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Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha is an urban-type settlement located in the Alapaevsky district of the Sverdlovsk region.

Population 10.9 thousand inhabitants (2009).

Present tense

Currently, Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha is a large settlement. There is an art school, a library, a diagnostic center, three schools (two general education and one correctional), and a modern hospital complex. In Verkhnesinyachikhinsky orphanage 60 pupils live there. It hosts various competitions, holidays, and sporting events for the development of children. In the village there are various sports clubs and associations, such as the basketball club “Burevestnik” (headed by an honored teacher Russian Federation Zakozhurnikov Alexander Yurievich and the karting club, headed by the director of the Verkhnesinyachikhinsky Center for Additional Education, Nikolai Alexandrovich Ustyugov.

In summer, residents of the village relax at their dachas, which are located in the old part of the village. They also grow vegetables, fruits and flowers there.

Story

More than 200 years ago, the Mansi (Voguls) lived here. They called this river Xianga. When the Russians arrived, they added the ending - sneeze and the river received the name Sinyachikha.

In 1769, in connection with the discovery of iron ore in the Sinyachikha River area, the construction of the Verkhne-Sinyachikha plant began. A dam 300 meters long, 15 meters high and 40 meters wide was built on the river.

There were houses on the right bank of the river, and factory workshops on the left bank, and this is how the village of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha was formed. In 1782, iron from the plant was sold in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and England. Charcoal for the blast furnace was brought from forest areas located 30-60 km away. They cut down the forest, uprooted it and put it in ovens, and then took it to the factory. Thus, at the site of clearings, meadows and fields were formed.

The first school in the village of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha opened in 1778. From 1778 to 1905, 20-30 people studied there.

In 1876, a blast furnace exploded at the plant, killing many people. The workers went on strike, the instigators of the strikes were shot, and the rest were beaten with whips.

The factory village developed quickly and was soon designated a volost center.

Resident of the village Ivan Sargin, who was an eyewitness to the revolution of 1905-1907: “During the revolution of 1905, the workers quit their jobs. The plant closed. Only one narrow-form workshop was operating. The workers were herded into this workshop by the police. Then they began to hold rallies. At one of the rallies, which took place on the school square, Ya. M. Sverdlov spoke.”

During the war years 1941-1945. The open hearth furnace produces cartridge-case steel for the front. 600 Sinyachikha residents went to the front, 275 of them did not return. Karelin P. P., Guryev P. D., Chechulin I. P. have the title “Hero of the Soviet Union”

After the war, the country experienced great economic difficulties. On the initiative of front-line soldiers, large individual construction began in the village. About 100 houses were built annually in Sinyachikha, and entire new areas were built.

For the first time in the late 50s, a bus service was established between the village of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha and the city of Alapaevsky, a covered truck was running, later small buses, currently there are 32 trips per day. For more than a century and a half, the metallurgical plant was the only large enterprise in the village. More than one generation of Upper Sinyachikha residents mastered the profession of metallurgist. But time passed, new enterprises were built in the village. Also, until 2000, there was a station of the Alapaevsk narrow-gauge railway in the village.

In 1941, a timber chemical plant came into operation. It began the transformation of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha into the center of the region's timber industry. In 1972, the plywood mill produced its first products, and in 1982, the chipboard plant began operating.

Along with the new factories, a residential village was built, first - two-story brick houses on Karl Marx Street, and then five-story houses on Oktyabrskaya Street.

In 1980, the building of the agricultural school SPTU-111 was built with the latest equipment and technology at that time.

Religion

On the outskirts of the village there is a Monastery in the name of the New Martyrs of Russia. On its territory there is a mine where, on the night of July 18, 1918, Grand Duchess Elizabeth and nun Varvara, as well as members of the Romanov royal family, were dumped alive. After the arrival of the whites, the remains of those killed were removed from the mine and taken abroad. Now there is a memorial near the mine, to which numerous pilgrims come. Grand Duchess Elizabeth and sister Varvara were canonized as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992. In the monastery church in the name of the New Martyrs of Russia, particles of the incorruptible relics of St. Elizabeth, brought from Jerusalem in 2004, are kept.

