Cities of Transnistria: Tiraspol, Bendery, Rybnitsa. Transnistrian Moldavian Republic. Detailed Rybnitsa satellite map When the city of Rybnitsa was founded
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Display objects in the Rybnitsa region.
With. Vykhvatintsy
1. Grotto Paleolithic 350 BC – The oldest site of primitive man on the territory of the PMR, one of the few sites in Eastern Europe of this period.
2. Site (grotto) Vermitka I. Paleolithic.
3. Site Vermitka III. Paleolithic.
4. Trypillia. A memorial sign in the area of the burial ground. – A monument to one of the most outstanding cultures of the Ancient World.
5. Trypillia. Selishche is a monument to one of the most outstanding cultures of the Ancient World.
6. Maftey Ravine (area 70 hectares) – a cluster of Stone Age human tools.
7. The building of the music school named after. G. Rubinstein. Year of construction: 1901 (In 1829, a Russian composer was born in the village of Vykhvatintsy; in 1901, a music school was built; in 1979, a museum was opened.
8. Bust of composer A.G. Rubinstein. Year of creation 1972.
With. Stroentsy
1. Tower of the Winds. (requires clarification: version 1 - the monument to Field Marshal P.H. Wittgenstein was erected by his granddaughter Emilia Trubetskoy in the 19th century).
2. The mill is a monument of the 19th century, one of the most advanced structures of that period. Equipment from Switzerland.
3. Observation gazebo - built in 1908 by Vakar Zakhariy.
4. Church – was built in 1829 at the expense of P.Kh. Wittgenstein.
5. Vineyards on terraces. Built by the Trubetskoys in the mid-19th century.
6. Mass grave. Monument to those killed in the Second World War.
7. Geta settlement. II-IV centuries BC.
8. “Stroenetsky Yar”, 1200 hectares (from the village of Yantarnoye to the village of Belochi), karst sinkhole, waterfalls, streams, rocks of the peripheral part of reef formations made of limestone of various colors, springs with hydrogen sulfide and iron oxide.
With. Belochi
1. Water mill on the Zolotaya River - built in 1884-1894, mechanisms from Zurich (Switzerland) of a unique design.
2. Stone cross - probably a monument to the Cossacks who died in 1675. Requires clarification.
3. Hospital (sanitary point) – building pre-war years, requires clarification.
4. Monument to the soldiers and liberators of the Second World War.
5. The building of the stables and kitchen of the Matkovsky estate (glacier, basement) is a monument of the 18th – 19th centuries.
With. Lenino
Dugout of the first communes of the commune named after. IN AND. Lenin and the Museum of the First Communards. Built in 1924
With. Gidirim
1. geological formations
2. ancient Slavic settlements of the III-IV centuries. BC.
3. old developments of argelite (stone that purifies water and wine)
Bolshoy Molokish village
– canyon, springs
With. Vadul-Turcului – springs, caves, artificial lake
TEMPLES:
1. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary s. Voronkovo (1800)
2. Church of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian p. Popenki (1834-1857)
3. Church of the Archangel Michael p. Sausage (1851)
4. Church of the Archangel Michael p. Stroentsy (1829)
5. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary s. Bolshoy Molokish (late 18th century)
6. Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God s. Vadul-Turcului (1853)
7. Cathedral of the Archangel Michael: Rybnitsa (1990-2006)
Kharitonovna Kilivnik
district center (according to the law of the PMR)
Rybnitsa(Mold. Ribnita, Rybnitsa, Rybnitsa; Ukrainian Ribnitsa) is a city in Transnistria on the left bank of the Dniester River, 130 km from Chisinau and Tiraspol. Railway station. Administrative center Rybnitsa region of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic.
Municipal composition: Ukrainians, Russians, Moldovans, etc. Population - 50.1 thousand people (2010).
Story
The first information about a settlement in the area of the city dates back to the first half of the 15th century. One of the first mentions of Rybnitsa dates back to 1628, when it was marked as a settlement on the map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. There are a number of versions about the origin of the city's name. According to one of them, it came from the name of the river of the same name, Sukhaya Rybnitsa, at the mouth of which, at the confluence with the Dniester, the settlement was founded. According to the second - named after the nobleman Rydvan, who, having risen to the rank of colonel among the Turks, “remembering the fatty pork of his personal places” - decides to flee to the left bank of the Dniester, arm in arm Polish king. Soon a tree fortress is built and a settlement called Rydvanets arises. This fact is mentioned in the book of the Turkish traveler Evliya Celebi, who visited these parts with an army in 1656-1657.
