Virtual exhibition of documents «Novopolotsk – the history of the construction of the city in archival documents»

In 1958, one of the youngest cities in our country, Novopolotsk, the Belarusian «oil capital», was founded. The beginning of the history of the city was the adoption in March 1958 by the leadership of the Byelorussian SSR of the decision to organize the All-Union shock Komsomol construction site for the construction of a petrochemical complex.

Designed and built according to the original project, the city stretched along the left bank of the Western Dvina. On the site of seven villages of the Polotsk region (Sloboda, Seredoma, Plaksy, Vasilevtsy, Podkasteltsy, Dubrovo, Kozina), a construction settlement arose. By a decree of the Supreme Council of the BSSR on October 22, 1959, it received the name «Polotsk», and since December 14, 1963, in connection with the construction of an oil refinery complex, located on the site of the villages of Troitskaya, Druchany, Shpinkova, Dachevshchina, Noviki, Zui, etc., the village was elevated to the rank of a city of regional subordination and became known as Novopolotsk.

For several decades, the city of oil workers has grown greatly, and how it all began, we suggest you find out from archival documents.

1,2. 07/17/1958 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 191 “On the allocation of land to the Polotsk Oil Refinery under construction” (F.1947.Op.1.D.252.LL.18-19)

3. February 18, 1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 43 “On approval of the route of the power transmission line – 110 sq. Vitebsk-Polotsk» (F.1947.Op.1.D.270.L.135)

4,5. 04/21/1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 127 “On the allocation of land to the Polotsk Oil Refinery under construction” (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.L.92-93)

6. 04/21/1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 141 “On the allocation of a land plot for the construction of a hospital campus of an oil refinery” (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.L.107)

7. 21.04.1959 Copy from the master plan of the land mass allotted by the decision of the Polotsk District Executive Committee No. 141 of April 21, 1959. under the construction of the Hospital town of the Polotsk Oil Refinery (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.L.108)

8 June 24, 1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 198 “On the commissioning of a canteen for 226 people in the Pioneer village of the Polotsk oil refinery” (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.L.287)

9-15. 06/24/1959 The act of state acceptance of the canteen building for 226 seats, one-story, Polotsk oil refinery (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.LL.288-291)

16. 06/24/1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk Regional Council of Working People’s Deputies No. 199 “On the commissioning of six hostels, each for 50 people from No. 25 to No. 30 in the Pioneer village of the Polotsk oil refinery” (F.1947.Op.1.D.271 .L.292)

17-23. 06/24/1959 The act of state acceptance of the hostel building for 50 people – 6 pcs. from No. 25 to No. 30 one-story Polotsk Oil Refinery. factory (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.LL.293-296)

24. 06.24.1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 200 “On the commissioning of the Cinema for 200 seats in the city of Novo-Polotsk» (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.L.297)

25-29. 06/24/1959 The act of state acceptance of the building of the Cinema for 200 seats one-story trust “Neftestroy” (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.LL.298-300)

30. 07.18.1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 232 “On the opening of the Neftestroevsky seven-year school of general education and a secondary school for working youth in the 1959-60 academic year” (F.1947.Op.1.D.272.L.47)

31. 29.09.1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 312 “On approval of the act by the State Selection Committee for the commissioning of a one-story store in the Pioneer village of the Polotsk Oil Refinery” (F.1947.Op.1.D.272.L.238)

32-36. 09/29/1959 The act of state acceptance of the store building for 8 trading places, one-story (F.1947.Op.1.D.271.LL.239-241)

37. 07.10.1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 321 “On the allocation of land to the Polotsk Oil Refinery for the needs of building a bridge across the Western Dvina River” (F.1947.Op.1.D.273.L.23)

38. 07.10.1959 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 337 “On approval of the names of streets in the village of the Polotsk Oil Refinery” (F.1947.Op.1.D.273.L.50)

39. 04.11.1960 Decision of the Executive Committee of the Polotsk District Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 315 “On the allocation of land plots to the Polotsk Oil Refinery and the Thermal Power Plant under construction” (F.1947.Op.1.D.290.L.103)

40. 02/14/1964 Decision of the Novopolotsk City Council of Workers’ Deputies No. 2 “On the election of the executive committee of the Novopolotsk City Council of Workers’ Deputies” (F.1648.Op.1.D.1.L.33)