Nizmenny Lighthouse
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(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
This is the fourth lighthouse built on the Primorye coast after Skryplevo, Povorotny and Nazimov. Although it was built more than a hundred years ago—put into operation in 1903—the lighthouse still remains one of the most remote and inaccessible in Primorye. The sea here is quite often stormy, there is no equipped pier, and it is impossible to build one in these places. The road along the coast is approximately 80 km off-road, along river beds and swamps.
*
The history of the construction is indicative. The project was signed in 1901, and in 1903 everything was ready. How in such a wilderness, in just two years, was it possible to build a capital structure that has been in service for more than a hundred years? There were people at that time...
Equipment for the lighthouse was brought from France. Here is an extract from the old form: "The rotation mechanism of the lighthouse of the Sautre-Garle company. The optical apparatus rotates on mercury using a clock mechanism. The year of installation is 1903... The total height of the lighthouse tower is 17.4 m.... the total height of the tower from sea level is 66.2 m... the color of the lighthouse light is white... the light intensity of the lighthouse is 1,080,000 candles... the geographic range of visibility of the light is 22.8 miles. Light source - kerosene burner. Kerosene consumption - 510 g per hour. Alcohol consumption for heating - 70 g.”
*
The working part of the optical apparatus is a huge prefabricated structure made of Fresnel lenses. The segments are made of crystal, the frame is made of bronze, the entire structure weighs almost 100 kilograms and is about a meter high. The lens had a very complex design; the lighthouse's glimpses were beams into which it collected light. There is a separate lens for each beam. When the lighthouse lens rotates, the beams cast rays far into the sea and the fire appears to flare up and go out. The combination of flashes and the repetition cycle are individual for each lighthouse in the world. For each lighthouse, a lens of a separate design was made. The entire structure floated in a bowl into which about 150 kg of mercury was poured. On such a bearing, it began to rotate at the touch of a finger. The lens rotates, the fire shines - the sailors know where they are.
*
Since 1906, a meteorological post has also been operational at the lighthouse. It operated from 1906 to 1940, then from 1946 to 1960. In July 1948, the weather station was converted into a weather station.
In 1938, the lighthouse equipment was replenished with the RMS-3m radio beacon. This installation was replaced in 1957 by a more modern one - KRM 50/24. In 1965, its own radio station, R 657, appeared here for operational communication with management.
The lighthouse operated on kerosene for almost half a century. Then kerosene was replaced by electricity; in 1952, the kerosene-heating installation here was replaced by an electric one, but the lens served until the beginning of the 21st century, and only a few years ago was replaced by a new one. The old one was dismantled, and now its components - thick glasses in bronze frames - are stored in the administration of the district hydrographic network and are listed on the balance sheet. The lighthouse workers are worried about their fate: “Lest they force them to sell them for scrap, but this is an ancient relic. It needs to go to a museum!”
Here, in the administration of the RGS, they carefully store (for more than a hundred years!!!) blue tracing papers - copies of the plans of the Nizmny lighthouse. More precisely, copies of copies of these plans, on which notes, comments, and the names of those responsible for construction are written in beautiful calligraphic handwriting
lighthouse of people.
*
In 1975, the Nizmny lighthouse was reconstructed. A new lighthouse technical building, a 2-story, 8-apartment residential building, was built. The KRM-100 radio beacon was installed, the siren was replaced with a nautofon, and new radio masts were installed.
In the 90s, with the widespread return of Orthodoxy to Russia, a command was passed through the hydrography service - to transfer the bells that had once been confiscated from churches and transferred to the lighthouse service to the churches. Lowland also lost its bell. The bell that served here was transferred to the recently opened parish of the Orthodox Church in the village. Timofeevka.
The ringing of the bell in Timofeevka continued some elusive connection between the village of military sailors and the lighthouse that served these sailors. The village of Timofeevka is the only settlement on which there is a street called Mayak Nizmny. But this is more likely from the realm of mysticism and superstition, with which stories about the seas and ancient buildings are so full. But there is some disagreement about the origin of the bell, which served in Nizmny and now in Timofeevka. The placement of the bell on the lighthouse was provided for by the lighthouse design (sheet 10 of the Project), and it would be logical to assume that the removed bell was at one time specially made for Lowland. ABOUT
However, in 1981, the head of the hydrographic network district, captain-lieutenant Alexander Aleksandrovich Kontorzhevsky, mentioned in a memo that the bell at the Nizmny lighthouse was installed in 1929. It was during these years that church bells requisitioned from the belfries of monasteries and churches were transferred to the lighthouses. Did Lowland have its own bell, where did it disappear, if there was one, and did the church really originally own the bell handed over in the nineties? Apparently, the true origin of the bell and its “biography” before the service on Nizmenny has yet to be established.
It would be very interesting to establish the fate of the lighthouse signal cannon, the placement of which was provided for by the Lighthouse Project.
In 1988, the Dalnegorsky branch of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR carried out a walking local history expedition from Olga to Preobrazhenie, along the sea coast. The expedition also visited Cape Low. One of its participants, Viktor Anatolyevich Tatarnikov, provided photographs showing the bell, which was then still located on Nizmenny.
*
Another photo taken then reminds us of a legend associated with the lighthouse.
On the territory of the lighthouse there is the grave of Joel Vikentievich Davidovich. Local rumor claims that this is the first head of the lighthouse. They say that in the summer of 1907, when he was bringing payment for the installation of equipment to the lighthouse, a bill for one million rubles in gold, he was attacked by Honghuzes at the pass, counting on cash and brutally dealt with him.
