Postal code Borovukha 1. Borovukha (Vitebsk region)

Borovukha (Borovukha-1) is an urban village in the Polotsk district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus. Population - 5.6 thousand people (2011). Borovukha is located 12 km from the city of Novopolotsk. In the vicinity of Polotsk, the settlements of Borovukha-2 and Borovukha-3 are also known.

Famous natives and residents of Borovukha

Yanka Kupala (1882-1942) - People's poet of the Belarusian SSR.

Economy

• JLLC "Lyubava-Lux" - sewing products

Story

After the opening of railway traffic from Polotsk to Vitebsk in October 1866, a railway siding and station appeared in Borovukha. The emergence of a new transport route had a beneficial effect on the economic development of the town.

In 1916, the future famous Belarusian poet and writer Yanka Kupala worked as part of a road construction team in Borovukha.

Construction of the Polotsk fortified area

In 1922, within the framework of the planned, but completely unrealized, program for the construction of fortifications of the “Trotsky Line” on the border of the USSR in the area of ​​Art. Borovukhi-1, work continued on improving the previous and building new wood-earth fortifications. In 1924, the headquarters of the Western Military District began developing a project for the Polotsk fortified area.

In the developed project, attention was focused on strengthening the northwestern sector of the fortified area, primarily the area of ​​the station. Borovukhi-1 and north of it. In 1925, in the Borovukha-1 area, the 4th engineer battalion began road work, and the 1st telegraph construction company began laying communication lines in accordance with the project. The local population and personnel of military units stationed in Polotsk were also involved in the work.

The plan of defensive work of the Belarusian Military District for 1927-1928 according to the new project of the Polotsk fortified region provided for the continued improvement of the road network, communication lines, as well as the construction of observation posts and 40 long-term firing points (DOT) in the Polotsk fortified region, of which in the north western sector in the Borovukha-1 area. However, due to a lack of funding, plans for the construction of firing points, which formed the basis of the fortified area, were only partially implemented.

In 1928, four reinforced concrete firing points were built for the defense of the Polotsk bridgehead position: near the village of Ekiman, point No. 1, at x. Bondarenki point No. 4 - designed by military engineer Zalessky; near the village of Chernoruchye, point No. 5, in the Belchitsa forest, not far from the road to Chashniki, point No. 6 - according to the design of the military engineer I. O. Belinsky. In May, June 1928, weapons and equipment were installed in them, and in July they were tests have been carried out. Of fundamental importance were the development, manufacture and testing of machine gun mounts (tests of mock-ups were carried out in the village of Belaya, now Azino, 4 km from the Borovukhi-1 station), dampers and other equipment for firing points near Polotsk.

In 1930, 47 structures of battalion defense areas (BRO) “F” and “X” were built in the Farinovsky direction. In 1931, large-scale construction of more than 250 reinforced concrete defensive structures began along the entire line of the fortified area in accordance with a more developed project for strengthening the Soviet-Polish border.

Borovukha-1 became the center of the northern sector of the Polotsk fortified region, covering Polotsk from the north-west. Around it along the line Gorovye - Makhirovo - Zalesye - Tinovka - Matyushi - Belo-Mateikovo - Borki there were 4 battalion and 3 company defense areas. In 1932, in the fortified area, pillboxes of rear positions were completed (for example, bunker No. 15 at the memorial in the town of Borovukha-1) and 10 anti-tank firing points (ATF) with armored turrets of the T-26 tank.

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In 1939-1940, the 50th Rifle Division took part in the campaign in Western Belarus, in the battles of the Soviet-Finnish War and returned to the Polotsk region in January 1941. Since August 1940, the 17th Infantry Division has also been stationed here. In 1939, the 50th SD took part in a campaign in Western Belarus. She will return back in January 1941, having also gone through the battles of the Soviet-Finnish war. In connection with the transfer of the state border, on June 22, 1940, the construction of the Grodno UR began. On July 8, 1940, a unified administration of the Grodno and Polotsk URs was created, and therefore the 9th and 10th separate machine gun battalions were redeployed to the Grodno region.

On September 3, 1940, the Polotsk fortified area was disbanded. Only after the issuance of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On fortified areas" dated June 4, 1941, the 61st directorate of the fortified region was created in the Polotsk fortified region, which included the 133rd separate artillery and machine gun battalion of 2 companies stationed in the village of Borovukha-1. In May-June the bunkers were put on full combat readiness.

