the train covered this distance in a whole hour. He moved slowly, and, they say, it cost nothing to catch him on a horse. During the spring flood of the Oka, movement along the narrow-gauge railway stopped.




This curious road has not survived to this day. Konstantin Paustovsky told about her in his Meschera stories: “Behind Gusem-Khrustalny, at the quiet station of Tuma, I took a narrow-gauge train. It was a train from Stephenson's time. A steam locomotive that looked like a samovar whistled in a childish falsetto. The steam locomotive had an offensive nickname: "gelding". He really looked like an old gelding. At the curves, he groaned and stopped. The passengers went out to smoke. The silence of the forest stood around the gasping gelding. The scent of wild carnations, heated by the sun, filled the carriages.
Passengers with their belongings sat on the platforms - things did not fit into the carriage. Occasionally, on the way, sacks, baskets, carpenter's saws began to fly from the platform onto the canvas, and their owner, often a rather ancient old woman, jumped out behind the things. Inexperienced passengers were frightened, and experienced passengers, twisting goat legs and spitting, explained that this was the most convenient way get off the train closer to your village.
The narrow-gauge railway in Meshchera forests is the most leisurely railway in the Soviet Union. "
K.G. Paustovsky in Solotch. At his beloved "steam locomotive-samovar" on the narrow-gauge railway Ryazan-Tuma. Late 1930s



In the 17th century, a school of icon painters flourished here. In the middle of the 19th century, two comrades moved from here to St. Petersburg - volost clerks, future artists I. P. Pozhalostin and H. E. Efimov, and in the 1920s the artists A. E. Arkhipov and M. G. Kirsanov lived and worked in Solotch. Sergey Yesenin has been here. Later, as if to replace him, a whole group of writers settled in Solotch - K. G. Paustovsky, R. I. Fraerman, A. P. Gaidar. Living in the old house of IP Pozhalostin, they created many of their wonderful works here, and the stories of KG Paustovsky "Meshcherskaya Side" gave the images of this region poetic immortality. There will also be a separate post about the Pozhalostin Museum.




From Paustovsky's letters to his wife: October 1<ября> <19>40 Solotch “... In Solotch, an extraordinary change - the“ mate ”has completely disappeared (in connection with the new law on hooliganism). For all the time I have not heard a single "mate" on the streets - the Lombards are afraid to even scold the horses "the devil", but in the meadows, when they are alone, they take away their souls. Fortunately, the meadows are now very deserted ... ”(Paustovsky jokingly called the Solotchinsky peasants Lombards.)




Solotcha, July 1<19>48 g. “... There is a drought here, the garden turns yellow and flies around and all the time there are winds. Gray spends a lot of time in the hospital, sometimes goes to the patient's house. The hospital is a beggar, there is nothing, there is nothing to boil instruments on sometimes. Darkness, filth and ignorance are terrible, and Gray is amazed by this - here he first encountered real reality. .. "Gray - Sergei Mikhailovich Navashin, the future scientist-microbiologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences - the stepson of Valeria Vladimirovna Navashina-Paustovskaya, Paustovsky's wife, did medical practice in the village Solotchinsky hospital.




Solotcha, 5 / VI-<19>48 “... Sery has a lot of work ... In the daytime there are receptions for 40-50 people. A lot of curiosities. The other day an old woman came from Zaborye, so bitten by cockroaches that her whole body was like scales. She is afraid that the cockroaches will "peck out their eyes", and ties them up with a towel at night.
There are a lot of flowers in the meadows, and I have already identified many flowers. This is as much fun as fishing. Gray is also fond of this and brings me all sorts of rare flowers ... "
K.G. Paustovsky and V.V. Navashina-Paustovskaya on a narrow-gauge railway in Solotch. In the window of the carriage: the writer's son Vadim and adopted son Sergei Navashin. Late 1930s



According to Wikipedia, Solotcha has: a timber processing plant, a Meshchera zonal experimental reclamation station, a rest house, a children's tuberculosis sanatorium, and a camp site.
Tourists love Meschera and Solotcha. In summer and winter, thousands of tourists go on hikes, boats, on foot, on bicycles and on skis to this wonderful region. Once upon a time I also - in winter on skis, and in summer - went to hiking together with your friends. Pictures from my home archive serve as illustrations of one of the hikes.