Locals They raised fish in blocked reservoirs along the Rybnitsa River. One pond was located in the Pushkin area, the second was on Zarechnaya, and the third was in a recreation area. They alternately released water, collected fish and sold it to visiting merchants. That’s how the merchants quietly renamed Rydvanets to Rybnitsa. This settlement was part of the Kingdom of Poland.
In 1793, as a result of the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this territory was transferred to the Russian Federation, and from 1797 until the October Revolution, Rybnitsa was part of the Molokishsky volost of the Baltic district of the Podolsk province. IN late XIX centuries through the city was carried out Railway. Since 1893, systematic navigation has been established on the Dniester. In 1898, the first sweet factory in the Podolsk province was built with the first electric generating unit in the region.
In 1924, Rybnitsa became an urban-type settlement and a regional center of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1926, 9.4 thousand inhabitants lived in the city (38.0% were Jews, 33.8% were Ukrainians, 16.0% were Moldovans). In 1938, Rybnitsa acquired the status of a city. In 1941-42, the remaining Jewish population of Rybnitsa was brutally tortured by the Romanian and German occupiers. A memorial sign was erected at the site of the execution of 500 Rybnitsa residents.
During the existence of the MSSR, the city operated plants: sugar-alcohol, wine-making, bakery, cement-slate, metallurgical, etc., factories: reinforced concrete structures and building parts, pumping, butter, etc., knitting and linen factory. The population in 1975 was 39.9 thousand inhabitants, and in 1991 - already 62.9 thousand people. By 2005, the population increased to 67.3 thousand people.
Economy
View of Rybnitsa
Rybnitsa has an advantageous transport and geographical location. The city is located on the left bank of the Dniester and is separated from the river by a concrete dam. There is a huge reservoir near the city. In the surrounding area there are important reserves of suitable minerals - raw materials for the production of building materials.
Rybnitsa is a huge production and industrial centre. There are 408 companies operating in the city, of which 64 are urban, 43 are urban, 254 are limited liability companies and private firms. Here is located the oldest (1898) sugar factory in Transnistria and Moldova (though not much remains of it, the sugar factory is in complete decline and has not been operating since 2003), a distillery, a metallurgical and cement-slate plant, two all-Union construction projects, a centrifugal plant pumps As a result of the construction of the reservoir and flooding of the lower part of the city, the center was replanned, and in this moment The city is dominated by high-rise buildings. There is a pier and a railway station. A recreation area has been located near the reservoir since 1955.
Rybnitsa from the Rezina side. 2010
The Moldavian Metallurgical Plant was put into operation in 1985, currently it produces 1 million tons of steel and 1 million rolled products per year, employing 3,000 people. The plant was awarded Diamond and Gold Stars for product quality. The plant's production volume is about 276 million dollars (52% of the total production volume of the PMR and 65% of exports), its share in the PMR budget is 15.5% (22.2 million dollars).
The production volume of all other companies in the city is about 10 million dollars, or together with MMZ - 286 million dollars (54% of PMR's production).
For comparison: Tiraspol - 177 million dollars (33.5%), Bendery - 43 million dollars (8%)
Transport
Bus station
The main type of transport is automatic. The railway is still in operation.
Social sector
In the field of education there are 12 schools, 2 vocational schools and 3 higher educational institutions, including: a branch of the Transnistrian City University named after. T. G. Shevchenko, branch of the North-Western Correspondence Technical University in St. Petersburg and Consultation Center of the Tiraspol branch of the Moscow Academy of Economics and Law.
Restaurant "Khortitsa"
Development physical culture and sports are provided by 4 children's and youth sports schools, 150 sports facilities, including 37 gyms, 2 swimming pools and 92 flat sports facilities.
There are 3 Russian-language city newspapers published in Rybnitsa - the official “Novosti” (circulation 2,500 copies), the sovereign “Good Day” and “Good Evening” (circulation - 6,500 copies each). The republican newspaper “Gomin” is published here in Ukrainian (circulation - 2,000 copies).
There are 2 hotels in the city: “Tiras” with 250 beds and “Metallurg” with 50 beds, a huge number of restaurants and cafes. In the lower part of the city on the banks of the Dniester there is the MMZ sanatorium-preventorium.
