Sarapul (Udmurtia): TOP-26 - what to see in the city


General information and history of Sarapul

Sarapul is one of the oldest cities in the Kama region, a city located in the southeastern part of the Udmurt Republic, on the right bank of the Kama River.
The distance to Izhevsk is 62 km, to Moscow – 1250 km. A village called Sarapul appeared in 1707, and city status was received in 1780. A fairly favorable geopolitical and geographical location helped Sarapul gain the unofficial status of one of the most successful cities in the Kama region.

Sarapul. View of the city center from the Kama River

Sarapul is home to a large number of architectural monuments. Previously, the city had 33 churches and 2 monasteries. Currently, the Church of the Ascension, Intercession and Xenia of St. Petersburg have been preserved.


Ascension Church

Today Sarapul is a major industrial center of the Udmurt Republic. The joint-stock enterprises radio and electric generating plant are the industrial face of the city.

Story

Russian empire

Map of Vyatka Province (1822)

The Sarapulka River was first mentioned in 1596. Another source indicates that Sarapul was first mentioned in the census book of 1596, that people “fish” here, and in 1616 it was a “suburb”[5]. In the same year, Sarapul was subjected to siege, devastation, many residents were beaten and taken prisoner[6], as in other settlements of the Kama region - Kazan, Ufa, Osa, Kungur, Stefanov-Gorodishche and others, to the Kazan and Ufa Tatars, with the adherents to them the Chuvash, Cheremis, Votyaks and Bashkirs, who at one time waged a formal war “gathered in a great crowd” against the Russian state, on the northeastern outskirts of Rus'.

In 1621, the village of Voznesenskoye, on Sarapul,

"[7]. In the acts of the 17th century, the area around it was always called Sarapul district. According to legend, in 1657 Sarapul and the surrounding area were miraculously saved from a plague epidemic by bringing the image of St. Nicholas from the village of Berezovki. The miracle served as the basis for one of the oldest in Russia, the Sarapul Kazan religious procession, which was held annually until 1918. Since 1707 it has become a palace village called Sarapul. The village flourished thanks to grain trading and fishing. In 1708, according to the “Decree on the establishment of provinces and on the designation of cities for them,” the town built in the Kazan palace village of Sarapul was assigned to Penza and became part of the Kazan province[8].

In 1738, Sarapul was assigned to the Osinsk province of the Ufa province, and since then it has become a significant stopping point on the Arsk road to the “Siberian lands”, and was called a palace settlement[5]. In 1773, the palace settlement was devastated by Pugachev rebels.

In 1780, the settlement received the status of a district town, became the center of the Sarapul district, Vyatka province, and since then it has developed according to the master plans of major architects[7]. In the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the district town was a significant trading point in the province. The city formerly had two monasteries and 21 churches. The men's Startsevo-Gorsky St. John the Baptist Monastery was founded in 1900 by Bishop Nikodim (Bokov) of Sarapul. This monastery was the residence of the suffragan bishop of Sarapul[9]. The Annunciation Convent for women arose as a “community of sisters of industriousness” in 1853, and existed in this form until 1881, when it was transformed into a monastic monastery governed by the abbess[9]. A parochial school operated under him. The surviving churches: Intercession (1791), Resurrection (1821) and Ksenia of Petersburg (1912). Some buildings were erected by French prisoners after the Patriotic War of 1812. Sarapul is the birthplace of the cavalry maiden Nadezhda Durova, who served in the army of M. I. Kutuzov.

On March 4, 1889, a vicar of the Vyatka diocese (Afanasy) was appointed for the first time with his seat in Sarapul (previously the Sarapul vicars were in Vyatka), which transformed the Sarapul vicariate into a semi-independent diocese[10]. In the early 1890s, Sarapul came into the orbit of all-Russian and even world attention due to the notorious Multan case.

At the end of the 19th century, Sarapul was one of the largest centers of the shoe and leather industry in Russia[11]. Sarapul is the birthplace of the famous “creaky” boots. About a quarter of the merchants were engaged in shipping. The construction of a large ship required significant initial investments, so mostly very wealthy urban merchants and townspeople became shipbuilders. Thanks to the efforts of Sarapul merchants, primarily the mayor of the city, Pavel Andreevich Bashenin, a railway passed through the city. Thanks to the efforts of merchants, the Alekseevsky real school was opened in the city.

Soviet period

From 1923 to 1934, Sarapul was part of the Ural region and was the center of the Sarapul district. From 1934 to 1937, it was first part of the Kirov Territory, and then - the Kirov Region. In 1937, the city was annexed to the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the center of political and economic life of the region moved from Sarapul to Izhevsk[7].

Sarapul district

In 1931-1937, Stepan Nekrashevich, the initiator of the creation and first chairman of the Institute of Belarusian Culture (now the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus), served exile in Sarapul.

By the Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the UASSR dated April 22, 1938 and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated March 7, 1939, Sarapul received the status of an independent administrative unit of republican subordination[12].

In 1942, Boris Yarkho, a medieval philologist and translator and versatile scientist who was in evacuation, died in Sarapul. Also in Sarapul, on December 17, 1981, the first hostage-taking in the history of the USSR took place at school No. 12. Soldiers of the special unit of the Alpha group of the KGB of the USSR were involved in the operation to free the hostages[13].

In 1949, the urban-type settlement of Simonikha became part of Sarapul[12].

