"Everything here is made of cement" /Yashkino/

____ From the very beginning of the settlement, local residents burned lime here. The construction of the railway in the early 20th century opened up new perspectives. There was a detour "1521 versts of the Siberian Railway", which began the development of limestone in quarries. Its production turned out to be so profitable that it prompted entrepreneurs to the idea of ​​building a cement plant, which eventually began to grow into residential buildings. So the village arose.
____ Regarding the origin of the name "Yashkino" there are several versions .... According to one of them, the name came from a farm in which a wealthy man, Yashka or Yashkin, previously lived. According to the second version, the geological expedition in order to identify the feasibility of building a cement plant was headed by none other than Joseph Pavlovich Yashkin.
From the documents of the Tomsk State Archives, however, it appears that the village of Nizhneyashkino existed as early as 1881, and I.P. Yashkin was in this area only in 1909-1910. Therefore, there is an assumption that the village was called "Yashkino" only because of the proximity of the villages of Nizhneyashkino and Sredneiyashkino.
____ Gradually the village was upset, there was a post office, chapel, school, shops. By 1917, there were already 88 residential buildings. After the revolution, the People’s House was opened, a kind of club where meetings, conversations were held, films and evening gatherings with dances were shown.
Life is boiling!
___ During the war, at a cement plant in a short time mastered the production of buildings for air bombs and mines, made skis. And in the sixties they opened the Yashkinsky cement-slate plant, whose products not only diverged throughout the Soviet Union, but also exported abroad! In 1975, expanded clay gravel plant was launched.
These were large and powerful industries, giving work not only to the inhabitants of the village, but also to the nearest villages.
____ As a child, I often drove Yashkino by bus or train on the way to relatives. And she always wondered how people live! A thick layer of cement dust covered literally everything here! It was unrealistic to see what was growing under the cement shelter in the gardens, and there was no question of drying clothes on the street or airing the room. The people were indignant and endured with all their might ...
___ Today, these enterprises have sunk into oblivion. Only KDV - Yashkino operates - one of the most dynamically developing enterprises in Kuzbass, the former Yashkinsky food factory, which not only managed to survive the period of general economic instability in the mid-nineties, but also took a big step forward in modernizing equipment and improving technology.
___ But the prestige of the plant, which feeds all of Russia with cookies, gingerbread and waffles, does not particularly affect the general standard of living of Yashkinites.
The village is slowly turning into an ordinary village ....