The Great Patriotic War

In July 1941, fierce battles with the Nazi invaders took place near Borovukha - an important episode in the defense of Polotsk.

Since October 2, 1996, military camps No. 1, 2 were included in the List of released military towns, facilities and buildings transferred free of charge by the Ministry of Defense to the communal ownership of the regions. On July 15, 2000, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee decided to unite the village of Borovukha-1 and the former military town into one settlement, which was transferred to the administrative subordination of Novopolotsk.

During 2000-2005, natural gas was supplied to the village, the boiler house was reconstructed, and the residents of Borovukha received high-quality drinking water.

Famous natives and residents of Borovukha

• Yanka Kupala (1882-1942) - People's poet of the Belarusian SSR.
• Vorobyov, Alexey Vladimirovich (1975-2000) - guard senior lieutenant, Hero of Russia.

Attractions

• section of the old "Ekaterininsky tract"
• obelisk at the grave of the young underground fighter Dima Potapenko (1968)
• memorial complex "Star" in memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War on the site of the German concentration camp Staatlag 354 (1995)
• memorial plaque in memory of Guard Senior Lieutenant Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyov
• memorial plaque in memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Filippovich Margelov (2009)

Social sphere

On the territory of Borovukha there is a comprehensive secondary school No. 15, a children's art school, a state school of Olympic reserve, nurseries No. 37 and No. 1, a library, a medical outpatient clinic, banking and communications institutions.

Economy

On the territory of Borovukha they produce sewing, knitted and rubber products, wooden windows, PVC windows and doors, building metal structures, furniture, plant protection products, instrumentation, construction materials, and equipment for processing secondary raw materials.

• JLLC "Lyubava-LIS" - sewing products
• LLC "Intep"
• Private unitary enterprise "Makh-Plast"
• ChTPUP "Max Divani"

Transport

Bus route No. 6; 6a connects Borovukha with Novopolotsk, No. 326; 328 from Azino, No. 327 from Gvozdovo.

Notes

Literature

• Republic of Belarus: Encyclopedia in 6 volumes - T. 2: A - Geranium / editorial book. G. P. Pashkov and others - Minsk: BelEn, 2006. - 912 p. - ISBN 985-11-0341-1. - ISBN 985-11-0371-3 (Vol. 2). - P. 473.
• Code of historical and cultural monuments of Belarus. Vitebsk region / ed. S. V. Martselev [and others]. - Minsk: BelSE im. Petrusya Brovki, 1985. - P. 361.

(G) (I) Chairman of the village council

Voskolovich Vitaly Mikhailovich

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Borovukha is located 12 km from the city of Novopolotsk and belongs to the territory of the Novopolotsk City Executive Committee. In the vicinity of Polotsk, the settlements of Borovukha-2 and Borovukha-3 are also known.

Geography

In the vicinity of Borovukha there are lakes Velye, Zavelye (Soldatskoye) and Osinovka.

Story

The first written mention of Borovukha dates back to 1812. The Catherine Highway from Drissa to Polotsk passed near Borovukha. After the opening of railway traffic from Polotsk to Vitebsk in October 1866, a railway siding and station of the Rigo-Orlovskaya railway appeared in Borovukha. The emergence of a new transport route had a beneficial effect on the economic development of the town.

In 1916, the future famous Belarusian poet and writer Yanka Kupala worked as part of a road construction team in Borovukha.

On July 23, 1919, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front gave the order to organize a defense center in Polotsk. The line Borovoe - Borovukha - Yanchikovo - Polovinniki - Strunya was considered as one of the lines of defense on the right bank of the Western Dvina River. Starting on August 21, the 3rd section of the 23rd military field construction (VPC) of the Western Front, with the mobilized local population, began construction of a defensive line in the Borovukha area. From November 1919 to March 1920, the 49th Brigade of the 17th Infantry Division strengthened defensive positions along the right bank of the river at the Borovukha-Nemerzl line. At this time, Borovukha became the border between the 15th, parts of which were located in the vicinity of the station, and the 16th Soviet army. By mid-September, in the Borovukha area, the 3rd section of the 23rd Airborne Forces had completed 65% of the defensive work according to the initial plans for strengthening positions, 40% of which was trench work.