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Sinyachikha, small homeland,
The house where I was born and grew up,
Lilac bush, the smell of bird cherry,
Night, a huge number of stars...

These are poems by a native resident of Upper Sinyachikha - Nadezhda Ignatieva. It is with them that I would like to begin the story about the ancient Ural village.

Every small homeland is unique. But, reading or hearing about another town, village, town, we are somehow not particularly interested in its history. No, not at all because it is not interesting, it’s just that it doesn’t concern us specifically, if we don’t belong to the residents. But in vain... every story is unique.

A long time ago, Vogul tribes came to the banks of the Sinyachikha River, they came, and they stayed here. They really liked the river, nature, places. Yes, not simple ones, for recreation and parking, but rich in earthly treasures - iron ores, forests, waters. The Vogul nomads named that river “Sanyuycha-kha”, which translated meant “wet river”.

Or maybe before that they were dry
Did they come across any rivers on their way?
Who knows? But it seems that the clues
We cannot find these two words today.

N. Ignatieva writes in her poem about Sinyachikha.

Perhaps that’s why they remembered the river, and that’s why they settled here, forming the first settlements.

And everything would have remained the same if, after a while, iron ores had not been found on the banks of the deep Sinyachikha River. This happened in the 17th century. Father Tsar Peter the Great needed a lot of iron. Peter took up the creation of domestic industry in the Urals at the beginning of the 18th century, when Russia began a stubborn struggle with Sweden for access to the Baltic Sea. In the Urals, the king was attracted by the abundance of ore, rivers, and forests. A program was developed that was used when choosing a location for building factories, and a new department, “Ore Order,” was established, which was engaged in the exploration and extraction of ore. That's why they were sent the best masters to the Ural rivers, to search. They found ore on the Neiva, Alapaikha, Tagil, and Kamenka rivers; they explored ore mining along the Iset and found deposits along the Sinyachikha River.

The decree of January 19, 1699 “On the establishment of the Verkhoturye iron factories again” also announced the “sending of craftsmen to those factories.” In March 1700, the first batch of specialists arrived in the Urals; they brought with them the necessary equipment.

And the era of factory construction began.

In the Urals at that time the Demidovs were in charge of ore mining. The owners were extremely cruel, they considered people like cattle, they spoiled them with floggings instead of rewards, they starved the people like flies, and they coveted the Sinyachikha factories. There were two of them at that time. Nizhnesinyachikhinsky - built downstream in March 1727, and Verkhnesinyachikhinsky - in the upper reaches of the river - built in 1769 (or 1770).

Verkhnesinyachikha Metallurgical Plant

In 1739, it was proposed to transfer 11 state-owned ironworks into private hands on more favorable terms for private entrepreneurs. Akinfiy Nikitich Demidov expressed a desire to buy the Alapaevsky, Nizhnesinyachikhinsky and Susansky plants. Demidov admits in his letters that he needs the factories because of the peasants who worked in these factories. Thus, out of 11 factories, there were no takers for 8; fearing being left with unprofitable enterprises, the state decided to postpone the transfer of the factories to private hands.

In 1757, the Governing Senate, by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, transferred the Alapaevsky plant to the Life Guard Second Major A.G. Guryev, and in 1759 he asked to increase the number of assigned peasants to expand production. But already in 1766 he sold the plant to Savva Yakovlev.

Since then, two types of factories have been operating in the Urals. The Yakovlevs and the Demidovs were at odds. Under Savva, the Verkhnesinyachikha plant, which he also built, was in a deplorable state. And only thanks to William de Gennin, who noticed the disgrace, production was established.

During the Pugachev War of 1773-1775, the Alapaevsky, Nizhnesinyachikhinsky, Verkhnesinyachikhinsky factories were turned into real defensive points. The factory office spared no money on their defense.

By the beginning of the 19th century, the productivity of the Verkhnesinyachikha plant remained at the same level. The opening of the new Neivo-Alapaevsky plant led to the closure of a number of Yakovlev enterprises. The Verkhnesinyachikha plant was stopped for 24 years....

