A mysterious Kanatnoye settlement. A geographical

A mysterious Kanatnoye settlement. A geographical essay.


I turn on the radio and listen to the news report.

It seems that the settlement Kanatnoye [Rope] is mentioned.

What can be interesting in Kanatnoye settlement? Maybe an airport? I'm not interested in Kanatnoye! Wasting time on something from past eras? On something, that is known to everybody?

At some point, skepticism is replaced by optimism.

Where does optimism come from?

I remember that allegedly hemp tackle were one of the main items of Russian export.

Well, how! A hemp tackle for the Fleet!

If it was such an important export good, it must have been produced in huge quantities somewhere.

Surely there will be several of these "Kanatnoye" on the geographical map.

It will be possible to write an interesting essay and speculate about the history of Russia and Russian pre-revolutionary exports - especially before the moment when steamboats appeared. Steamboats require much less hemp tackle.

If we will talking about Kanatnoye near the Black Sea, then in this case I will remember the history of the development of the Black Sea coast, of Potemkin achievements... I will tell about the Russian sailing Black Sea Fleet, about Ushakov, about ...

In a word, I will show myself as a connoisseur of history and as a patriot.

Armed with optimism, I begin to look for Kanatnoye in geographic space.

However, I feel a disappointment.

Kanatnoye is not found.

But I read materials about the tackle industry.

"In the USSR in 1934, 18 state-owned enterprises were engaged in the production ...."

“The geographical distribution of the state hemp tackle industry by the beginning of the second five-year plan is as follows (in terms of production capacity): Ukrainian SSR - 51.0%, Leningrad region - 18.5%, Kursk region - 7.0%, Northern region - 6.5%, other regions of the RSFSR - 17.0%."

“The largest tackle factories and plants in the USSR are located in Leningrad, Odessa, Kharkov, Gorky, Rybinsk, Dzerzhinsk and Arkhangelsk."


If I take into account the information received, then I should not deny in principle the possibility of the existence of such a settlement as "Kanatnoye".

[Kanatnaya Street is a disappeared street in Lipetsk. Kanatnaya street - a street in the Dnieper. Kanatnaya Street - a street in Odessa.]

It seems that something was said in the news about the fact that Kanatnoye is located in the Kherson (or Nikolaev?) oblast.

When receiving information by radio, there may be inaccuracies in perception. Moreover, over the period from the 30s of the 20th century to the present, the location of the production could change, and new settlements could appear on the map ...

On occasion, I will pay attention to the location of the Kanatnoye settlement - if such a settlement really exists.

Kanatnoye was not found, yet. So, it will be necessary to write not about Potemkin-Tauricheski, not about Suvorov, but about my applications to the Government of the Russian Federation and about unpaid compensation for the lost ownership for the object of real estate.

("To a free life their enmity is irreconcilable,
Thoughts draw from forgotten newspapers
From the times of the Ochakovskys and of the conquest of the Crimea;
Always they ready to criticize
They all sing the same song...
Where, show us, fathers of the fatherland,
Whom should we take as models for ourselves?..”

Alexander Griboyedov) [unofficial translation].


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May 5, 2022 19:42


Translation from Russian into English: May 5, 2022 20:48.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “Таинственное Канатное. Географический очерк”.

{ 2960. Таинственное Канатное. Географический очерк.
MMCMXXX. A mysterious Kanatnoye settlement. A geographical sketch. }