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 large cities, the village has not lost its historical identity, but has only increased its cultural ties. The village has many buildings from Tsarist Russia, which blend harmoniously with modern imprints.
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-fired 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 of his 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!
The ancient Ural village of Aramashevo stretched along the banks of the Rezh River, among forests and rocks, almost 4 centuries ago.
And 200 years ago, the first painters and artists came here from Siberia and began decorating the huts of the Ural residents with simple paintings.
Over time, these drawings disappeared; there were almost none left in the ancient Ural villages. Therefore, the find in the village of Aramashevo became truly valuable and interesting not only to historians and art critics, but to all of us. After all, now a museum has been created here, which, like a time machine, takes us to those distant times.
But this became possible solely thanks to the efforts of the former teacher of Russian language and literature, former director of the Aramashevsky Museum of Local Lore, and now the creator and curator of the Ural Huts project, Vera Vasilievna Reutova and her associates.
Six years ago in Aramashevo, in huts almost ready for demolition, ancient paintings were discovered behind wallpaper and plaster. We saw similar ones in . Only in the huts that were transported to the open-air museum from other villages. And here are our own, relatives.
It took several years to restore and restore the two upper rooms and the courtyard. Now it’s an incredibly cozy, soulful place that you don’t want to leave.
The appearance of a peasant house in the Urals was extremely simple: a hut, a cellar, a barn, a crane well, a barn, cattle pens, a vegetable garden, a bathhouse.
It was customary for wealthier peasants to build two huts under one roof - a winter one and a summer one. They were also called upper rooms.
In the summer hut, the floor was earthen, there was no stove, and a hayloft was usually built in the attic. It was a great place to hide from the summer heat in such a house.
The winter hut, with a large Russian stove and small windows, was built to keep warm on long winter nights.
The people here lived well off. Not only did they build two huts, but they also richly decorated their house.
This painting looks clumsy and clumsy, however, even a hundred and two hundred years ago, owners paid a high price for such “beauty” in a hut.
Usually peasants could afford to paint doors, ceilings or small walls. In the Aramashevsky huts there are paintings everywhere, which means that wealthy and not stingy people lived here.
Reference: for 16 kg of flour or grain - only the door could be painted. The owner of this house gave about 2 bags of flour - at that time an untold wealth.
Decorative house painting in the Urals is one of the most original phenomena of Russian folk art. There are a lot of symbolic signs here that can be read like a book.
During the excursion you will be told about the significance of birds, flowers, and fruits in painting. About how our great-grandfathers treated the family, the house-building. Each place in the house had its own plot, and, curiously, was painted with different diligence.
In addition to the painting and its subjects, Vera Vasilievna will reveal the secrets of the village house. She often returns to her past: she talks about her stern grandfather and grandmother, who spoiled her grandchildren with sugar loaf, about how, as a girl, she wrapped herself in a patchwork blanket and listened to her grandmother’s fairy tales.
Here you can see a wedding dress and a wreath that once belonged to one of the residents of Aramashevo, old furniture, dishes, sculptures that decorated the houses of local residents.
It's very soulful here. Of many places in the Urals, this place is truly warm and cozy. You should definitely go here before this place turns into a commercial project.
While those who live and breathe their work, who are truly faithful to their work, are alive.
PS The museum exhibition “Huts with Ural Paintings of the 19th Century” hosts master classes, excursions, meetings, gatherings with pies and delicious tea.
“...and Siberian painters walked around the Ural houses and offered to paint the walls, doors and ceilings of the village huts. Do you want it, master?
I first learned that on Ural there were such traditions. Village Aramashevo. Former teacher of Russian and literature Vera Vasilievna Reutova At first she donated her pension to the restoration of the temple. And then, in the most difficult 90s, when the state farm went bankrupt and the village men were drinking themselves to death, she, together with her husband and children, began to restore the village heritage - a hut with Ural paintings - using her modest savings.
The pitiful pensions of two teachers and the enormous creative feeling of “preserving for the children” this historical painted wealth of the 16th-17th centuries. A small home complex nearby is called "Ural huts are the living soul". It’s amazing how people try to preserve and introduce us to the traditions and rituals that were characteristic of the Ural hinterland.
