There are not many surviving and inhabited old villages in the Middle Urals, and Aramashevo is one of them. It was formed in 1632 as an outpost for protection from attacks by nomadic tribes and a settlement for plowing the land.

Coordinates for GPS navigator

57.60665520939857, 61.72951300000001

Aramashevo village on the map

By the way, today you can even see that same stronghold of the Ural lands - the watchtower of the Aramashevsky fort - in a reconstructed form it is located in the Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha Local History Museum. An integral attribute of the village is the Church stone (42 m) on the rocky bank of the Rezh River. From here there is a magnificent view of the entire river valley and the rocky opposite bank with Shaitan Stone. It was on the edge of the Church stone that, simultaneously with the fort, a wooden church, which was consecrated in honor of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God.

Life at that time in these places was turbulent - people repeatedly died from raids by nomads. The settlement burned with terrible fires and with it the wooden church was repeatedly burned to the ground. All this continued until in 1800 it was converted into stone. Afterwards, in 1930, its doors were sealed, and it remained in a dilapidated state for a long time. At the foot of the Church Stone, the chronicle of time has preserved another monument - the Kreshchensky spring, from which in the old days the first inhabitants of the Aramashevsky prison drew water. This consecrated spring is well-equipped, and its water has healing properties.

On the right bank of the Rezh, also not far from Aramashevo, there is a cult place of ancient pagan tribes - a stone on which an ancient writing has been preserved. Locals call it “Shaitan”, but such a popular name is quite modern. There are legends that say that near the stone at night mysterious sounds were heard and flickering lights were visible, which the residents of the Aramashevskaya settlement fearfully attributed to evil spirits. In the same lands, at the end of the 18th century, a unique deposit of Shaitan overflow was discovered, which is a complex accretion of alternating layers of fine-crystalline quartz, quartz and the clay mineral dickite. In the modern stone-cutting industry, this stone is used not only for small plastic and mosaic paintings, like other gems, but also for the manufacture of beads, cabochons, inserts in rings, pendants, earrings and brooches. One of its great features is that it cannot be dyed, unlike agate. Indeed, today there are many beautiful African agates on the market, painted in bright, unnatural colors. When choosing the shaitan shimmer, you can be sure that this is its natural color, the way nature created it, with the warmth of the bright Ural sun.

The local history museum in Aramashevo was founded by local historian, tourist and geography teacher at the local school I. S. Kesarev. The initial exhibition consisted of gifts from schoolchildren (antique household items, mineralogical finds), which children brought to the teacher for good grades. The museum's collection is prudently divided into three halls. The first displays the found gems and rare minerals. In the second there is a stylized Ural hut with a Russian stove and the so-called “woman’s” corner (rare samovars, lamps, and coal-burning irons are found here). And finally, in the third “working” hall you can see all types of peasant crafts and crafts. What can you see here - old crafts of blacksmiths and potters, birch bark tueskas with flowers and initials, one-armed saws with which one could build a house alone, flax mills, household scales, cow bells and many other interesting things, the purpose of which is immediately obvious. you won't guess.

The village of Aramashevo, not far from Yekaterinburg, is rich in history. In 1632, an outpost was built on the banks of the Rezh River to repel the attacks of nomads, and later fortifications were erected to protect against the Kalmyks. Over time, the border of sedentary civilization expanded, wild tribes ceased to be dangerous to the young settlement, and peaceful life began here - arable farming, logging, and ore transportation.

Aramashevo is located off the beaten path hiking trails, and yet from time to time guests from big city- to visit the local history museum, visit the temple, admire the Shaitan Stone and the rocky banks of the Rezh River, breathe the clean air of the coniferous forest. Residents of Yekaterinburg told us about what to see in Aramashevo, how to get there and what to take with us.


Museum

In an 18th-century merchant estate, there is a local history museum that is quite large for a village. Yekaterinburg resident Dolores Geise really liked it:

They tell interesting stories about peasant life, about the customs of our ancestors. All objects can be seen and touched. The corner seemed very cozy to me - the stove, next to it there was a cradle and beds on which the children slept.

In addition to ancient Russian life, the museum has a school classroom from the Soviet period and a room of military glory.

Celebrations and small exhibitions are held in the museum courtyard.

Interesting exhibits from the local collection or temporary, imported ones are exhibited there. For example, in September I saw a presentation of the “Fairy Tale Park” from Aramil there,” says Vitaly Za, a resident of Yekaterinburg.

The museum ticket is worth it 100 rubles.


Church

Guests from the big city are also attracted by the Kazan Church, which stands on the high rocky bank of the Rezh. The hill is called the Church Stone. A wooden church was built here in 1631, but after some time it completely burned down. The stone building was erected in 1800, but in 1929 the Soviet government closed the temple to parishioners and threw the bell into the river.

In the early 2000s, the church began to be restored, and now services are held here again. Not everyone likes the current appearance of the ancient temple.

To be honest, in my opinion, the restoration was not very successful: it looks like a typical remake,” says Dmitry Vasenin. - But next to the church there is a steep descent from the cliff to the river, where in winter you can go ice skating or sledding.

In December, Yuri Ketel took beautiful sunset photographs of Aramashevo. Rocks, cliffs and, of course, the church. Yuri spent his childhood and youth in Alapaevsk, not far from Aramashevo:

By the will of fate, we left for the Vologda region, but we love to travel by car, live in a tent, and cook over a fire. When traveling, we take photographs, especially the landscape, sights, and countryside flavor. Having arrived for a visit, we decided to go around the Alapaevsky district, so we visited Aramashevo. We received a lot of impressions and learned a lot of interesting things about our small homeland.