In the winter of 1919, Polish legionnaires crossed the Western Dvina, attacked the Borovukha station and set fire to its buildings. Soon the 12th battalion was created to guard the railway and station in Borovukha. On March 18, 1921, a peace treaty with Poland was concluded in Riga. However, the proximity of the border, which ran just 20 km west of Borovukha and modern Novopolotsk, subsequently determined the entire further development of the town for the next two decades.

Borovukha-1 was considered as one of the key points in the defense of Polotsk. From the southwest, Polotsk was planned to be covered with a bridgehead fortification along the line Belchitsy - Chernoruchye - Ksty - Ekiman and old positions from the times of the Soviet-Polish War, one of the lines of which runs along the Ushacha River through the current industrial zone of Novopolotsk. Holding Polotsk in the event of war did not allow the troops of a potential enemy to launch an attack on Leningrad and Moscow.

Construction of the Polotsk fortified area

In 1922, as part of the program for the construction of fortifications of the “Trotsky Line” on the border of the USSR in the area of ​​Art. Borovukhi-1, work continued on improving the previous and building new wood-earth fortifications. In 1924, the headquarters of the Western Military District began developing a project for the Polotsk fortified area.

Borovukha-1 became the center of the northern sector of the Polotsk fortified area, covering Polotsk from the north-west. Around it along the line Gorovye - Makhirovo - Zalesye - Tinovka - Matyushi - Belo-Mateikovo - Borki there were 4 battalion and 3 company defense areas. In 1932, bunkers for rear positions were completed in the fortified area (for example, bunker No. 15 at the memorial in the town of Borovukha-1) and 10 anti-tank firing points (ATF) with armored turrets of the T-26 tank.

Since the 20s of the 20th century, units of the 5th Vitebsk Rifle Division, a cavalry regiment, an artillery military unit were stationed in Borovukha, and a balloon training base was located on White Lake.

In 1935-1936, in Borovukha-1, the 17th Rifle Division (SD) was building a military camp. Barracks, warehouses, 7 four-story stone houses for the families of officers, a club, a bathhouse, a store, an officers' house, and a Russian-language school were erected. Soon the 17th SD will be redeployed, and the town will be transferred to units of the newly formed 50th Infantry Division, specifically designed for the defense of the Polotsk fortified area. In 1936-1939, the 202nd artillery regiment, 257th howitzer artillery regiment, 10th medical battalion, 125th groin, 100th darma, cavalry regiment, units of the 174th artillery regiment, artillery and machine gun battalion, as well as a small tank unit, probably armed, were located here. T-27.

In 1937, Semyon Budyonny took part in the opening of the officers' house.

In 1939-1940, the 50th Rifle Division took part in the campaign in Western Belarus, in the battles of the Soviet-Finnish War and returned to the Polotsk region in January 1941. Since August 1940, the 17th Infantry Division has also been stationed here. In 1939, the 50th SD took part in a campaign in Western Belarus. She will return back in January 1941, having also gone through the battles of the Soviet-Finnish war. In connection with the transfer of the state border, on June 22, 1940, the construction of the Grodno UR began. On July 8, 1940, a unified administration of the Grodno and Polotsk URs was created, and therefore the 9th and 10th separate machine gun battalions were redeployed to the Grodno region.

On September 3, 1940, the Polotsk fortified area was disbanded. Only after the issuance of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On fortified areas" dated June 4, 1941, the 61st directorate for the fortified region was created in the Polotsk fortified area, which included the 133rd separate artillery and machine gun battalion of 2 companies, stationed in the village of Borovukha-1 . In May-June the bunkers were put on full combat readiness.

The Great Patriotic War

In July 1941, fierce battles with the Nazi invaders took place near Borovukha - an important episode in the defense of Polotsk.

In the period from 1982 to 1989, Borovukha-1 housed the 1318th separate air assault regiment, part of the 5th Guards Army Corps.

Since October 2, 1996, military camps No. 1, 2 were included in the List of released military towns, facilities and buildings transferred free of charge by the Ministry of Defense to the communal ownership of the regions. On July 15, 2000, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee decided to unite the village of Borovukha-1 and the former military town into one settlement, which was transferred to the administrative subordination of Novopolotsk.

