The village of Tyubuk is located in the Kaslinsky district of the Chelyabinsk region on the banks of the Sinara River. It was founded by merchants before 1705. The official land allotment for the Tyubuk merchants was received on March 31, 1744, and this date is considered the birthday of Tyubuk. From 1751, the landowners in Tyubuk became N.G. Kleopin, E. Yakovlev, and other industrialists. Kleopin built a dam, a forge, a mill, and a wooden church in the name of Saint Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, which is why the village was also called Bogoslovskoye.
In 1827, the wooden church burned down due to a lightning strike, and the residents built a new stone temple in the classical style with elements of baroque. The baroque splendor was manifested in the decorative painting of the church, fragments of which have survived to this day. After the revolution, the church had a priest, a deacon, a sacristan, nuns, a bell ringer, singers, and a watchman. The bell ringer was Grigory Ivanovich Savin, who could wake the entire village with his ringing. Pyotr Egorovich Sugonyaev, born in 1866, was the sacristan and church elder. Services in the Church of John the Theologian were held until 1933.
The day came when the Soviet authorities decided to destroy the white stone temple. The villagers gathered to witness this event, many could not believe what was happening, as their entire lives were connected to the church. Women prayed and cried, people knelt before the temple. The area from the church to the market and pond was filled with people. First, the crosses were cut down, and one of them, falling from the bell tower, pierced the iron roof. Then scaffolding was erected to lower the bricks, and when the domes were dismantled, the building was covered with a plank roof. It housed a village club, later a grain storage for the alcohol factory, and then the building was handed over to the Tyubuk state farm for tractor workshops and an electrical workshop. In the 1960s, there was a tire repair shop, and then the temple fell into disrepair and collapsed. Now the former church in the name of Saint Apostle John the Theologian is in a deplorable state.
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