My Native Place.

                     THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

                           Educational Ministry

                     ZABAIKALSKY REGION

                         BALEI DISTRICT

            Municipal General Educational Establishment

         “Podonitsenskaya School of Secondary General Education”

  My  Native Place

                                                               The project is made by:

                                                          KochevaMargarita , a pupil of the 9th form

                                                               The head of the project:

                                                                Kocheva Oksana Nikolaevna

                                      Maintenance:

I.  Introduction                                                                                      page 3-4

II. The main part:                                                                                 page 4-11

1.Zabaikalsky Region                                                                         page 4-6

2. Baleisky District                                                                              page 6-8

3. Podoinitsyno settlement                                                                  page 8-11  

III. Conclusion                                                                                    page 11

Literature                                                                                            page 12

1. There are many beautiful places in the world. We would like to visit some of them, to see our own eyes those ones which we have read or heard about. But we completely agree with an English proverb “There is no place like home”, because we also have a birthplace and we are proud of it.

I live in Zabaikalsky Region in settlement called Podoinitsyno. It is located in Baleisky District. Not long ago it celebrated its   75th   anniversary.

To show what Baleisky District is and to give brief information about Podoinitsyno is the aim of the project named “My Native Place”. The spectrum of investigation is rather wide. This project deals only with some of them. To reach the project aim, it needs to solve several tasks:

1. To find information about Baleisky District and Podoinitsyno settlement;
2. To analyze the facts;
3. To make multi- media presentation;
4. To translate obtained information into English.

To know more about different sights and places is always interesting. So the project “My Native Place” is demanded, we consider.

Several methods of work were used by us. They are:

1. Searching and discovering information;
2. Using archival files;
3. Analyzing and generalizing obtained information;
4. Translating into English;
5. Taking pictures;
6. Using computer technologies.

The project is made in the form of guide.

The guide contains some brief material a visitor will want to know about the Zabaikalsky region, Baleysky district and Podoinitsyno settlement. It includes some information about the weather and nature, traditional economic, peculiarities of indigenous population, about people of my native place, about our school.

The project consists of three parts:

1. Introduction
2. The main part
3. Conclusion

We suppose this work will be useful for teachers at school, for every educated person to know more about his or her Motherland and for foreigners to meet the unique part of Russia.

                        ZABAIKALSKY REGION

2. 1. Russia is very big. It comprises republics, provinces, autonomous bodies, and regions. One of them is Zabaikalsky Region. At first it was called the Chita Region (up to 2007). The Chita Region founded in September, 1936, covers the south-east of Zabaikalye. Its territory is 431, 5 thousand sq. km. It holds the 9th place among territories and regions. The region borders on Buryatia and the Irkutsk region in the north- west and west, the Republic Saha and the Amur region in the north- east and east, Mongolia and China in the south- east and east. Zabaikalsky Region is far from the big economic centres of the west, but it is close to the Russian Far East. It is not a densely populated area, about 1400 thousand people live in the region.

The region is mainly a mountainous country. Medium high mountains and uplands

Stretch from the south-west to the north-east.

Zabaikalsky Region has rich natural resources for the development of labour production. The mineral raw material reserves include ferrous and non-ferrous metals, precious metals, coal, construction materials, clay, graphite, magnetite ores and others. The well-known deposits are Chara, Balei, Darasun, and the large Udokan copper ore deposit. The region’s wooded area is over 20 million hectares.

Zabaikalye is rich in mineral springs which are widely used in medicine. The most prominent of them are Darasun, Kuka, Molokovka, Yamarovka, and Urguchan.

                           It is Urguchan, Baleisky District

Chita is the centre of Zabaikalsky Region. It was founded more than 300 years ago. In 1653 the people of a Russian land explorer P.Beketov founded the Chita ostrog, which consisted of only 6 houses.

                                                      It is an old city.

In 1895 the construction of the railway started and in 4 years the first train arrived in Chita. It was a great event for industry    began to develop more rapidly in the region.      

At present Chita is a big industrial and cultural centre of Siberia.                           

Side by side the state symbol of the Russian Federation Zabaikalsky Region has the symbols of its own ones.