During 2000-2005, natural gas was supplied to the village, the boiler house was reconstructed, and the residents of Borovukha received high-quality drinking water.

Notable natives and residents

• Yanka Kupala (1882-1942) - People's poet of the Belarusian SSR.
• Vorobyov, Alexey Vladimirovich (1975-2000) - guard senior lieutenant, Hero of Russia.

Attractions

• section of the old Ekaterininsky tract
• grave of the young underground fighter Dima Potapenko (1968)
• memorial complex "Star" in memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War on the site of a German concentration camp Staatlag 354 (1995)
• memorial plaque in memory of Guard Senior Lieutenant Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyov
• memorial plaque in memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Filippovich Margelov (2009)

Social sphere

On the territory of Borovukha there is a comprehensive secondary school No. 15, a children's art school, a state school of Olympic reserve, nurseries No. 37 and No. 1, a library, a medical outpatient clinic, banking and communications institutions.

Economy

On the territory of Borovukha they produce sewing, knitted and rubber products, wooden windows, PVC windows and doors, building metal structures, furniture, plant protection products, instrumentation, building materials, equipment for processing secondary raw materials.

• JLLC "Lyubava-LIS" - sewing products
• LLC "INTEP"
• Private unitary enterprise "Makh-Plast"
• ChTPUP "Max Divani"

Transport

Bus route No. 6; 6a connects Borovukha with Novopolotsk, No. 326; 328 from Azino, No. 327 from Gvozdovo.

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Notes

Literature

• Republic of Belarus: encyclopedia in 6 volumes - Vol. 2: A - Geranium / editorial book. G. P. Pashkov and others - Minsk: BelEn, 2006. - 912 p. - ISBN 985-11-0341-1. - ISBN 985-11-0371-3 (Vol. 2). - P. 473.
• Code of historical and cultural monuments of Belarus. Vitebsk region / ed. S. V. Martselev [and others]. - Minsk: BelSE im. Petrusya Brovki, 1985. - P. 361.

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Three weeks after his last evening with the Rostovs, Prince Andrei returned to St. Petersburg.