However, a publication in the Far East newspaper on August 4, 1907 refutes these allegations. Here is its full text:
“The other day, the head of the Milogradovsky telegraph department, Davidovich, fell victim to his own carelessness. Davidovich, with a coachman, on horseback, went into the forest to fix the telegraph line from the Olginsky tract to the Nizmny lighthouse in the South Ussuri district. During the trip, Davidovich had a gun with him, which he did not carefully inspect when leaving the house, and it itself fired for an unknown reason a shot that pierced the right side and Davidovich’s left hand. At the Nizmenny lighthouse, the victim was provided with medical assistance, but he still died soon.”
The fiancee of the young head of the telegraph department took him here from St. Petersburg for two years,
in the Far Eastern wilderness, a tombstone made of white marble. During Soviet times, the grave was destroyed. An officer took the tombstone away. Then, in the eighties, the lighthouse workers themselves restored the burial place. The gravestone was made of concrete, an old monument and a cross were installed, although it had been knocked down long ago. They surrounded the grave with chains. On the monument, which stands surrounded by oak trees, today you can still read the inscription: “Here lies Joel Vikentyevich Davidovich, died July 15, 1907, 29 years old.” "From your dear homeland, far away, you found a grave here on a rock. Sleep, my dear, deeply. Eternal memory to you."
*
Unfortunately, the Nizmny lighthouse is not recognized as a historical or any other monument, although, of course, it is of both architectural and historical value.
Extract from the pilot:
FROM CAPE LOW TO OLGA BAY The coast stretches for 8.3 miles to NNE. Almost along its entire length it is high, rocky, and steep in places; low areas are located at the tops of bays, where river and stream valleys open out to the sea. The coast is slightly indented; a bay juts into it, located 1.1 miles from Cape Nizmny, and Manevsky Bay.
Cape Nizmny (43°30' N. 135°08' E) is the southeastern tip of the peninsula, which protrudes into the sea in the form of a flat plateau and ends with rocky cliffs. In these cliffs, wide horizontal layers of dark brown rocks are visible.
The peninsula is noticeable due to the fact that it is relatively lower than the adjacent mountainous area and protrudes far into the sea. The cape and the adjacent shores are overgrown with grass, and a mixed forest grows in the depths of the peninsula. On the radar screen from 10-15 miles, Cape Nizhnyny is depicted as an island, and from a distance of less than 10 miles, the image of the cape is clear and matches its outline on the maps.
The Nizmny lighthouse was built on Cape Nizmny. At the lighthouse there is a radio beacon and a sound signaling installation. The lighthouse buildings are noticeable when approaching from the SW.
A stone with a depth of 8.2 m lies at 2.2
kbt to ENE from Cape Nizhny.
Thanks to the head of the Olga hydrographic network district, Ivan Slakvenko, for the materials provided.
***Roman Tarasov.
Photos of the author, Ivan Slakvenko, Viktor Tatarnikov, as well as from the free Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia were used. ***
(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
This is the fourth lighthouse built on the Primorye coast after Skryplevo, Povorotny and Nazimov. Although it was built more than a hundred years ago—put into operation in 1903—the lighthouse still remains one of the most remote and inaccessible in Primorye. The sea here is quite often stormy, there is no equipped pier, and it is impossible to build one in these places. The road along the coast is approximately 80 km off-road, along river beds and swamps.
*
The history of the construction is indicative. The project was signed in 1901, and in 1903 everything was ready. How in such a wilderness, in just two years, was it possible to build a capital structure that has been in service for more than a hundred years? There were people at that time...
Equipment for the lighthouse was brought from France. Here is an extract from the old form: "The rotation mechanism of the lighthouse of the Sautre-Garle company. The optical apparatus rotates on mercury using a clock mechanism. The year of installation is 1903... The total height of the lighthouse tower is 17.4 m.... the total height of the tower from sea level is 66.2 m... the color of the lighthouse light is white... the light intensity of the lighthouse is 1,080,000 candles... the geographic range of visibility of the light is 22.8 miles. Light source - kerosene burner. Kerosene consumption - 510 g per hour. Alcohol consumption for heating - 70 g.”
*
The working part of the optical apparatus is a huge prefabricated structure made of Fresnel lenses. The segments are made of crystal, the frame is made of bronze, the entire structure weighs almost 100 kilograms and is about a meter high. The lens had a very complex design; the lighthouse's glimpses were beams into which it collected light. There is a separate lens for each beam. When the lighthouse lens rotates, the beams cast rays far into the sea and the fire appears to flare up and go out. The combination of flashes and the repetition cycle are individual for each lighthouse in the world. For each lighthouse, a lens of a separate design was made. The entire structure floated in a bowl into which about 150 kg of mercury was poured. On such a bearing, it began to rotate at the touch of a finger. The lens rotates, the fire shines - the sailors know where they are.
*
Since 1906, a meteorological post has also been operational at the lighthouse. It operated from 1906 to 1940, then from 1946 to 1960. In July 1948, the weather station was converted into a weather station.
In 1938, the lighthouse equipment was replenished with the RMS-3m radio beacon. This installation was replaced in 1957 by a more modern one - KRM 50/24. In 1965, its own radio station, R 657, appeared here for operational communication with management.