But it’s not just the plant that makes the village live. In 1796, another significant event happened - the Great Synod approved the construction of the Assumption Church in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, which the craftsmen had been asking for for so long. Due to lack of time, and not always being able to get to the service in the Transfiguration Cathedral in Nizhnesinyachikhinsky, they advocated for the construction of their own temple. The Greatest Synod, Archbishop Varlaam of Tobolsk and Siberia, asked for this. And consent was given from above, and the laity began the Great Work.

Money for construction was collected all over the world. They laid the stone using a special solution, popularly called God's cement, on chicken eggs and lime mixed. Eggs were brought from all yards.

Verkhnesinyachikha Assumption Church. That's how she was

Verkhnesinyachikha Assumption Church. Our days. Photo by V. Makarchuk

Our ancestors knew a lot about construction.

In 1804, a cold church was consecrated in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

In 1813, a warm (heated in winter) chapel was also consecrated in the name of the Epiphany of the Lord. The chapel adjoined the western side of the Assumption Church. Construction was completed in 1849 with the consecration of the chapel in the name of St. Nicholas.

The village grew and expanded. The number of church parishioners increased.

In 1896, the Epiphany chapel was abolished, and in 1898 the temple was repaired and expanded (the former Epiphany chapel, heated by stoves, was combined with the unheated Assumption Church into a common room).

The hand of the Civil War also touched Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha.

In 1904, a Social Democratic circle was organized in the village. Political literature received by mail was kept in the church sacristy. A member of the circle, locksmith Ivan Ivanovich Mankov, who was engaged in repairing and cleaning copper church utensils, made a double bottom in his tool cabinet. The clergy didn’t even know about it. Ivan Ivanovich himself was illiterate.

The February Revolution of 1917 agitated the village. According to the memoirs of V.D. Perovsky in the spring of 1917, a cell of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) was created in the village, headed by “Pop A.V. Alexandrovsky and renamed it the “Peasant Union for Land and Freedom.”

From September 26, 1918 to July 20, 1919, the Verkhnesinyachikha plant was occupied by units of the White Army. Before the retreat of the Red Army, on August 7 (20), 1918, a plenum of the executive committee of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies was held, which decided to hide all documents. The secretary of the Verkhnesinyachikha organization of the RSDLP\b Ivan Emelyanovich Cherepanov and the commander of the Red Guard detachment Pyotr Yakovlevich Kaigorodov hid party documents and the church archive in the adit of the Chekhomovsky mine (now mining pits).

1st pit of the Chekhomovsky mine

2nd pit of the Chekhomovsky mine

Cherepanov soon died in a battle near Verkhneyvinsk. Kaygorodov’s military fate took him to the Far East; he returned to his native village only in 1926. When the documents were dug up, it turned out that they were wet and rotten. It’s good that metric records were kept in duplicate. Thus, the party cards of the Sinyachikha communists and the documents of the church perished together.

Civil war flared up. More than 300 Sinyachikha men fought heroically in many important sectors of the front. More than 100 of them died a heroic death.

The kulaks went to war against other residents, Reds against whites, whites against reds...

To suppress this rebellion, a Red Guard detachment was formed in Alapaevsk.

In February, the Second Red Guard detachment of 80 people was formed in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha under the leadership of Pavel Timofeevich Elkin. The Sinyachikhins joined the First Ural Regiment to fight Ataman Dutov. In the battle of Troitsk, Elkin’s detachment had a brilliant victory.

In the summer of 1918, the White Czechs rebelled in the Urals. An appeal was adopted to all workers and peasants: “Everyone who can bear arms, join the ranks of the Red Guard!”

The plant closed again and military training began. It didn't last long, though.

The Red Army did not defend the village. For some time, Sinyachikha was occupied by the whites.

