The ancient Russian manor "Borok"

Until the middle of the XVIII century, there was a small village on the territory of modern Bork, which was called Borok. Borok Manor was founded by Egor Alekseevich Alekseev, who in 1807 bought this land from Countess Anna Nikolaevna Musina-Pushkina. The estate was completed in the 1830s by his son, retired lieutenant Alexei Petrovich Shchepochkin, the last owner of the estate was the grandson of A.P. Shchepochkin, a revolutionary populist, chairman of the Russian Society of Lovers of World Studies, philosopher and scientist Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. The Borok estate is one of the few that was not nationalized during the Soviet years. In 1938, on the initiative of Morozov, the Upper Volga base of the USSR Academy of Sciences was established in Borka. The new life of the village began in the 50s of the XX century, when Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Rear Admiral, and legendary polar explorer, was sent to Borok. The biostationary center was transformed into the Institute of Reservoir Biology.