Ecodacha

Seminars and trainings on self-knowledge, yoga, holotropic breathing are held at the Aramashevo creative eco-villa. You can simply rent a cottage. There are nine rooms, a fireplace room, and next to it is a bathhouse. Double Room on a weekday it will cost 1200 rubles (if booked for two or more days). The furniture in the house is made by hand. At the dacha they organize excursions to the church and museum, hikes to local beauty, rafting, and rock climbing classes. You can find out more.

Nature

Perhaps the most beautiful thing in Aramashevo is the river and the forest. The high banks offer truly magical views.

The area cut by the Rezh River is a real attraction of Aramashevo, says Vitaly Za. - The river has graceful curves, bordered by high cliffs. There is a spring near the shore, the water of which is considered holy.

Shaitan-stone deserves a separate story. This is the most impressive rock above the Rezh River in the village of Aramashevo. They say that the stone received its name (“shaitan” in Turkic languages ​​- an evil spirit) because of the evil spirits that hovered around it. Whether this is true or not, at the bottom of the stone there are still preserved cave drawings However, it remains unclear whether they had a ritual purpose. Their ages are also unknown. Once upon a time there was an entrance to a cave in Shaitan Stone. They say that he opened the way to a stone labyrinth, which was used by local residents. It will not be possible to verify this - in the 20th century the cave was blown up.

Psychologist from Yekaterinburg Marina Ivanova was most impressed by the forest, to which she even gave a name - Strange Forest. Here is her story about a recent trip to Aramashevo:

My friend and I went there for “nature,” to the rock on the other side of the river from the temple. If you believe in elemental spirits, then this is the place to meet the wind spirit. You stand on the edge of a cliff, in front of you there is such a space that takes your breath away - below is a river under the ice, small Aramashev houses, the sun through the spruce branches, the sky and the wind in your face. If you close your eyes, you can feel this air with your skin and touch it with your hands. A very strong place.


And then we decided to go down the cliff and walk along the river through the forest. And they ended up in the Strange Forest. There are such places - anomalous zones. This was probably the area with trees fallen in different directions. If the wind had knocked them down, they would probably lie in one direction, in the direction of the wind. There were no birds to be heard, only the trees creaked terribly. There are a lot of “strange” trees - twisted, gnarled, as if twisted around their own axis. I wanted to quickly get out of this Strange Forest.


We crossed a small rocky ridge, like through a gate, walked past huge trees and went out into the forest. It was brighter and calmer here, the trees were taller, smoother, and the voices of birds appeared. I felt life! Already when we came out into the open space, we saw that that Strange forest was, as it were, in a rift.

How to get there

Automobile. You can get to Aramashevo by car in two hours along the Berezovsky tract. On the EKAD you need to turn right at the junction, following the sign for Rezhevskaya Trakt, and exit under it on the left. Along Rezhevsky we go through Monetny, Losiny, past Rezh and straight to Aramashevo.


Electric train. Our interlocutors traveled by public transport.

We were traveling to commuter train Shartash - Alapaevsk to Samotsvet station, explains Dmitry Vasenin. - The train departs at 7:20, we returned to the city around nine o’clock in the evening. Full fare ticket price - 162 rubles. The journey takes about four hours one way, so it’s better to think in advance about what to do on the road. With company, time will certainly pass faster and more fun!

The train schedule can be found.

From the station to Aramashevo you need to walk about three kilometers along an asphalt road, across the bridge over the Rezh. The other path leads along forest paths and ends at Shaitan-stone, from where a beautiful view of the village opens.


Bus. A bus runs to Aramashevo approximately once an hour from the Northern Bus Station of Yekaterinburg (ticket price 281 or 380 rubles) and several times a day from South (ticket from 282 rubles). You will spend approximately three hours on the way.

What to take with you

There are grocery stores in the village, but our interlocutors did not encounter a cafe there.





And here are the atmospheric photographs of Yuri Ketel:







According to V. Shishonko, (“Perm Chronicle” of 1884), the founding of the village of Aramashevo dates back to 1631. The settlers chose a place on the high bank of the Rezh River, as it was reliably protected from the attacks of nomads.

There are several versions about the origin of the name of the village. One of them is that “ara” translated from Turkic means “border,” and the village is really located on the border of the Bashkir and Vogul lands.

During its existence, Aramashevo performed an important military-strategic function in the settlement as a border fortress - an ancient architectural ensemble of the Aramashevo fort.

The settlement of Russians in the Middle Urals occurred from north to south, because on southern territories the more organized aborigines (Tatars and Bashkirs) offered great resistance to the settlers. Moving from the north from Verkhoturye along the eastern slope Ural mountains, the Russians are gaining a foothold along the rivers. At first, settlements with wooden fortresses arose, and around them peasants began to settle and villages appeared.

On the Rezh River in the 17th century, fortresses were erected in the Aramashevskaya and Ayat settlements. The reconstructed tower of the Aramashevsky fort is presented in the Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha Museum. Because South coast The Rezh River was “hostile”; settlements were mainly settled on the northern bank. This “borderland” has retained its mark to this day: along the middle and lower reaches of the Rezh River, its entire northern bank is well populated and plowed, while the southern bank is almost entirely covered with forest.

