The Greek term “oligarch”, popular in Russia, is applicable not only to federal businessmen. Oligarchy is not about scale at all, but about the merging of power and business. In the Russian outback, you can find very curious specimens.

The work is over

Kadom is one of the oldest settlements in the Ryazan region, founded in 1209. Four hours by car from Ryazan, a real "hinterland" even for Ryazan residents, not to mention Muscovites. In the entire Kadomsky district, there are only about eight thousand inhabitants - so many live in several multi-storey new buildings. It would seem that you can look for oligarchs anywhere but here. However, the district is not only about the population, which, judging by what is described below, is of little interest to anyone. These are budget flows, land, real estate.

In 2008, the head of the Kadomsky traffic police, a native of Sapozhka, Vasily Scheviev, became the head of the district. Of course, a lot was joked about how traffic habits can affect the work of the head of the district, but Scheviev himself was not going to joke and immediately got down to business. He was elected from the "Fair Russia" party, which at that time was under the control of the current senator Igor Morozov. Later, the district charter was changed, direct elections were canceled.

At that time, several industrial enterprises and farms operated in the region, two of them were large. However, the division into friends and foes immediately began, which resulted in the fact that the “aliens” simply could not work. With the help of what signs of attention it was possible to become "our own" for the ex-traffic cop, it was clear, but not everyone agreed to the conditions.

In the former furniture shops of Kadoma, for example, two successful enterprises operated, where several dozen people were employed. However, under Scheviev, their rent is raised several times, after which they leave the area. They say that they demanded from businessmen no less than 51% of a share in their business.

Roughly the same story is happening with agricultural enterprises. Several farms have completely collapsed. The largest since Soviet times were the collective farm "Imeni 13 Years of October" and "Red Wave". Now the second of them is working in small volumes, the first has disappeared, and the remaining buildings are falling apart before our eyes.

The entire area is covered with overgrown fields, while in neighboring Ermishinsky, as they say in Kadoma, "they are fighting for ravines." In the Kadomsky district, 16.2 percent of the arable land is cultivated, in Ermishinsky - more than 94%. This is Rosreestr data.

Misfortune helped

Kadom regularly experiences severe floods. In 2012, the regional center was literally flooded. After the flood, there was a big scandal with the distribution of compensation to the victims. Residents argued that among those who received increased compensation (allocated 10 and 50 thousand each) somehow miraculously turned out to be people associated with the district administration.

However, the state has become generous not only for individual compensation. Moreover, this time the word "generosity" is used without any sarcasm. A small area was immediately allocated money for the construction of new schools, a kindergarten and a sports complex.

The newcomers look at the Kadom school with their mouths open.

It seems like it can fit the whole of Kadom. The school has 26 rooms. However, the school is far from full. All this gigantomania was needed only for the development of budgetary funds.

Such a colossus could only be placed outside the village. At the same time, schoolchildren have to travel along a broken-down road that has no lighting or sidewalks.

At the same time, Mr. Scheviev, reporting on the spending of the allocated money, also spoke about road repairs.

But the most piquant story surrounding the construction of the school is connected with this quarry in the area of ​​the former livestock base of the former collective farm "Imeni 13 Years of October".

All Kadom was talking about it. The quarry was dug during the construction of the school, the residents saw that the sand was transported from here. However, there is not a single license for the development of a quarry in the Kadomsky district; according to the documents, the quarries were transported from somewhere far away, having made good money on writing off the money allocated for the sand. At the same time, of course, no one checked the quality of Kadomsky sand for construction, since, we repeat, the quarry did not go through any control procedures.

The dug and abandoned quarry not only serves as a monument to the traffic police's resourcefulness. It now also blocks the residents' path to the once popular local beach.

Near the school is not so impressive, but also rather big physical culture and sports complex called "Victoria". Sometimes less than ten people visit this colossus a week ...

Regarding the kindergarten, the residents have one question for the local authorities - why, when implementing such projects, it is impossible to think over elementary things?

The kindergarten was arranged so that on one side the sawmill was making noise all day long,

and on the other - a metal receiver.

By the way, one of the few enterprises operating in the region, along with the famous "Kadomsky Veniz". Here, for example, they carry metal cut from the crumbling buildings of the former collective farm.