The lighthouse operated on kerosene for almost half a century. Then kerosene was replaced by electricity; in 1952, the kerosene-heating installation here was replaced by an electric one, but the lens served until the beginning of the 21st century, and only a few years ago was replaced by a new one. The old one was dismantled, and now its components - thick glasses in bronze frames - are stored in the administration of the district hydrographic network and are listed on the balance sheet. The lighthouse workers are worried about their fate: “Lest they force them to sell them for scrap, but this is an ancient relic. It needs to go to a museum!”
Here, in the administration of the RGS, they carefully store (for more than a hundred years!!!) blue tracing papers - copies of the plans of the Nizmny lighthouse. More precisely, copies of copies of these plans, on which notes, comments, and the names of those responsible for construction are written in beautiful calligraphic handwriting
lighthouse of people.
*
In 1975, the Nizmny lighthouse was reconstructed. A new lighthouse technical building, a 2-story, 8-apartment residential building, was built. The KRM-100 radio beacon was installed, the siren was replaced with a nautofon, and new radio masts were installed.
In the 90s, with the widespread return of Orthodoxy to Russia, a command was passed through the hydrography service - to transfer the bells that had once been confiscated from churches and transferred to the lighthouse service to the churches. Lowland also lost its bell. The bell that served here was transferred to the recently opened parish of the Orthodox Church in the village. Timofeevka.
The ringing of the bell in Timofeevka continued some elusive connection between the village of military sailors and the lighthouse that served these sailors. The village of Timofeevka is the only settlement on which there is a street called Mayak Nizmny. But this is more likely from the realm of mysticism and superstition, with which stories about the seas and ancient buildings are so full. But there is some disagreement about the origin of the bell, which served in Nizmny and now in Timofeevka. The placement of the bell on the lighthouse was provided for by the lighthouse design (sheet 10 of the Project), and it would be logical to assume that the removed bell was at one time specially made for Lowland. ABOUT
However, in 1981, the head of the hydrographic network district, captain-lieutenant Alexander Aleksandrovich Kontorzhevsky, mentioned in a memo that the bell at the Nizmny lighthouse was installed in 1929. It was during these years that church bells requisitioned from the belfries of monasteries and churches were transferred to the lighthouses. Did Lowland have its own bell, where did it disappear, if there was one, and did the church really originally own the bell handed over in the nineties? Apparently, the true origin of the bell and its “biography” before the service on Nizmenny has yet to be established.
It would be very interesting to establish the fate of the lighthouse signal cannon, the placement of which was provided for by the Lighthouse Project.
In 1988, the Dalnegorsky branch of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR carried out a walking local history expedition from Olga to Preobrazhenie, along the sea coast. The expedition also visited Cape Low. One of its participants, Viktor Anatolyevich Tatarnikov, provided photographs showing the bell, which was then still located on Nizmenny.
*
Another photo taken then reminds us of a legend associated with the lighthouse.
On the territory of the lighthouse there is the grave of Joel Vikentievich Davidovich. Local rumor claims that this is the first head of the lighthouse. They say that in the summer of 1907, when he was bringing payment for the installation of equipment to the lighthouse, a bill for one million rubles in gold, he was attacked by Honghuzes at the pass, counting on cash and brutally dealt with him.
However, a publication in the Far East newspaper on August 4, 1907 refutes these allegations. Here is its full text:
“The other day, the head of the Milogradovsky telegraph department, Davidovich, fell victim to his own carelessness. Davidovich, with a coachman, on horseback, went into the forest to fix the telegraph line from the Olginsky tract to the Nizmny lighthouse in the South Ussuri district. During the trip, Davidovich had a gun with him, which he did not carefully inspect when leaving the house, and it itself fired for an unknown reason a shot that pierced the right side and Davidovich’s left hand. At the Nizmenny lighthouse, the victim was provided with medical assistance, but he still died soon.”
The fiancee of the young head of the telegraph department took him here from St. Petersburg for two years,
in the Far Eastern wilderness, a tombstone made of white marble. During Soviet times, the grave was destroyed. An officer took the tombstone away. Then, in the eighties, the lighthouse workers themselves restored the burial place. The gravestone was made of concrete, an old monument and a cross were installed, although it had been knocked down long ago. They surrounded the grave with chains. On the monument, which stands surrounded by oak trees, today you can still read the inscription: “Here lies Joel Vikentyevich Davidovich, died July 15, 1907, 29 years old.” "From your dear homeland, far away, you found a grave here on a rock. Sleep, my dear, deeply. Eternal memory to you."
*
Unfortunately, the Nizmny lighthouse is not recognized as a historical or any other monument, although, of course, it is of both architectural and historical value.
Extract from the pilot:
FROM CAPE LOW TO OLGA BAY The coast stretches for 8.3 miles to NNE. Almost along its entire length it is high, rocky, and steep in places; low areas are located at the tops of bays, where river and stream valleys open out to the sea. The coast is slightly indented; a bay juts into it, located 1.1 miles from Cape Nizmny, and Manevsky Bay.
Cape Nizmny (43°30' N. 135°08' E) is the southeastern tip of the peninsula, which protrudes into the sea in the form of a flat plateau and ends with rocky cliffs. In these cliffs, wide horizontal layers of dark brown rocks are visible.
The peninsula is noticeable due to the fact that it is relatively lower than the adjacent mountainous area and protrudes far into the sea. The cape and the adjacent shores are overgrown with grass, and a mixed forest grows in the depths of the peninsula. On the radar screen from 10-15 miles, Cape Nizhnyny is depicted as an island, and from a distance of less than 10 miles, the image of the cape is clear and matches its outline on the maps.
