2020-01-01Where Yurga Begins: XVII–XVIII CenturiesYurga is older than it seems. Before the city, before the station, before the factories — there was a small Russian settlement called Ust-Iskitim. Late XVII century. Quiet life by …
2020-01-04Old Yurga: First Houses and SettlersThe first houses of Yurga were offshoots of the village of Polomoshnoye. Approximately 1875–1876 (officially — 1886). People were drawn here by the fertile banks of the Yurga …
2020-01-07Yurga Before the Revolution: Daily Life and TradeBy 1910, Yurga station had everything needed for life. A station building, military barracks, warehouses, merchants’ houses, a confectionery shop. After Stolypin’s …
2020-01-12The 90s and Beyond: Crisis, Survival, and FaithThe 90s were hard on Yurga. Barter, income stratification, privatization. And in 1994, the crisis hit the machine-building plant: wages weren’t paid for months, strikes …