The first descriptions in literature of the Rezh River and the inhabitants of its banks were made by diplomats sent by Peter I to China in 1692. The authors of “Notes on the Russian Embassy in China” are the head of the embassy, ​​Eades, and his assistant Brandt. Ides wrote down the following: “we followed the Rezhi River to the Aramasheva settlement and from there to the Nevyansk fort. This journey gave me the greatest pleasure, since along the way I encountered the most beautiful meadows, forests, rivers, lakes and the most fertile and beautifully cultivated fields.” Adam Brandt, whose “Notes” were published in 1698, six years earlier than Eades’s “Notes,” also turned out to be favorable to our region: “On June 13, we arrived in another settlement called Aramashevo on the Rezh River, which we really liked.” Further, he is surprised by the well-being and natural beauties of the Rezhevsky land, and concludes: “It was as beautiful as I have hardly ever seen in my life.”

Mom's stone. Near the village, upstream of the river, on the left bank of the Rezh, there is a rock on which, according to legend, during his hike and stop in Aramashevo in 1878, the famous Ural writer D.N. loved to sit for a long time and do his creative work. Mamin-Sibiryak. Later, local residents nicknamed the unnamed stone in honor of their famous fellow countryman.

Mom's stone. Photo by Maria Ignatieva July 2016

Shaitan-stone is located on the opposite bank of the Rezh River, opposite the village of Aramashevo. It is a large rock, around which, according to legend, mysterious ghosts lived. Lights wandered at night, and strange sounds were heard when the wind blew. Scaring people. So they called the Devil's rock or Shaitan-stone.


Shaitan-stone


The blockage of one of the cave passages in the Shaitan-stone rock

Photo by Maria Ignatieva, July 2016

In ancient times, near the Rezh River, then full-flowing and navigable, in one large village two families lived next door. The strong boy Frol grew up in a prosperous house, and in a poor hut with an elderly orphan grandmother, young Dunyasha grew up. We grew up together, were friends, went into the forest to pick berries, herded ducks and geese, and met cattle from the pasture far beyond the outskirts.

And in the sixteenth spring, Dunyasha blossomed so much that she became a recognized rural beauty.

On Trinity Sunday, Frol gave his dear girlfriend a colored shawl and declared his love. He promised that he would tell his father about his desire. But the owner had other thoughts about his son. In a neighboring village, a rich miller's daughter was staying as a wench. And it didn’t matter that she was not a beauty, because she was entitled to a good dowry. So the men conspired to marry the children and strengthen their farms.

In the fall, as soon as the rich harvest was harvested, Frol's father ordered Frol to harness the horses and go with him to woo the miller's daughter. Frol did not disobey his strict father. And on the eve of the wedding he came to Dunya to apologize and say goodbye. They embraced at two pine trees intertwined forever - popular rumor dubbed them the pines of love - and fled, so as not to anger the formidable father.

Such were the times, such customs.

Dunya was bitterly sad and tormented, did not sleep all night, and at dawn she ran out of the hut, only throwing a shawl over her shoulders. She ran without looking back through the black forest, it seemed that the branches, like snakes, were stinging her, no strength could hold back the girl’s broken heart.

Photo by Maria Ignatieva, July 2016

Hearing the roar of old Rezh in the distance, Dunya rushed there, ran up the cliff, waved her handkerchief and plunged into the black waters...

A peasant woman, rinsing her clothes on the river in the morning, saw only Dunka’s bright half-shawl flashing in the stormy stream...

Whether it was one way or another, I don’t know. But my soul, seeing Dunkin’s stone, put together this tragic story. And, returning to the Samotsvet sanatorium, where we vacationed this fall, I noticed an already harvested flowerbed, (oh, miracle!) autumn roses blooming in winter, like a bright sadness for Dunka’s short fate.

S. Semenova (Article about the Borovikhinsky stone from October 13, 2013 Newspaper "Alapaevskaya Iskra", Vecherny Alapaevsk No. 44)

Church stone.The site of the founding of the Aramashevskaya settlement.. In 1631, peasant settlers erected the first buildings: fortifications against the raids of nomads, a wooden church and the sovereign's granaries.. There is an opinion that they chose this place not by chance.. here were the remains of a settlement founded in 1580- e by a detachment of Cossacks who took part in Ermak’s campaign. In 1800, on the site of a wooden church that had burned more than once, a stone church with a chapel in the name of the Archangel Michael was built and consecrated (also in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, like the previous ones..) More than 120 for years a wonderful gospel sounded, inspiring people's souls... Several generations of my ancestors were baptized, married, and inveterate here: the Mironovs, Doronins, Telegins... but then... in 1929 the church was closed... the bell was thrown into the river, the bell tower was broken "on brick" A hut-reading room, a club, and in 1936 a House of Culture were opened in the temple.. A fire caused great damage to the temple in 1970.. then years of desolation. In 1996, the Orthodox community gathered, and in 2005, the restoration of the shrine began.. and On June 21, 2012, on the patronal feast day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, a divine service took place for the first time in many years!

Aramashevo has several unique and mysterious places. So, in the area of ​​the village there is a cave, which consisted of three passages, at least two of them stretched for several kilometers. One of the caves was located in the Shaitan rock (in the middle of the 20th century it was blown up and filled up). And the mysterious passage from the church passed through the entire Church Stone and had access to the bank of the Rezh River. It was this way that old people, women and children were saved during the raids of nomads.