Well, it is almost impossible to avoid the neighborhood with abandoned buildings - they are everywhere here.

After the federal money is sold, nothing is being built in the district, everything is just falling apart. At the same time, one of the largest in the administration is the capital construction department.

Vasily Shchepiev pays great attention to personnel policy. The administration is not only traditionally prestigious, but for a devastated district, almost the only place where you can count on a regular, relatively high salary.

To maintain the corporate spirit in the district administration, "team-building events" are regularly held, which have become the talk of the town. Each holiday “shakes the whole Kadom”, say the locals, wondering why the local “elite” cannot walk a little more modestly, or at least out of sight of the entire regional center. Almost not one bureaucratic spree is not complete without victims, someone is sure to break something or get injured in a fight. The absolute champion and star of the district tales is a certain Mr. Loshchinin, who is regularly injured in these local battles.

“Is he his friend? - He is his slave "

However, the true reliability and support of Vasily Scheviev is not the employees of the administration, but this inconspicuous hard worker Vladimir Kiselev, the head of the Peasant Farm (KFH) Kiselev.

“Is he his friend?” - we ask the locals. “He is his slave, - the answer follows - he runs the farm, he drowns the bathhouse, opens beer, drives wild boars to hunt”. Vladimir Kiselev or "Kisel" is known throughout Kadom as Shcheviev's loyal orderly, but according to the documents, he is a very successful businessman, who bought and sold half of the district in several years. It was during the few years that Vasily Scheviev headed the district.

It was in the ownership of the Kiselev farm from the municipality that the garages of the UMP "DOZ" (those same former furniture shops, from which the entrepreneurs were expelled), were somehow transferred. They were then successfully resold.

Another inexplicable success of the Kiselev KFH. This commercial structure received land in the central square of ancient Kadom, next to the old merchant houses and the monastery. This mansion was built here, which was successfully sold to the power supply company.

"There is nothing good on this lake"

For many years there has been a conflict between the residents and the head of the district over access to the Pisca Lake. Previously, there was a place for the summer milking of cows. Now the passage to the lake of the Scheviev estate: a house, a bathhouse, a farm, a backyard territory. All this is done at the Kiselev farm. Land area - 121 thousand 821 sq. M.

Residents appealed to the local prosecutor's office, which gave a very curious answer: the access to the water body cannot be considered blocked, since although the fence is standing, “there are gates that cannot be closed with a locking device”.

Arriving at the place, the Vidsboku correspondent really found an unsightly unlocked gate.

The Kadomsk "businessman" in work clothes immediately began to close the gates, saying, when asked how to get to the lake, that "there is nothing good on this lake." He motivated the travel ban by saying that "my sheep will run out."

During the eight years of Vasily Schepiev's reign, the region's economy collapsed to the scale of the Kiselev peasant farm. Overgrown fields, abandoned buildings, people are looking for work in Ryazan and Moscow, deprived in their small homeland not only of work, but even of access to water bodies.

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The urban-type settlement Kadom is the administrative center of the Kadomsky district of the Ryazan region. The village is located on the banks of the Moksha River. Kadomsky district borders on the Republic of Mordovia. For the first time, Kadom is mentioned in the Nikon Chronicle, which dates back to 1209. However, in the 15th century, it was flooded due to the Moksha floods, and the residents had to leave their habitable place. After a while, a little to the south, on high sandy hills that saved residents from flooding, the Kadom fortress appeared, which gave rise to the modern village. In the late 17th - early 18th centuries, a man's monastery operated in Kadoma. By the end of the 19th century, more than 7 thousand inhabitants already lived in the village. Initially, the district was located in the Tambov province, and since 1923 it has become part of the Ryazan region.

Kadomsky district specializes in agriculture. In the directory of Kadoma organizations, you can count almost 5 thousand farms of various ownership, seven of which are agricultural enterprises, another eight are farms, and the rest is the private household of the population. The list of Kadoma organizations consists mainly of small companies. The largest agricultural enterprise in the region is the Krasnaya Volna SPK (collective farm). Basically, farms are engaged in dairy farming and growing cereals - rye, oats, wheat, barley.