In the 20th century, the economy of Sarapul was determined by several large mechanical engineering and radio electronics enterprises, producing mainly military and general industrial products. Opened in 1968, the industrial plant continues to produce electrical capacitors.

Climate and ecology of Sarapul

Sarapul is located in a zone of temperate continental climate (consistently hot summers, consistently cold winters and low precipitation). The average annual temperature is +3.4 °C (in summer the thermometer can rise to +36 °C, and in winter it can reach -34 °C). The average annual wind speed is 3.1 m/s, and air humidity reaches 69.7%.

Winter in Sarapul

The ecological state of the city cannot be called terrible, but it does not qualify for an “excellent” rating. The main sources of air pollution include public utilities, metalworking and machine-building enterprises, as well as enterprises specializing in the food industry.

As for reservoirs, the most polluted rivers are the Kama and Bolshaya Sarapulka. They are negatively affected by such enterprises as the Sarapul Machine-Building Plant, a poultry factory, a meat processing plant and a radio plant. Sources of pollution also include household waste dumps growing in the south and west of Sarapul.

Climate

The climate is temperate continental. Average annual indicators: temperature - +3.4 °C, wind speed - 3.1 m/s, air humidity - 69.7%.

Climate of Sarapul (1983−2005)
IndexJan.Feb.MarchApr.MayJuneJulyAug.Sep.Oct.Nov.Dec.Year
Average maximum, °C−7,9−7,3−1,17,916,922,524,120,614,56,2−2,8−7,57,2
Average temperature, °C−11,4−11,2−5,83,712,317,919,716,711,13,6−5,5−10,73,4
Average minimum, °C−15,2−15,3−10,5−0,96,812,414,412,27,50,9−8,5−14,3−0,9
Source: Meteorological data

Population of the city of Sarapul

At the beginning of 2014, 99,869 people lived in Sarapul. The city is multinational: 82% of the population are Russians, 9.2% are Tatars, 3.8% are Udmurts, and the remaining 5% of the population accounts for more than sixty nationalities.


Day of the city

It is worth noting that the mortality rate in Sarapul (as well as in the Udmurt Republic as a whole) exceeds the birth rate. There are often cases when residents leave the city, moving to larger settlements, which, together with the previous factor, leads to a decrease in the city’s population.

The level of education and morality in the city is high, because there are many different educational institutions in Sarapul. In addition, in 2010, the Public Council of the Municipal Municipality “City of Sarapul” was organized, which included representatives of 20 associations and public organizations of the city. At the same time, the total number of public organizations reaches 40 (trade unions, religious, national-cultural, veterans, etc.).

Sarapul

Sarapul as a settlement arose during the penetration of the Russian population into the territory of the Middle Kama region after the capture of Kazan in 1553, when settlement of the Kama banks became possible. It was first mentioned in 1579 in the census books of the North Kama region, where the flight of peasants “to Sarapul” is noted, and also in 1616 in the context of describing the unrest of local peoples inhabiting this area, which indicates a complex ethnopolitical situation at that time associated with active colonization of the region by the Russian population. For a long time, local residents supplied live sterlet to the imperial table. Therefore, the most popular version among residents is that the Turkic name for sterlet “sara-pul” gave the name to the city. But from a historical point of view, it is considered more correct to form this word from the Komi “sardiz” or the Udmurt “zarez”, which means “water” and “pavel” - village or settlement.

The location of Sarapul in the early stages of its existence was limited by two tributaries of the right bank of the Kama River - the Sarapulka and Yurmanka rivers. It is here that one should look for that section of the Kama bank where the first huts of Russian settlers appeared. Later, a fortress will grow on this site.

The fortress, known from the image of the coat of arms of the city of Sarapul, existed during a certain and fairly short historical period. Historical materials indicate the time of its construction under Peter the Great. The fortress, which personified the strength and power of the Russian State, became a symbol of its presence on the distant eastern outskirts and did not exist for long, became the compositional core of the city's development. It is no coincidence that it also became a symbol of Sarapul, entering the heraldry of Russian cities. Descriptions of the Sarapul fortress, and therefore the settlement itself, made by participants in the first academic expeditions are known. The fortress structure stood for less than a century, and was demolished at the end of the 18th century, when a city square was laid out on the site of the fortress.

The first surviving written mentions of Sarapul date back to the 16th century. The earliest source is the scribe book of the Moscow hundredth scribe I.I. Yakhontov for 1579, which describes the flight of peasants from the Perm lands “to Sarapul”. The Census Book of 1596 states: “In the Kazan district, up the Kama River, on the Osinsky settlement, Novo-Nikolskaya Sloboda... In the settlement there is fishing and hops and beetroot; along the Kama River and along other rivers - along the Tulva and Ochera; in Sarapul and Siva they catch fish from dues and their Permyak hops are taken from Osa, down the Kamaya River to the White Voloshka...” The Watch Book of 1621 attests that in the village of Voznesenskoye, “...on Sarapul...”, there are 132 households. The village was located at the intersection of water and land routes and was of great strategic importance. The tsarist government used it as a stronghold to suppress riots and unrest of the colonized population from national minorities.

