The right bank, central part of the village is organized around three large parallel streets, which are connected by shorter cross streets that play a secondary role. The main squares are located along these three main axes. The church ensembles, concentrated in a relatively small area, gave the center compactness and formed a rich silhouette of the settlement due to the verticals of the domes and bell towers. Murashkino had many churches, seven Orthodox and two Old Believer, which may be related to the authorities' attempts to eradicate the spirit of schism.
On Soviet Street was the main trading square of the village, Bazaar Square, where the Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya, Troitskaya, and Ilyinskaya churches of the 18th and 19th centuries were located. Their architecture combined classicism with elements of baroque.
The Troitskaya church, built in 1805, combines features of baroque and classicism and is a cultural heritage site of regional significance.
On the same street was a smaller square with the Annunciation church, erected in 1831 in the classical style. On Freedom Street, closest to Sundovik, there was a large square with the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, completed in 1781 in baroque style. The cross alley leading east from the square was oriented towards the ensemble of the Pokrovskaya Old Believer community, which includes the Pokrovskaya and Nikolskaya churches.
The Nikolskaya Old Believer church, built between 1881-1885, was part of the Pokrovskaya ensemble and represents an example of Byzantine style in Russian architecture of the second half of the 19th century. It currently functions as the Old Believer Avvakum church.
The western side of this ensemble adjoined May 1st Street, while the eastern side was bounded by a ravine. The Ascension church, located in the old village cemetery, was built in 1856 and is an example of late classicism. It is currently not in use and is in a state of emergency, but is a cultural heritage site of regional significance.
Thus, the structure of the village center sequentially embodied the principles of regularity characteristic of Russian urban planning in the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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