Beautiful village. Here's what Wikipedia writes: "It arose as the central settlement of the Ryazanovsky peat enterprise. The origin of the name is not known with certainty. The main version is that this settlement was supposed to be called Radovitsky according to the project, since the village of Radovitsy is located nearby, and the settlement of Radovitsky was supposed to be called Ryazanovsky due to its proximity to the Ryazan region. But when the settlements began to be put on the map, they confused one settlement with another. As a result, they "mirror-imaged" each other. Peat was mined as fuel for the Shatura State District Power Plant and for fertilizing fields. The construction of the enterprise and the settlement was preceded by the construction of the broad-gauge railway Krivandino - Radovitsy (later shortened by several kilometers), and German prisoners were used as labor for the construction of the railway. The road was put into operation in 1944. After the end of the war, repatriated Soviet citizens, that is, soldiers and commanders of the Red Army who had been in German captivity, who also worked on the construction of the enterprise and the village. They lived in the premises of the closed Radovitsky Monastery, in dugouts, in barracks. The labor of the repatriated was forced at first, they were not given passports. Later they were given passports, and those who wanted were allowed to go to their native places. Many did so, and many stayed, married local girls. Specialists from other enterprises also came here to work - Petrovsko-Kobelevskoye, Shaturtorf and others. Ryazanovka produced its first tens of tons of milled peat in 1947."
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