The next day after her explanation with her mother, Natasha waited the whole day for Bolkonsky, but he did not come. The next, third day the same thing happened. Pierre also did not come, and Natasha, not knowing that Prince Andrei had gone to his father, could not explain his absence.
Three weeks passed like this. Natasha did not want to go anywhere and, like a shadow, idle and sad, she walked from room to room, cried secretly from everyone in the evening and did not appear to her mother in the evenings. She was constantly blushing and irritated. It seemed to her that everyone knew about her disappointment, laughed and felt sorry for her. With all the strength of her inner grief, this vain grief intensified her misfortune.
One day she came to the countess, wanted to tell her something, and suddenly began to cry. Her tears were the tears of an offended child who himself does not know why he is being punished.
The Countess began to calm Natasha down. Natasha, who had been listening at first to her mother’s words, suddenly interrupted her:
- Stop it, mom, I don’t think, and I don’t want to think! So, I traveled and stopped, and stopped...
Her voice trembled, she almost cried, but she recovered and calmly continued: “And I don’t want to get married at all.” And I'm afraid of him; I have now completely, completely calmed down...
The next day after this conversation, Natasha put on that old dress, which she was especially famous for the cheerfulness it brought in the morning, and in the morning she began her old way of life, from which she had fallen behind after the ball. After drinking tea, she went to the hall, which she especially loved for its strong resonance, and began to sing her solfeges (singing exercises). Having finished the first lesson, she stopped in the middle of the hall and repeated one musical phrase that she especially liked. She listened joyfully to the (as if unexpected for her) charm with which these shimmering sounds filled the entire emptiness of the hall and slowly froze, and she suddenly felt cheerful. “It’s good to think about it so much,” she said to herself and began to walk back and forth around the hall, not walking with simple steps on the ringing parquet floor, but at every step shifting from heel (she was wearing her new, favorite shoes) to toe, and just as joyfully as I listen to the sounds of my voice, listening to this measured clatter of a heel and the creaking of a sock. Passing by the mirror, she looked into it. - "Here I am!" as if the expression on her face when she saw herself spoke. - “Well, that’s good. And I don’t need anyone.”
The footman wanted to enter to clean something in the hall, but she did not let him in, again closing the door behind him, and continued her walk. This morning she returned again to her favorite state of self-love and admiration for herself. - “What a charm this Natasha is!” she said again to herself in the words of some third, collective, male person. “She’s good, she has a voice, she’s young, and she doesn’t bother anyone, just leave her alone.” But no matter how much they left her alone, she could no longer be calm and she immediately felt it.
The entrance door opened in the hallway, and someone asked: “Are you at home?” and someone's steps were heard. Natasha looked in the mirror, but she did not see herself. She listened to sounds in the hall. When she saw herself, her face was pale. It was he. She knew this for sure, although she barely heard the sound of his voice from the closed doors.
Natasha, pale and frightened, ran into the living room.
- Mom, Bolkonsky has arrived! - she said. - Mom, this is terrible, this is unbearable! – I don’t want... to suffer! What should I do?…
Before the countess even had time to answer her, Prince Andrei entered the living room with an anxious and serious face. As soon as he saw Natasha, his face lit up. He kissed the hand of the Countess and Natasha and sat down near the sofa.
“We haven’t had the pleasure for a long time...” the countess began, but Prince Andrei interrupted her, answering her question and obviously in a hurry to say what he needed.
“I wasn’t with you all this time because I was with my father: I needed to talk to him about a very important matter.” “I just returned last night,” he said, looking at Natasha. “I need to talk to you, Countess,” he added after a moment of silence.
The Countess, sighing heavily, lowered her eyes.
“I am at your service,” she said.
Natasha knew that she had to leave, but she could not do it: something was squeezing her throat, and she looked discourteously, directly, with open eyes at Prince Andrei.
"Now? This minute!... No, this can’t be!” she thought.
He looked at her again, and this look convinced her that she was not mistaken. “Yes, now, this very minute, her fate was being decided.”
“Come, Natasha, I’ll call you,” the countess said in a whisper.
Natasha looked at Prince Andrei and her mother with frightened, pleading eyes, and left.
“I came, Countess, to ask for your daughter’s hand in marriage,” said Prince Andrei. The countess's face flushed, but she said nothing.
“Your proposal...” the countess began sedately. “He was silent, looking into her eyes. – Your offer... (she was embarrassed) we are pleased, and... I accept your offer, I’m glad. And my husband... I hope... but it will depend on her...
“I’ll tell her when I have your consent... do you give it to me?” - said Prince Andrei.
“Yes,” said the countess and extended her hand to him and, with a mixed feeling of aloofness and tenderness, pressed her lips to his forehead as he leaned over her hand. She wanted to love him like a son; but she felt that he was a stranger and a terrible person for her. “I’m sure my husband will agree,” said the countess, “but your father...
“My father, to whom I told my plans, made it an indispensable condition of consent that the wedding should take place no earlier than a year. And this is what I wanted to tell you,” said Prince Andrei.
– It’s true that Natasha is still young, but for so long.
“It couldn’t be otherwise,” said Prince Andrei with a sigh.
“I will send it to you,” said the countess and left the room.
“Lord, have mercy on us,” she repeated, looking for her daughter. Sonya said that Natasha is in the bedroom. Natasha sat on her bed, pale, with dry eyes, looking at the icons and, quickly crossing herself, whispering something. Seeing her mother, she jumped up and rushed to her.
- What? Mom?... What?
- Go, go to him. “He asks for your hand,” the countess said coldly, as it seemed to Natasha... “Come... come,” the mother said with sadness and reproach after her running daughter, and sighed heavily.
Natasha did not remember how she entered the living room. Entering the door and seeing him, she stopped. “Has this stranger really become everything to me now?” she asked herself and instantly answered: “Yes, that’s it: he alone is now dearer to me than everything in the world.” Prince Andrei approached her, lowering his eyes.
“I loved you from the moment I saw you.” Can I hope?
He looked at her, and the serious passion in her expression struck him. Her face said: “Why ask? Why doubt something you can’t help but know? Why talk when you can’t express in words what you feel.”
She approached him and stopped. He took her hand and kissed it.
– Do you love me?
“Yes, yes,” Natasha said as if with annoyance, sighed loudly, and another time, more and more often, and began to sob.
- About what? What's wrong with you?
“Oh, I’m so happy,” she answered, smiled through her tears, leaned closer to him, thought for a second, as if asking herself if this was possible, and kissed him.
Prince Andrei held her hands, looked into her eyes, and did not find in his soul the same love for her. Something suddenly turned in his soul: there was no former poetic and mysterious charm of desire, but there was pity for her feminine and childish weakness, there was fear of her devotion and gullibility, a heavy and at the same time joyful consciousness of the duty that forever connected him with her. The real feeling, although it was not as light and poetic as the previous one, was more serious and stronger.
– Did maman tell you that this cannot be earlier than a year? - said Prince Andrei, continuing to look into her eyes. “Is it really me, that girl child (everyone said that about me) Natasha thought, is it really from this moment that I am the wife, equal to this stranger, sweet, intelligent man, respected even by my father. Is that really true! Is it really true that now it’s no longer possible to joke with life, now I’m big, now I’m responsible for my every deed and word? Yes, what did he ask me?
“No,” she answered, but she did not understand what he was asking.
“Forgive me,” said Prince Andrei, “but you are so young, and I have already experienced so much of life.” I'm scared for you. You don't know yourself.
Natasha listened with concentrated attention, trying to understand the meaning of his words and did not understand.
“No matter how difficult this year will be for me, delaying my happiness,” continued Prince Andrei, “in this period you will believe in yourself.” I ask you to make my happiness in a year; but you are free: our engagement will remain a secret, and if you were convinced that you do not love me, or would love me ... - said Prince Andrei with an unnatural smile.
- Why are you saying this? – Natasha interrupted him. “You know that from the very day you first arrived in Otradnoye, I fell in love with you,” she said, firmly convinced that she was telling the truth.
– In a year you will recognize yourself...
- The whole year! – Natasha suddenly said, now only realizing that the wedding had been postponed for a year. - Why a year? Why a year?...” Prince Andrei began to explain to her the reasons for this delay. Natasha didn't listen to him.
- And it’s impossible otherwise? – she asked. Prince Andrei did not answer, but his face expressed the impossibility of changing this decision.
- It's horrible! No, this is terrible, terrible! – Natasha suddenly spoke and began to sob again. - I will die waiting a year: this is impossible, this is terrible. “She looked into the face of her fiancé and saw on him an expression of compassion and bewilderment.
“No, no, I’ll do everything,” she said, suddenly stopping her tears, “I’m so happy!” – Father and mother entered the room and blessed the bride and groom.
From that day on, Prince Andrei began to go to the Rostovs as a groom.