Memorial of Military Glory. In the background on the right is St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral
In 1975, the 24-meter-high Military Glory Memorial was built. (project creator V. Mednek). 2 paired reinforced concrete pylons are lined with white marble; at the foot, the names of the liberators of the city and region are carved on 12 granite slabs (restored in 2010). In the prisoner of war camp, the Nazis killed 2,700 Russian soldiers, in May-June 1943, about 3,000 Ukrainian Rybnitsa residents were evicted near Ochakov, about 3,000 people died of typhus in the Jewish ghetto and 3,650 Rybnitsa residents died on the fronts of the Second World War - such are the losses of the not-so-huge Transnistrian city .
St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral
The main current attraction of the city is the St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral - the largest in Transnistria and Moldova, it took about 15 years to build and was opened on November 21, 2006. The bells are placed on the 3rd tier, in the center there is a huge “Blagovest” bell weighing 100 pounds, around it there are 10 more bells, the smallest of which weighs only 4 kg. The bells for the cathedral belfry were cast at the Capital Joint Stock Company "Litex".
In addition to the Archangel Michael Cathedral itself, which can accommodate about 2 thousand parishioners at one time, on the ground temple complex a huge, 3-story parish house will be built, which will house a library, a dining room, a parish school and the rector’s chambers.
Nearby attractions
Customs post on the bridge over the Dniester between Rybnitsa and Rezina
Kalaur Gorge in Rashkovo
After the victory of the Lithuanian prince Olgerd on the Sinyukha River, Podolia was given to his nephew Fedor Koriatovich. He ordered to build the Kalaur castle over the narrow gorge around the bend of the river, on the border of Lithuania and Moldova, which was almost completely ready by the end of the 14th century. During the marriage of B. Khmelnitsky’s son, Timosh, and the daughter of the Moldavian ruler V. Lupu, Ruksanda, the newlyweds received this castle as a gift from B. Khmellnitsky, but, unfortunately, it has not survived to this day. The ancient church of St. will tell us about the Polish presence. Cajetana in Raškov, built in 1749 (Baroque) by the Polish magnate Stanisław Lubomirski (1704-93). The two towers are decorated with pilasters of the Ionic and Tuscan order. Art. In 1764, Lyubomirsky became the voivode of Bratslav, his residence was Shargorod, but a huge number of palaces belonged to the Lyubomirskys throughout Poland (Warsaw, Rzeszow, Przemysl). The treasures of Tatar silver and Swedish coins found here, as well as the ruins of a huge synagogue with a secret staircase in the wall, speak about the former glory of Rashkov in the Middle Ages.
Nature reserve and Trinity Monastery in Saharna
The Saharna Nature Reserve is located on the right bank of the Dniester, 10 km from the city, includes a gorge 5 km long and 170 meters deep, a huge number of springs and a forest with a predominance of oak, hornbeam, and acacia with an area of 670 hectares. The Saharna stream forms 22 waterfalls along its path, the largest of which falls from a four-meter height. The steep slopes are cut by ravines, and early in the morning the gorge is shrouded in fog and, as legend says, a person can disappear in it forever... Trinity Monastery (1776) is hidden in the gorge and is located as if in a huge shell. At the beginning of the 13th century, the Annunciation Church was carved into a 15-meter mountain, in which hermit monks lived and at the moment the relics of St. Macarius are located there. In the upper courtyard, the summer Trinity Church was built in 1821 - the interior has an impressive dome on a high drum, the interior is opened upward with enormous energy. And where the Virgin Mary’s foot once set foot and her imprint remained, a chapel has now been built.