Excursions, master classes and funny competitions are held here in order to attract more people here, especially children, so that they begin to be proud of their folk roots. Look at the smiles of these smart girls who took part in restoring family rituals with great joy. And how much happiness is there in the eyes of smartly dressed adults?!
We learned about this spiritual thanks to Natalia Belenkova and a guide to Sverdlovsk region from Houses of books. It’s great that you can travel not only during long vacations, but also throughout the day around your native expanses!”
Text author: Liliya Patrusheva
“Ural Huts Living Soul”: history of creation
She told how the home museum complex appeared Reutova Vera Vasilievna:
"Several years ago in Aramashevo, in the huts that were about to be demolished, ancient paintings were suddenly discovered behind the wallpaper and plaster. Similar to what can be seen in . Only there the huts were collected from the surrounding area and were transported to the open-air museum from other villages. And here are our own, relatives. It was a real miracle.
It took years and the efforts of the whole family to restore and put in order the two rooms and the courtyard. And it was as if the soul had returned to the old hut. The structure of a peasant house in the Urals was simple and functional: a hut, a cellar, a barn, a crane well, a barn, cattle pens, a vegetable garden, a bathhouse.
Wealthy peasants built two huts under one roof - a winter one and a summer one. They were called upper rooms. The summer hut was simpler: the floor was earthen, without a stove, and hay was stored in the attic. It was not hot in such a house in the summer. The winter hut was heated by a large Russian stove, it had small windows - all in order to keep warm and not freeze on the long dark winter nights.
The people living in the restored houses were wealthy. They not only built two huts, but also richly decorated their house. Maybe someone thinks that this painting looks rough and naive, but it added color and joy to the gray everyday life of the long Ural winter and autumn, which is why a hundred and two hundred years ago the owners paid a high price to the painters-artists who painted the huts.
Depending on the wealth of the huts, either only the doors, or part of the ceiling, or maybe a small partition, were painted. There are paintings everywhere in the Aromashevsky huts; the people who lived here were prosperous and not stingy.”
How much did such a painting cost? According to Vera Vasilyevna, 16 kg of flour or grain were paid for painting one door. Most likely, the owner of this house gave more than 2 bags of flour - a great wealth at that time.
If you plan to go on an excursion to Vera Vasilievna, she will reveal to you the secrets of the village house. In his story, the guide often returns to his past: funny stories about a stern grandfather and grandmother who spoiled their grandchildren with simple toys and sweets. Here you can see a wedding dress and a wreath that once belonged to one of the residents Aramashevo, 200-year-old furniture, dishes, sculptures that decorated the houses of local residents. You will learn how to make amulets, take part in a master class and great photo sessions.
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 far from the beaten tourist path, and yet from time to time guests from the big city come here - to visit the local history museum, visit the temple, admire the Shaitan Stone and the rocky banks of the Rezh River, and 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. A double room on a weekday 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, rock paintings are still preserved in the lower part of the stone, although 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 rode the Shartash-Alapaevsk commuter train 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:
Category: Sverdlovsk region
According to the Perm Chronicle, the village of Aramashevo was founded in 1631 by settlers who chose for this purpose the high bank of the Rezh River, protected from visits by unfriendly nomads. It was a wooded area with coastal rocks, legends about which have survived to this day (Shaitan-stone, Mamin-stone, Church stone).
The village of Aramashevo is located 30 km south of Alapaevsk, northeast of Yekaterinburg. There is a railway 4 km from the village.
origin of name
There are several speculations regarding the name. According to one of them, Aramashevo comes from the Turkish word “ara”, which means “border”. The version is quite plausible, since the Rezh River actually passed along the border of the territories of the Voguls and Bashkirs, and the village played the strategic role of a border fortress for quite a long time.
Historically, it so happened that the Russians settled in the Urals from north to south, overcoming the fiercest resistance of nomadic tribes, and consolidated along the banks of the rivers. At first they built wooden fortresses, near which peasant settlements subsequently arose.
Another version of the name is associated with the Bashkir word “arame”, which means a place near the river, covered with bushes. The settlers settled on the northern bank of the river, since the opposite bank was considered alien. Today, the southern coast remains practically uninhabited, covered with dense forest.
The third hypothesis about the origin of the name of the village is related to the chamomile grass, which grows in abundance not only on the territory of Aramashevo, but also around it. The left tributary of the Rezh River is called Aramash.