There was no engagement and Bolkonsky’s engagement to Natasha was not announced to anyone; Prince Andrei insisted on this. He said that since he was the cause of the delay, he must bear the entire burden of it. He said that he was forever bound by his word, but that he did not want to bind Natasha and gave her complete freedom. If after six months she feels that she does not love him, she will be within her right if she refuses him. It goes without saying that neither the parents nor Natasha wanted to hear about it; but Prince Andrei insisted on his own. Prince Andrei visited the Rostovs every day, but did not treat Natasha like a groom: he told her you and only kissed her hand. After the day of the proposal, a completely different, close, simple relationship was established between Prince Andrei and Natasha. It was as if they didn't know each other until now. Both he and she loved to remember how they looked at each other when they were still nothing; now both of them felt like completely different creatures: then feigned, now simple and sincere. At first, the family felt awkward in dealing with Prince Andrei; he seemed like a man from an alien world, and Natasha spent a long time accustoming her family to Prince Andrei and proudly assured everyone that he only seemed so special, and that he was the same as everyone else, and that she was not afraid of him and that no one should be afraid his. After several days, the family got used to him and, without hesitation, continued with him the same way of life in which he took part. He knew how to talk about the household with the Count, and about outfits with the Countess and Natasha, and about albums and canvas with Sonya. Sometimes the Rostov family, among themselves and under Prince Andrei, were surprised at how all this happened and how obvious the omens of this were: the arrival of Prince Andrei in Otradnoye, and their arrival in St. Petersburg, and the similarity between Natasha and Prince Andrei, which the nanny noticed on their first visit Prince Andrei, and the clash in 1805 between Andrei and Nikolai, and many other omens of what happened were noticed by those at home.
The house was filled with that poetic boredom and silence that always accompanies the presence of the bride and groom. Often sitting together, everyone was silent. Sometimes they got up and left, and the bride and groom, remaining alone, were still silent. Rarely did they talk about their future lives. Prince Andrei was scared and ashamed to talk about it. Natasha shared this feeling, like all his feelings, which she constantly guessed. One time Natasha started asking about his son. Prince Andrei blushed, which often happened to him now and which Natasha especially loved, and said that his son would not live with them.
- From what? – Natasha said in fear.
- I can’t take him away from my grandfather and then...
- How I would love him! - Natasha said, immediately guessing his thought; but I know you want there to be no excuses to blame you and me.
The old count sometimes approached Prince Andrei, kissed him, and asked him for advice on the upbringing of Petya or the service of Nicholas. The old countess sighed as she looked at them. Sonya was afraid at every moment of being superfluous and tried to find excuses to leave them alone when they didn’t need it. When Prince Andrei spoke (he spoke very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke, she noticed with fear and joy that he was looking at her carefully and searchingly. She asked herself in bewilderment: “What is he looking for in me? He's trying to achieve something with his gaze! What if I don’t have what he’s looking for with that look?” Sometimes she entered into her characteristic insanely cheerful mood, and then she especially loved to listen and watch how Prince Andrei laughed. He rarely laughed, but when he laughed, he gave himself entirely to his laughter, and every time after this laugh she felt closer to him. Natasha would have been completely happy if the thought of the impending and approaching separation did not frighten her, since he too turned pale and cold at the mere thought of it.
On the eve of his departure from St. Petersburg, Prince Andrei brought with him Pierre, who had never been to the Rostovs since the ball. Pierre seemed confused and embarrassed. He was talking to his mother. Natasha sat down with Sonya at the chess table, thereby inviting Prince Andrey to her. He approached them.