Several industrial enterprises operate in the region, but they are not large. "Yellow Pages" of Kadoma provide information about a wood processing enterprise, a dairy processing plant, a garment industry, and, of course, the PC "Kadomsky Veniz". Many Kadom enterprises are famous far beyond the borders of the region.

The Kadomsky district has long been known throughout Russia for its amazing works - hand embroidery. The history of the Kadoma Venise began under Peter I, who brought to Russia the tradition of decorating his clothes with rich and beautiful Venetian and Brussels lace. But such decoration was very expensive, and the emperor ordered Russian craftswomen to learn this craft. This is how the Kadom craftsmen and traditional handicrafts of this region appeared.

Since the Kadomsky district has a rich history, it is not surprising that there are many museums here that are ready to tell it to the guests of the region. On the map of Kadom, you can see the Kadomsky National Museum of Local Lore, the S.Ya.Batyshev House-Museum, the Russian Hut Museum, the Kadomsky District House of Culture and the Kadomsky Central Library. And for Orthodox residents there is the Dimitrievsky Cathedral.

Kadom is a small town in the east of the Ryazan region, the most distant regional center from Ryazan, 264 kilometers of the way - much further than from Ryazan to Moscow. It is difficult to find it in the Ryazan chronicles, although in age it is only slightly inferior to Ryazan - the east of Ryazan for a long time was part of the Tambov province, therefore its descriptions are lost in the local Mordovian-Tambov archives. Historians and toponymists cannot objectively explain the meaning of the word "Kadom" to this day, replacing the truth with a bunch of versions. So, in the language of the local Mordovian tribes, there was the word "kadon" - "abandoned, lost land." According to another version, the word comes from the name of the Tatar Khan Kadim. The third version draws to the name a certain Christian woman Vassa, who allegedly escaped from Mordovian captivity and built a cave on the banks of the Moksha - "like a house."

Like Moscow and Rome, Kadom stands on the hills, and they, in contrast to the ephemeral Moscow hillocks, are really impressive, as if growing out of the ground with steep slopes up to 25 meters high. A well-known scientific error is associated with these hills. In 1977 they were declared protected with the status of "natural monuments" as glacial (moraine) hills. And only recently, Professor, Doctor of Geographical Sciences Vyacheslav Kryvtsov unequivocally showed that the famous hills are sandy remnants cut off by the eternally wandering loops of the Moksha River from the "mainland". A kind of sacrifice or the result of floods, because the rivers change the direction of the channel in the spring, at the peak of the living force of the water. There are four such hills in total: in the direction from west to east - Kokuy, Bezymyanny, Kadomskaya Gora and Preobrazhensky.

On Kokuy Hill, archaeologists have discovered objects from the Bronze Age, and since 1935, a cemetery has been located here. According to legend, a certain Tatar khan lived on the Nameless Hill. For his secret connections with the Crimean Khan, the palace on the hill was burned down, and later a wooden Orthodox church was built here, which later also burned down, but already from a lightning strike. Today, on the site of the Nameless Hill, a small hill rises: the sandy body of the hill was dispersed for household needs, and then an asphalt road was laid through it. In the very center of the city lies the most famous of the hills - Kadomskaya Gora. Its flat top offers a wonderful view of Moksha, a temple with a bell tower and a monastery in the central square, a scattering of huts, a city market and neighboring hills. Once there was a prison where the voivode lived. Since then, military artifacts have been found at this place more than once: multi-pood chains, parts of squeaks, cast-iron cannonballs.

Preobrazhensky Hill, unlike the others, lies on the left bank of the Moksha, in the part of Kadom beyond the river. According to the stories of residents, the hill is shrouded in a whole network of legends. A certain Beklemish, the son of the Horde Khan Bakhmet, was suddenly baptized in his declining years and, as a sign of his transformation, built a wooden Church of the Transfiguration on the hill. Later, in 1735, a stone church was built on the site of the wooden one. At one time, Peter I presented the church with an icon of the Kazan Mother of God, which was trimmed with pearls and gems. The temple served faithfully until the arrival of Soviet power. In the 1930s, the church was plundered, the bells were dropped, and later an orphanage settled here. Today the building of the vocational school is located in partially preserved buildings.