From the history of the village
Centuries ago, the village was located on the postal route and was considered a settlement. Its inhabitants were mainly engaged in agriculture; sowed wheat and rye. The first mention of this settlement dates back to 1692. Diplomats sent by Peter the Great to China described these places as extremely beautiful, replete with forests, meadows, rivers and lakes, and cultivated fields. One of the chroniclers, Adam Brandt, wrote: “It’s very beautiful here, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”
The main fortifications in the village were erected in 55-56. XVII century for protection from Kalmyks. Over time, the raids stopped, and the need to fortify Aramashevo disappeared, the settlement became safe. The Aramashevskaya settlement was under the jurisdiction of 31 small villages, the peasants of which were registered with the Alapaevsky plant.
Ore mining
In the mid-50s of the 17th century. Iron ore reserves were found near Aramashevo, which served as an impetus for the start of development of the deposit. The implementation of the project was entrusted to boyar Perkhurov. For this purpose, all blacksmiths and idle peasants in the district were registered. When the required number of workers was recruited in the Irbitskaya and Nevyanskaya settlements, construction of an ironworks began. The process was led by the Verkhoturye governor Lev Izmailov, under his leadership the plant was launched in a short time.
The emergence of educational institutions
In 1871, a one-class school began operating in Aramashevo. A quarter of a century later, a zemstvo school appeared here, and in 1911 - a 2-class school in a new, specially built brick building.
Until a railway was built near the village, the main occupation of the residents was the cultivation of grain and factory work transporting ore and iron to factories in Alapaevsk and Nizhny Tagil. With the advent of railway communication, this type of activity fell into decline.
In the 60s of the last century, a state farm of the same name began operating in Armashevo. In 2007, a large-scale greenhouse for growing Dutch roses was put into operation.
From the history of stones
Mamin's stone is named after the Ural writer D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, during his stay in Aramashevo he loved to relax near this rock and write his stories there.
There are many scary stories about Shaitan-Kamen. They say that near this rock in the dark, lights and frightening sounds appear, leading to thoughts of ghosts. This fact led the locals to give the stone such an ancient name.
The church stone is famous for the fact that a tunnel passed through it from the temple to the very bank of the Rezh River. During enemy raids, this path was used to remove mothers with children and the elderly from danger.
Shurik's stone is associated with the name of the holy fool, who had the gift of divination. The villagers loved him for his kindness and gentle disposition, pitied him, and helped him in whatever way they could. He often sat on the shore near a rock, peering into the distance, and predicted what kind of year it would be - rainy or dry, well-fed or hungry. Since then, the villagers call this rock Shurik's stone.
Local Lore Museum Aramashevo
The museum was opened in 1963 in a brick house of the late 19th century that once belonged to the merchant Zagainov. This became possible thanks to the efforts of the teachers of the Aramashevsky secondary school and, first of all, I. S. Kesarev, a geography teacher.
In 2003, the museum was given the status of a local history museum. It is located at st. Sovetskaya, 36 and consists of five halls, each of which has its own thematic section - nature, folk crafts, the history of the village of Armashevo and the local school, a stylized Russian hut, a hall of heroes of war and labor. The museum has a permanent exhibition of samovars and Ural souvenirs.
Church of the Kazan Mother of God
In the 30s of the 17th century. A wooden church was built on the Church Stone rock and named it in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Unfortunately, the purpose of the temple was completely burned down in a fire, and in its place in 1800 a stone church was erected. There were two thrones in it: one in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, the other in the name of the Archangel Michael.
Since the beginning of the last century, the village temple has been celebrated in the village of Aramashevo - annually on July 8th. On this day, a religious procession took place, and this continued until 1929, when the Bolsheviks closed the temple and threw the bell into the Rezh River. The church was reconstructed in 2006-2012.
Monument to Heroes
In the very center of the village there is a monument that perpetuates the memory of the villagers who died in the battles for liberation from the fascist invaders. The monument was erected for the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory and contains over 300 names of soldiers. Two residents of the village were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union: M. N. Manturov and I. M. Velskikh.
The village is connected by bus and rail to Alapaevsk, Nizhny Tagil, Artemovsk, Irbit, Yekaterinburg, Kamensk-Uralsk and other settlements of the region. In Aramashevo there is a school, a kindergarten, shops, and a post office.
Address: Aramashevo, Sverdlovsk region, Russia.
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