Bolotovskoe

The village of Bolotovskoye is located 90 kilometers (140 km along the highway) north-northeast of the city of Alapaevsk , on the right bank of the Tagil River (the right tributary of the Tura River), 2 kilometers from the mouth. 2 kilometers east of the village is Lake Shaitan ^[2] .

At the beginning of the 20th century, it was noted, “that the Bolotovskoye village (2 deaneries) of the Verkhotursky district , formerly called Ust-Tagilskoye, 320 versts away from the diocesan city, is located on the right bank of the Tagil river at the confluence of the Turu river , and the climatic conditions of the area occupied by the village and his coming, as a marshy, are very unfavorable for the health of the inhabitants. The village was originally a village, which consisted in the parish of the village of Fominsky , whose inhabitants, together with the villages of Noritsina, Kirtomka, Mitkina and others, weighed by the distance from the parish church, built a church in 1871 and formed an independent parish. Residents of the village of Yurt (Kirtomka), Bogacheva, Kolmachat and the village of Chushinsky belong to the Vogul tribe, not different from the Russians except for the fact that they do not show a greater tendency to farm and tillage, although the latter is generally poorly developed due to insufficient the amount of arable land and very clay soil requiring large fertilizer. The number of parishes in 1902 was 495 males and 573 females. The main occupations of the parishioners were logging and its removal to the marinas of the Tagila and Tura rivers; race of forest "rafts" along these rivers to the city of Tyumen , hunting for forest game and fishing. For the clergy of the village there were two public wooden houses. The parish includes villages: Noritsyna in 3 versts, Yurts in 1 verst, Mitkina in 3 versts, Bogacheva in 3 versts, Kolmachata, 16 versts, the village of Chushinsky in 17 versts ” ^[3] .

Peter and Paul Temple

The stone one-story temple of the village was built in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in 1871, consecrated on March 7, 1871. In the church was the icon of the Mother of God of Iverskaya, especially revered by the people, acquired by parishioners in 1891 in memory of getting rid of anthrax in the parish that was in the parish ^[3] . The church was closed in the 1930s ^[4] .

On February 29 ( March 13 ), 1908 , Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Gavrilovich Bolotov was born here.