With their arrival, life in the village came to a standstill. In the evenings, white patrols drove around the village. A committee to combat Bolshevism was created. Every day there were screams and moans at the fire station. They flogged workers who sympathized with Soviet power with rods and ramrods, and sprinkled salt on their bleeding wounds. They were tried and fined for sympathizing with the Red Guard, for talking on the street against whites. Many residents fled to the forests out of fear and hid there until winter.

Neither old people nor women were spared. 60-year-old old man Grigory Rybakov was shot because his two sons left with the Red Army. The wives of Red Army soldiers were especially cruelly treated. At night, eight people were shot and thrown into a coal mine. In the last minutes of his life, the boy shouted in the face of the executioners: “The Reds will win anyway!”

And only in the summer of 1919 the white terror retreated from the village.

On July 20, 1919, Red troops entered the village. This day was a real holiday. The streets were swept and decorated with red flags. Women in red scarves greeted the liberation fighters far beyond the outskirts with flowers in their hands and a smile on their happy faces.

After the defeat of Kolchak, from the remnants of the White Guards, wealthy peasants and men from distant villages intimidated by bandits, gangs were formed in the dense forests of the Toporkovskaya and Makhnevskaya volosts. They were led by experienced officers - Mugaisky and Tolmachev. Their goal was to unite into groups those hiding in the forests and farmsteads whose toes the Soviet government had stepped on.

And the White Guard gangs acted. They suddenly appeared in one place, then in another. To disperse the gang from the workers of Alapaevsk and Sinyachikha, a detachment was formed under the leadership of the head of the Alapaevsk police, Evgeny Ivanovich Rudakov. Average height, chubby face, dashingly curled mustache. He was 30 years old at that time, but the deep crease above the bridge of his nose and the gray hair at his temples indicated that he had lived through many difficult years. The detachment's task was to identify and defeat White Guard gangs and strengthen Soviet power in remote villages scattered across the swamps. The task was difficult. The bandits settled firmly in the forests, were provided with food, and had good communications with the city of Alapaevsk. Rudakov managed to disperse the main forces of the bandits. Some of the peasants, mostly young boys from the surrounding villages, threw down their weapons and surrendered to the mercy of the police. On June 23, 1920, twenty people led by A. Mugaisky early in the morning moved towards Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. They decided to deal with E.I. Rudakov, who was returning from Alapaevsk. The ambush was set up in the Starukhin swamp, where thick bushes approach the road.

On June 24, Rudakov and his wife Klavdia Nikolaevna left Alapaevsk. Manefa's eight-year-old daughter was left with her grandmother. Evgeniy Ivanovich was carrying a salary of 60 thousand rubles for the Toporkovsky policemen. At the 16th kilometer of the forest road from Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, several armed bandits emerged from the forest. The driver was sent back, warned that if he told anyone, he would not be alive. A savage reprisal was carried out against Rudakov. They did not spare his wife, who was expecting a child.

Stella at the site of the Rudakovs' execution

A few days later the bodies were found. A terrible picture opened up before the finders. 18 wounds were found on Rudakov’s body: 14 saber wounds and 4 bayonet wounds. There are 17 saber wounds on the body of Rudakov’s wife

The Rudakovs were buried in the city of Alapaevsk, on the square in a mass grave (Revolution Square).

Funeral of the Rudakovs

Revolution Square, Alapaevsk city

Name board on the monument on Revolution Square

This bloody crime of the enemies of the revolution did not go unpunished. The gangs were defeated. In August 1920 in the village. An open trial of a gang of murderers took place on the square in Toporkovo in the presence of several thousand people from the surrounding villages. A visiting session of the military tribunal of the Ural Military District sentenced twelve gang leaders to capital punishment - execution. The remaining defendants faced varying prison terms....

In 1930, the collective farm "New Path" was created in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. He was located in the village of Chechulino. Now it has merged with the village and has become just one of its streets. But people still say “Chechulino Village”.

The collective farm included 72 households, 157 members of the collective farm.

The board of the collective farm was located in a 2-story house taken from the father of the steelmaker, future Knight of the Order of Lenin Vyacheslav Grigorievich Chechulin /died in March 1989/.