Ryazan Kitezh-grad

The history of Kadom is literally drowning in a series of catastrophic floods. This city arose on the right bank of the Moksha in the dense Mordovian forests. The first written mention of the town dates back to 1209. The Nikon Chronicle indicates that the Ryazan commander was killed in Kadoma. A few kilometers from modern Kadom lies the village of Old Kadom. Kadom originated here, but due to floods, it was abandoned in the 16th century and moved to the sandy hills eight kilometers to the south. In 1426, the Grand Duke Vasily the Dark gave Kadom “for feeding” the Protasyev boyars. At the end of the 18th century, Kadom acquired special significance in the Tambov province. In terms of population, it surpassed the cities of Shatsk and Temnikov and acquired the status of a district town. There were 30 villages and 107 villages in the county. Factories for the production of wine, cloth, leather, oil mills and sawmills operated. Kadoma merchants traded in timber and, interestingly, bread, and this despite the fact that agriculture, with the widespread development of scarce sandy soils, has never been at its best. Here an important role was played by the favorable transport and geographical position of Kadom in the lower reaches of the Moksha, which actually originates in the Penza region, flows through the Nizhny Novgorod region and the territory of Mordovia, and only then flows into the Ryazan region, where it gives its waters to the Oka. The length of Moksha is 656 kilometers, of which only 134 are the lowest, most fishy, ​​deep and water kilometers in the Ryazan region. Food products were transported along Moksha to Kadom, among which bread was of particular value. In the same 18th century, according to legend, another "unprecedented" flood happened, when in one night a river overflowing its banks washed away an entire street and the church that stood on it.

In the 19th century, Kadom acquired educational and medical institutions: in 1839 a parish school was opened, later a craft school, a lace school and a women's gymnasium appeared. In 1871, a city hospital appeared, and then a city outpatient clinic - one of four in the Tambov province. In the XX century, terrible floods happened three times - in 1925, 1963 and 1994. In May 2012, a small hell thundered all over Russia, when the level in Moksha rose to a record 806 centimeters in history, and the water captured three quarters of the city's area. Even in early July (two months after the end of the flood), there was water in the gardens of some Kadom residents. Some of the lucky ones from the higher places started planting potatoes. But now it is clear that this flood was only one in a series of similar ones that happened every 30-50 years.

Residents of Kadom have always been called somyatniki, because Moksha has long been famous for catfish weighing several poods. And the locals, as if by agreement, tell a story about an old woman. So, after the flood disappeared half a century ago, the water left the houses of the Kadom residents. One old woman, having decided to start the housekeeping and heal more than ever before, climbed into the oven. But that was not the case: from the darkness of the furnace some sounds came, and then a huge mustache head appeared in the light. Frightened to death, the old woman was pumped out for strength. The reason for all the troubles is simple - the city of Kadom arose on high hills, but, expanding, descended into the floodplain, which at Moksha has two levels. In an ordinary year, the water peacefully bypasses the town, only filling the barns in places, forcing the residents of Kadom to shift the potatoes to a drier high place in advance. The long period of low floods sometimes stretches over the life of a whole generation, accustoming them to a quiet life. And they forget that they live in the floodplain of the river, which sooner or later will be under water.

Mother Russia is rich in amazing places, visiting which, you immediately feel the Motherland, or, if I may say so, you begin to hear the call of your ancestors. The state is such as if you are returning here after a long tiring journey, but here, in these small provincial cities, everything seems to have stopped, and life flows as before, quietly, calmly and peacefully. One of these unique places is the town of Kadom (Ryazan region), located in the picturesque places of the Moksha River. Most recently, he celebrated his 800th anniversary.

History of the city of Kadoma

For the first time, the village of Kadom was mentioned in 1209 in True, it was founded much earlier. It should be noted that the Moksha River is quite large, therefore, it was the village of Kadom that became a very important trading hub and defensive point at the beginning of the 13th century. The Ryazan region was then called the Ryazan principality.

The origin of the city's name is not known for certain, there are many versions. One of them says that the word has Arabic roots "walk" or "kodim", which translates as "guard". In the Middle Ages, this village was listed as an eastern fort, conquered by the Slavs.