The village is unique in its location. The Aramashevsky surroundings amaze and enchant with their beauty. On the territory of the village, many attractions have been preserved - ancient historical buildings.


House of the merchant Zagainov (brick building of the late 19th century). Now it houses a local history museum.


Building zemstvo school(1910) has been used for its intended purpose for more than 100 years.


One of the most ancient attractions is a peasant hut from the 18th century. Even in its dilapidated state it is impressive.


The village honors those fellow villagers who died during the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. Two obelisks were erected in memory of them. One is located in the Lenten Redka ravine at the site of the execution and burial of Red partisans in August 1918.


And in the center of the village stands a monument in honor of those who died in the fire of the Great Patriotic War. There are more than three hundred names on the obelisk, erected in the year of the 40th anniversary of the Victory. The village of Aramashevo is also famous for the fact that it is one of the few where two Heroes of the Soviet Union lived: Mikhail Nikonovich Manturov and Joseph Mikhailovich Belskikh, who received the Gold Star of the Hero during the Great Patriotic War.

(A.I. Ponomarev, graduate of the Aramashev school in 1955,

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)



Aramashevskaya Church in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, standing on the Church stone

Aromashevskoe village (2nd deanery) Verkhoturye district, located 122 versts from the Diocesan city, is located on the left bank of the Rezh River.

The village probably received its name from the Chamomile grass (Anthemis tinctoria), which grew in abundance not only near the village of Aromashevsky itself, but far beyond its borders towards the south, in an area that in former times also belonged to the Aromashevsky parish and now bears almost the same name (Aromashkovskoe village, Ekaterinburg district). In the past, the village of Aromashevskoye, located on the postal (now abolished road) from Yekaterinburg to Verkhoturye, was a rather significant point and was called a settlement.

Aromashevskaya Sloboda was one of the oldest Russian settlements in the Trans-Ural part of the present Perm province, having been founded in 1631 with the goal of developing arable farming to supply bread to serving people in the cities and towns of northern Siberia. This settlement was classified as a so-called arable settlement. In 1655 - 1658, fortifications were built in the settlement to protect against Kalmyks, who often raided those places. Near the church and the sovereign's granaries there was a chopped fort, the height of that fort was two fathoms of "printed" ones, and there were chopped quadrangular towers with a road gate, the fifth tower was a blank chopped one, and the height of those towers from the ground to the clouds was 3 fathoms of printed ones, and in them two bridges." Here, in case of danger, all the inhabitants of the settlement gathered and, locking themselves in, sat back and shot back from thieves and enemy people who did not have fire combat (i.e., firearms), but fought only with archers. Subsequently, when new southern settlements were established along the rivers Pyshma, Iset, Bagaryak, Techa and Miass, the position of the Aromashevskaya settlement became safe, and they did not support the fortification at all. On the land allocated for use by the Aromashevskaya settlement, there were many villages, which, administratively, were also classified as a settlement, although at the same time all the Aromashevsky peasants were classified as Alapaevsky state-owned factories.

The stone two-story temple of the village, located on the elevated rocky bank of the Rezh River, was built in 1800. The wooden temple that existed before that time was destroyed by fire. Main temple consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, and the chapel - in the name of the Holy Archangel Michael.

A new iconostasis was built in the main church in 1885, and the old one was given over to the newly built church in the Bichursk village of Irbitsk district.

Every year on July 8, on the day of the temple holiday, a procession of the cross is made from the temple to the monument erected on the site of St. altar in a former wooden church. The number of parishioners is currently 1556 and 1685. floor.

Their main occupation is arable farming; crafts and handicraft production are not among them; They spend their free time from arable farming on factory work that is more or less profitable for them: cutting and delivering firewood, transporting ore and iron to the Alapaevsky and Nizhne-Tagil factories, but with local factory work. railways These works are gradually falling into disrepair. The parish includes the following villages: Komkova at verst, Kuliga at 3 versts. and Katyshka 4 versts. In the village of Katyshke there is a wooden chapel in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1893. In the village there is a primary mixed school, founded in 1871, and in the village of Katyshke there is a mixed literacy school, opened in 1898 and located in its own building.

Material from the book "Parishes and Churches of the Ekaterinburg Diocese", published in 1902.

V. Reutova - about the restoration of the Aramashevo center


Vera Reutova, teacher from the village of Aramashevo Sverdlovsk region.

Restored the local history museum and the temple of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God:

“I came to the village of Aramashevo in 1981. By profession, I am a teacher of Russian language and literature with thirty years of teaching experience. I really loved my work and children, because children are the most grateful listeners; they, like a sponge, absorb everything you give them. After finishing my teaching career, I received an unexpected offer - to engage in a completely different type of activity. The head of the administration proposed to head the local history museum, which at that time (2003) was moving from the status of a school to a municipal one.

The museum moved to an old merchant mansion. The building was unheated and dilapidated at that time. But this did not frighten me, although in the village of Aramashevo at that time, along with the basic economy (the Aramashevsky state farm), almost the entire social sphere was destroyed. Having united fellow villagers, including my former students, I created a family club “Bereginya” on the basis of the museum, which consisted of up to 50 people. We studied folk traditions and crafts, communicated, shared our thoughts, knowledge, skills, and together improved the mansion. My husband Nikolai Ilyich (also a teacher - a labor teacher) helped us in our work. Together we turned an old merchant mansion into a wonderful museum with six halls, a kitchen and a very cozy living room. There we began to conduct not only excursions, but also folk holidays, master classes, game programs, meetings. This mansion became the heart of the village. The Aramashevsky Museum was awarded a gold medal in the category “For the will to live” according to the results of the competition “Eurasia-Museum of the Year 2006”. This high mark and it was very nice.