Below the house was the board of the collective farm, and above was the executive committee of the Chechulinsky Village Council. The Chechulinsky Council also included the village of Timoshina and the village of the Flux Mine. They worked together from morning until late evening during their workdays.

In 1933 there was a crop failure - famine, all the grain, even the last grain, even that intended for sowing, was handed over to the state, and in the spring it was taken out again from Alapaevsk. During the famine, many horses died.

The first good harvest was in 1937. Bread, enough for workdays, was brought and dumped directly at the collective farmers’ gates. In 1941 -1954, an agricultural tax was introduced. The collective farmer's family had to surrender it regardless of whether or not it had livestock.

The Great Patriotic War did not spare the village either. It took away most of the working-age population. 580 people, every sixth resident of the village, went to the front from Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha.

They tried to compensate for the shortage of workers with the labor of prisoners of war. In May 1942, the first trains with them arrived in the Sverdlovsk region. In 1944, camp No. 200 was created in Alapaevsk. Its strength is 400 people. Ten sections of the camp were scattered throughout the area. 3 kilometers from Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha there was camp settlement No. 3. The prisoners worked on the construction of a railway bridge across the Sinyachikha River, the same one that is now popularly called the Madyarov Bridge. These were difficult years, difficult times. The residents themselves did not have enough food, and the prisoners were forced to live in half-earth trenches, in the cold, with virtually no heat even in winter.... 79 people died during the construction of the bridge...

Magyarovsky Bridge

During the Second World War, all the forces of the village were aimed at providing the front with important military materials. The blast furnace shop was re-equipped. The open hearth furnace produced PG-4 sleeve steel.

The housing stock, healthcare, and education were in great desolation, which was also facilitated by the fact that out of 3,000 thousand residents of the village, 600 went to the front, 275 of them died. After the war, the streets were buried in mud, the roofs of houses were leaky, and the stoves were broken. The Alapaevsk-Sinyachikha highway was actually not passable.

After the war, the country experienced great economic difficulties and could not allocate money for the social and cultural needs of the village. On the initiative of front-line soldiers, large individual construction began in the village. In Sinyachikha, about 100 houses were built annually, entire new areas of the Leninsky village behind the workers' town, a farm along the Yasashinsky tract, a village behind the old cemetery and an iron mine village were built, and many houses were built in the alleys. A slag-inflatable sidewalk was built along the street. Cherepanovskaya, the level of the dam on the Kaigarodikha River has been raised.

In 1961, a bathhouse was built, later bath was built in a chemical plant village.

Bathhouse. Year of construction 1961, photo approximately 1963.

In 1959, the clinic was transferred from the sanatorium to the center of the village, the former building of the district party committee. In 1959, a pharmacy and post office building was built, now on this site is the building of a former department store - the House of Culture.

Throughout the existence of the village, trade also actively developed.

And if in the 18th - early 19th centuries only private trade existed in the settlement of the Verkhnesinyachikhinsky plant, then in the second half of the 19th century cooperative trade began to develop.

In 1907, the Verkhnesinyachikha Consumer Society was created. The society united 84 members. In addition to trading houses, the settlement had two pubs (Maria Ignatievna Tarasova and Platon Guryev) and a government tavern on Volostnaya Street (now the corner of Cherepanovskaya and Zavodskaya streets). The October Revolution and the Civil War slowed down trade, because... The monetary system of the state was upset. Barter and distribution of goods prevailed.

In 1920, property from merchants in the village was confiscated and distributed to the poor. Part of the property was sold at auction.

On February 27, 1924, the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Ural Regional Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies approved the composition of the districts and districts of the Ural Region.

The Verkhnesinyachikhinsky plant became the center of the Verkhnesinyachikhinsky village council as part of the Alapaevsky district of the Tagil district of the Ural region.

By a resolution of the Tagil Regional Executive Committee of January 11, 1927, the settlement of the Verkhnesinyachikha plant was transformed into the working village of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a card system for food distribution was introduced in the Sverdlovsk region on September 1, 1941 (from November 1 throughout the country).

