The village of Tamakulskoe is located at the confluence of two small rivers, Suvarysha and Atyash, 179 versts from Yekaterinburg and 49 versts from Kamyshlov. It got its name from Lake Tamakul, near which in 1686, the white Cossack Ivan Loskutnikov and the peasant Putinets founded the Tamakulskoe settlement with a fortress, according to a decree from Tsars Ivan and Peter Alexeyevich.
Later, the settlement was moved to its current location, situated 10 versts from the lake, while retaining its original name. Before establishing its own parish, the Tamakulskoe settlement was part of the Dolmatovskaya Nikolayevskaya church parish.
The Tamakulskoe parish became independent after the construction of the first church in 1704 and included nine villages: Paderina, Letyagina, Oshurkova, Atyash, Novaya Derevnya, Semyonova, Koroleva, Lyagushina, and Martynova. This composition existed until 1848, when the villages of Martynova and Lyagushina separated to form the Martynovsky parish, and in 1859, the villages of Novaya, Semyonova, and Koroleva became part of the Novoselsky parish. Currently, the parish includes the villages of Paderina, Letyagina, and Oshurkova. The total number of parishioners is 2,992 women and 2,869 men, all of whom are Orthodox, with no schismatics or sectarians among them.
The first church in the village of Tamakulskoe was wooden, with one altar, dedicated to the holy martyr George. It was built on the left bank of the Suvarysha River in 1704 and lasted for 70 years, after which it was replaced in 1774 by a new two-story wooden church on the right bank of Suvarysha. The lower floor had an altar in the name of the holy great martyr George, and the upper floor, in the name of the holy prophet Elijah. At the beginning of the last century, the church, which had stood for about 40 years, fell into disrepair, and in 1804, a third stone two-story church was laid on the left bank of Suvarysha. The warm lower floor had an altar in the name of the holy great martyr George, consecrated on November 26, 1814, and the upper floor, in the name of the holy prophet Elijah, consecrated in August 1835. Soon after the construction, the stone bell tower began to lean to the west, cracks appeared in the walls of the refectory, and in 1854, a buttress was installed to prevent its collapse. Over time, serious cracks appeared in the church, the damage was deemed irreparable, and in 1890, the upper floor of the church and the bell tower were dismantled, while the lower floor was covered. The church remains in this state today, and services are held there.
Next to this church, on the northern side, a new stone single-altar church in the name of the holy prophet Elijah was completed between 1894 and 1900, built in an economic manner with work divided into stages. The funds for construction were raised by the parishioners of the village and the village of Oshurkova, and the villages of Paderina and Letyagina were allowed to build their own church, which is now completed in rough form and is attached to the church of the village of Tamakulskoe.
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