From the notes of Captain N.P. Rychkov, traveler and geographer, about the palace village of Sarapul in 1770: “...The palace village, called Serapul, is such a residence that both in the structure of philistine houses and in the wealth of its inhabitants surpasses many county towns. The buildings of the same village consist of 3 wooden churches, built inside a wooden castle, and 600 peasant households. Wealthy Sarapul residents have tanneries and soap factories, and both the yuft they make and the soap are sent by water to the noble cities of the Russian state... But the most profitable ship shipment of the Sarapul residents is firewood, with which, having filled huge ships, they are sent by water to Astrakhan and other treeless places within located in this province... The village of Sarapul is the initial place in this volost of this name: for in it there is a steward and a court established for the peasants. Under the authority of this volost government there are many villages and hamlets in which more than 15 thousand souls are considered males...” Sarapul was rich, abundant, and crowded by the standards of that time. Its main decoration is a “wooden castle”, with which “this place is worthy of note,” as stated in the description of the coat of arms. Among the wooden churches in the fortress there was the main one, in the name of the Ascension of the Lord. She gave the second, Russian, name to the settlement - the village of Voznesenskoye.

Gradually the settlement was upset. Although most of the Sarapul residents were engaged in farming and fishing, there were also plenty of artisans. Until 1729, the population of Sarapul was governed by governors, and since 1729, palace managers were sent from the institutions of the palace chancellery. Since 1740, in connection with the establishment of a palace office in Kazan, the village was renamed the palace settlement (village) Sarapul, and the managerial position began to be entrusted to local residents.

By the middle of the 18th century, attempts by the indigenous inhabitants of the Middle Kama region to maintain control over this territory were finally stopped. But there was no stability. Popular discontent with the state's policies towards the peasantry and non-Russian peoples, which had reached its peak by that time, resulted in a peasant war, and from December 1773 to July 1774, the village of Sarapul found itself in the area of ​​the Pugachev uprising. The uprising of the peasants of the volost was led by Yakov Zylev, a peasant of the Sarapul palace volost, the Pugachev ataman. In February 1774, government troops took Sarapul and the settlement again became a pro-government stronghold. After the upheavals caused by the uprising, the population of the region returned to the rut of peaceful life for a long time; many Sarapul residents went to live in other places.

A new page in Sarapul history began during the reign of Empress Catherine II. The Pugachev uprising showed the need to strengthen central power locally. Frightened by the rebellion, the empress began to carry out provincial reform. By the Senate decree of September 11, 1780 “On the establishment of the Vyatka governorate of 13 districts,” the palace settlement of Sarapul received the status of a city, which became the center of the Sarapul district of the Vyatka governorate (from 1797 - the Vyatka province). The district included the Izhevsk and Votkinsk factories. In 1781, the Coat of Arms of the city of Sarapul was approved, designed by A.A. Volkov, the court herald of Catherine II. “At the top of the shield is the coat of arms of Vyatka; in the lower part, in a silver field on a high mountain, there is a wooden chopped city, the building of which makes this place worthy of note,” this is how the coat of arms of the district city of Sarapul is described in the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire. On August 13, 1784, Catherine II approved the first master plan for the development of the city: “Plan of the Vyatka Governorate for the City of Sarapul.” According to the plan, the city's territory extended from the Yurmanka River to the Sarapulka River. There were 3 streets parallel to the Kama River (Bolshe-Pokrovskaya, Vyatskaya, Troitskaya), and 7 streets perpendicular (Tikhonovskaya, Nikolskaya, Malo-Pokrovskaya, Nagornaya, Bogoyavlenskaya, Voznesenskaya). The central place of the city became the spacious Cathedral Square. On the western side the city is surrounded by an earthen rampart and a moat.

Sarapul's acquisition of the status of a county town radically changed the course of its life. In a relatively short period of time, the rural settlement acquired the features of a county center. Public offices functioned in the city: the district treasury, the lower zemstvo court and the lower reprisal. The mayor was at the head of the city, and the police captain was appointed head of the district. Sarapul at that time was a settlement consisting of 406 philistine houses, with two churches (a stone cathedral and a wooden parish). Handicraft production of soap, leather, sheepskin, and footwear developed rapidly in the city. In 1791, there were 11 artisanal tanneries in Sarapul. In 1812, a second general plan for the city was created, which provided for the formation of new residential areas in the western part of the settlement, while in the southern part it was planned to create a kind of industrial zone. The reform of the education system that began in the country at the end of the 18th century was expressed in the creation of a network of public schools. On September 22, 1790, with the assistance of the mayor Andrei Vasilyevich Durov, the first “small” public school of the Vyatka province was opened in Sarapul. The duration of education for children was 2 years. Students learned writing, reading, grammar rules, arithmetic and drawing. For 10 years, Vyatka Seminary graduate Alexander Ivanovich Veshtomov, the first Vyatka historian and botanist, served as a teacher at the school. A new impetus to the growth of the city, the development of crafts and trade was given by the government Decree on the transfer from 1805 of the palace peasants to the rank of state peasants, with the right to freely transfer them then to the merchants or philistines. Almost all the former peasants of the city took advantage of the opportunity that opened up to become merchants or philistines. All merchants, depending on the size of the declared capital, were divided into 3 guilds. The lower the rank of the guild, the fewer rights the merchant had and the more restrictions he had on trade. After the fishing tax reform in 1863-1865. the number of merchant guilds was reduced to two. The category of a guild certificate began to be determined not by the size of the declared capital, but by the type of entrepreneurial activity. The certificate of a merchant of the 1st guild gave the right to wholesale trade in Russian and foreign goods, and the certificate of a merchant of the 2nd guild gave the right to retail trade. The names of Sarapul merchants were known far beyond the city: Bashenins, Zylevs, Peshekhonovs, Bodalevs, Smagins, Dedyukhins, etc. The well-being of the local population was directly dependent on the leather and textile industries. The oldest tanneries were opened in 1823, 1830, 1835, 1840. Gradually production developed, craftsmen began to make “red” yuft, and “Sarapul goat” boots were famous. Shoes were sold at rural bazaars and fairs in big cities - Irbitskaya, Nizhny Novgorod. In 1868, there were 30 tanneries in Sarapul. According to the writer and scientist N.N. Blinov, in the sixties and further years of the 19th century, trade expanded so that sewn shoes were not enough to satisfy the demand for them: “... while waiting for the goods to arrive, buyers lived in the city for a week.” To improve the quality of shoes, Sarapul industrialists tried to introduce new technologies. In 1907, Peshekhonov’s mechanical shoe factory was opened in Sarapul. According to the City Regulations, the Sarapul City Duma, a body of city self-government, was created and began work on February 3, 1872. The vowels (members) of the Duma were elected from representatives of the bourgeoisie and partly from the local bourgeois intelligentsia. The Duma was headed by the City Mayor. The permanent executive body was the City Government. Its terms of reference included: maintaining family lists of merchants, townspeople, honorary citizens, draft lists, lists for the quartering of militias, issuing building permits, renting city buildings, distributing night guards, etc. According to the results of a census carried out on behalf of the Duma in the city of Sarapul in 1873, there were 10,125 people, 5,325 men and 4,800 women. By class, the inhabitants were distributed as follows: 106 nobles, 291 officials, 464 merchants, 5302 burghers, 2714 peasants, 1031 lower military ranks, 216 commoners.