There were also defensive structures to repel the raids of the Tatars and Nogais. Some of the local settlers who belonged to the military class were called Cossacks. Their descendants still live in Kadoma. One of these is the priest of the Monastery of the Mother of God, Father Mikhail, who promotes the revival of the Cossacks in the cadet school, where, along with other general and secular disciplines, the law of God and military training are studied.

The hills on which the town stands have their own mysterious and at the same time majestic history. Here on one hill recently stood the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, so it received an identical name in honor of the temple - Transfiguration.

And in the middle of the XIII century, the entire Kadom area was under the Mongol-Tatar yoke. There is an opinion that in those ancient centuries, the Orthodox and Muslim religions existed here quite peacefully. There were even known cases when Tatars became Christians. Ancient written sources point to the fact that in the first half of the XIV century the Tatar prince Shirinsky Beklemish accepted faith in Christ. When he was baptized, he received the name Michael, and in connection with this event, on one of the previously mentioned hills, he built a wooden church in honor of and baptized his soldiers there. In the 18th century, a white-stone church was built on the same site. It is known that the prince's grandson, Yuri Fedorovich, became a real brave warrior and was a participant in the Battle of Kulikovo, fought on the side of Prince Dimitry Donskoy and courageously fell in a terrible battle.

Orthodoxy was gradually consolidated on the Kadom land. In 1875, priest Ivan Kobyakov wrote down the words that Kadom is a truly Orthodox city, all its inhabitants are devout and diligent in prayer. Pilgrims who come to these places do not ignore another unique place - in the forests under an oak tree there is a healing spring called Panica. According to the legend of great-grandfathers, there was a chapel in honor of John the Baptist, where the hermit elders came and served the all-night vigil at night, and in the morning they dispersed for solitary prayer.

Creation of the monastery cloister

In 1997, in the town of Kadoma, the Kadoma Women's Monastery of the Merciful Mother of God began to be restored. Its existence has been known since 1793. It all started with the fact that several girls from merchant and bourgeois families decided to become nuns and live according to the church charter. For this, they turned to Abbess Eugenia at the Ryazan Epiphany Monastery, so that she could find a wise mentor for them. After a short time, the abbess sent them the psalmist's daughter, Gorskaya Catherine, who had good spiritual and monastic experience. She was able to establish a monastic life in the newly formed community according to the charter of the Sarov monastery, which the Sarov elders immediately began to take care of. There is even a legend that the Monk Seraphim himself once visited their monastery.

Thanks to the well-coordinated and skillful leadership and like-mindedness among the nuns, the community began to develop gradually. First, land and some buildings were donated to her, then the real construction began. In 1857, a summer church was built in honor of the icon of the Mother of God, called the "Merciful", then a second church and other buildings began to be erected.

Devastation

On November 25, 1868, the community received the status of a monastery, under which a church school and an orphanage for girls were formed. Before the revolution, the monastery numbered 365 nuns, but in 1917 it was ruined, the settlers were dispersed, the property was nationalized, and all the icons were burned.

Only in our days, by the grace of God and the labor of people, the monastery began to rebuild again. But the most important thing was that in Cyprus, in the Kykkos monastery, the icon of the Mother of God "Merciful" was painted again especially for the Kadom monastery. On the Ryazan land, this event was greeted with great joy and marked by a great celebration.

Kadom: monastery, father Afanasy

The confessor and abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Athanasius, took part in the revival of the monastery, who put a lot of his efforts and efforts into it. This is another outstanding person for whom Kad has always been famous. Father Afanasy (Kultinov) is an archimandrite and a silver-haired monk who looks at everything with a positive and always trusts in the mercy of the Lord and the Mother of God.

Afanasy (to the world Anatoly) was born in 1937 in the Ryazan region, in the village of Bolshoye Lyakhovo (Ermishinsky district). His mother was busy with the housework all day. The closest temple was located 8 km from them, in the village of Savvatme. Although the family almost never visited the temple due to the lack of an opportunity to get there, and no one even prayed, they always kept faith in their souls.

As a child, the boy received instructions from his mother - not to join any pioneer or Komsomol organizations. For this, Tolik was not oppressed, probably because it was a remote village, and here it was not so strict with this case.