The Nizmny lighthouse was built on Cape Nizmny. At the lighthouse there is a radio beacon and a sound signaling installation. The lighthouse buildings are noticeable when approaching from the SW.
A stone with a depth of 8.2 m lies at 2.2
kbt to ENE from Cape Nizhny.
Thanks to the head of the Olga hydrographic network district, Ivan Slakvenko, for the materials provided.
***Roman Tarasov.
Photos of the author, Ivan Slakvenko, Viktor Tatarnikov, as well as from the free Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia were used. ***
(autotranslated, could have mistakes)
This is the fourth lighthouse built on the Primorye coast after Skryplevo, Povorotny and Nazimov. Although it was built more than a hundred years ago—put into operation in 1903—the lighthouse still remains one of the most remote and inaccessible in Primorye. The sea here is quite often stormy, there is no equipped pier, and it is impossible to build one in these places. The road along the coast is approximately 80 km off-road, along river beds and swamps.
*
The history of the construction is indicative. The project was signed in 1901, and in 1903 everything was ready. How in such a wilderness, in just two years, was it possible to build a capital structure that has been in service for more than a hundred years? There were people at that time...
Equipment for the lighthouse was brought from France. Here is an extract from the old form: "The rotation mechanism of the lighthouse of the Sautre-Garle company. The optical apparatus rotates on mercury using a clock mechanism. The year of installation is 1903... The total height of the lighthouse tower is 17.4 m.... the total height of the tower from sea level is 66.2 m... the color of the lighthouse light is white... the light intensity of the lighthouse is 1,080,000 candles... the geographic range of visibility of the light is 22.8 miles. Light source - kerosene burner. Kerosene consumption - 510 g per hour. Alcohol consumption for heating - 70 g.”
*
The working part of the optical apparatus is a huge prefabricated structure made of Fresnel lenses. The segments are made of crystal, the frame is made of bronze, the entire structure weighs almost 100 kilograms and is about a meter high. The lens had a very complex design; the lighthouse's glimpses were beams into which it collected light. There is a separate lens for each beam. When the lighthouse lens rotates, the beams cast rays far into the sea and the fire appears to flare up and go out. The combination of flashes and the repetition cycle are individual for each lighthouse in the world. For each lighthouse, a lens of a separate design was made. The entire structure floated in a bowl into which about 150 kg of mercury was poured. On such a bearing, it began to rotate at the touch of a finger. The lens rotates, the fire shines - the sailors know where they are.
*
Since 1906, a meteorological post has also been operational at the lighthouse. It operated from 1906 to 1940, then from 1946 to 1960. In July 1948, the weather station was converted into a weather station.
In 1938, the lighthouse equipment was replenished with the RMS-3m radio beacon. This installation was replaced in 1957 by a more modern one - KRM 50/24. In 1965, its own radio station, R 657, appeared here for operational communication with management.
The lighthouse operated on kerosene for almost half a century. Then kerosene was replaced by electricity; in 1952, the kerosene-heating installation here was replaced by an electric one, but the lens served until the beginning of the 21st century, and only a few years ago was replaced by a new one. The old one was dismantled, and now its components - thick glasses in bronze frames - are stored in the administration of the district hydrographic network and are listed on the balance sheet. The lighthouse workers are worried about their fate: “Lest they force them to sell them for scrap, but this is an ancient relic. It needs to go to a museum!”
Here, in the administration of the RGS, they carefully store (for more than a hundred years!!!) blue tracing papers - copies of the plans of the Nizmny lighthouse. More precisely, copies of copies of these plans, on which notes, comments, and the names of those responsible for construction are written in beautiful calligraphic handwriting
lighthouse of people.
*
In 1975, the Nizmny lighthouse was reconstructed. A new lighthouse technical building, a 2-story, 8-apartment residential building, was built. The KRM-100 radio beacon was installed, the siren was replaced with a nautofon, and new radio masts were installed.
In the 90s, with the widespread return of Orthodoxy to Russia, a command was passed through the hydrography service - to transfer the bells that had once been confiscated from churches and transferred to the lighthouse service to the churches. Lowland also lost its bell. The bell that served here was transferred to the recently opened parish of the Orthodox Church in the village. Timofeevka.
The ringing of the bell in Timofeevka continued some elusive connection between the village of military sailors and the lighthouse that served these sailors. The village of Timofeevka is the only settlement on which there is a street called Mayak Nizmny. But this is more likely from the realm of mysticism and superstition, with which stories about the seas and ancient buildings are so full. But there is some disagreement about the origin of the bell, which served in Nizmny and now in Timofeevka. The placement of the bell on the lighthouse was provided for by the lighthouse design (sheet 10 of the Project), and it would be logical to assume that the removed bell was at one time specially made for Lowland. ABOUT
However, in 1981, the head of the hydrographic network district, captain-lieutenant Alexander Aleksandrovich Kontorzhevsky, mentioned in a memo that the bell at the Nizmny lighthouse was installed in 1929. It was during these years that church bells requisitioned from the belfries of monasteries and churches were transferred to the lighthouses. Did Lowland have its own bell, where did it disappear, if there was one, and did the church really originally own the bell handed over in the nineties? Apparently, the true origin of the bell and its “biography” before the service on Nizmenny has yet to be established.
It would be very interesting to establish the fate of the lighthouse signal cannon, the placement of which was provided for by the Lighthouse Project.
In 1988, the Dalnegorsky branch of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR carried out a walking local history expedition from Olga to Preobrazhenie, along the sea coast. The expedition also visited Cape Low. One of its participants, Viktor Anatolyevich Tatarnikov, provided photographs showing the bell, which was then still located on Nizmenny.