In the XIX - early XX centuries. Sarapul was not only the administrative center of its district, but also the center of its social and cultural life. New educational institutions, cultural and educational institutions were opened here, and various charitable societies were organized. The definition of “first” is perfectly suited to Sarapul. Many institutions that opened here were of a central nature and were the first on the territory of modern Udmurtia. In 1811, a city hospital with 15 beds was opened in Sarapul, subordinate to the order of public charity; in 1868, the hospital was transferred to the subordination of the Zemstvo. In 1866, merchant Starkov A.A. A printing house was opened in Sarapul. The company had 1 press, 1 lithographic and 2 printing presses. Mostly trade invoices, labels, forms for business activities, magazines and reports of the city duma, etc. were printed. In 1860, the first Sarapul women's parish school for people of the “middle class” was opened, reorganized in 1881 into a gymnasium. In 1882, in connection with the opening of the 8th pedagogical class, the Sarapul Women's Gymnasium became one of the main centers for training teachers of primary schools and colleges of various departments.

On January 1, 1835, on the initiative of the district doctor Kh.I. Chudnovsky and with the permission of the Minister of Public Education S.S. Uvarov, the first public library in the Vyatka province was inaugurated in Sarapul. 356 copies of books and 330 rubles worth of visual aids on various sciences, arts and industry were donated for the library. The library has a scientific office on natural science, history, physics, technology and other branches of knowledge. By the beginning of the 20th century, several more public libraries and reading rooms appeared in the city. On February 11, 1873, a real four-year Alekseevsky School was opened to train qualified technical specialists. In 1894, a branch of the State Bank of Russia was opened in Sarapul, since the city Public Bank, which had existed since 1869, no longer satisfied the demands of industry and trade.