One of these meetings in the museum, which by that time had become a place of spiritual communication between different generations, led me to the idea of ​​turning my fellow villagers to the fate of the long-suffering Temple in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, which by that time had been in a ruined state for several decades. I thought - why not give new life to this unique building? On the first cleanup after my announcement, 63 people gathered. Everyone came, from young to old, the youngest participant was three years old, the oldest was 80 years old. Thus, in 2005, a new community of Aramashevites was created around the Temple, dreaming of its revival. A summer resident from Yekaterinburg, Vitaly Valerievich Shlykov, helped the enthusiasts a lot in those difficult, cash-strapped times. Workers were found in the village, but cement and bricks were delivered thanks to this kind man..."


The church in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was erected on one of the most beautiful places in the village - the Church Stone. It is also considered the site of the founding of the Aramashevskaya settlement.

In 1631, peasant settlers erected the first buildings: fortifications against the raids of nomads, a wooden church and the sovereign's granaries. There is an opinion that this place was not chosen by chance: here were the remains of a settlement founded in the 1580s by a detachment of Cossacks who participated in Ermak’s campaign. In 1800, on the site of a wooden church that had burned more than once, a stone church with a chapel in the name of the Archangel Michael was built and consecrated (also in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, as before). For more than 120 years, a wonderful gospel has been heard, inspiring human souls. Here, several generations of the ancestors of each of the residents of Aramashevo were baptized, married, and buried: the Mironovs, Doronins, Telegins, and dozens of other families. In 1929, the church was closed, the bell was thrown into the river, and the bell tower was broken into bricks. A reading hut, a club, and in 1936 a House of Culture were opened in the church. A fire caused great damage to the temple in 1970. then - years of desolation. In 1996, the Orthodox community gathered, and in 2005 the restoration of the shrine began. And on June 21, 2012, on the patronal feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, a divine service took place for the first time in many years!

According to a resident of the village, N. Yarinovskaya, (Aksenova): “The last clergyman was the assistant to the dean, Father Nikolai Dyagilev, and the psalm-reader M. Pavlov.”


Vera Vasilievna continues her story: “I went to Yekaterinburg, found like-minded people there (in particular, the rector of the Academy of Architecture, Alexander Starikov). They helped us carry out a technical inspection of the temple. A famous professor took part in the inspection. Within six months, the right aisle was restored in the name of Archangel Michael. The first service there (after almost 80 years) took place on January 7, 2006. I also found Father Moses, who, together with the brothers from the Monastery of the New Martyrs of Russia, performed this service. After this grace-filled service, miraculously saved ones returned to the temple one after another in the 30s, two icons: John the Evangelist and Panteleimon the Healer. And thanks to the people who believed me and came to my aid, today, 10 years later, the ancient Aramashevsky temple has not only been restored - it is still operational! Services are regularly held there, baptisms take place there children and adults, weddings, funeral services and other requirements.


Thanks to most beautiful place location (the Temple stands above the Rezh River, on a rock nicknamed the Church Stone, 43 meters high), it is attractive for sightseers and pilgrims. In order to maintain and restore the temple, I decided to invite excursions here. To do this, I collected a wealth of material about its history, and today people go on these excursions not only from the Sverdlovsk region, but also from Tver, Samara, Moscow and even from abroad. The Dutch, French, Germans, and guests from Australia and New Zealand visited Aramashevo. I am very pleased with the interest in our church and our locality.



At the foot of the Church Stone there is another of our creations - this is the ancient (restored in 2004) spring "Kreshchensky" with amazing story and holy water. My former students support me in my endeavors; one of them helped financially when I decided to set up a Pilgrim House from an old, abandoned hospital building. Today this rural hotel can accommodate 16 excursionists - guests of the village of Aramashevo. All this allows us to breathe life into the village. After all, young people are leaving small settlements, and we are trying to show that native land you can develop and move forward. And even be interesting place for visits.



Today I have another favorite historical place, brought back to life in 2010. My project " New life Ural painting" became the winner and holder of the Grant of the VI All-Russian competition "Changing Museum in a Changing World", the founder of which is the Moscow Potanin Foundation. The 19th-century huts with Ural paintings are now happily visited by excursionists, and I myself, having transferred the local history museum into other hands, became a hospitable hostess and guide in them.

I have many awards. This is the sign “Excellence in Education of the Russian Federation”, “Teacher of the Year” in the Sverdlovsk region (in 1997), I was the winner of the regional competition “Sources of the Ural Character” (2004), laureate of the VI, VII, VIII and IX All-Russian local history competition “Fatherland” , winner of the regional competition “Tuning Fork” in the category “Working with families and teenagers” (2005 and 2006) and so on. But the greatest reward for me is the support of my loved ones and like-minded people, among whom are many of my students and colleagues, as well as the sparkling eyes of children who come on excursions to the museum and see what we managed to preserve for them.”

And a little more about the village restored by the residents. Aramashevo under the leadership of V.V., Reutova Church in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.