*
Another photo taken then reminds us of a legend associated with the lighthouse.
On the territory of the lighthouse there is the grave of Joel Vikentievich Davidovich. Local rumor claims that this is the first head of the lighthouse. They say that in the summer of 1907, when he was bringing payment for the installation of equipment to the lighthouse, a bill for one million rubles in gold, he was attacked by Honghuzes at the pass, counting on cash and brutally dealt with him.
However, a publication in the Far East newspaper on August 4, 1907 refutes these allegations. Here is its full text:
“The other day, the head of the Milogradovsky telegraph department, Davidovich, fell victim to his own carelessness. Davidovich, with a coachman, on horseback, went into the forest to fix the telegraph line from the Olginsky tract to the Nizmny lighthouse in the South Ussuri district. During the trip, Davidovich had a gun with him, which he did not carefully inspect when leaving the house, and it itself fired for an unknown reason a shot that pierced the right side and Davidovich’s left hand. At the Nizmenny lighthouse, the victim was provided with medical assistance, but he still died soon.”
The fiancee of the young head of the telegraph department took him here from St. Petersburg for two years,
in the Far Eastern wilderness, a tombstone made of white marble. During Soviet times, the grave was destroyed. An officer took the tombstone away. Then, in the eighties, the lighthouse workers themselves restored the burial place. The gravestone was made of concrete, an old monument and a cross were installed, although it had been knocked down long ago. They surrounded the grave with chains. On the monument, which stands surrounded by oak trees, today you can still read the inscription: “Here lies Joel Vikentyevich Davidovich, died July 15, 1907, 29 years old.” "From your dear homeland, far away, you found a grave here on a rock. Sleep, my dear, deeply. Eternal memory to you."
*
Unfortunately, the Nizmny lighthouse is not recognized as a historical or any other monument, although, of course, it is of both architectural and historical value.
Extract from the pilot:
FROM CAPE LOW TO OLGA BAY The coast stretches for 8.3 miles to NNE. Almost along its entire length it is high, rocky, and steep in places; low areas are located at the tops of bays, where river and stream valleys open out to the sea. The coast is slightly indented; a bay juts into it, located 1.1 miles from Cape Nizmny, and Manevsky Bay.
Cape Nizmny (43°30' N. 135°08' E) is the southeastern tip of the peninsula, which protrudes into the sea in the form of a flat plateau and ends with rocky cliffs. In these cliffs, wide horizontal layers of dark brown rocks are visible.
The peninsula is noticeable due to the fact that it is relatively lower than the adjacent mountainous area and protrudes far into the sea. The cape and the adjacent shores are overgrown with grass, and a mixed forest grows in the depths of the peninsula. On the radar screen from 10-15 miles, Cape Nizhnyny is depicted as an island, and from a distance of less than 10 miles, the image of the cape is clear and matches its outline on the maps.
The Nizmny lighthouse was built on Cape Nizmny. At the lighthouse there is a radio beacon and a sound signaling installation. The lighthouse buildings are noticeable when approaching from the SW.
A stone with a depth of 8.2 m lies at 2.2
kbt to ENE from Cape Nizhny.
Thanks to the head of the Olga hydrographic network district, Ivan Slakvenko, for the materials provided.
***Roman Tarasov.
Photos of the author, Ivan Slakvenko, Viktor Tatarnikov, as well as from the free Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia were used. ***
Это четвертый по времени постройки маяк на побережье Приморья после Скрыплева, Поворотного и Назимова. Хотя построен он более ста лет назад – сдан в эксплуатацию в 1903 году, маяк до сих пор остается одним из самых удаленных и труднодоступных в Приморье. Море здесь довольно часто бывает бурным, оборудованного причала нет, да и построить его невозможно в этих местах. Дорога по берегу – это примерно 80 км по бездорожью, по руслам рек и болотам.
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Показательна история постройки. Проект был подписан в 1901 году, а в 1903 все было уже готово. Как в такой глухомани, всего за два года удалось построить капитальное строение, которое служит уже более ста лет? Были люди в то время…
Оборудование для маяка завезли из Франции. Вот выписка из старого формуляра: “Механизм вращения маяка фирмы ”Сотре-Гарле”. Оптический аппарат вращается на ртути при помощи часового механизма. Год установки 1903... Полная высота башни маяка - 17,4 м.... полная высота башни от уровня моря - 66,2 м... цвет огня маяка белый... сила света маяка 1 080 000 свечей... географическая дальность видимости огня 22,8 миль. Источник света - керосиновая горелка. Расход керосина - 510 г в час. Расход спирта на разогрев - 70 г”.
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Рабочая часть оптического аппарата – это огромная сборная конструкция из линз Френеля. Сегменты - из хрусталя, оправа – из бронзы, вся конструкция весом почти 100 килограммов и высотой около метра. Линза имела очень сложную конструкцию, проблески маяка – это пучки, в которые она собирала свет. На каждый пучок – отдельная линза. Когда маячная линза вращается, пучки отбрасывают лучи далеко в море и кажется, что огонь вспыхивает и гаснет. Комбинация вспышек и цикл повторения – индивидуальные для каждого маяка в мире. Для каждого маяка изготавливалась и отдельная по конструкции линза. Вся конструкция плавала в чаше, куда наливалось около 150 кг ртути. На таком подшипнике она начинала вращаться от прикосновения пальца. Линза вращается, огонь светит – моряки знают, где они находятся.