In 1942, lunch in the canteen consisted of pea or nettle soup and porridge. But even for such a lunch there were not enough cards, since they were sold in stores. Only in 1944 did food improve slightly with additional rations for good work. American stew, egg powder and even butter appeared in the factory canteen.

All material resources were directed to the needs of the front. There were no overalls, shoes, or soap. For the factory workers, bast shoes and boots were made from canvas with wooden soles in a special workshop....

Medicine in the village was rather poorly developed for many years.

Around 1833, the Alapaevsk plant management opened factory medical centers in the Neivo-Shaitansky and Verkhnesinyachikhinsky plants.

Families of workers and other people had no right to use factory medical care.

For 50 years of the 19th century, residents of factory settlements and surrounding villages were left without medical care. In 1887, the Verkhnesinyachikha first-aid post already served a population of 1,854 people.

In 1892, the district zemstvo spent 1,735 rubles on the maintenance of the Verkhnesinyachikha first-aid post.

1886 - factory workers were vaccinated against smallpox for the first time.

1939 - construction of a sanitary camp.

1989 - opening of a new hospital complex.

For some time the building housed a hospital. Nowadays it is the Village Administration.

The current hospital complex of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. One of the many buildings in the complex

New century, new changes. The population of the urban-type settlement of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha continues to grow, new high-rise buildings are being erected on Bazhova Street, the building of a sports and recreation complex, perhaps one of the largest in the area, has been opened, trade and medicine continue to develop.

Sports and recreation complex

There are two schools in the village, correctional school, children's art school. The Verkhnesinyachikhinsky House of Culture with its irreplaceable workers L.A. Polyakova, T.V. Razdorozhnaya, A.V. Gladysheva, A.V. Makarova continues to delight and bring culture to the masses.

Verkhnesinyachikha House of Culture. Photo by V. Dovgan

There are four kindergartens, a timber chemical plant, a plywood mill, and the Verkhnesinyachikhinsky plant, which was temporarily stopped several years ago, is starting to operate again. The Verkhnesinyachikha hospital has reached a decent level, now occupying the status of a district hospital, there are two libraries in the village, one of which is also assigned the title of the central district library...

An ancient Ural village lives and develops.

A sad event brought fame to Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. The Monastery of the New Martyrs of Russia is located on the site where, on the night of 1 July 8, 1918 Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna Romanova, nun Varvara, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, his secretary Fyodor Remez, Princes John Konstantinovich, Konstantin Konstantinovich, Igor Konstantinovich, Prince Vladimir Paley were thrown into the mine alive.

Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha is an urban-type settlement on the banks of a river. Once upon a time, the Voguls, a Mansi tribe, lived here and called the river Sinyacha. Then the Russians came to these places and named the river in the Russian way - Sinyachikha. This was in 1769. Later, ore was found here and they began to build a dam for an ironworks.

The men's monastery in the name of the New Martyrs of Russia is located before the entrance to the village of Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. At the end of the 80s of the last century, it was installed here mine location, where the great ones were thrown Princess Elizabeth and nun Varvara, as well as members of the family of the House of Romanov.

The mine itself was located at the crossroads of roads that went from Alapaevsk to the Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha plants. The Orthodox called this place Mezhnoy, because here two roads met (from the south and east), which led to Verkhoturye, the so-called Simeonovsky way- in honor of the Ural saint Simeon of Verkhoturye. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the mine was closed because... it was constantly flooded with groundwater. Since 1904, no work was carried out on it.

Now the mine is a shrine of the entire Orthodox world. In the monastery church in the name of the New Martyrs of Russia are kept particles of the incorruptible relics of the Holy Princess Elizabeth, brought from Jerusalem in 2004.

Elizabeth was considered one of the first beauties among the princesses of Europe. In 1884 she married the brother of the Russian Emperor Alexander III, Prince Sergei Alexandrovich, moved to Russia, mastered the Russian language perfectly and converted to Orthodoxy.

When the Russo-Japanese War began, Princess Elizabeth organized a committee to help soldiers, which collected donations, organized camp churches, sewed clothes, collected medicines and bandages. In 1905, Elizabeth's husband, brother of Emperor Alexander III, was killed by a terrorist. It was a terrible loss for Elizabeth.