Assumption rock monastery in Tsypovo
Carved into a very large cliff, this is the most significant of the rock complexes, located 20 km south of Rybnitsa on the right bank of the Dniester. The middle part of the monastery was carved in the Middle Ages and had a system of protective passages; a narrow path over the abyss led to the not very large cells, protecting the inhabitants from dashing strangers. The caves were cut down from trees growing nearby, and when the trees were cut down, entry into the caves was possible only by rope ladders, which were raised up in case of danger. At the end of the 18th century, the threat of raids had passed, the approaches were improved, the cells were expanded and a church building was created. “Entirely hidden in the mountain, the monastery from the Dniester looks like a whitewashed limestone massif between the mountains with dark window openings. At different times of the day, it has different appearances: it is unusually picturesque in the morning, when the façade, colored by the sunrise, echoes its counterpart in the river surface from a height of fifty meters. Graphically correctly drawn in the rays of the midday sun, marked by sharp shadows from overhanging blocks of stone. Poetic in the evening, when the mysteriously faded, faintly visible on the shadowed mountain, along with it, an unclear reflection, falls into the waters of the Dniester.” (D. Goberman)
Personalities
- Rybnitsa Rebbe Chaim Zanvl ( Abramovich), Hasidic tzaddik, rabbi of Rybnitsa
- Meir Argov (Grabovsky), Israeli politician, one of the 37 signers of the country's Declaration of Independence
- Pavel Zaltsman, film painter, painter, writer; Between 1917 and 1925 he lived intermittently in Rybnitsa
- Yitzhak Yitzhaki (Lishovsky), Israeli socialist politician, Knesset member
- Valeriy Kabak, Doctor of Balti City University named after. Alec Russo
- Alexander Marcus, Moldovan mathematician
- Israel Feldman, Moldovan mathematician
- Semyon Shvartsburd, Russian mathematician-teacher, creator of specialized physics and mathematics schools
- Victor Komlyakov, Moldavian chess player, grandmaster (1995). Member of the Moldavian national team, participant in 6 Olympiads.
Twin Cities
Notes
- ^ This settlement is located in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. In accordance with the administrative-territorial division of Moldova most of area controlled by the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is part of Moldova as an autonomous territorial entity, the other part is part of Moldova as the municipality of Bendery. The declared territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, controlled by Moldova, is located on the territory of the Dubossary, Caushan and Novoanensky regions of Moldova. Literally, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is an unrecognized state, most of the declared territory of which is not controlled by Moldova.
Topographic cartographic materials
- L-35-10 Rybnitsa. Scale: 1: 100,000. Condition of the area in 1986. Edition 1988.
- Sheet cartographic materials L-35-11 Slobodka. Scale: 1: 100,000. Condition of the area in 1984. Edition 1987.
- Official website of the State Administration of the city of Rybnitsa and Rybnitsa region
- Unofficial city website
- Website of the Rybnitsa branch of the Transnistrian City University named after. T. G. Shevchenko
- map of Rybnitsa and surroundings
- photo of Rybnitsa
- Photo album of Rybnitsa
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Note: In September I went to Transnistria. Having looked at the posts about cities, I did not find any mention of Rybnitsa. After taking a photo for the report, I corrected the omission. Meet, northern capital Transnistria - Rybnitsa.
Rybnitsa is a city in the north of the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic. The administrative center of the Rybnitsa region of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic. From Rybnitsa to the capital of Transnistria - Tiraspol - 120 km. To the capital of Moldova - Chisinau - 160.
According to the latest data, about 50 thousand people live in the city (2010 data).
The first information about a settlement in the city dates back to the first half of the 15th century, 1628. There are several versions about the origin of the city's name. According to one of them, it came from the name of the river of the same name, Sukhaya Rybnitsa, at the mouth of which, at the confluence with the Dniester, the settlement was founded. According to the second, it is named after the boyar Rydvan, who, having risen to the rank of colonel among the Turks, “remembering the fat pork of his places” - decides to flee to the left bank of the Dniester, under the arm of the Polish king. Soon a wooden fortress is erected and a settlement called Rydvanets arises. This fact is mentioned in the book of the Turkish traveler Evliya Celebi, who visited these parts with an army in 1656 - 1657.
In 1924, Rybnitsa became an urban-type settlement and a regional center of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1926, 9.4 thousand inhabitants lived in the city (38.0% Jews, 33.8% Ukrainians, 16.0% Moldovans). In 1938, Rybnitsa acquired the status of a city.
In 1941-42, the remaining Jewish population of Rybnitsa was brutally tortured by the Romanian and German occupiers. A memorial sign was erected at the site of the execution of 500 Rybnitsa residents.
Rybnitsa has an advantageous transport and geographical location. The city is located on the left bank of the Dniester and is separated from the river by a concrete dam. There is a large reservoir near the city.
In the field of education, there are 12 schools, 2 vocational schools and 3 higher educational institutions, including: a branch of the Pridnestrovian State University named after. T. G. Shevchenko, branch of the North-Western Correspondence Technical University in St. Petersburg and Consultation Center of the Tiraspol branch of the Moscow Academy of Economics and Law.