In 1909, the Sarapul Zemstvo Museum was established. Among the founders was entomologist L.K. Krulikovsky, handed over his personal collection of butterflies and insects, numbering 18 thousand specimens, to the zemstvo doctor F.V. Streltsov (donated manuscripts on the history of the region), ethnographer N.E. Onchukov (donated a collection of folk songs and fairy tales), priest N.N. Blinov (donated his personal library). In 1913, the Museum was reorganized into the Sarapul Museum of the Society for the Study of the Kama Region. Evidence of the city's increased status was the presence of institutions of a district nature. In 1831, the Sarapul branch of the Vyatka Appanage Office was opened for six appanage orders of the region, in 1863 it was transformed into the Sarapul Appanage Office, operating in the territory of the Vyatka, Kazan, Ufa and Perm provinces. The opening of the District Court in the city on July 1, 1874, with the expansion of its area of ​​activity to the Sarapul, Yelabuga, and Malmyzh districts, was evidence of the increasingly increasing role of Sarapul in the Kama region. One of the best buildings in the city, located on the corner of Cathedral Square and Pokrovskaya Street, was proposed to house the court. Currently, the city administration is located in this building. Sarapul was not only one of the important administrative and trade centers of the Middle Kama region, but also its “spiritual capital”. The city was decorated with Orthodox churches: the Ascension Cathedral, the Intercession Church, the Trinity Church, the Resurrection Cemetery Church, the Peter and Paul Church, Edinoverie churches (St. George Cemetery and Nikolaevskaya), churches of monastic parishes (St. John the Baptist and Annunciation churches), there were house churches and prayer houses. Sarapul was first the center of the Sarapul vicariate of the Vyatka diocese, and since 1918, the governing bodies of the independent Sarapul diocese, which united church parishes located on the territory of Yelabuga, Malmyzh, and Sarapul districts, were located here. In the city for almost 100 years, starting in 1820, there was a theological school for the training of clergy. Thanks to the generous donations of merchants, there were charitable institutions in the city, such as the Alexander House of Charity for the Poor, the widow's house of U.S. Kurbatov, almshouse named after. I. S. Kolchina, a refuge for poor children, a home of hard work. In 1875, the Sarapul Charitable Society was formed, which provided assistance to poor residents of the city, provided benefits to poor students of real and district schools, gymnasiums and other educational institutions, maintained free canteens, etc. The society's funds consisted of private donations and membership fees , deductions from the city and zemstvo budgets, fees from charity performances. By decision of the Sarapul City Duma of March 28, 1886, names were given to the streets designed in the factory settlement behind the Sarapulka River according to the new city plan. Streets running parallel to the street. Meshchanskaya (now Proletarskaya Street) shall be named: Kuznetskaya, Dubrovskaya, Ozernaya, Zavodskaya, Amurskaya. The alley opposite the Bodalev plant - st. Lugovaya. The street above the street. Vladimirskaya (now Sedelnikova Street) should be called Yurmanskaya. Streets running from north to south and located further than st. Smolenskaya (now Nekrasova Street), named: Dachnaya, Lesnaya. According to the All-Russian Population Census for 1897, 21,395 people lived in Sarapul. In the pre-revolutionary history of our city, merchants played a dominant role. Sarapul merchant of the 1st guild, City Mayor in 1902-1910, Pavel Andreevich Bashenin, over the years of his leadership, turned Sarapul into one of the most dynamically developing cities in the province and Russia. He tried to link the solution to the urgent problem of the city, which has great needs for water, with the creation of a power plant. In 1910, the city water supply system was put into operation and the city power plant was launched. The development of the city's economy was favorably affected by its proximity to the Kama River; river navigation connected Sarapul with the all-Russian market. The lack of modern land-based year-round communication routes hampered the development of industry and trade. P.A. Bashenin actively sought to establish a railway connection through Sarapul. In 1912, the Council of Ministers approved the project of the Kazan-Sarapul-Ekaterinburg railway line, developed by the Moscow-Kazan Railway Society. Freight traffic opened on some sections of the road in 1916. Due to the location of the city of Sarapul at the intersection of two transport routes: railway and water, it becomes the center of freight traffic in the Middle Kama region; cargo exchange between Central Russia and Siberia began to occur through the city. In 1918, a section of the railway line was built from Kazan to Sarapul, with a branch from the Agryz station to the Izhevsk and Votkinsk factories. After the October Revolution of 1917 took place in the country, the life of the former merchant city changed dramatically. By a resolution of the executive committee of the Council of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies dated March 10, 1918, the Sarapul City Duma and the city government were dissolved. At the beginning of April 1918, Soviet power was established throughout the entire Sarapul district. Privately owned industrial enterprises were nationalized, and the organization of Soviet authorities and administration in the city began. On December 22, 1937, our city became part of Udmurtia.

The contribution of Sarapul residents to the victory in the Great Patriotic War was also significant. 25 natives of the city and region were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The city gave up about 10 thousand of its sons and daughters to the war. The largest factories from Moscow, Leningrad, and Baku were evacuated here. All the best buildings were given over to house 8 evacuation hospitals.

From 1945 to the present – ​​industrial center of the Ural region

The phrase “the first in Udmurtia” is very suitable for Sarapul - this is the opening of the first zemstvo hospital in 1811, and the first public school in 1790, the first post office - 1831, and a women's gymnasium in 1860, a public zemstvo library in 1835, the first fire brigade in 1852, the first printing house in 1866, the first public film show took place in 1897, music classes and a museum began operating in 1909, and the first drama theater in 1911.

Nadezhda Andreevna Durova, the first female officer awarded the St. George Cross for her participation in the war with Napoleon, lived in our city for 38 years. Her feat was repeated almost 100 years later by our fellow countrywoman, Antonina Tikhonovna Palshina, a participant in the 1st World War and Civil War. On April 1, 1917, the Sarapul Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies was the first to be organized in Udmurtia.

Today Sarapul is famous for its historical, cultural and architectural heritage. The historical part of the urban architectural landscape attracts with its unique harmony. The expressive silhouette of the city is its most striking calling card.

__________________________________________________________________ Documentary sources and literature:

Department of Archives of the Administration of Sarapul, F-76, op.1, no.58, R-588, op.1, no.2, 38,227, R-689, op.1, no.67, R-189 , op.4, no.443

Sarapul. Documents and materials. 1596-1985. Izhevsk: Udmurtia, 1987

Sheptalin A.A. Sarapul. Sarapul. Sarapul: Historical and local history essays. Izhevsk, 2007

Read here - https://www.adm-sarapul.ru/city/istoriya/ Old photos of the city of Sarapul - https://pro-sarapul.ru/photo?album=starye

Districts and real estate of Sarapul

Sarapul is a provincial town, officially divided into 8 districts, including Center, Startseva Gora, Privokzalny, Novoselsky, Yuzhny, Gudok, Yamy and Simonikha.


Sarapul Map

Now we will consider each district of the city of Sarapul separately, paying attention to residential buildings and the estimated cost of apartments.

The center is the heart of the city. There are administration buildings, museums, a church and many retail outlets here. The central region borders the Kama River, so there are plenty of picturesque places here. Unfortunately, in the very center of the city there are many buildings built more than a century ago that are in need of reconstruction. Restoration work is underway, but extremely slowly, so we can only hope that the center of this beautiful town will someday take on a more decent appearance.

