Орск | Перворожденный, промышленный, тыловой

"Thrice conceived, once born" is what they say about Orenburg. But where was it "conceived" the first time? Today, we know this place as Orsk. Why was this? Mainly because of the fortress's less-than-ideal location. The most obvious problem is the Ural River's spring flooding; the floods of 1957 and 2024 are undeniable. Nevertheless, the city developed, including in the industrial sector. First, there was the industrialization of the 1930s, followed by the evacuation of factories from the western regions of the country during the Great Patriotic War—from Kramatorsk, Leningrad, Tula, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and elsewhere. About Orsk pie: https://www.ural56.ru/news/624161/ About the evacuation to Orsk during the Great Patriotic War: https://www.ural56.ru/news/635406/ About the burial sites of prisoners of war in Orsk: https://www.ural56.ru/news/577816/ #Orsk #Orenburg #OrenburgRegion #OrenburgOblast #Russia #blogger #citiesofrussia #russia #travel #journey #vlog #Kramatorsk