The elder himself admitted that, be that as it may, the people of that time were still morally cleaner. And after the Great Patriotic War, grief affected almost every family, people grieved and were compassionate to others. Electricity was installed in their village only in 1956.

Elder Athanasius's road of life

A lot of useful things can be gleaned from the memories of a wise old man who saw a lot in his life, he has a lot to learn. He helped many to cope with certain life difficulties and problems.

Over time, the eldership came, for which Kad became famous. Father Afanasy is one of those people who are striving for advice and consolation from different parts of Russia. But more on that later.

When the war ended, he was 9 years old. In schools, due to the lack of money for notebooks, many wrote on newspapers. There were also not enough funds for shoes, so something like blocks was cut out of wood, which were tied on strings to old worn out shoes.

The time was truly hard and hungry, no one practically saw bread. The women gathered sorrel, baked bread from potatoes, acorns and quinoa. However, the father notes the paradox, which consisted in the fact that with all this suffering, people were not particularly sick. Probably, it was all about ecology. Today young people are much weaker than their parents and grandparents. Father's mother Afanasy Zoya lived for over 90 years with a heart defect.

Church initiation

When her son was 13 years old, she took him to the temple in Savvatma, then Mariamna's aunt began to introduce Anatoly to the church and introduced him to the elder, Father Jacob, who had one eye. Once the Soviet authorities sent him into exile, but the guards, seeing the weak old man, sent him home. For the first time, future father Athanasius confessed to him and received Holy Communion, but told the priest that he would never drink vodka and wine. The elder was surprised at these words and added that the perfect can drink vodka, but not a drop of it is imperfect.

A little earlier, because of his craving for the knowledge of God, Anatoly almost fell into the hands of annoying Baptists. However, God saved him, and he began to go to the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas. First, Father Vasily (Romanov) served in this church, then Father Vladimir (Pravolyubov), and then the famous seer father

They all became his. While still in the world, he got married and mastered the profession of 2nd mate on a ship. But then he left this profession to become a priest.

Monasticism

Each of his spiritual children remembers what the pious priest said to him at the meeting. Now it is worth noting who Father Athanasius was. Kadom, reviews of which note that now Athanasius serves in the Merciful-Bogoroditsky became a real Orthodox Mecca of the Ryazan region.

But first, the elder had to serve on Holy Mount Athos, from there he brought the Cross with reliquaries. He took monasticism when he was over 50 years old. This happened in the cell of the holy ascetic Silouan the Athonite.

In the souls of people, Father Afanasy leaves a very bright trace, you can always hear wise advice from him. Visitors immediately feel the kindness and God's grace that comes from the discerning old man.

Shrewd old man

The father is very smart and perspicacious, and it is quite easy to get to him. He serves in the monastery almost every day and receives confessions. At the end of the service, he always carries the Cross and applies it to the body and sore spots of his parishioners, then he anoints them with oil and talks. There are usually few people at the services, since Kadom is not very crowded. Father Athanasius, however, is always fully armed, at any moment he is ready to listen to the one who turns to him. He, like no one else, understands how hard it is today for a modern person to live in this wicked world, and that first of all one must always rely on the help of the Lord.

City of Kadom: Father Athanasius (perspicacious). How to get to him

So who was and is Father Athanasius? Kadom, whose reviews are beyond praise among visitors, is also known for the fact that pilgrims visiting the Holy Merciful Mother of God monastery speak enthusiastically about the state of mind that comes after a conversation with Father Athanasius. For all those who suffer, the discerning elder is a real spiritual father.

Almost everyone who visits Kadom speaks of this blessed state. Father Afanasy, good-natured and smiling, envelops every person as if in a gentle cloud. He is also distinguished by an ardent desire to lighten the human burden. He prays for everyone to God day and night.

In no case should you miss the opportunity to come to Kadom to see Athanasius with your own eyes and receive wise advice from this extraordinary person who has chosen a very difficult path for himself and purposefully walks along it to Eternity.

Contacts

To get to the monastery for an appointment with the priest, it would be most likely to go to any pilgrimage center in Ryazan. There they will also be able to answer any questions regarding the trip to the Merciful Mother of God Monastery.