There are not many residential buildings in the Central District; these are mainly private wooden houses, many of which are in need of repair.


Sarapul city administration building

Startseva Gora is a fairly quiet and peaceful area of ​​the city, despite its proximity to the center of Sarapul. It is pleasant to walk along the streets of this area, because cleanliness and order reign here, and numerous trees complete the picture.

Startseva Gora is a very old area; it is not surprising that the only buildings here are wooden residential buildings. An excellent place for lovers of beautiful landscapes and fishing, since the Kama River is literally a stone's throw from here.


Startseva Mountain

The station area is located in the southwestern part of the city. It is not difficult to guess that the railway station is located here. Despite the distance from the city center, the Station area is full of life. Of course, the small town falls asleep at night, but during the day its streets are quite lively. Among the residential buildings there are 5-story and 4-story buildings, and the cost of a one-room apartment in the area exceeds 800 thousand rubles. It is worth adding that gardening plots have found their place on the outskirts of the Station District.

Novoselsky is a tiny area, more like a village. Forest, river, paths, garden plots, wooden houses... The Novoselsky district is a valuable area from an urban planning point of view, it is quite possible that in the future 4, 5 or even 9-story residential buildings will rise here.


Novoselsky District

The southern district is even more remote from the center of Sarapul, but a considerable part of the townspeople live here. The area is separated from the rest of the city by garage cooperatives, a railroad, and a forest. In the Southern district, 5- and 9-story residential buildings were erected, and construction continues today. The cinema center and the city market are also located here. A one-room apartment in this area will cost buyers 700-900 thousand rubles.


Southern region

Yamy is an urban area located east of the shoe factory. The area owes its name to the massive garage construction and vegetable pits located in garages. There are not many residential buildings here; most of them are one-story wooden or stone houses.


Yama area

The northernmost district of Sarapul is Gudok. Smooth streets, good roads, but not a single multi-story building. Private residential buildings are being built here, but the area’s somewhat remote location from the bank of the Kama River makes its land less valuable than, for example, plots located on Startsevaya Mountain.


House. Gudok District

On the left bank of the Kama there is a microdistrict of the city of Sarapul called Simonikha. Life used to be in full swing here, but the construction of the Nizhnekamsk hydroelectric power station led to the flooding of the village. Most of the local residents were resettled, and the post office, kindergartens, and schools were closed. In the summer, the passenger ferry of the Sarapul River Port OJSC operates here, and in the winter, residents of Simonikhi cross the river on ice.

Sights of Sarapul

Sarapul is an ancient Russian merchant city, on the territory of which there are many architectural attractions. The golden time for the city was the period from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, evidence of which can be traces that are still visible today. Thus, in the city there is the only fire tower preserved in Udmurtia. Now it is an architectural monument, but previously there was a man at the top watching the fires.

Fire tower on Svobody Street

To get a closer look at the history and sights of Sarapul, you should definitely visit the Museum of History and Culture of the Middle Kama Region, located on Pervomaiskaya Street. This includes the Museum of History and Local Lore, the House-Museum of Academician Melnikov and Dacha Bashenin - the building of the country estate of the head of the city Pavel Andreevich Bashenin, built in 1910.

Art and exhibition complex "Dacha Bashenina"

Also in Sarapul it is worth visiting such attractions as the house of timber merchant P.F. Koreshev, the house of winemaker S.I. Bodalev, city mansion N.V. Smagin and Nikolaev four-year school.

In addition, there are many places in Sarapul where you can have fun with your family or friends. For example, the billiard club-cafe “Bon-Soire”, which opened in the very center of the city, is very popular among local residents. Here visitors can enjoy not only a game of billiards, but also taste European cuisine, as well as exquisite drinks and cocktails.

Interior of the billiard club "Bon Soire"

Fans of active recreation can use the services of the KAMA-N-DOOR fishing club. Clients of the club have access to all types of fishing, sauna, rental of boats, boats and even motor ships. At the same time, you can take a break from water treatments in a hotel or cozy houses located right on the banks of the Kama.

Fishing club "KAMA-N-DOOR"

Of course, these are not all the interesting places in Sarapul where you can relax and unwind, so we can say with confidence that residents and guests of the city will not be bored in their free time.

City
Sarapul
udm.Sarapul
FlagCoat of arms
56°28′ N. w. 53°48′ E village Country Russia Subject of the Federation Udmurtia City district City of Sarapul Head Shestakov Viktor Mikhailovich History and geography Former names Voznesenskoye village, Sarapul City since 1780 Area
  • 88 km²
Center altitude80 mTime zoneUTC+4:00PopulationPopulation↘95,355[1] people (2020)NationalsRussians, Udmurts, TatarsConfessionsOrthodox, MuslimsKatoykonimSarapul residents (Sarapul resident, Sarapul resident); less often - Sarapulians Official language Kudmurt, Russian Digital identifiers Telephone code +7 34147 Postal codes 427960 – 427980 OKATO code 94440 OKTMO code 94740000001adm-sarapul.ruSarapulMoscow Izhevsk SarapulMedia files on Wikimedia Commons

Sarapul

,
Sarapul
[2] (udm. Sarapul) is a city in the Udmurt Republic of Russia.

Sarapul is the third most populous city in the republic[3] after Izhevsk and Votkinsk. The center of the urban district is the city of Sarapul.

