DISTRICT / AIMAG
Kalman District
REGION
Altai Krai
Novoromanovo
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The selo of Novoromanovo is located in Kalman District, Altai Krai, and is part of the Novoromanovsky selsoviet; it was founded in 1914 in connection with the construction of the Altai Railway and its station. In 1915–1916 the first small houses appeared for construction workers; in 1916 brick production began for the station, water tower, and service buildings, and from 1918 settlers began arriving at the Kalmanka station from the selos of Buranovo, Kalistratikha, Panfilovo, and others. In 1925 residents sent authorized representatives Ivan Nikanorovich Posokhin and Ivan Romanovich Prokopev to Barnaul to request land; the head of the land department suggested naming the selo after Prokopev’s patronymic, Romanovo, but because such names already existed, the selo was named Novo-Romanovo. In 1926 the first village council was created, headed by Mikhail Fyodorovich Kukartsev; Ivan Nikanorovich Posokhin was the first postman. In 1957 the Lenin sovkhoz was organized with its central estate in the selo, including 26 settlements. In the 1960s one regiment of a higher military aviation school was quartered in Novoromanovo; the school was disbanded in 1999. The economy is based on agriculture, agricultural processing, and woodworking.
Place, memory, heritage
Historical and cultural legacy
The selo has a secondary general school, a kindergarten, a cultural and leisure centre, and a library. On the grounds of the Novoromanovo school, surrounded by fir trees, there is a memorial to fellow villagers who fell during the Great Patriotic War; it was installed in 1975 by a brigade of local builders from the Lenin sovkhoz with residents’ donations, bearing the inscription “Your feat is immortal! 1941–1945.” More than 500 people left the selo for the front, and 250 did not return. A church in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God is being built in the selo; the rite of foundation took place on 4 October 2023 with the blessing of Bishop Roman of Rubtsovsk and Aleisk. Also, near the school and the memorial of glory, a demilitarized L-39 Albatros training combat aircraft is installed, preserved in memory of the aviation school quartered in the 1960s.
Natural surroundings
The selo is located in the central part of Altai Krai, in the forest-steppe zone, within the northeastern part of the Priobskoye Plateau, about 21 km in a straight-line northwest of the selo of Kalmanka; its absolute elevation is 246 m above sea level. The climate is temperate and sharply continental; the average January temperature is −17.7 °C, July is +19.6 °C, and annual precipitation is 350–400 mm.
Historical and cultural legacy
The selo has a secondary general school, a kindergarten, a cultural and leisure centre, and a library. On the grounds of the Novoromanovo school, surrounded by fir trees, there is a memorial to fellow villagers who fell during the Great Patriotic War; it was installed in 1975 by a brigade of local builders from the Lenin sovkhoz with residents’ donations, bearing the inscription “Your feat is immortal! 1941–1945.” More than 500 people left the selo for the front, and 250 did not return. A church in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God is being built in the selo; the rite of foundation took place on 4 October 2023 with the blessing of Bishop Roman of Rubtsovsk and Aleisk. Also, near the school and the memorial of glory, a demilitarized L-39 Albatros training combat aircraft is installed, preserved in memory of the aviation school quartered in the 1960s.
Living culture and memory
Orthodoxy is widespread in the selo; Orthodox and state holidays of the Russian Federation are celebrated. At the Novoromanovo Secondary School a museum display and a “Hero’s Desk” have been opened in honor of Vladimir Rozhkov, a native of the selo who died in the zone of the special military operation. Since late 2025 a new hockey rink has been operating, hosting matches with teams from neighboring districts; volunteer groups in the selo make camouflage nets and sew clothing. Among mentioned residents are calf-tender Darya Ivanovna Shadrina, awarded the Order of Lenin; teachers Tatyana Pavlovna Sidorova, Konstantin Pavlovich Girosimenko, and Taisya Mikhailovna Motovilova; and the Stepanov family, winners of the district stage of the regional parental feat relay “Warm with the Heat of a Parent’s Heart.” Local creative groups operate at the house of culture; in the surroundings residents rest in birch groves, a pine forest, fields, green hills, and by a pond. Russian cuisine is represented in the food culture.