2.Our region consists of 31 districts. One of them is Baleisky District. It was founded in 1928. But some of its villages were founded earlier. Baleisky District consists of 34 villages. Baleisky District occupies the territory of 5.0 thousand square kilometers. Undino-Poselye, Shiviya, Matusovo, Sarbactuy, Baranovsk, Novoivanovka, Novotroitsk, Nizhny Kokuy, Lozhnikovo, Butorino, ,  Bochkaryovo, Yolkino, Unda, Onokhovo, Verkhny Kokuy, Aliya, Lescovo, Kolobovo, Kazakovo, Zhidka, Ust-Yagyo, Grobovo, Nizhny Ildikan, Zhuravlyovo, Lozhnikovo-po –Talanguyu, Zhetkovo, Urguchan, Giryunino, Sarannaya, Taseevo, Kamenka, Dzhida, Podoinitsino are situated here.

Baleisky    District                                                                                                                            

Baleisky District is situated in the east of Chita, in the mountain-taiga zone. It is rich with gold. Gold was found near the river Unda in 1829. Taseevo has mineral raw material reserves include gold, silver, quarts. In a valley of the river Unda mineral waters are observed, on structure are similar to waters Borzhomy in Georgia. It has mineral spring in Urguchan.  

The whole territory of the district is plentifully covered with forests, lakes and rivers.

The largest among them are the Talanguy, and the Unda, crosses the district’s territory.

The district bird and animal life is also very rich: here one can find ducks, cranes, sparrows, foxes, wolves, and others.

There are some rare animals and plants are registered in the Red Book, for example, a rhododendron, a lily of the valley, a black crane, a bear, and others.

A climate is sharp-continental in our area, that’s why we have hot summer, and frost winter. Average temperature in February is 25-30 degrees below zero, but sometimes the winter’s temperature drops down to as low as-45 degrees. Average temperature in

July is 22-29 degrees above zero.

2.We live in Podoinitsyno settlement. It consists of seven villages. They are Lozhnikovo, Butorino, Bochkaryovo, Verkhny  Kokuy,  Urguchan, Onokhovo, and Podoinitsyno.

There are no theatres, multistoried houses in our settlement, but still we do like them

because we were born here, our parents live here.

This is brief information about our settlement.  

Podoinitsno was founded in the 18th century.  Two brothers whose names were Dorosha and Onosha were founded Podoinitsyno and Onokhovo. At first    Podoinitsyno  was called Doronino after the man who founded it.   Podoinitsyno is situated on the right bank of the river Unda.   Onokhovo is situated on the left bank of this river. .

    Bochkaryovo was founded in 1719 by peasants. It was a part of a silver factory in Nerchinsk. In 1872     Bochkaryovo belonged to Unda, and since 1935 it has belonged to our settlement. At first there was a brick works and two women’s teams of tractor-drivers. In the 1930s there lived about 390 people. But after the Great Patriotic War there were fewer people there. Now 81 persons live in Bochkaryovo.      Bochkaryovo has been the dacha’s co-operative since 1996, it has 28 houses.    

Urguchan was founded in the 18th century. It is known as a resort of the Russian value.

Lozhnikovo was founded in the middle of the 18th century. At first it was called Efimovo in honour of two brothers who founded this village. There names were Efim and Loga.  

  Verkhny  Kokuy is situated in the east of Zabaikalye near the river Unda. “Kokuy” is the word from tungusic language   it means “a birch”. There are many beautiful birch groves grow around the village.        

Verkhny  Kokuy is  quite  old village. It was founded in 1760 by peasants. In 1829 there were 10 small farms and they had one surname. It was Ushakov.

Now people grow vegetables, grain and reared live-stock.

There are 1300 people live in Podoinitsyno settlement.

Among them- kids (together with pupils)-245-19%

1400. youth 18-24 years-158-12 %
1401. grown-ups 25-59years-547- 42%
1402. elderly > 60 years -350-27%

There is one shop, a secondary school, a first aid room, a kindergarten, and a club in Podoinitsyno.

There is a memorial in honour of people who died during the Great Patriotic War.

And it goes without saying the heart of our settlement is the secondary school.

It was founded in 1932. Since that time many pupils have left the walls of our school. Some of them finished school with silver medals. Our school is not very large, but beautiful and cosy. There are some wonderful  flowerbeds at our school.

  We have many school parties and traditional events there.

 We are proud of our teachers; some of them are honored teachers of the Russian Federation and our region.

3. The world is getting to know and to learn our land. That means that our native place has its own future. That’s all, we say goodbye to Zabaikalye .

                                            Literature

1. “School and school Life”. School’s magazines.
2. “Statistic Information of  Podoinitsyno settlement”. The local administration.
3. “The annals of our settlement”. The local library.
4. “Gold of Unda’s valley”. Starchak L.

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