The village of Mramorskoye is located 40 versts south of Yekaterinburg by railway, just one verst from the Mramorskaya station on the Perm-T. railway. In 1738, marble deposits were discovered south of the Gornochitskoye village. A water-powered factory was built at the Seversky plant for its processing, which was handed over to Turchaninov in 1758.
In 1765, barracks for workers were erected in the center of the quarries, which eventually grew into a whole settlement. In 1768, a marble factory was built on the Chusovaya River, 4 versts from the barracks, replacing the Severskaya factory, and it operated until 1810. In the same year, new factories for processing marble were built in the village itself. To improve production, 10 families of marble craftsmen were relocated from St. Petersburg. The factory in the village functioned until 1858, when it was closed due to lack of need.
Before the liberation of the peasants, the residents of the village, known as Gornochitsky Marble Plant, were subordinate to the Yekaterinburg stone-cutting factory. Now the settlement is simply called the Marble Plant or village, and its residents are exclusively engaged in the extraction and processing of marble.
In 1841, a stone single-altar church in honor of the Beheading of John the Baptist was built and consecrated on October 12 with funds from the "Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty." In 1862, a storm severely damaged the bell tower and the iconostasis, the latter was replaced with a new one, while the icons remained the same.
In 1891, chapels were built on the southern and northern sides of the church, for which the side walls of the main church were pierced with arches. The northern chapel, whose altar was arranged with funds from Yekaterinburg merchant K. I. Trapeznikov, was consecrated on June 4, 1897, in the name of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helena; the southern chapel, arranged by parishioners, was consecrated on August 16, 1899, in honor of the Meeting of the Lord.
The parish has two wooden chapels: one cold, in the Gornochitsky mine, built in 1887 by the villagers in the name of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky in memory of the liberation of the peasants from serfdom; the other, a warm chapel-school in the village of Raskuikha in the name of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1896 in memory of the liberation of heir Nicholas Alexandrovich from danger in Japan. The priest lives in the church house, and the church also owns a house in the Gornochitsky mine.
In 1850, the factory manager opened a school, and since 1872, a zemstvo school has been operating in the village, which has been located in its own building since 1874. From 1880, at the initiative of the society, drawing, modeling, and carving classes were opened at the school. With funds from the Ministry of Agriculture, a new building was constructed next to the old school. A separate spacious room for a marble products workshop was also built, equipped with a 12-horsepower steam engine that powers mechanical saws and lathes for marble. All buildings are wooden. The zemstvo allocated 1000 rubles for the maintenance of the workshop in the last year, and both boys and girls study at the school. In the village of Raskuikha, a literacy school was opened in the chapel from September 1901.
In 1900, the parish had 776 men and 879 women.
In the 1930s, the church was closed by the Bolsheviks. After 70 years, the church building was returned to the community. In 2003, services resumed here, and the restoration of the ancient church began.
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