The village was framed by two churches located on the western and eastern sides, which is a rarity. The second church was built on a sandy elevation on the outskirts of the village, in a field, and surrounded by the Bor rural cemetery. Because of this, it was called the Ground or Cemetery Church.
Before the church was built, there was a chapel on this site, consecrated in honor of the Exaltation of the Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, which was constructed from 1862 to 1872 and was complemented by a bell tower in 1903. In this church, as well as in the Nikolsky temple, funerals and other burial services were held. The cemetery around the church was the main burial place for the villagers, and each indigenous family could say: 'Here lie our ancestors.' In the lower part of the church, there was a shelter or almshouse for the elderly and lonely people who spent their last days there on the institution's funds.
In 1911, the church's crosses were gilded in the churchyard. They were removable and hollow inside, installed on the spire of the dome. Initially, the crosses were covered with a sticky paint resembling gold, and then thin sheets of gold leaf were applied to them. Needles were soldered to the crossbars to scare away birds and maintain cleanliness and shine.
The last priest of the church was Ioann Postnikov, the deacon was I.F. Pachkolin, and the church elder was M.A. Makurin. At the site where the monument to V.I. Lenin now stands near the House of Culture of the 'Teplokhod' factory, there was a factory club for over 20 years. This was where the Ground Church was located, and around it, among the shady poplars once planted on graves, was the Bor cemetery.
Now, neither the church nor the cemetery remains.
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