Part of the border fortress in architectural ensemble The village is a temple in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The first wooden church in the village arose simultaneously with the fort. Five times it burned down from the raids of nomads. The current stone church was built in 1800. She is on unique place- on a high 42-meter rock, popularly nicknamed the Church Stone. According to the unanimous opinion of residents and guests of the village, this is one of the most beautiful holy places not only in the Alapaevsky district, but also in the region.

In 1929 the temple was destroyed. According to the stories of a long-living resident of the village, A.Ya. Telegina, residents of Aramashevo learned that the authorities had decided to destroy the church the day before. Even at night, women and children went to the temple to protect the icons, because there was a rumor that the next morning they would be taken out of the church to be burned in the temple square. Whoever could, under clothes, in bags, secretly, under pain of punishment, took the holy images home, in the hope of preserving the icons until better times. In the morning, the entire population of Aramashevo gathered at the church. With the help of dozens of horses and thick ropes, the atheists began to demolish the bell tower spire.

According to the memoirs of A.Ya. Telegina, the destroyers for a long time could not throw off the temple bell. Having fallen to the ground, the bell rang unusually plaintively, as if saying goodbye. Dozens of people knelt down and began to pray. The bell was dragged to the edge of the Church Stone and pushed into the river. First, the bell caught on the ledge of the upper part of the rock; it seemed to resist the destroyers of the church; they began to push it with hooks. With a dull sound, like a groan, the bell flew into the river and suddenly caught on the second ledge of the rock. Dozens of people gasped, many cried, when they saw the bell sink into the water. The last time he rang so shrilly, as if he was crying. This extraordinary sound stuck in the memory of many eyewitnesses of this event.

And the old-timers of the village also say that after that memorable day, not a day later, not a month, not a decade later, not a single diver could find the bell. The bell disappeared forever, as a silent reproach to its contemporaries and their descendants.

The bell tower of the temple was soon dismantled into bricks, and a club was opened in the church. Decades later, the temple building fell into complete disrepair.

And only in 2005, on the initiative of a small group local residents its restoration began.

Initially, the right side chapel in the name of Archangel Michael was brought back to life, where services began to take place in January 2006.

Among the shrines of the temple, the ancient image of St. John the Theologian is most revered. Modern history his is like that. In our time, summer residents from Yekaterinburg bought a house on Tserkovnaya Street. In the attic, among the junk, they found a thin figured board, they wanted to throw it away along with other rubbish, and suddenly they saw a holy face on the back side. The owners decided to leave the old icon in the house, but after the revival of the Aramashevsky church they transferred it to the temple.

On January 12, 2006, on the way from Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha to Yekaterinburg, Archbishop Vikenty of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye stopped in Aramashevo. Vladyka came to Aramashevo quite by accident, not believing that in a poor village, the revival of an ancient temple had begun with the help of local residents. It was Bishop Vincent who determined that the holy face on the ancient icon is the image of St. John the Theologian, the patron saint of love. “If John the Theologian came to your temple, then your temple is loved by God and your church lives,” the archbishop said after praying in front of the ancient image.

On July 21, 2012, on the patronal feast day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Aramashevo, the restored church hosted for the first time a service in the central part of the temple (prayer service, divine liturgy) and a procession around the church.

The appointed rector of the Aramashevsky temple addressed the assembled parishioners on this day:

Today we specially served a liturgy here (and yesterday an all-night vigil) so that the Mother of God and the Lord could see that we need a church, that we strive for God and want this magnificent and Holy place shone just as it shone before those terrible days of devastation.

Now we remember this time with tears and ask the Lord for forgiveness for these sins and ask the Lord to return the splendor of the holy temple, so that our village will be restored along with the temple. But for this you need to go to temple.

Many of us say that they pray at home, that they have many icons of saints, and so on. We agree with this. But, as the Holy Scripture says about the power of common prayer: “...where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them.”

So, my dears, when we gather in church more often, we pray - the Lord is there invisibly among us, and he sees all our good deeds and sees what we want to do for the temple, and sees what we want to do for the house, for the family , for our village. And it helps if we pray with a pure heart.

God bless you and the Mother of God.

Aramashevo and Koptelovo are two villages for those who want to touch the peasant life and royal architecture of the Sverdlovsk region.

Today I want to talk about a picturesque weekend route that runs in the Alapaevsky district of the Sverdlovsk region. My story will be about two villages: Aramashevo and Koptelovo. Each village is interesting and educational in its own way. Each village has its own interesting history and a huge cultural foundation. If you are interested in the history and life of the peasants of the Urals, as well as the inexplicable architecture of the outback of the Sverdlovsk region, then this trip is for you.

Sit down in a soft chair, pour some delicious tea and get ready for my story.

Village Aramashevo

Aramashevo is an ancient Ural village in the Alapaevsky urban district of the Sverdlovsk region of Russia. It is part of the Aramashevsky village council. The village of Aramashevo is a popular tourism center in the Urals. Aramashevo was founded in 1632 as an outpost for the protection of caravans.

The village of Aramashevo is located in a wooded area on the left bank of the Rezh River at the mouth of the left tributary of the Aramashka. Within Aramashevo there are several rocks: Mamin Kamen, Tserkovny Kamen, Shaitan-Kamen, Shurikov-Kamen and others.

The village is located northeast of Yekaterinburg, southeast of Nizhny Tagil, 28 km south of the district center of the city of Alapaevsk and 4 km from the Samotsvet railway station in the direction Kamensk-Uralsky - Alapaevsk - Nizhny Tagil. North of the village of Aramasheva, across the Aramashka River, is the village of Kosyakova. Near the village and the village there is a highway from Alapaevsk, on which, near the village, there is a fork into two highways of regional importance: Alapaevsk - Rezh and Alapaevsk - Artyomovsky.