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С 1906 года на маяке заработала и метеорологический пост. Он работал с 1906 по 1940 год, затем с 1946 по 1960. В июле 1948 года метеопост был преобразован в метеостанцию.
В 1938 году оборудование маяка пополнилось радиомаяком РМС - 3м. Эта установка в 1957 году была заменена на более современную – КРМ 50/24. В 1965 году здесь появилась собственная радиостанция Р 657 для оперативной связи с управлением.
На керосине маяк работал почти полвека. Потом керосин сменило электричество, в 1952 году керосино-калильная установка здесь была заменена на электрическую, но линза прослужила до начала ХХI века, и лишь несколько лет назад была сменена новой. Старую разобрали, и теперь ее составные части - толстые стекла в бронзовых оправах - хранятся в управлении района гидрографической сети и числятся на балансе. Маячники беспокоятся за их судьбу: “Как бы не заставили сдать на металлолом, а это старинная реликвия. Ее нужно в музей!”
Здесь же, в управлении РГС, бережно хранят (уже больше ста лет!!!) синие кальки – копии планов маяка Низменного. Вернее, копии копий этих планов, на которых красивым каллиграфическим почерком выведены пометки, замечания, фамилии ответственных за строительство маяка людей.
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В 1975 году На маяке Низменный произведена реконструкция. Построено новое маячно- техническое здание, 2-х этажный 8-квартирный жилой дом. Вмонтирован радиомаяк КРМ-100, сирена заменена наутофоном, а также установлены новые радиомачты.
В 90-х годах, с широким возвращением православия в Россию, по службе гидрографии прошла команда – передать некогда изъятые у церквей и переданные в маячную службу колокола церквям. Лишился колокола и Низменный. Служивший здесь колокол передали недавно открывшемуся приходу православной церкви в пос. Тимофеевка.
Звон колокола в Тимофеевке продолжил некую неуловимую связь между поселком военных моряков и маяком, который служил этим морякам. Поселок Тимофеевка – единственный населенный пункт, на котором есть улица с названием Маяк Низменный. Но это уже, скорее из области мистики и суеверий, которыми так полны рассказы о морях и старинных сооружениях. А вот вокруг происхождения колокола, служившего на Низменном а теперь – в Тимофеевке, есть некоторые разногласия. Размещение колокола на маяке было предусмотрено проектом маяка (лист 10 Проекта), и было бы логичным предположить, что снятый колокол в свое время был специально изготовлен для Низменного. Однако в 1981 году начальник района гидрографической сети, капитан-лейтенант Александр Александрович Конторжевский в служебной записке упоминает, что колокол на маяке Низменный был установлен в 1929 году. Именно в эти годы на маяки передавались церковные колокола, реквизированные со звонниц монастырей и храмов. Был ли на Низменном собственный колокол, куда он исчез, если был и действительно ли церкви изначально принадлежал переданный в девяностых годах колокол? Видимо, истинное происхождение колокола и его «биографию» до службы на Низменном еще предстоит установить.
Было бы очень интересно установить и судьбу маячной сигнальной пушки, размещение которой было предусмотрено Проектом маяка.
В 1988 г. Дальнегорским отделением Приморского филиала Географического общества СССР, была осуществлена пешая краеведческая экспедиция от Ольги до Преображения, вдоль морского побережья. Побывала экспедиция и на Мысе Низменном. Один из ее участников – Виктор Анатольевич Татарников предоставил фотографии, на которых запечатлен и колокол, тогда еще находившийся на Низменном.
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Еще одно фото, сделанное тогда, напоминает об одной легенде, связанной с маяком.
На территории маяка находится могила Иоиля Викентьевича Давидовича. Местная молва утверждает, что это - первый начальник маяка. Рассказывают, что летом 1907 года, когда он вез на маяк плату за установку оборудования, вексель на один миллион рублей золотом, на перевале на него напали хунхузы, рассчитывая на наличные и зверски расправились с ним.
Однако публикация в газете "Дальний Восток" за 4 августа 1907 г. опровергает эти утверждения. Вот ее полный текст:
"На днях заведующий Милоградовским телеграфным отделением Давидович пал жертвой собственной неосторожности. Давидович с ямщиком, верхом на лошади, поехал в лес для исправления телеграфной линии от Ольгинского тракта на маяк Низменный Южно-Уссурийского уезда. Во время путешествия Давидович имел при себе ружьё, которое он при выезде из дома тщательно не осмотрел, и оно само дало от неизвестной причины выстрел, пробивший правый бок и левую руку Давидовича. На маяке Низменном пострадавшему было оказано медицинское пособие, но он всё-таки вскоре скончался".
Невеста молодого заведующего телеграфным отделением два года везла из Петербурга сюда, в дальневосточную глухомань, надгробный памятник из белого мрамора. В советское время могила была разрушена. Надгробие увез какой-то офицер. Затем, в восьмидесятые годы, маячники сами восстановили захоронение. Могильную плиту сделали из бетона, установили старый памятник, крест, правда, с него давно сбили. Обнесли могилу цепями. На памятнике, который стоит в окружении дубняка, и сегодня еще можно прочесть надписи: “Здесь покоится Иоиль Викентьевич Давидович скон. 15 июля 1907 г. 29 лет”. “От Родины милой далекой нашел ты могилу здесь на скале. Спи же, мой милый, глубоко. Вечная память тебе”.
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К сожалению, маяк Низменный не признан ни историческим, никаким другим памятником, хотя, безусловно, представляет и архитектурную, и историческую ценность.
