Temples of Yekaterinburg and the Urals. Historical temples of the Urals

Of the numerous rural chapels in the Urals, only the Archangel Michael Chapel has survived to this day, which stands ten meters from the Moscow Highway, not far from the bridge across the river near the village of Cheremsha.

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Nobody is going to restore it. I heard a story that about 7 years ago they offered to restore the chapel, but on the condition that it would be transported to another region. The powers that be said let him rot here. After the well-known events, I think a second Roizman will no longer be found in our region.


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And this is the Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery.


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The monastery was burned to the ground more than once by nomads, until in 1713-24. stone walls with two high towers were not erected


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The monastery stood as an impregnable stronghold until 1917, to the fear of its enemies and to the joy of its respectable residents. However, as you know, there are no fortresses that the Bolsheviks could not take. After the revolution, an agricultural commune was first located on the territory of the monastery, then a factory for the production of milk bottles. This led to its looting and almost complete destruction. And now the cracked fortress walls with broken battlements, dilapidated towers, churches with demolished domes are a visible monument to the tragic history of Russia


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25 years ago, on the initiative of Yuri Nikolaevich Anikin, a public movement began in the Trans-Urals to restore the ensemble of the Holy Dormition Monastery in the city of Dalmatovo. He not only united architects, writers, and artists around himself, but also created a special enterprise “Phoenix”, which began the restoration of the monastery. People's work is not progressing very quickly, but people are working. Services are going on in the temple.

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Well, the St. Nicholas Church in Byngi was built in 1789–1792, during the thaw of the Old Believers of the era of Catherine II. The architecture is amazing - the church does not fit into any style of its era: a little baroque, a little classicism, and Byzantine motifs are visible, the Old Believers did not want to build in the same way as the Nikonians, and were looking for their own architectural style. The inside of the church is even more interesting than the outside: it was not closed during Soviet times, the decoration was perfectly preserved, including the iconostasis with the “Nevyansk icon”. Hundreds of such icons are kept in museums, but the authentic iconostasis has survived only here.


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The state budget never allocated funds for the restoration of the church. In 2001, the Ekaterinburg diocese applied to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation with an application to allocate funds for the restoration of the temple under the federal target program “Culture of Russia”, for which there are relevant documents. However, no funds were allocated, as a result of which the community and the rector were forced to use their strength and resources for routine repairs of the temple, which by that time had fallen into a sad state: leaks in the roof, dilapidated window fillings, rotten load-bearing elements of the iconostasis structures, the condition of the floor, ventilation, etc.


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In the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Alapaevsky district, Sverdlovsk region, there is an amazing museum-reserve of wooden architecture, which I advise everyone to visit! It is unlikely that this place will leave anyone indifferent. In the background is the Transfiguration Church, in the middle is the Spasskaya Chapel. On the right and left are the Chapel of Savvaty and Zosima Solovetsky and the Chapel of the Ascension


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In the 1970s, Ivan Danilovich Samoilov, with sheer enthusiasm and his own efforts, began work on the restoration of an abandoned, crumbling temple in Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha. At the same time, he literally risked his life. After all, for something like this, in the monstrous Soviet times, people were shot or sent to the Gulag. At the same time, Samoilov had the idea to collect the best ancient buildings in Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha - examples of Russian wooden architecture. With like-minded people, he traveled to remote villages and hamlets of the Middle Urals, looked for valuable wooden buildings and transported them to Sinyachikha.

Kaptikov Anri Yurievich, favorite teacher of hundreds of students and graduates of UrGAKhA and Ural State University (UrFU). A man so passionate about architecture that with his lectures and unique sense of humor he awakened and awakens a passion for architecture in his listeners.

This issue contains five objects of temple architecture. And bonuses!

5 monuments from Anri Kaptikov:

1. Trinity Cathedral, Solikamsk. 1685 - 1697 Chronologically, this is not the very first stone building in the Urals, but it is with it that all Ural stone temple architecture begins. Style: patterned.

Bonuses:

For such a specialist as Anri Yuryevich, five monuments are very few. We don't limit the expert - so two more objects!