Aramashevo is the oldest village in Alapaevsky district. It was founded in the 17th century. The village received its name in honor of the Aramash River, the left tributary of the Rezh River.

Aramashevo was formed in 1632 as an outpost for protection from attacks by nomadic tribes and a settlement for plowing the land. From the rock Church Stone (42 m) on the rocky bank of the Rezh River there is a magnificent view of the entire river valley and the rocky opposite bank with Shaitan Stone.

In 1631, a wooden church was erected on Church Stone, named in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. In 1800, a stone church appeared here, in 1929 it was destroyed, in 2005-12 it was restored.

The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is the heart of the village of Aramashevo. It is uniquely located on the Church Stone rock and looks after the local residents.

From the Church-Stone, on which the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is located, there is a stunning view of Shaitan-Stone, the village of Aramashevo and the Rezh River, you just need to turn your head.

In general, the originality of Aramashevo is striking in its simplicity. In relative proximity to major cities, the village has not lost its historical identity, but has only increased its cultural ties. There are many buildings in the village Tsarist Russia, which blend harmoniously with modern prints.

Shaitan-stone in Aramashevo on the Rezh River

In the Sverdlovsk region there are an incredible number of rocks called Shaitan Stone. One of these rocks is located in the village of Aramashevo. Shaitan Stone is located on the opposite bank of the Rezh River from the Church Stone. Shaitan Stone, or Devil's Stone, as the locals call it, is a large rock, around which, according to legend, mysterious ghosts lived. Lights wandered at night, and when the wind blew, strange sounds were heard, frightening people.

In the area of ​​the village there is a cave, which consisted of three passages, at least two of them stretched for several kilometers. One of the caves was located in the Shaitan rock (in the middle of the 20th century it was blown up and filled up). And the mysterious passage from the church passed through the entire Church Stone and had access to the bank of the Rezh River. It was this way that old people, women and children were saved during the raids of nomads.

The Shaitan Stone rock is full of mysteries and secrets, but the most important secret is that when you look closely at the rock, you can see various figures and outlines. One gets the impression that the rock begins to speak in certain images. Try to come, sit on the grass, opposite the rock, and just start looking at it.

Aramashevsky Museum of Local Lore

The local history museum in the village of Aramashevo was founded by local historian, tourist and geography teacher at the local school I. S. Kesarev in 1962. The initial exhibition consisted of gifts from schoolchildren (antique household items, mineralogical finds), which children brought to the teacher for good grades. The entire museum collection is prudently divided into three halls. The first displays the found gems and rare minerals. In the second there is a stylized Ural hut with a Russian stove and the so-called “woman’s” corner (rare samovars, lamps, and coal-burning irons are found here). And finally, in the third “working” hall you can see all types of peasant crafts and crafts. What can you see here - old crafts of blacksmiths and potters, birch bark tueskas with flowers and initials, one-armed saws with which one could build a house alone, flax mills, household scales, cow bells and many other interesting things, the purpose of which is immediately obvious. you won't guess.



Recently, another hall was opened, which displays an exhibition dedicated to the Aramashevites who defended their homeland.

I was also very pleased with the classroom in the Local History Museum. Even though the desks are new, the collection of old school things brought me back to my happy school days.

The local history museum of the village of Aramashevo is located at the address: Alapaevsky district, village of Aramashevo, st. Sovetskaya, 38. The entrance ticket, without a guide, costs 40 rubles per person. The price is valid for April 2016.

If you are in Aramashevo with children, be sure to visit the Museum of Local Lore, they will find it extremely useful and interesting.

The village of Koptelovo and the destroyed Church of the Ascension of the Lord

After visiting Aramashevo, I moved on. My next stop is the village of Koptelovo, which is located 16 km from Aramashevo, towards Alapaevsk. In the village of Koptelovo, I was most interested in the ancient destroyed Church of the Ascension of the Lord. But first things first.

Koptelovo is an ancient Ural village in the Alapaevskoye urban district. The village is famous for its museum of peasant life and several 17th-century huts. The founding date of the village is considered to be 1663, when the peasant Ivan Koptelov cut down the first Koptelov hut. According to the Ministry of Culture of the Sverdlovsk Region, the beginning of construction of the hut dates back to 1630.

In the center of the village of Koptelovo, the “Church of the Ascension” has stood for more than two hundred years. In 1800, the village peasants laid the first stone in the foundation of the temple, and in 1823 the church was consecrated. The bells were intended for the “Verkhoturye Nikolaevsky Monastery,” but the Koptelovites bought them. In the temple there is a life-size icon of Christ, donated by a political prisoner from Turinsk. Previously, the temple was surrounded by an openwork forged fence in white marble pillars around the temple.

Now the church is in disrepair, but it is gradually being restored. The church stands alone in the center of the village, and it seems that local residents don’t even notice it, as if it doesn’t exist.

I got inside the church and crawled through the ruins. I was impressed by the bell tower, inside which birds live, as well as the ancient frescoes, which have miraculously survived to this day. If you plan to visit the ruins of the Church of the Ascension, be extremely careful, because there are many stones scattered under your feet, and fastening reinforcement is also sticking out of the walls.