Выписка из лоции:
ОТ МЫСА НИЗМЕННЫЙ ДО ЗАЛИВА ОЛЬГИ берег тянется на 8.3 мили к NNЕ. Почти на всем протяжении он высок, скалист, местами обрывист; низкие участки имеются в вершинах бухт, где к морю выходят долины рек и ручьев. Берег изрезан незначительно, в него вдается бухта, расположенная в 1,1 мили от мыса Низменный, и бухта Маневского.
Мыс Низменный (43°30' N. 135°08' Е) является юго-восточной оконечностью полуострова, который выступает в море в виде ровного плато и заканчивается скалистыми отвесными обрывами. В этих обрывах видны широкие горизонтальные пласты горных пород темно-коричневого цвета.
Полуостров приметен благодаря тому, что он сравнительно ниже прилегающей к нему гористой местности и далеко выступает в море. Мыс и прилегающие к нему берега поросли травой, а в глубине полуострова растет смешанный лес. На экране РЛС с 10—15 миль мыс Низменный изображается в виде острова, а с расстояния менее 10 миль изображение мыса четкое и соответствует очертаниям его на картах.
Маяк Низменный сооружен на мысе Низменный. При маяке имеются радиомаяк и звукосигнальная установка. Постройки маяка приметны при подходе с SW.
Камень с глубиной 8,2 м лежит в 2,2 кбт к ЕNЕ от мыса Низменный.
Спасибо начальнику района гидрографической сети п. Ольга Ивану Слаквенко за предоставленные материалы.
Роман Тарасов.
Использованы фото автора, Ивана Слаквенко, Виктора Татарникова, а также из свободной энциклопедии Интернета – Википедии.
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This is the fourth lighthouse built on the Primorye coast after Skryplevo, Povorotny and Nazimov. Although it was built more than a hundred years ago—put into operation in 1903—the lighthouse still remains one of the most remote and inaccessible in Primorye. The sea here is quite often stormy, there is no equipped pier, and it is impossible to build one in these places. The road along the coast is approximately 80 km off-road, along river beds and swamps.
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The history of the construction is indicative. The project was signed in 1901, and in 1903 everything was ready. How in such a wilderness, in just two years, was it possible to build a capital structure that has been in service for more than a hundred years? There were people at that time...
Equipment for the lighthouse was brought from France. Here is an extract from the old form: "The rotation mechanism of the lighthouse of the Sautre-Garle company. The optical apparatus rotates on mercury using a clock mechanism. The year of installation is 1903... The total height of the lighthouse tower is 17.4 m.... the total height of the tower from sea level is 66.2 m... the color of the lighthouse light is white... the light intensity of the lighthouse is 1,080,000 candles... the geographic range of visibility of the light is 22.8 miles. Light source - kerosene burner. Kerosene consumption - 510 g per hour. Alcohol consumption for heating - 70 g.”
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The working part of the optical apparatus is a huge prefabricated structure made of Fresnel lenses. The segments are made of crystal, the frame is made of bronze, the entire structure weighs almost 100 kilograms and is about a meter high. The lens had a very complex design; the lighthouse's glimpses were beams into which it collected light. There is a separate lens for each beam. When the lighthouse lens rotates, the beams cast rays far into the sea and the fire appears to flare up and go out. The combination of flashes and the repetition cycle are individual for each lighthouse in the world. For each lighthouse, a lens of a separate design was made. The entire structure floated in a bowl into which about 150 kg of mercury was poured. On such a bearing, it began to rotate at the touch of a finger. The lens rotates, the fire shines - the sailors know where they are.
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Since 1906, a meteorological post has also been operational at the lighthouse. It operated from 1906 to 1940, then from 1946 to 1960. In July 1948, the weather station was converted into a weather station.
In 1938, the lighthouse equipment was replenished with the RMS-3m radio beacon. This installation was replaced in 1957 by a more modern one - KRM 50/24. In 1965, its own radio station, R 657, appeared here for operational communication with management.
The lighthouse operated on kerosene for almost half a century. Then kerosene was replaced by electricity; in 1952, the kerosene-heating installation here was replaced by an electric one, but the lens served until the beginning of the 21st century, and only a few years ago was replaced by a new one. The old one was dismantled, and now its components - thick glasses in bronze frames - are stored in the administration of the district hydrographic network and are listed on the balance sheet. The lighthouse workers are worried about their fate: “Lest they force them to sell them for scrap, but this is an ancient relic. It needs to go to a museum!”
Here, in the administration of the RGS, they carefully store (for more than a hundred years!!!) blue tracing papers - copies of the plans of the Nizmny lighthouse. More precisely, copies of copies of these plans, on which notes, comments, and the names of those responsible for construction are written in beautiful calligraphic handwriting
lighthouse of people.
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In 1975, the Nizmny lighthouse was reconstructed. A new lighthouse technical building, a 2-story, 8-apartment residential building, was built. The KRM-100 radio beacon was installed, the siren was replaced with a nautofon, and new radio masts were installed.
In the 90s, with the widespread return of Orthodoxy to Russia, a command was passed through the hydrography service - to transfer the bells that had once been confiscated from churches and transferred to the lighthouse service to the churches. Lowland also lost its bell. The bell that served here was transferred to the recently opened parish of the Orthodox Church in the village. Timofeevka.
The ringing of the bell in Timofeevka continued some elusive connection between the village of military sailors and the lighthouse that served these sailors. The village of Timofeevka is the only settlement on which there is a street called Mayak Nizmny. But this is more likely from the realm of mysticism and superstition, with which stories about the seas and ancient buildings are so full. But there is some disagreement about the origin of the bell, which served in Nizmny and now in Timofeevka. The placement of the bell on the lighthouse was provided for by the lighthouse design (sheet 10 of the Project), and it would be logical to assume that the removed bell was at one time specially made for Lowland. ABOUT
However, in 1981, the head of the hydrographic network district, captain-lieutenant Alexander Aleksandrovich Kontorzhevsky, mentioned in a memo that the bell at the Nizmny lighthouse was installed in 1929. It was during these years that church bells requisitioned from the belfries of monasteries and churches were transferred to the lighthouses. Did Lowland have its own bell, where did it disappear, if there was one, and did the church really originally own the bell handed over in the nineties? Apparently, the true origin of the bell and its “biography” before the service on Nizmenny has yet to be established.
It would be very interesting to establish the fate of the lighthouse signal cannon, the placement of which was provided for by the Lighthouse Project.
In 1988, the Dalnegorsky branch of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR carried out a walking local history expedition from Olga to Preobrazhenie, along the sea coast. The expedition also visited Cape Low. One of its participants, Viktor Anatolyevich Tatarnikov, provided photographs showing the bell, which was then still located on Nizmenny.
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Another photo taken then reminds us of a legend associated with the lighthouse.
On the territory of the lighthouse there is the grave of Joel Vikentievich Davidovich. Local rumor claims that this is the first head of the lighthouse. They say that in the summer of 1907, when he was bringing payment for the installation of equipment to the lighthouse, a bill for one million rubles in gold, he was attacked by Honghuzes at the pass, counting on cash and brutally dealt with him.
However, a publication in the Far East newspaper on August 4, 1907 refutes these allegations. Here is its full text:
“The other day, the head of the Milogradovsky telegraph department, Davidovich, fell victim to his own carelessness. Davidovich, with a coachman, on horseback, went into the forest to fix the telegraph line from the Olginsky tract to the Nizmny lighthouse in the South Ussuri district. During the trip, Davidovich had a gun with him, which he did not carefully inspect when leaving the house, and it itself fired for an unknown reason a shot that pierced the right side and Davidovich’s left hand. At the Nizmenny lighthouse, the victim was provided with medical assistance, but he still died soon.”
The fiancee of the young head of the telegraph department took him here from St. Petersburg for two years,
in the Far Eastern wilderness, a tombstone made of white marble. During Soviet times, the grave was destroyed. An officer took the tombstone away. Then, in the eighties, the lighthouse workers themselves restored the burial place. The gravestone was made of concrete, an old monument and a cross were installed, although it had been knocked down long ago. They surrounded the grave with chains. On the monument, which stands surrounded by oak trees, today you can still read the inscription: “Here lies Joel Vikentyevich Davidovich, died July 15, 1907, 29 years old.” "From your dear homeland, far away, you found a grave here on a rock. Sleep, my dear, deeply. Eternal memory to you."
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Unfortunately, the Nizmny lighthouse is not recognized as a historical or any other monument, although, of course, it is of both architectural and historical value.
Extract from the pilot:
FROM CAPE LOW TO OLGA BAY The coast stretches for 8.3 miles to NNE. Almost along its entire length it is high, rocky, and steep in places; low areas are located at the tops of bays, where river and stream valleys open out to the sea. The coast is slightly indented; a bay juts into it, located 1.1 miles from Cape Nizmny, and Manevsky Bay.
Cape Nizmny (43°30' N. 135°08' E) is the southeastern tip of the peninsula, which protrudes into the sea in the form of a flat plateau and ends with rocky cliffs. In these cliffs, wide horizontal layers of dark brown rocks are visible.
The peninsula is noticeable due to the fact that it is relatively lower than the adjacent mountainous area and protrudes far into the sea. The cape and the adjacent shores are overgrown with grass, and a mixed forest grows in the depths of the peninsula. On the radar screen from 10-15 miles, Cape Nizhnyny is depicted as an island, and from a distance of less than 10 miles, the image of the cape is clear and matches its outline on the maps.
The Nizmny lighthouse was built on Cape Nizmny. At the lighthouse there is a radio beacon and a sound signaling installation. The lighthouse buildings are noticeable when approaching from the SW.
A stone with a depth of 8.2 m lies at 2.2
kbt to ENE from Cape Nizhny.
Thanks to the head of the Olga hydrographic network district, Ivan Slakvenko, for the materials provided.
***Roman Tarasov.
Photos of the author, Ivan Slakvenko, Viktor Tatarnikov, as well as from the free Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia were used. ***
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Record identifiers
- Node
- 544
- Source type
- lighthouse
- Review class
- Lighthouse
- Wikidata class
- Q39715
- Created
- 27/05/2011 12:28:11 UTC
- Changed
- 13/09/2012 15:37:21 UTC
- Source path
- /node/544
All technical fields
- Status
- active Legacy archive claim · Низменный
- Construction date
- Not recorded
- Tower height
- Not recorded
- Focal height
- Not recorded
- Light height
- Not recorded
- Light characteristic
- Not recorded
- Light number
- Not recorded
- Operation
- Not recorded
- Visibility
- Not recorded
- Legacy light IDs
- Not recorded
- Call sign
- Not recorded
- Lens / optics
- Not curated
- Latitude
- Not recorded
- Longitude
- Not recorded
Empty lighthouse fields are shown so review gaps are visible. Lens and optics are curated as heritage assets when evidence exists.