be destroyed in the first decades of Soviet Period. Soviet Period (Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union), 1917–1991 After October Revolution (1917) peasants worked at kolkhozes, brickworks and railroad. Many people worked in town Rtishchevo. In 1921 there was big fire, Bol'shaya ("Big") street had burnt down. Many houses started to be built on Latyshovka, Beryozovka ("Birch"), Nakhalovka, Bol'shaya and Soviet streets. There were an ambulance station and pharmacy. Later the ambulance station attached to the Vertunovskaya railway station was opened. About 1930–1932, a maternity hospital attached to railway ambulance station was opened. Also, there were a post office, market, mill, granary, vegetable store cellar, liquor shop, railway lunchroom and railway club-house ("people's house"). During Second World War about 1091 men were drafted to Soviet Army from Sosnovskiy Selsoviet. More than 400 of them never came back. All men, who could hold a rifle, went to the battle-front, who could hold a rifle. People went both by summons and voluntarily. The Germans bombed Liski, Balashov, outskirts of Rtishchevo and Saratov. Wounded soldier were conveyed through military area on railroad to military hospitals in Bekovo, Sakhzavod (settlement of sugar factory) and Zubrilovo (in the former estate of princes Prozorovskiy-Golitzyns). In 1967 house of culture, office of Sosnovskiy sovkhoz (state farm; see below) and lunchroom were built; water pipe was constructed in the houses near the railway station. In 1968 the monument to the fallen warrior-fellow-villagers was erected. In 1974 rural palace of culture was opened. There was a fishing artel' in the selo. The fish from the Khopyor River was supplied to state shops in the selo. Schools In 1911 there were parochial school and zemstvo school with two classes in the center of the selo. In 1916 in zemstvo school there were 122 pupils and 3 teachers. Right after October Revolution (1917) a new primary school was opened. It was situated in the former house of priest and deacon. Fire-tower was situated near this place. In Soviet Period there were three primary schools: in the Barskaya ("Barin's") street (in the former house of mistress of landlord Tyufyakin) in the center of the selo, it was the former zemstvo school in Zalinia, in the Pochtovaya ("Postal") street, it was attached to railway organization. In 1930 primary/secondary school was opened in Zalinia, it had with 7 grades and called school of peasant youths. It was situated in two former buildings of landlord