Also in the village of Koptelovo, I advise you to visit the local Museum of Local Lore, which will show from the inside the entire depth of the history of this village, and also introduce you to the huts of the 17th century that have been preserved in the village.

The museum is located at the address: Koptelovo, st. Krasnykh Orlov, 29. The cost of visiting is 200 rubles per person, this price is valid for April 2016. If you take the landmark of the ruins of the Church, then from it straight ahead to the crossroads and to the left. And you will see this bright blue house.

The founder of the museum was Alexander Grigorievich Potaskuev - a passionate lover native land, an excellent expert on peasant life. In the early 60s, after retiring, Alexander Grigorievich suddenly began to surprise and make his fellow villagers laugh with various, as they said, senile quirks - collecting things no one needed at home. Why does he need all these old plows, harrows, self-throwing reapers? Why is he struggling, buying back - for as much as 200 rubles, quite a lot of money in those days - an aging hut, sold for firewood? Unclear. It's completely unclear. The old man is weird.

In May 1972, Alexander Grigorievich persuaded V.M. Kunavin, chairman of the collective farm named after. Lenin, donate to the museum an ancient stone building on the street. Red Eagles No. 29, built at the beginning of the 20th century. There the history of the village of the Soviet period began. A room had to be built for the assembled implements, agricultural implements and machines that were not part of the main building.

His path to recognition of the museum was difficult and thorny, but having passed it, he left a unique and so far inimitable museum, telling about the life of peasants, their material and spiritual culture.

I also advise you to take a walk around the village and breathe in the fresh, village air. You will encounter ordinary life, which a city dweller will miss.

The Urals are a real storehouse of Russian history. It is notable not only for its unusual architecture and the originality of villages and villages, it is beautiful for its unique nature, the secrets that we have yet to discover and the people who inhabit our Native Land.

Try to choose a day off and ride along this route, and I am sure you will become infected with this wonderful disease called travel!

Travel locally, take care of nature and get to know your Motherland!

May 22nd, 2017 , 11:19 pm

Earlier, I told you about the beginning of our small motor rally through our native Ural regions (parts one and two). Now there will be a third part, but... not the last, as I planned.

Having finished exploring the village of Mironovo, we went north, towards Alapaevsk. A good road ran along the left bank of the Rezh. We managed to drive literally a kilometer, when suddenly in the village of Buchino we came across this:

Of course, we only came across a payphone; I arrived later. The most interesting thing is that the device is working, beeps are heard from the receiver! Here is the village - everything is safe and intact, even if unused.

Another kilometer later, the Alapaevsky district began, where we came across a cool “border” sign, and you will see me again:

Having driven about 10 more kilometers, we finally found ourselves in the village of Aramashevo, quite famous in the Urals. It was mentioned for the first time since the 17th century, and, like Mironovo, it was repeatedly raided by nomadic Bashkirs. According to the 2010 census, the population of the village is just over 700 people (again, about the same as in Mironovo).

Aramashevo also has one more feature similar to Mironovo - the presence of a very decent local history museum. As in Mironovo, we did not stay for the excursion, however, we would not have had time anyway - the museum was no longer open.

The main attraction of Armashevo is the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. I'll just leave it here:

The Aramashevsky temple is almost equal in age to the Mironovsky one, but the Aramashevsky church was consecrated earlier, already in 1800. At the end of the 1920s, the temple was closed, and its restoration began by local residents only in the 1990s. At first, the Aramashevites did what they could, and only then did sponsors and local authorities. The church chapel, which is in the photo on the left, was rebuilt. The church has been restored so well that from a distance it seems freshly built:




As can be seen in the photograph, guests of the village are heading towards the church. They got out of the car with a Chelyabinsk license plate. Apparently, there are enough tourists in Aramashevo.

The village is famous not only for its church and museum. Not far from Aramashevo, rock climbers train, and rafting enthusiasts raft along the Rezh along the village. What a beauty!



There is also a casino in Armashevo))

If you drive across the bridge over Rezh in Aramashevo, then after 1.5 kilometers you will find yourself at a fork in the road. A straight road about 500 meters long leads to the village of Samotsvet ( railroad station on the Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk line, population 280), and the road to the right - almost 2 km - leads to the village of Kurort-Samotsvet (population 650). So we went to the “resort”.

Unlike many villages in the Alapaevsky district, Resort-Samotsvet is quite young locality. It appeared in the 1950s thanks to Marshal Zhukov, who then commanded the Ural Military District. Thanks to the efforts of the marshal, Samotsvet quickly became one of the main medical sanatoriums in the Urals, with tens of thousands of vacationers coming here every year. The basis of treatment on Samotsvet is sapropel mud from Lake Moltaevo, the shores of which are also visited by many tourists.

Since the Gem Resort appeared only 60 years ago, the houses here are relatively old. Relatively...



Village administration:

Remains of the old boiler room:

Old wooden (individual) sheds/garages:

There is also trash, a garbage dump and a Siamese cat. The cat is sick, but you can see:

Of course, the natives of the Gem Resort looked with suspicion at the uninvited guests who dared to come and take photographs here, but we treated their silent contempt with the same contempt. In any case, there was nothing more to catch here, and it was necessary to return home.

We made the way back along the Alapaevsk-Rezh highway, which is about 42 kilometers. Of course, I wanted to visit both Mironovo and Aramashevo for the second time, this time with visits to the museum and excursions. Well, summer is still ahead, let's try!

Well, here we are: