The Saratov region belongs to the Volga Federal District, in its composition 38 districts. Each of them is unique and interesting in its own way.
Tatishchevsky district
The administrative center of this region is the working village of Tatishchevo. The length of highways in it is about 242 km, it is located in the central part of the Right Bank - on the banks of Idolga, on the Volga Upland - and borders on Saratov. In the Tatishchevsky district of the Saratov region, 29,504 people live. In urban conditions, about 25% of all residents live.
The basis of the region’s economic development is the production of materials for construction needs, rural, even, rather, suburban-type farming. The population grows almost everything that will help to survive on its own, from vegetables and fruits to poultry and milk. Also, food production has been established in the area, there are enterprises for the manufacture of sausages and bakery products.
A military airfield operates in the area, and the Taman Missile Division is located on its territory.
Tatishchevsky district is famous for a number of attractions, namely, monuments of nature and culture. This is the Bolsheivanovsky Manor Park, the Gubarevsky estate of the nobles of the Shakhmatovs, the estate of the local historian Minkha A.N., a centuries-old oak grove and black alder. On the territory of the district, the Golden Horde settlement was found.
Bolsheivanovsky personal park
In Tatishchevsky district, not far from the village of Bolshaya Ivanovka, there is a park with a total area of 4.74 hectares. The complex dates back to the beginning of the XIX century, it is located near an oak grove. The first owner of the estate and the park was the landowner N. M. Kazarinova (since 1820). The hostess erected a house that looks like a chest. In the park, an orchard was set up surrounded by small-leaved lindens.
In 1873 the estate passed into the hands of the farmer P. Korbutovsky, but his son lived in it. A number of buildings were erected, including a mill, which have partially survived to our times. The oak grove itself “survived”, and there were very few patriarch oaks aged 300 or more. Most of the forest was cut down during the Second World War.
Elm Century Oak Forest
The next significant natural monument of the Tatishchevsky district is oak forest. It is located 40 kilometers from Saratov on the outskirts of the village of Vyazovka and covers 4.54 hectares.
Indigenous bayrex seed oaks of the oak trees, unique for the steppe zone of the Saratov region, grow here. In the grove there are aspen, elm, maple and common oak. Mostly ruderal species grow from herbs here.
The oak grove is spread around the pond, where vegetation is almost completely absent.
The main value of oak groves in the presence of giant oaks. Many of them in diameter reach 1 meter, and in height - 15-16 meters. The average age of trees is from 80 to 130 years. All of them are in almost perfect condition.
Vyazovsky Black Alder
Near the Vyazovka river in the Tatishchevsky district, on the outskirts of the village, there is a black alder, covering an area of 16.8 hectares.
Alder forests from black alder, which is also not characteristic of the steppe zone of the region, mainly grow in the protected area. However, the forest appeared naturally. The floodplain forest is formed on hilly ground among the many streams that flow into the river.
The value of the forest is not only in a unique alder, but also in the fact that the average height of the trees is 25-28 meters, and the trunks reach a diameter of 80 centimeters. The density of the stands is 0.8. Together with alder, meadowsweet, currant, bird cherry, willow grows here. On the slopes you can meet a female coder skier. This fern is listed in the Red Book. In the forest and in the Vyazovskaya oak forest, any felling of trees is prohibited; here you cannot build any objects and engage in any economic activity.
Chess Manor
There are architectural monuments in the Tatishchevsky municipal district, one of the most interesting is the Shakhmatov family estate. It is located in the village of Gubarevka. By the way, even boundary signs have been preserved that clearly limit the estate, this is a ditch along the perimeter of the site. Plans have been found in the archives of the GASO that make it possible to completely restore the placement of buildings and plantings on the estate.
The estate owner was a linguist, ethnographer, academician. Shakhmatov A.A. was able to make a cultural center out of the estate. However, to date, everything has been destroyed, fragments of buildings and a few stands, planted at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, remain. Two pine trees, which are already 200 years old and several trees from the alley near the estate, are of historical value.
The estate of Minha A.N.
Tatishchevsky district of the Saratov region takes tourists to the estate of the ethnographer and historian Minkha A. N. It is located in the village of Polchaninovka, at the foot of the Round Mountain. The estate belonged to an ethnographer from 1874 to 1896, who in this short period of time managed to create a park on the estate with pine, spruce, poplar and oak trees that have survived to this day.
According to the drawings of A. N. Minch himself, it can be established that there was a church, arbors, a garden, a stable and an inn on the estate’s territory, and a small birch bridge stretched across the pond.