Mugai (village)

The village of Mugai is located 60 kilometers away (on a highway 69 kilometers) north-north-west from the city of Alapayevsk , on the right bank of the Mugai River (right tributary of the Tagil River) ^[2] . The old Irbit - Verkhoturye tract passed through the village. “The climate of the area is healthy. The village is located mainly in high places, in a forest area. The soil is predominantly clay and sandy ” ^[3] .

The toponym "Mugai" in translation from Turkic languages ​​means a bubbly river ^[4] .

Mugai Pogost was founded in 1613 ^[3] . In 1616-17. the first settler Bogdashko the Hatchet moved to the river. Mugai, where he founded the village Toporkova, now Mugai. In 1621 and 1624 he is recorded as the plowed peasant of the village of Mugai. In 1632, the Ax with three sons were listed in Tagil Sloboda, then in the Toporkovsky ten (census of 1710), then in the Toporkov volost ^[5] .

The large tract road from Irbit to Verkhoturye, passing through the village, favorably distinguished it. In winter, there were carts with bread, and in the summer there were herds of cattle sent to the north to the Theological Plants. In the spring, crowds of pilgrims to worship the relics of the holy righteous Simeon. The village of Mugai and the villages of Lyagu, Raskat, Komarov, Guiginu, Malginu and Koksharova were ranked as Yamskoye settlements, since they were inhabited by coachmen who are listed according to church documents until 1822. By the end of the XIX century, the main occupation of the inhabitants of the village and the villages was arable farming, some were engaged in smoked works, that is, cutting wood for coal and delivering it to the Alapaevsky plants and the Nizhne-Tagilsky factories. Also engaged in the transportation of iron from these plants on the pier for the alloy. Considerable income was delivered to the population in abundance of cedars growing here ^[3] .

In the vicinity of the village is Mugayskoe sand field. Since the 1960s, the state farm "Mugaysky" ^[2] worked.

The modern territory of the village of Mugai includes the villages of Toporkova, Raskat, Lyaga ^[4] .

In 1871, a mixed primary school was opened in the village ^[3] .

In 1932, the first museum-library of the history of education ^[4] was opened in the region, which was created by the efforts of the Tolmachyov teachers' dynasty. It is located in a four-year school building built by the Verkhotursky Zemstvo in 1911 at the modern address of Oktyabrskaya Street, 93. The museum presents a collection of archaeological finds and various school items: physical instruments, visual aids for the study of mathematics, history and literature. The school has a rural reading room, the former Pavlenkov Library, created at the beginning of the 20th century at the expense of the publisher Florenty Pavlenkov and county zemstvos ^[2] .

The first wooden church, built in 1613, burned down. In this connection, in 1777 a stone three-altar church was built, the main chapel of which was consecrated in honor of the prophet Elijah on September 10, 1777 by the Archimandrite of the Verkhoturye monastery, and the left chapel was consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas, the archbishop of Myraliy on September 11, 1777. The right side-altar was founded in 1897, in 1899 it was consecrated. In 1813-1818, a new iconostasis was made in the Ilinsky church, as a result of which the church was consecrated for the second time on December 5, 1818. In the years 1820-1824 a new iconostasis was built in the chapel of Nikolsky. In the years 1897-1899, a new chapel was built on the north side of the temple ^[3] . The temple was closed in the 1930s, and later demolished ^[2] .

In 1869, there were 207 inhabitants of the village in 42 houses, and in the village of Lige adjacent to the village, which later entered the village there were 112 people in 25 houses ^[7] .

• MKU "Mugai Museum and Tourist Complex"