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Borovukha is located 12 km from the city of Novopolotsk, administratively subordinate to the Novopolotsk City Executive Committee and is part of the Novopolotsk City Council. In the vicinity of Polotsk, the settlements of Borovukha-2 and Borovukha-3 are also known.

On February 22, 2019, by Decree No. 73 of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Borovukha was included in the city limits of Novopolotsk. In March 2019, the village council of deputies was liquidated.

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In the vicinity of Borovukha there are lakes Velye, Zavelye (Soldatskoye) and Osinovka.

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The first written mention of Borovukha dates back to 1812. The Catherine Highway from Drissa to Polotsk passed near Borovukha. After the opening of railway traffic from Polotsk to Vitebsk in October 1866, a railway siding and station of the Rigo-Orlovskaya railway appeared in Borovukha. The emergence of a new transport route had a beneficial effect on the economic development of the town.

In 1916, the future famous Belarusian poet and writer Yanka Kupala worked as part of a road construction team in Borovukha.

Period of civil and Soviet-Polish wars[ | ]

On July 23, 1919, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Western Front gave the order to organize a defense center in Polotsk. The line Borovoe - Borovukha - Yanchikovo - Polovinniki - Strunya was considered as one of the lines of defense on the right bank of the Western Dvina River. Starting on August 21, the 3rd section of the 23rd military field construction (VPC) of the Western Front, with the mobilized local population, began construction of a defensive line in the Borovukha area. From November 1919 to March 1920, the 49th Brigade of the 17th Infantry Division strengthened defensive positions along the right bank of the river at the Borovukha-Nemerzl line. At this time, Borovukha became the border between the 15th, parts of which were located in the vicinity of the station, and the 16th Soviet army. By mid-September, in the Borovukha area, the 3rd section of the 23rd Airborne Forces had completed 65% of the defensive work according to the initial plans for strengthening positions, 40% of which was trench work.

In the winter of 1919, Polish legionnaires crossed the Western Dvina, attacked the Borovukha station and set fire to its buildings. Soon the 12th battalion was created to guard the railway and station in Borovukha. On March 18, 1921, a peace treaty with Poland was concluded in Riga. However, the proximity of the border, which ran just 20 km west of Borovukha and modern Novopolotsk, subsequently determined the entire further development of the town for the next two decades.

Borovukha-1 was considered as one of the key points in the defense of Polotsk. From the southwest, Polotsk was planned to be covered with a bridgehead fortification along the line Belchitsy - Chernoruchye - Ksty - Ekiman and old positions from the times of the Soviet-Polish War, one of the lines of which runs along the Ushacha River through the current industrial zone of Novopolotsk. Holding Polotsk in the event of war did not allow the troops of a potential enemy to launch an attack on Leningrad and Moscow.