Kharitonov-Rastorguev Estate, Ekaterinburg. One of the most famous manor and park ensembles (not only in his hometown). The complex was built over 30 years - from 1794 to 1824. The future chief architect of the Ekaterinburg factories, Mikhail Malakhov, who was then gaining popularity, took part in the formation of its architectural appearance. The history of the estate is very rich, and even Wikipedia will tell you many interesting details.

Sevastyanov's House, Ekaterinburg. An amazing building, the architecture of which is a mix of many styles. It went down in history as the only example of neo-Gothic architecture in the Urals. Built at the beginning of the 19th century. in the then popular classical style, but already in the 1860s, when collegiate assessor Nikolai Ivanovich Sevastyanov became its owner, the house was completely rebuilt. Architect Alexander Ivanovich Paduchev helped the owner. According to one legend, Sevastyanov collected many drawings of buildings that he liked and asked the architect to collect all the beauty when decorating his new house. You can argue as much as you like about the architectural merits of Sevastyanov’s house, but Yekaterinburg is adorned with a truly rare example of the imagination of the customer and the architect.

The Ural Federal District was formed on May 13, 2000. It includes 6 subjects of the Russian Federation: 4 regions: Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Tyumen and 2 autonomous districts: Khanty-Mansiysk - Yugra, Yamalo-Nenets. The total area of ​​the Ural Federal District is 1,788.9 thousand square meters. kilometers (almost 11% of the area of ​​the Russian Federation).

There are many temples, monasteries, churches and chapels in the cities of the Ural Federal District. For example, there are many churches in Yekaterinburg. Due to the multinational population, there are many representatives of different faiths here.

During the industrial development of the region, the development of capitalism and active colonization, quite a few different temples were built in the Urals. Of course, in the first place were the Orthodox churches of the Urals, which were built in mining settlements, Cossack villages of the Trans-Urals and Orenburg region, villages and hamlets scattered across the vast territory of the Ural Federal District. There were quite a few mosques in the Urals. Of course, capital stone structures were built in cities and large villages. During the years of Soviet power, most of the religious buildings in the Urals were looted and converted into other premises. Today, there are very few old churches left in the Urals, but those that remain are each of value, both historical and, in many ways, architectural. Many churches and temples in the Urals are being restored or rebuilt. In Yekaterinburg there are 232 churches in which services are held, as well as 230 houses of prayer and house churches in Yekaterinburg, and another 59 communities that do not yet have their own premises, 29 chapels. The Ekaterinburg diocese has 6 male and 10 female monasteries. All churches in Yekaterinburg and the Urals as a whole have their own unique history and grandeur, which fascinates visitors and regular parishioners.

One of the oldest religious attractions of the Urals is the Novo-Tikhvin Convent, which is located in the city of Yekaterinburg on Green Grove Street, building 1. The Church of Yekaterinburg - “on the Blood in the name of All Saints”, in Russian land is one of the largest Orthodox churches in Russia. The temple building in Yekaterinburg was built on the site of the execution of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and his family in 2003. The church is a place of pilgrimage for believers from all over the world. Ganina Yama is an abandoned mine located a few kilometers from Yekaterinburg. The bodies of the king and his family were dumped into this mine. On this site in 1991, it was decided to build a monastery and seven churches, according to the number of those killed. In 2003, the last monastery church, the seventh in Yekaterinburg, was consecrated. The monks make a religious procession around the pit every evening.

Each temple in the Urals helps people to be closer to each other, to be able to sympathize and do good.

St. George's Church is one of the youngest churches in Chelyabinsk. Construction was carried out from 1998 to 2009, mostly with donations from the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. The townspeople took an active part in the construction of the temple.

Rising among the surrounding residential buildings, the red brick temple amazes at first glance with the grandeur and power that are so inherent in St. George the Victorious himself. The largest bell weighs about 3 tons, and the height of the central dome is 41 meters, thanks to which the beautiful ceremonial building can be seen from afar. For the residents of Chelyabinsk, this is not just a temple, but a sanctuary, the construction of which united them; the construction was carried out thanks to a large number of donations from ordinary residents and their labor.

Townspeople came to the construction site and helped the masons and other professionals, and some simply cooked lunch for everyone. St. George's Church can confidently be called the pride and dignity of the Metallurgical District of the city.