Church of Peter and Paul in Petrovsk (Kirov Region)
In 1648, a wooden church with five domes was built here at the expense of the monastery in honor of Peter and Paul, with chapels dedicated to the saints Peter, Alexius, and Jonah. Since then, the village officially began…
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Urzhum
One of the first brick buildings in Urzhum was the Trinity Cathedral. This ancient monument of religious architecture was not the first on this site. According to the Urzhum plan of 1785, the Trinity Cathedral was locate…
Alexandrovsky Central
The Alexandrovsky distillery, on the site of which the famous prison was later built, is mentioned as early as the second half of the 18th century. In 1774, the German traveler Johann Georgi wrote about this place. Soon …
Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Buyskoe
The settlement was founded in 1768 when the Tula merchant Antipa Maksimovich Mosolov decided to build a copper smelting plant here, which is why it was initially called Buyskoe Plant. The first residents, over three hund…
Church of Archangel Michael in Sosnovka (Kirov Region)
The charter for the construction of a wooden church in one of the oldest villages of the Unin region, Sosnovka, was issued by the Vyatka diocese on June 21, 1760. After that, the construction of the church began, which w…
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God 'Worthy Is' in Porez
The question of opening the Porez parish and building a church first arose in 1842, according to documents from the Vyatka Consistory. However, this was hindered by the clergy of neighboring parishes, and the residents o…
Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Tuzha
On April 29, 1702, a decree was issued for the construction of a new wooden church in the name of the Resurrection of the Lord. The first church was located on a hill where the House of Culture now stands. It included a …
Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in Suvody
The village of Suvody is located on the Kukarsky plateau, in the western part of the Ural Mountains, among the Vyatka hills. It is surrounded by forests, but despite its remoteness, it is not the edge of civilization. Ju…
Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Sovetsk
Among all the preserved ancient buildings of the Kukarka settlement, the Intercession Church is the oldest. The exact date of its foundation is unknown, but construction began after the transfer of the John the Baptist M…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Shestakovo
The first mention of churches in the village of Shestakovo appears in the land books of Ivan Domozhirov and clerk Kokushkin from 1629. At that time, there were wooden churches in Shestakovo: the Cathedral of Archimandrit…
