The village of Sosnovka was previously called the village of Evsina until a church was built here. The first wooden church became cramped and dilapidated, so in 1881, the construction of a more spacious stone church began. By 1882, the construction was completed, and on September 6, the Orthodox church in honor of the Assumption of the Mother of God was consecrated. The church had one altar. Next to the new stone church, within the same enclosure, was the old wooden church with an altar in honor of the Nativity of Christ. Before having their own church, the residents of Sosnovka belonged to the Ascension Church of the village of Berezovka.
With the opening of an independent parish at the Sosnovka church, a clergy staff was established, which included a priest, a deacon, a church clerk, and a sacristan. According to the staffing plan of 1837, two priests and two psalmists were provided. The second staff was opened due to the large number of parishioners, the remoteness of villages from the church, and a significant number of dissenters.
From 1838 to 1850, the priest Mikhail Popov served here, followed by Alexei Starodvorsky, who was also the mentor of the Sosnovka school. For about twenty years, Stefan Kalachnikov, the son of a deacon who graduated from the Perm Theological Seminary in 1858, served. He initially served in one of the churches of the Osinsky district, then in the Assumption Church of the village of Chusovoy in the Perm district, and later was transferred to the Sosnovka church. For 17 years, he was a law teacher at the Sosnovka district school. After him, Alexei Popov, Iakov Ponomarev, and others served. Vasily Kolotilov was the deacon for a long time, and Gavriil Korovin was the psalmist. In the early 1930s, before the church was closed, the service was conducted by Stefan Kalachnikov, Alexei Starodvorsky, and Mikhail Popov.
In 1894, a church-parish guardianship was opened at the church. In the same year, 417 rubles and 14 kopecks were spent on the maintenance of the church, church houses, and the choir of singers. A total of 119 rubles and 21 kopecks were spent on church-parish schools and charitable activities.
At the end of the 19th century, 4,998 people lived in thirty villages of the parish. Among them were 165 dissenters who had their own prayer houses. They conducted baptism and burial rites, as well as went door-to-door with icons during Easter. The dissenters had their own mentors from local peasants. Among them, Nikita Yakushev and Spiridon Peryatyagin stood out. The main reason for the strengthening and persistence of the schism was that a third of the parishioners were outside the constant influence of the church and clergy due to the scattered nature and remoteness from the local church.
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