City infrastructure

The work of representatives of the housing and communal services complex can only be assessed as “satisfactory”, because even in the very center of the city there are many buildings that are in disrepair. However, repair and restoration work is being carried out, but not at all on the scale required. So, for 2008-2011 About 185 million rubles were allocated for major repairs of residential buildings. As a result, 176 apartment buildings were renovated, with a total area of ​​151 thousand square meters. m, and 18,037 people live in them. The supply of water, gas and electricity is carried out regularly, however, emergencies still arise from time to time, but the problems are resolved quickly enough.


One of the Sarapul courtyards

The cost of utilities cannot be called low: currently, owners of average one-room apartments pay about 2,000 rubles monthly. It is worth adding that this amount is getting higher every year, but this problem is also familiar to residents of other Russian cities.

In a relatively small city, traffic jams are out of the question. The problem of terrible road surfaces, so well known in Russia, has not spared Sarapul. Driving along some city streets is becoming more and more problematic over time. We can only hope that in the near future the city administration will pay more attention to this problem.

Quickly getting from one district of Sarapul to another will not be difficult, because there are more than 100 private taxis in the city, and 22 bus routes cover all city districts. There is also water transport in Sarapul. From May to October, two water routes “Sarapul-Barok” and “Sarapul-Ershovka-Simonikha” are opened for citizens.

You can get a good education in Sarapul without any problems. On the territory of the city there are 18 general education institutions, 3 correctional education institutions, 32 preschool education institutions and 7 additional education institutions.

Climate

The climate is temperate continental.

Average annual indicators:

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Total
201244 67855 684100 362-569 (-0.56%)
201144 94255 989100 931-450 (-0.44%)
201045 16956 212101 381+2 860 (+2.90%)
200944 13154 39098 521-587 (-0.59%)
200844 42454 68499 108-487 (-0.49%)
200744 66954 92699 595-260 (-0.26%)
200644 83755 01899 855-1 095 (-1.08%)
200445 41955 531100 950

Population density

1 140.48 people/km²

Men

44 678

Women

55 684

The population of Sarapul is 100,362 people (as of 2012).

Population data for the city of Sarapul (Russia) is collected from official population censuses and open information sources.

  • The population density of Sarapul is 1,140.48 people/km²
  • Male population: 44,678 people
  • Female population - 55,684 people

Cities of Russia (residents)InterpretationTranslation

Sarapul le>City SarapulSarapul

FlagCoat of arms
A countryRussia, Russia
Subject of the federationUdmurtiaUdmurtia
Urban districtSarapul
CoordinatesCoordinates: 56°28′00″ N. latitude 53°48′00″ e. d. / 56.466667° n. latitude 53.8° east d. 56.466667, 53.856°28′00″ s. latitude 53°48′00″ e. d. / 56.466667° n. latitude 53.8° east d.
ChapterNaumov Anatoly Fedorovich
First mention1621
City with1780
Center height80 m
Population▼ 101,400[1] people (2010)
National compositionRussians, Udmurts, Tatars
Confessional compositionOrthodox, Muslims
EthnoburySarapulians, Sarapulets
TimezoneUTC+4
Telephone code+7 34147
Postcode427960
Postal codes427960 – 427980
Vehicle code18
OKATO code94 440
Official sitehttps://www.adm-sarapul.ru/

Sarapul

- a city in the Udmurt Republic.

Population: 101,400 people (2010)[1].

Enterprises and work in Sarapul

The economic basis of the city is a large industrial complex, the main industries of which include mechanical engineering, food and light industry, production of building materials, plastic products, floriculture and printing.

Mechanical engineering is a leading industry, with the main specialization being the production of defense products, as well as products for civilian use. About 30% of the employed population of Sarapul works at the city’s machine-building enterprises. (At the beginning of 2012, there were 60,003 people of working age). The main enterprises in this industry are OJSC Sarapul Electric Generator.


Sarapul Electric Generating Plant

An important economic component of the city are food industry enterprises, whose products are supplied far beyond the borders of Sarapul and Udmurtia (bakery products, flour, dairy products, meat products, wine and vodka products). This industry is represented by the enterprises of ZAO Sarapulsky Beer, OJSC Sarapul Distillery and Vodka Plant, etc.

Light industry in Sarapul is represented by enterprises specializing in clothing and footwear production. The production of clothing is carried out by Sarapul Sewing Factory Mercury LLC, and the production of shoes is carried out by specialists from Shoe Factory Sarabella-Holding LLC.

Unfortunately, the average salary in the city can hardly be called decent. So, in 2009, residents of Sarapul received an average of 10,300 rubles.

Story

In 1174, before the founding of Vyatka, the Novgorodians lived on the Kama for seven years: “they set up a city nearby and named it Sarapul” /The Legend of the Vyatchans/

Landscape of Sarapul

The Sarapulka River was first mentioned in 1596, and in 1621 “the village of Voznesenskoye, on Sarapul”[2]. In 1657, Sarapul and the surrounding area were miraculously saved from a plague epidemic by bringing the image of St. Nicholas from the village of Berezovka. The miracle served as the basis for one of the oldest in Russia, the Sarapul Kazan religious procession, which was held annually until 1918. Since 1707 it has become a palace village called Sarapul. The village flourished thanks to grain trading and fishing. In 1780, the village received city status, became the center of the Sarapul district, and since then has developed according to the master plans of major architects. Sarapul surpasses all other cities of Udmurtia in the number of architectural monuments. The city formerly had two monasteries and 33 churches. The surviving churches: Intercession (1791), Resurrection (1821) and Ksenia of Petersburg (1912). Some buildings were erected by French prisoners after the Patriotic War of 1812. Sarapul is the birthplace of the cavalry maiden Nadezhda Durova, who served in Kutuzov’s army.

