The settlement of the Bilimbaevsky plant is located west of the Ural Mountains, 54 versts from Yekaterinburg and 26 versts from the Taraskovo station on the Perm-Tyumen railway. The Bilimbaevsky ironworks was founded by the sons of Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov, barons Alexander, Nikolai, and Sergey, by the decree of the State Berg Collegium dated July 15, 1730. The plant was completed and began operations in 1754. Workers for the plant were recruited from the Stroganov estates in the Solikamsk, Okhansk, and Perm districts.
The Bilimbaevsky parish was established four years after the founding of the plant. It includes the plant itself and the villages: Bitimka, Makarova, Izvyaznaya, Konovalova, Yalany, Mazina, Cheremsha, and Pochinok. All residents of the parish are Orthodox, and in 1900 there were 8,704 people, of whom 5,026 lived in the Bilimbaevsky plant itself. In the villages of Makarova and Konovalova, in addition to former plant workers, there lived former state peasants who were resettled here from the Kungur district for transportation across the Chusovaya River. The parishioners earn their living working at the plant, delivering ore and coal, and in the summer many go to work in the gold mines.
The first church in the plant, made of wood, was laid in 1738 and consecrated in 1742. In 1754, an altar was arranged in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, but in 1774 the church burned down, and only the bell tower survived. In 1775, a new wooden church was laid, consecrated in 1780, but it also burned down in 1796. In its place, a wooden church was built in the cemetery from 1801 to 1803, which served until 1843 when it was dismantled due to dilapidation. A stone chapel was built in its place.
The current church in Bilimbae, made of stone and with three altars, was laid in 1820. However, due to haste, the dome collapsed in 1823, and construction resumed only in 1835. The southern altar was consecrated in 1837, the main church in 1839, and the northern altar in 1855. The iconostases in the altars differ, and among the church's attractions are two icons painted by a student of Bryullov, purchased by S.G. Stroganov.
Until 1873, the bells hung on a wooden belfry, after which a stone bell tower was built. Around the church, a stone fence was erected in 1885. The parish has five chapels: one stone and four wooden. There are houses for priests near the church, and a literacy school has been operating in the village of Yalany since 1890.
Before the Great Patriotic War, the church was closed. During the Soviet era, the building suffered destruction and was rebuilt. During the war, it housed a workshop for an aviation plant. In the 1960s, the church was turned into a cultural center. In the 1990s, the building was returned to the believers, but it was in a semi-ruined state. There is no heating, the walls are cracked, and the roof leaks. In winter, services are held in the lower altar with a heater, and in summer, in the upper one. Despite all the difficulties, the building of the Holy Trinity Church is a monument of architecture.
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