Zarechnaya (urban district “Nizhny Tagil city”)

The village of Zarechnaya of the Municipal Entity “ Nizhny Tagil ” is located on the left bank of the Chusovaya River, at the mouth of the left tributary of the Babenka River, 68 kilometers (80 kilometers by road) west of Nizhny Tagil , not far from the border with the Perm Territory . There is a ford across the Chusovaya river near the village of Verkhnyaya Oslyanka . Currently, road communication with the village is difficult, the village has almost no roads for communication with the nearest settlements of Kyn and Nizhnyaya Oslyanka ^[2] . The village of Zarechnaya is located on the left bank of the Chusovaya River at 241 kilometers from the stone Dog Ribs in the village of Sloboda.

The first mention of the Vogul settlement is found in the expedition report of 1692. And in the census of 1695, the date of foundation of the settlement is 1694. In the documents of 1718 there is a mention of the village of Babinskaya on Chusovaya, where Archimandrite Sylvester tried to convert Gentiles to Christianity ^[3] .

In 1773, the ethnographer-naturalist and traveler I. Georgi visited here, who gave the following description of the Mansi people in the village of Babenki: “There are 12 houses in the village, nine of them are Vogul aborigines. They are pagans. In the rest, there are Stroganov peasants, who call their village Malaya Zastava , as they searched people passing Chusovoy goods ” ^[4] . Because the only permissible route from European Russia to Siberia was the road through Verkhoturye (where duties were collected from the transported money and goods), and in Babenki, like in many other places on bypass roads, an outpost was set up on which they examined the passers-by whether they bring any goods. Probably only a winter road existed through Babenki, because even now it’s extremely difficult to get to this village from the Kynovsky plant in the summer: the road is extremely narrow, almost a path winding between trees and stones ^[4] .

In 1873, the botanist Nikolai Sorokin described the trip to Babenki: “through a dense coniferous forest from the village of Kyn along an extremely narrow path, along stumps and pits. The village was a few huts with a single dirty street. Huts are similar to Russians. Vologol here is beautiful in appearance, tall, with dark beards and curly hair on his head. The costume is Russian, they don’t speak their native language, Christians celebrate all Russian holidays, do not engage in tillage, since the lands are constrained by Stroganov’s possessions, they are engaged in hunting and fishing. According to local legend, the village was founded by one woman - a vogul, which is why the settlement is called Babenki ”(from the Vogul name Bebyak ) ^[5] .

Until 1930, the village was called Babenki and was located on the right bank of the Chusovaya River ^[2] .

During the period of collectivization since 1931, the village was completely on the left bank and began to be called Zarechnaya. The village was one of the last villages of the Chusov Voguls (Mansi) ^[5] .

Currently, on the site of the former village of Babenki on the right bank of the Chusovaya River (opposite the village of Zarechnaya), a large wooden cross has been installed ^[6] .

In 1773 there were 12 yards in Babenki, of which the Voguls lived in nine, and the peasants Strogonovsky in the other three ^[4] . In 1873 there were only 47 inhabitants in Babenki (24 males and 23 females) ^[4] . According to B.V. Didkovsky's “List of Settlements of the Ural Region” in 1926 there were 33 households with a population of 193 people in Babenki, Kynovsky volost, and all of them were named Russian. And in 1931 the village was already called Zarechnaya with the same number of yards and residents, a shop and a post office. In 1992, only 9 families lived, the rest of the yards were in ruins ^[3] .