In the mid-17th century, the Assumption-Likhotkin Yaromask Monastery appeared on the right bank of the Kama River. At the confluence of the Yaromaska and Kama rivers, there had long been a settlement located on a narrow wooded cape. 2 km southeast of it, across the Yaromaska River, local residents built a monastery on a flat elevated plateau.
Very little data has survived about the monastery, but research shows that its territory was rectangular in shape. The monastery had two wooden churches: a warm one dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and a cold one, the Assumption Church. It was surrounded by a fence with three gates: the northern one leading to the settlement and the descent to the Kama, the southern one directed towards the village of Voznesenskoye, and the western one, probably central, which is characteristic of monasteries in the Vyatka and Great Perm dioceses, as seen in Orlov, Slobodskoy, Kirov, Solikamsk, and Cherdyn.
The monastery was founded in 1682 and abolished in 1764. It became the basis for the emergence of the village, as construction unfolded around its walls, turning it into the central ensemble of the settlement. The monastery received lands from Tsars Ivan and Peter Alexeyevich and was under the administration of the Moscow Savva Storozhevsky Monastery. After its abolition in 1764, the brotherhood was transferred to the Ufa Monastery. In memory of the monastery, an altar gospel published in 1654 has been preserved in the Nikolskaya Old Believer Church in Sarapul.
The regional identity was defined by the connection with the Perm school of A. D. Zakharov, whose students, architects of the Kama factories, such as S. E. Dudin and V. N. Petenkin, contributed to its development.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in the village of Yaromaska in the Sarapul district in 1834. It was closed in 1941 and gradually fell into disrepair. In 2008, the church was restored, and work on its interior decoration is now forthcoming.
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