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth sold her jewelry and bought an estate. In 1909 in this estate she opened Marfo-Mariinskaya Convent, which was not only a spiritual, but also a medical center. The luminaries of Russian medicine gave lectures here. Princess Elizabeth practically lived in the Convent: she cared for the sick, rescued abandoned children from poverty, and worked alongside the sisters of the Convent.

During World War I, she cared for the wounded and helped German prisoners of war, with whom the hospitals were overcrowded. They even tried to accuse her of collaborating with the Germans.

After the Bolsheviks came to power, Princess Elizabeth refused to leave Russia. And already early 1918, like other representatives of the House of Romanov, she was taken into custody and transported to Yekaterinburg. In Yekaterinburg, Princess Elizabeth was kept in the so-called “Atamanov rooms”. We all know this house. This is the Department of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, which is located at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Vayner Street.

Princess Elizabeth spent approximately two months in the Ataman Rooms, and then was transported to Alapaevsk(I hope you and I will still have the opportunity to talk about this city, about the floor school where Elizabeth was kept, and other places). With her was a sister from the Martha and Mary Convent, Varvara Yakovleva, and representatives of the House of Romanov. On the night of July 18 Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna and the Grand Dukes were thrown into the mine alive. They say that for three days the singing of prayers was heard from the mine.

We are standing next to the mine, a young novice tells us this tragic story, his voice is often interrupted by excitement... Silence, it is snowing, I don’t want to talk - there is such sorrow in my soul! It seemed that in this silence one could still hear the singing of Their prayers...

In October 1918 Alapaevsk occupied white army. The remains of the dead were taken out of the mine, placed in coffins, buried and sent to the east, away from the front. The dead traveled for a very long time. Two coffins - Princess Elizabeth and nun Varvara - were delivered to Shanghai, and then to Jerusalem. But only burial took place in 1921 Grand Duchess Elizabeth under the Church of Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane. It was her dream to be buried in the Great Land.

In 1992 Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Grand Duchess Elizabeth and sister Varvara were canonized as holy new martyrs of Russia.

The young novice, our voluntary guide, finished his story. We stood in silence for a little longer, then moved to the temple to venerate the relics of St. Elizabeth.

How to get there.

By car. We leave on the Berezovsky tract, turn at the sign to Dir, we pass Monetny, Losiny, and just before Rezh we go following the sign to the right to Alapaevsk. We are passing Alapaevsk. And the main thing here is not to go to Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha. We act like this: we reach the sign for Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha (it will be to the right), and here, despite the absence of a sign, turn left- just to Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. The monastery can be seen from afar. You can drive directly to the temple. There is also a small parking lot for buses and cars. One way is approximately 150-160 km. Unfortunately, we didn’t try to get there by other means of transport. There are buses to Alapaevsk, that’s for sure, but I don’t know whether they go to Sinyachikha or not. Probably, the schedule and cost of tickets should be checked at the Northern bus station (tel. 378-16-09, 358-41-68) or at the Southern (tel. 257-12-60, 251-95-18, 251-95-62)

Useful tips.

You can plan Alapaevsk with a visit to Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha. But first, visit it so that the historical events settle down chronologically correctly. You can plan Koptelovo and Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha. But it seems to me that the best option: Upper Sinyachikha + Alapaevsk (history of the royal family), a separate trip to Koptelovo and Lower Sinyachikha (Ural life and craft).

When you arrive at the monastery, go to the temple and ask anyone to tell and show you this tragic place. They will not refuse you this; they will be very happy to give you the opportunity to touch the holy places.

To save time, we took a snack with us. Of course, you can stop for lunch in Alapaevsk and at some roadside cafe.

Dry residue.

We spent a total of 5 hours in the car. We left the city at 8.00. We arrived in Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha around 11.00. We spent two hours in the monastery.

Expenses (except gasoline): 100 rub. for conducting a tour of the monastery + candles, donations.

I wish you big and small trips!