Chervyanka

The village was founded in 1900. In 1926, the homestead (zaimka) of Chervyanka had 8 households and a population of 39; administratively, the locality was part of the Klepikovsky selsoviet in Pristansky District, Biysk Okrug, Siberian Krai. Until the mid-1960s, Chervyanka was not part of Troitsky District: it was initially listed under Ust-Pristansky District, then briefly attached to Aleysky, later returned to Ust-Pristan; in 1966, the village was transferred to Troitsky District. According to one version, this may have been facilitated by an article in the krai newspaper by journalist Vladimir Vasilyevich Guselnikov, "Chervyanka. Between Heaven and Earth." Throughout its existence, the village's life was connected with timber harvesting: a timber enterprise (lespromkhoz), a forestry enterprise (leskhoz), and a chemical forestry enterprise (khimleskhoz) operated; until the 1980s, pine resin, coniferous boughs, and brooms were also harvested; in the 1950s–1960s, most timber was floated down the Kamyshinka River. During the Great Patriotic War, women replaced men at heavy tasks: loading timber by hand, working at the sawmill and in forest plots. In the early 1940s, the idea of building a railway branch to the village was discussed, but the project was postponed due to the war. As of 2013, the population was 115. The school in the village has been liquidated. Notable figures include Vasily Ivanovich Belov, Hero of Socialist Labour and World War II veteran, who after demobilization worked at the Borovlyansky timber enterprise, created a consolidated three-shift brigade recognized in 1966 as the best harvesting brigade in the USSR; he later worked as senior foreman of the Chervyansky timber-harvesting section, then as chairman of the Chervyansky Rural Soviet until retiring in 1977; he lived in Chervyanka, died on 2 March 2000, and is buried in the village cemetery. Also mentioned are the oldest worker of the Chervyansky forestry, Sergei Fyodorovich Vyatkin, with over forty years of service, and Vladimir Dmitrievich Levun, who devoted about thirty years to the Chervyansky forestry; among the foresters are Valentina Petrovna Dranichnikova and Sofya Vladimirovna Vyatkina.