In 2020 our town will be 69 years old. But really it is a hundred years older.

In 1797 Tsar Paul I gave the villages of Maly and Bolshoy Makatelem to Prince Andrei Ivanovich Vyazemsky of Nizhny Novgorod. Then in 1804 Andrei Ivanovich accepted the marriage of his daughter Katherine Andreevna Vyazemskaya and writer, historiographer Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin. Their son Alexander Nikolayevich Karamzin has lived here most of his life. He went to the family estate after retiring from military service. His first plans were arranging a big garden, building a hospital and a school for villagers and their children. In 1850 he married Princess Natalia Vasilievna Obolenskaya. Together they came up with the idea of transforming the area. In honor of the beloved Karamzin gave the name Tashino to the settlement and built an iron smelting plant Tashinskiy. That was the beginning of the small settlement’s history.

Symbols of our city

Located in the center of the fir tree symbolizes eternal life and at the same time symbolically shows the vast forests around the city, which were generously awarded to the district by nature. Currently, the city of Pervomaysk is the only forest area in the South of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The gear wheel symbolizes mechanical engineering.

The ear is a symbol of unity, stability and agriculture in the economy of the district.

Red is a symbol of work, courage, life-affirming strength and beauty. Red color is allegorically combined with the modern name of the city district of Pervomaisk, named after the holiday of the First of May, the main symbol of which is traditionally red.

Green symbolizes spring, health, nature, youth and hope.

Gold is a symbol of the highest value, greatness, wealth, and harvest.

Pervomaysk is a small town in the south of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the administrative center of the district. The river Umoch flows through it.

The plant was founded in 1853 by A. N. Karamzin under the name "Tashin". Initially, the plant had a metallurgical profile. Since 1918, it has been called the “Tashin iron smelting plant”. During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced military products. Fortunately the plant has been working up to these days. It’s the biggest employer. Due to this fact our town exists to the present day.

There is a natural monument here. It is a system of four springs on the left Bank of the Alatyr river. The locals call this place “Nikola”. Saint Nicholas is the most revered Saint of the Russian land . In his honor a chapel has been built there. The chapel is very well blended into the landscape and became a hallmark of Pervomaisk area. Glittering" gold " domes, tiled roofs, forged fence All this is done creatively, at a high professional level. Local residents and visitors are happy to visit the picturesque area.

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The plant was founded in 1853 by A. N. Karamzin under the name "Tashin". Initially, the plant had a metallurgical profile. Since 1918, it has been called the “Tashin iron smelting plant”. During the Great Patriotic War, the plant produced military products. Fortunately the plant has been working up to these days. It’s the biggest employer. Due to this fact our town exists to the present day.

There is a natural monument here. It is a system of four springs on the left Bank of the Alatyr river. The locals call this place “Nikola”. Saint Nicholas is the most revered Saint of the Russian land . In his honor a chapel has been built there. The chapel is very well blended into the landscape and became a hallmark of Pervomaisk area. Glittering" gold " domes, tiled roofs, forged fence All this is done creatively, at a high professional level. Local residents and visitors are happy to visit the picturesque area.

Outstanding persons of Pervomaysk

Nadezhda Petrovna Lamanova is a Russian and Soviet fashion designer and theater costume designer. She had the title of "Supplier of the Court of her Imperial Majesty". She stood at the origins of Russian and Soviet fashion of the XX century .Nadezhda Petrovna studied at the Mariinsky women's school of the 1st category in Nizhny Novogorod . Having studied at the gymnasium for the mandatory seven years, Nadia completed the eighth grade at her will.

After graduating from high school, 20-year-old Nadia decided to leave her parents' home and earn a living on her own . Nadia's first independent step was to enter the Moscow school of cutting and sewing by O. A. Suvorova. After studying for two years, Lamanova began working in the Voitkevichi workshop in 1879 and quickly became a leading cutter.

The name of Mikhail Ivanovich Suetnov is known far beyond the region.

M. I. Suetnov is a member of the Union of writers of the USSR, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, a teacher, he was born in July 13, 1905.

After becoming the Director of Pervomaisk high school, Mikhail Ivanovich increasingly thought about writing, to this work he was drawn since childhood, and since 1953 he began his active writing work. Mikhail Ivanovich composed fairy tales at first. In 1953, Suetnov's first children's book “the Sly Bunny” was published. Then Mikhail Ivanovich published some fairy tales "Why the Fox lives in a hole", "Stubborn bear", "Capricious goat", " Emelya, the hunter”.

Many local people appreciate him as a strict, demanding Director and avsensitive, caring, considerate teacher.

Gennady Alexandrovich Kurskov is another great personality of our area. He was born in 1962. After graduating from the Pervomaisk children's music school, he entered the Nizhny Novgorod music college for the piano department. In 1986, he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod state conservatory. The extensive repertoire of G. A. Kurskov as a pianist includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Schnittke etc. G. A. Kurskov

is the prize winner of the international festival of improvisers (Vilnius), the winner of 3 prizes and the winner of the 1st prize of A. N. Scriabin international piano competition, the winner of S. T. Richter International prize. The release of the CD "On the wings of a bird" is a new stage on Gennady Kurskov's creative path. Concerts with his participation are held both in Russia and abroad

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