kulebakitown.hut.ru was an unofficial local-history and reference website about the town of Kulebaki and the district of the same name in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, listed in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section)[1]. The author identified himself as Andrei Vlaskov and gave the contact address vav45@rambler.ru[2]. In the Counter.nn.ru database, the site retained neither a rating nor a vote count in the surviving samples[1].
What the site offered
The home page opened with the heading "Kulebaki" and a menu of sections: "Photo Gallery," "Our Town," "Transport and Communications," "History of the Town," "Phone Directory," "Enterprises of the Town," "Town News," "Small Business," and "Guestbook"[1]. Expanded navigation led to dozens of subsections — from "The Town and District in Figures" and "Administrative Division of the District" to individual pages on OJSC Kulebaki Metallurgical Plant, LLC Zavod Start, agriculture, fish farming, confectionery production, healthcare, culture, sport, and non-profit organizations[1]. The text of the home page retold the town's history: Kulebaki received town status in 1932, and its coat of arms combined the Nizhny Novgorod deer in the upper part of the shield with a stylized depiction of a wooden "terem" — an architectural monument moved from the 1896 Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition and occupied by the local history museum — in the lower part[1]. As the home page stated, "the town's core enterprise is OJSC Kulebaki Metallurgical Plant, founded in 1866 as the Kulebaki Mining Works — one of the oldest enterprises in Russia and the pioneer of Russian wheel-tire rolling production"[1]; in 1943 the town gained a second major enterprise, a metal-structures plant, and in 1997 the old telephone exchange was replaced with a new one[1]. An extensive statistical block was given: town population 44,300, district population 61,200, 264 enterprises and organizations in the district, 16 industrial enterprises, 93 trade organizations, 19 schools, 65 sports facilities and grounds, and a town population density of 2,900 people per km²[1]. The district's geography was described separately — 938.9 km² in the southwest of the oblast, 188 km from the regional center, bordering the Navashinsky, Ardatovsky, and Vyksunsky districts and close to the borders of Vladimir and Ryazan oblasts and Mordovia, with 28 settlements in the district, including the villages of Veletma and Gremyachevo[1]. In the acknowledgments section, the author thanked Oleg Viktorovich Rudenko and the "Network Technologies Bureau of the ASUP Department of OJSC KMZ" for their help in creating the site, and Nikolai Konstantinovich Zakharov, an advertising engineer at OJSC KMZ, for materials about the plant[2]. The "Town News" section offered registration for posting private classified ads about the town[1].
Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet
The site was listed in the nn.ru directory (the /rub/ section) with a description made up of a list of town topics — metallurgy, ring-rolling production, ferrotitanium, agriculture, fish farming, food industry[1]. In the surviving Counter.nn.ru counter samples, the site does not appear — neither a rating nor votes for it are recorded in the data[1]. The page's own counter, signed "3Darts," showed 1,226 page views at the time of archiving — a detail typical of personal counters from the turn of the 1990s–2000s[2]. No trace of participation in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day has survived in the material.
How it closed
The only surviving snapshot of the home page in the archive is dated June 26, 2002 — no later versions have been recorded[1]. Later, the domain began redirecting to another address in the same zone, err.hut.ru: this redirect was recorded in the archive in 2013[2]. The site's further fate is not reflected in the material.
Sources
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)