Construction of the Polotsk fortified area[ | ]

In 1922, as part of the program for the construction of fortifications of the “Trotsky Line” on the border of the USSR in the area of ​​Art. Borovukhi-1, work continued on improving the previous and building new wood-earth fortifications. In 1924, the headquarters of the Western Military District began developing a project for the Polotsk fortified area.

Borovukha-1 became the center of the northern sector of the Polotsk fortified area, covering Polotsk from the north-west. Around it along the line Gorovye - Makhirovo - Zalesye - Tinovka - Matyushi - Belo-Mateikovo - Borki there were 4 battalion and 3 company defense areas. In 1932, bunkers for rear positions were completed in the fortified area (for example, bunker No. 15 at the memorial in the town of Borovukha-1) and 10 anti-tank firing points (ATF) with armored turrets of the T-26 tank.

Since the 20s of the 20th century, units of the 5th Vitebsk Rifle Division, a cavalry regiment, an artillery military unit were stationed in Borovukha, and a balloon training base was located on White Lake.

In 1935-1936, in Borovukha-1, the 17th Rifle Division (SD) was building a military camp. Barracks, warehouses, 7 four-story stone houses for the families of officers, a club, a bathhouse, a store, an officers' house, and a Russian-language school were erected. Soon the 17th SD will be redeployed, and the town will be transferred to units of the newly formed 50th Infantry Division, specifically designed for the defense of the Polotsk fortified area. In 1936-1939, the 202nd artillery regiment, 257th howitzer artillery regiment, 10th medical battalion, 125th groin, 100th darma, cavalry regiment, units of the 174th artillery regiment, artillery and machine gun battalion, as well as a small tank unit, probably armed, were located here. T-27.

In 1937, Semyon Budyonny took part in the opening of the officers' house.

In 1939-1940, the 50th Rifle Division took part in the campaign in Western Belarus, in the battles of the Soviet-Finnish War and returned to the Polotsk region in January 1941. Since August 1940, the 17th Infantry Division has also been stationed here. In 1939, the 50th SD took part in a campaign in Western Belarus. She will return back in January 1941, having also gone through the battles of the Soviet-Finnish war. In connection with the transfer of the state border, on June 22, 1940, the construction of the Grodno UR began. On July 8, 1940, a unified administration of the Grodno and Polotsk URs was created, and therefore the 9th and 10th separate machine gun battalions were redeployed to the Grodno region.

On September 3, 1940, the Polotsk fortified area was disbanded. Only after the issuance of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On fortified areas" dated June 4, 1941, the 61st directorate for the fortified region was created in the Polotsk fortified area, which included the 133rd separate artillery and machine gun battalion of 2 companies, stationed in the village of Borovukha-1 . In May-June the bunkers were put on full combat readiness.

The Great Patriotic War[ | ]

In July 1941, fierce battles with the Nazi invaders took place near Borovukha - an important episode in the defense of Polotsk.

In the period from 1982 to 1989, Borovukha-1 housed the 1318th separate air assault regiment, part of the 5th Guards Army Corps.

Since October 2, 1996, military camps No. 1, 2 were included in the List of released military towns, facilities and buildings transferred free of charge by the Ministry of Defense to the communal ownership of the regions. On July 15, 2000, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee decided to unite the village of Borovukha-1 and the former military town into one settlement, which was transferred to the administrative subordination of Novopolotsk.

During 2000-2005, natural gas was supplied to the village, the boiler house was reconstructed, and the residents of Borovukha received high-quality drinking water.

Notable natives and residents[ | ]

• Yanka Kupala (1882-1942) - People's poet of the Belarusian SSR.
• Vorobyov, Alexey Vladimirovich (1975-2000) - guard senior lieutenant, Hero of Russia.

Attractions[ | ]

• section of the old Ekaterininsky tract
• grave of the young underground fighter Dima Potapenko (1968)
• memorial complex "Star" in memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War on the site of a German concentration camp Staatlag 354 (1995)
• memorial plaque in memory of Guard Senior Lieutenant Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyov
• memorial plaque in memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union