The reference book of the Omsk diocese, compiled by Ioann Goloshubin and published in Omsk in 1914, reports the following:
The population of the parish consists of 1371 men and 1195 women. The parish includes the village of Atirka, 18 villages, and 13 new settlements. The exact number of residents in these settlements and their distance from the village of Atirka is unknown. All residents are Orthodox. In the village of Atirka and the village of Kazaevka, there are old-timers, while in the other settlements, there are settlers from the western regions of Russia.
The average annual number of baptisms is 285, marriages 61, and burials 160. There is no church parish guardianship or school. Although there is a school building in the village, no education has been conducted since the 1904-08 academic years due to the society's refusal to provide a caretaker and heating for the school.
There is a tea house in the village, funded by the Tarsk sobriety society. Two wooden houses have been built for the priest and the psalmist with funds from the “In the Name of His Majesty Emperor Alexander III” foundation.
The priest receives a salary of 600 rubles a year from the treasury, while the psalmist receives 200 rubles. Brotherhood income amounts to up to 300 rubles a year. There are no church funds. Parishioners actively attend the church but care little for its maintenance, allocating insignificant amounts for the needs of the church and refusing to keep the rectory in order.
Easter processions with holy icons are conducted only in the nearest settlements and by invitation from parishioners due to poor spring roads. Processions in the fields occur, but not in all settlements. After field prayers, services are also held in homes by invitation. The village celebrates “visiting” holidays on October 22 and January 6, and in each settlement, on the days of remembrance of particularly revered saints.
The main occupations of the parishioners include selling forest materials, hunting birds and fur-bearing animals, and gathering and selling berries and pine nuts. There are 4 small shops in the village, and in the parish, 4 chemical plants owned by the Resettlement Administration. Three of them produce resin and turpentine from wood, while the fourth produces steam tar, wood alcohol, acetic essence, and Dutch soot.
According to the staff, there should be a priest and a psalmist in the parish.
During the Soviet era, the church was closed, and for a long time, it housed a grain warehouse and a club. In the 1970s, the building was dismantled for construction materials.
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