Rybnitsa Russian Gymnasium No. 1
Branch of the Pridnestrovian State University.
In 1975, the 24-meter-high Military Glory Memorial was built (designed by V. Mednek). Two paired reinforced concrete pylons are lined with white marble; at the foot, the names of the liberators of the city and region are carved on 12 granite slabs (restored in 2010).
Memorial to those who fell for the independence of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
On September 2, the Republic celebrated the 20th anniversary of independence. That's 20 years of unrecognized status.
The main current attraction of the city is the St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral - the largest in Transnistria and Moldova, it took about 15 years to build and was opened on November 21, 2006.
The building of the administration of Rybnitsa and Rybnitsa district.
View of central square cities.
The city is very green. In 2000, there was icing in Transnistria. The city remained without electricity and water for 2 weeks. The city has lost 30% of green spaces. After 10 years, the vegetation increased.
The building of the local history museum.
A sparse cobbled street. Rarity!
The building of the former cinema "Mir"
The fountain is a meeting place for Rybnitsa residents in the central park.
Since I found the Day of Knowledge on September 1, I will show those who acquire this knowledge.
There are several residential neighborhoods in the city. One of them is the Yuzhny microdistrict.
Microdistrict "Valchenko". In the distance is already Moldova.
In the background of this photo is the building of the giant Moldavian Metallurgical Plant.
Another republican giant is Sheriff, owner of a network of gas stations and supermarkets.
The third largest (50 thousand inhabitants) and second most important city of Transnistria is Rybnitsa, 130 kilometers away from Tiraspol. Even historically: as already mentioned, the PMR consists of two halves - “Novorossiysk” and “Podolsk”, and if Tiraspol is the center of the first, then Rybnitsa is the second. Before the revolution, it was a large Jewish town in the Baltic district, since 1925 - a town, since 1938 - a city, but the turning point in the life of Rybnitsa was 1984, when the Moldavian Metallurgical Plant began operating. It is small, 5-10 times smaller than any of the main metallurgical plants in Russia, but tiny Transnistria has enough: Rybnitsa accounts for 52% budget revenues and 65% of the republic’s exports. There are other factories here, and interesting late-Soviet architecture - Rybnitsa is unlike other industrial giants. Special thanks to Alexander for the tour of Rybnitsa bes_arab , without which I would at most have walked a little in the center.
From the site we drove along a bypass road, stumbling upon somewhere on the outskirts, in cottage village, to such a strange monument. Even an expert in Rybnitsa did not know who erected it and in honor of what. bes_arab . I didn’t know then, but now I know - UPD: " At this place in 2008, Dima Krivoruchenko, a racing driver, crashed (car racing at the airfield in Tiraspol is dedicated to his memory every year in May). His father promised to make something like a park in this place... Memorable and at the same time useful to the city, because... Previously, this place was an overgrown wasteland. Here I did it".
I don’t even know what is more puzzling - the angel on top or this composition 20-30 centimeters high. I have never seen anything like this before.
Behind us was the railway, along which a lineman walked, looking thoughtfully in our direction. We drove further along the bypass:
Because from the bypass road the MMZ is best visible:
The very phrase “Moldavian Metallurgical Plant” sounds like an oxymoron to me - well, something like the Norilsk Champagne Factory or the Pevek Riviera, if such existed. However, if he were in the Odessa or Vinnitsa region, he would not be at all surprised. Among the iron and steel plants of the Soviet Union, MMZ was one of the three “last waves” of the 1980s - together with the Belarusian Zhlobin and the Far Eastern Komsomolsk-on-Amur: electrometallurgical plants working on scrap metal were supposed to cover local needs, and Western Ukraine was also conveniently located between BMZ and MMZ , which does not have its own metallurgy. As already mentioned, the capacity of the Moldavian Metallurgical Plant is not that great - up to a million tons of steel per year, while, as follows from the official website of the plant, the figures vary greatly, up to 3.5 times, from year to year. Now the plant is in decline, and yet without it, Transnistria would hardly stay afloat. Externally, MMZ, as befits a metallurgical plant, is huge and gloomy.
