Vesele

The settlement of Vesele is located in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and many tourists remember it for the world’s largest monument to the worker bee and for the story of the hardest-working people in Ukraine. According to legend, Cossacks travelling for salt often stopped at the site of the settlement. They watered their oxen on the shore of a lake that now lies in the central part of Vesele.

The hardest times for the settlement were the years of serfdom and the clear division of peasants into rich and poor. Most peasants were on the brink of poverty. Spring floods caused frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid, and steadily rising taxes and poverty led to constant unrest. Only at the beginning of the 20th century did the village of Vesele begin to revive after the introduction of the NEP. Primary schools appeared, production volumes increased, and the village economy began to strengthen. This led to the emergence of a large number of shock workers, whose output exceeded the production norms by several times.

Photo from the website mig.com.ua

Vesele is a settlement where people, despite a hard fate, were able to show their best and strongest qualities, demonstrate incredible work results, and become an example of how human persistence and diligence can turn an inconspicuous settlement into one of the most orderly district centers of Zaporizhzhia.