The fire tower, the only one in Udmurtia, is one of the few preserved in the architecture of the Urals (1887).

On March 4, 1889, a vicar of the Vyatka diocese (Afanasy) was appointed for the first time with his seat in Sarapul (previously the Sarapul vicars were in Vyatka), which transformed the Sarapul vicariate into a semi-independent diocese[3].

From 1923 to 1934 it was part of the Ural region and was the center of the Sarapul district. From 1934 to 1937, it was first part of the Kirov Territory, and then - the Kirov Region. In 1937, the city was annexed to Udmurtia, the center of political and economic life of the region moved from Sarapul to Izhevsk.

Bashenin's dacha (1911)

In 1931-1937, Stepan Nekrashevich, the initiator of the creation and first chairman of the Institute of Belarusian Culture (now the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus), served exile in Sarapul.

In 1942, Boris Yarkho, a medieval philologist and translator and versatile scientist who was in evacuation, died in Sarapul. Also in Sarapul, on December 17, 1981, the first hostage-taking in the history of the USSR took place at school No. 12. Soldiers of the special unit of the Alpha group of the KGB of the USSR were involved in the operation to free the hostages [4].

At the end of the 19th century, Sarapul was one of the largest centers of the shoe and leather industry in Russia. In the 20th century, the economy of Sarapul was determined by several large mechanical engineering and radio electronics enterprises, producing mainly military products.

Crime

Sarapul is a quiet and calm city, but even here the crime rate does not even think of reaching zero. It is not difficult to guess that many crimes are purely domestic in nature, and most of such acts occur as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. However, more high-profile crimes also happen in Sarapul. For example, drug trafficking cases regularly surface in the city. So, in 2011, a trio was convicted here for selling heroin to local drug addicts.

During 3 months of 2012, 404 crimes were committed in Sarapul. Statistics say that 80% of them are committed by non-working persons, while 40% of crimes are committed while intoxicated. It is worth adding that every second out of five criminal acts is committed by persons who have been prosecuted before.

An analysis of the operational situation shows that property theft is the most common type of crime in Sarapul.

The Sarapulsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is trying to maintain control over the crime situation, trying to reduce the number of crimes to a minimum. Let's hope that the quiet town of Sarapul will one day become absolutely safe.

Economy

Sarapul is a significant industrial center of Udmurtia. The basis of the economic base is a diversified industry, which employs 60% of the entire economically active population of the city. The industrial life of the city is determined by the enterprises of the machine-building complex, which employ 60% of the total population employed in industry. The volume of manufacturing production amounted to 8844 million rubles. The food industry is developed at a high level (31%), and one of the largest bakery products plants in the country operates here. The products of the local food industry are appreciated not only by residents of the city and region, but also by all residents of the republic and surrounding regions. The Udmurtia trading house in Moscow successfully sells local products. The city still has developed leather, footwear and woodworking industries. There are 350 small enterprises and 4 thousand individual entrepreneurs registered in Sarapul, and there are more than 1 thousand retail, catering and consumer services facilities. The housing and communal complex includes about 40 municipal enterprises.

The city is approached from all sides by highly productive agricultural lands, which in some places alternate with forests. The Urals, where Sarapul is located, has a favorable climate and other conditions that are conducive to the development of agriculture, namely those industries that provide food for the city - dairy farming, pig farming, vegetable growing and other garden and field crops.

As of January 1, 2009, the average salary in the city was 10,301 rubles. There are 7 banks in the city: AKB Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, OJSC AKB Probusinessbank, OJSC Uralsib, OJSC Bystrobank, OJSC AKB Izhkombank, OJSC Rosselkhozbank, OJSC AK Bars.

The city has 3 fire stations with 16 vehicles.

In 2011, the volume of goods shipped from manufacturing industries (large and medium-sized organizations) amounted to 10.1 billion rubles.

Among the main industrial enterprises of the city:

  • LLC Sarapul Garment Factory "Mercury" - clothing production
  • LLC Shoe factory "Sarabella-Holding" - production of footwear products
  • LLC Sarapul Timber Mill - production of lumber
  • LLC Leskommebel - furniture production
  • OJSC Sarapul Electric Generating Plant - production of aviation equipment, electric trolleys, warehouse equipment, electric motors for electric trolleys and electric forklifts, asynchronous electric motors, dough mixers, electrical equipment for cars, pumps, generators for autonomous power supplies and wind turbines

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100 (+1) The population of Sarapul for 2020 is 98,830 people. (this is 0.07% of the total population of the country). The comparative graphs show cities in Russia, as well as cities from other countries that correspond in population to Sarapul. It is worth noting that Sarapul has 10.3 million fewer residents than Moscow (the capital).

Sarapul is #174 in terms of population in Russia. For reference, detailed information about the population of Russia.

List of cities with approximately the same number of residents as Sarapul: Solikamsk, Glazov, Ust-Ilimsk, Zelenodolsk, Novoshakhtinsk, Votkinsk, Serov, Balashov, Zheleznogorsk, Zhukovsky.

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