At the factory headquarters building, popularly known as the Pentagon, we turned into the city. Half a kilometer from the metallurgical plant there is an elevator, and at its gate there are the ruins of a bunker:
As I understand it, this is a legacy of the 1930s, of everything that is called the “Stalin line” and is being intensively restored in Belarus and Ukraine. Moreover, he is not the only one in Rybnitsa:
The bunker is located on Kirova Street, which from here leads straight to the city center - although we initially planned to explore Rybnitsa on the way back, the cold and fog exhausted us very quickly, and we went to the center to look for a cafe. Victory Square with the administration (to the left of the frame, I didn’t even notice it), the House of Culture and Lenin. Lenin’s pose is somehow very cunning, he’s clearly planning something... Perhaps a revolution, perhaps?
DK has a very nice mosaic. All this is clearly from the 1960s, when the city took off with the construction of a cement plant:
At the beginning of the Walk of Fame is the double Marx Engels:
And the printing house building, according to Alexander, is pre-war, that is, constructivist. I would venture to guess that this is the administration of the then urban-type settlement of Rybnitsa from the late 1920s, most likely the oldest building in the city center:
And just in the paneled, thoroughly Brezhnev-esque Rybnitsa, this little area looks almost like a German Altstadt:
Also, according to Alexander, in this area there is the best sushi restaurant in all of Transnistria. And really, where else could he be, if not in a city with that name? And in principle, in the central part of Rybnitsa, it’s very cozy and nice, but they’ll still accuse me of slander for the photo of the industrial outskirts... However, in working-class cities it’s always like this - it’s impossible to write about them without offending at least half of the residents: If you show industrial and destroy - I denigrate, if you show civilized areas - I hush up, but if you show both, I denigrate and hush up at the same time (at the choice of each specific reader).
We drove along Kirov Street to the edge of the slope:
I think this is a magnificent triptych! West, Russia and Soviet Union on one spot!
Below on the slope there is a stone on the site of the future memorial to the defenders of Transnistria. Valchenko's high-rise buildings against the backdrop of mountains and, again, Rezina's high-rise buildings:
No one is forgotten in the church, nothing is forgotten in the cathedral:
In the courtyard of the church there are either just figurines of saints, or even a calvarium - a “model” of the way of the cross for Holy Week and religious processions:
According to Alexander, this is a church of some Protestant denomination, but it looks more like some kind of building attached to a church:
And you can film amazing scenes in the courtyard of the two temples. Let's say a cross and a star:
Two Saviors:
Crosses and antennas. The cross is, to some extent, also anenna:
Cross and plant. More precisely, the Transnistrian cross and the Moldavian plant; cement has been produced in Rezina since 1985:
From here, in several zigzags along impressive junctions, we drove down to Valchenko, almost immediately behind which is the station. As in Bendery, passenger trains they don’t go here - the station is the directorate and ticket office:
Although the railway has been here since 1893, it runs from west to east, that is, there is nowhere to go from here along the PMR, and the products of local factories are exported mainly in the direction of Russia and the Odessa port. That’s why the bridge to Rezina has not been working for many years - although it is guarded by machine gunners, Alexander did not advise stopping here:
We are already completely on the outskirts. The first city-forming enterprise of Rybnitsa was a sugar alcohol plant, founded in 1898 and which had the first power plant on the territory of Moldova and the PMR. I suspect that this is generally the oldest plant in Transnistria... but it has not been operating since 2003. Some of its workshops are pre-revolutionary and are the oldest buildings in Rybnitsa.
But that’s not why we stopped here - even from the bridge I noticed a bridge across the Dniester cable car, here known as the "industrial funicular":
It once connected the Rezina quarries with the Rybnitsa cement plant and stretched for 3-4 kilometers. Such things are not uncommon in the world - using them to deliver raw materials from a quarry to a factory is much more profitable than using cars or wagons, and in foreign countries I have heard about cable cars tens of kilometers long. But I’ve only seen this once before: in Bashkiria, and that cable car was still working.
There is silence and oblivion here. Despite the fact that cement factory it works properly, spewing dense white dust into the sky - the cable car was killed primarily by the collapse of Moldova into one and a half states:
In Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan there was once an international Sulukta narrow-gauge railway, and here there is an international industrial cable car. As you can see, there is another bunker near the water:
Surreal sight:
View of the Dniester from the bunker:
Already when I was leaving, I noticed that the same lineman was wandering dejectedly along the tracks...
And I apologize for the quality of the photos - the weather... But as soon as we left Rybnitsa, the clouds and fog parted and the bright Sun came out.
In the next part we go to Rashkovo - almost most beautiful places Transnistria.