The name of the village has economic origins, as in the past it was a "zaimka" or estate of the Dalmatov Ascension Monastery. The villagers, being part of the monastery's estate, performed various duties to support the monastery. To this day, some locals still refer to part of the village as "zaimka," and the site of the monastery's mill is called the "monastery mill." The Pyshmin estate transitioned from the Dalmatov Monastery to the Verkhoturye Nikolai Monastery, and then to the Yekaterinburg Novotikhvinsky Monastery. Located on the Pyshma River, the estate was named Pyshmin.
The village is also known as Nikolsk, likely since it was part of the estate of the Nikolai Verkhoturye Monastery. The parish includes the village and the villages of Rogaleva, Kashina, and Oksarikh, with a population of 1612 men and 1617 women. All parishioners are Orthodox, with no schismatics or sectarians among them. The main occupations of the residents are agriculture and partially trade.
Exact data on the time of the parish's establishment has not survived, but it can be confidently stated that it was formed in the early 18th century.
Before the current church, there were two churches in the village. The first wooden church dedicated to the Meeting of the Lord is known from a letter by Metropolitan Pavel of Tobolsk dated September 23, 1766, which stated that by that time it had fallen into disrepair, and the residents of the "Pyshmin zaimka" were allowed to build a new wooden church at their own expense with the same name. The completion date of the second church is unknown.
In 1790, a chapel in honor of Saint Great Martyr Dmitry of Thessalonica was built on the right side of the newly constructed church, funded by the parishioners, and the iconostasis was moved from the dilapidated wooden church that was dismantled.
This church existed until the construction of the current stone three-altar church in 1836, which was consecrated in 1842. The chapels: on the right in honor of Saint Dmitry of Thessalonica, consecrated in 1836, and on the left in honor of the Prophet Elijah, consecrated in 1861.
Since the establishment of the Prophet Elijah chapel, the church has remained unchanged to this day. The clergy consists of a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist. There is a church house for the clergy. A church-parish school operates in the village, and in the village of Kashina, a literacy school has been in operation since 1894. There is a zemstvo school in the village of Oksarikh.
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