Striganskoe

The village of Striganskoye of the Irbit Municipality of the Sverdlovsk Region is located 55 kilometers (by road 69 kilometers) on the south-southwest of the city of Irbit , on both banks of the Lyaga River (the right tributary of the Irbit River), at the mouth of the left tributaries of the Gryaznukha and Lipovka ^[2] , 180 miles from Yekaterinburg . The village is located on the banks of the Lyaga River, in 1900 a postal route ran from Kamyshlov to Irbit. Behind the village, towards the west, in 1900, a huge pine forest began, a continuous strip leaving to the Urals. Clay soil, partly sandy loam and chernozem ^[3] .

According to the rural librarian Natalya Fedorovna Gavrina, the village appeared more than 400 years ago on the high bank of the Lyagi River. Before the arrival of the Russians, Tatars lived in yurts here. To them settled foreign people ^[4] . In the census of 1710, the village is indicated as the Christmas cemetery of the Beloslud settlement. Population: in 1710 - 9 yards, in 1761 - 41, in 1800 - 31 yards.

In the 1900s, the main occupation of the inhabitants was farming and carriage, the procurement and delivery of firewood and sand to the Irbit ironworks and the maintenance of housekeeping, that is, the maintenance of inns for coachmen carrying goods to and from Irbit. For the placement of one priest and one psalmist in the village there were church houses ^[4] .

The newspaper "Ural" from 1906 reported on the gathering of the parish council in the village of Striganskoye, where more than two hundred people gathered, which had never happened before. The meeting decided to give the order to update the facade of the church to the best master - artist Stepanov from Yekaterinburg ^[4] .

The village of Striganskoye is the birthplace of the abbess of the Yekaterinburg Novotikhvinsky monastery, Mother Superior Magdalene, in the world of the peasant daughter Maria Neustroeva. Left at the age of four without a mother, she was related not only to the history of diocesan life, but also to the history of the Urals. Her name is associated with the large construction of new churches and the improvement of existing ones, which contributed to the development of Orthodoxy in the Urals ^[4] .

In 1873, a zemstvo primary public school was opened in the village, which was attended by children from local villages: Mostovoi, Gorki, Pershina, Anikina, Anokhina ^[4] .

The village arose as the Christmas cemetery of the Beloslud settlement. In 1710, it housed the Christmas Church and four churchyards - the priest Nikita Ivanov, the clerk Klimentey Toporkov, a sexton and a reunion. In 1773, Andrei Klimantov Toporkov, a priest, laid the foundation for a new wooden church of the Nativity of Christ with a chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker; a monument remained from this church. At the cemetery there was a semi-stone church in the name of the holy great martyr Demetrius of Solunskago; around 1868 she was sold to the village of Kvashninskoye. In 1797, the Holy Trinity Church was founded, stone, three-altered, until 1870, two-story. In 1870, the upper floor was destroyed and two aisles were built instead: the northern one was in honor of the holy great martyr Dimitri Solunskago and the southern one was dedicated to the Nativity of Christ, illuminated in 1878. And the middle main temple was renamed in honor of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity and lit in 1878 ^[2] . The temple was closed in 1930 ^[2] .

Currently, only the bell tower has been preserved ^[5] .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the inhabitants of the village were all Russian, Orthodox. There were 2634 males and 2648 females. The parish also included villages: Dirty in 1 verst, Mostovaya in 1.5 verst, Shmakova in 2 versts, Penkova in 3 versts, Pershina in 6 versts, Gorki in 6 versts, Golyakova in 9 versts, Myakisheva in 6 versts, Vepreva in 5 versts, Onokhina in 12 versts, Malaya Anikina in 8 versts, Bolshaya Anikina in 11 versts ^[3] .