It all started with one photo taken when I was fishing looking at the village on the opposite shore of the lake. I zoomed in and the outlines of the old church appeared...
Of course, the next weekend we went fishing through the village. And when I returned, I sat down to look.

The first photo is across the lake.

The village of Sugoyak is located one hundred kilometers northeast of Chelyabinsk. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village belonged to the Shadrinsk district of the Perm province, in different periods of the Soviet era it was part of the Miass, Brodokolmak and Krasnoarmeisky districts.
The exact etymology of the word "Sugoyak" is unknown. "Su" in Bashkir - "water", "Ayak" - "leg". According to various versions, the name of the lake can be translated as "wet foot", "cold foot", "water stop".
The exact date of the foundation of the village has not been established, but there is interesting evidence of the antiquity of this settlement. In the "Essays on the disasters of the Dalmatov Monastery and part of the region from 1644 to 1742" by Archpriest Grigory Plotnikov, published in the "Perm Diocesan Gazette" for 1869, when describing Bashkir uprising 1736, the village of Sugoyak is already mentioned. Meanwhile, the village of Miasskaya (now the village of Miassskoye), as well as the city of Chelyabinsk, were founded precisely in 1736. Therefore, the village of Sugoyak is older than these settlements.
The neighboring village of Russkaya Techa, located just 10 km away, was founded by a peasant Ivan Sinitsyn under the name Beloyarskaya Sloboda in 1682, then it became known as Techenskaya Sloboda. Russkaya Techa is the oldest Russian settlement in the entire territory of the Chelyabinsk region.

One of the old Sugoyak houses

Perhaps Sugoyak also arose at the end of the 17th century. This could be facilitated by the proximity of the Russian Techa, which played an important role in the formation of the Chelyabinsk Territory (the former Iset province), the first administrative center of which was the Russian Techa in the first half of the 18th century.
About the church. Sugoyakskaya Elias Church built and consecrated in 1868. The decision to build a stone church was made at a secular gathering. They were built according to the classical Russian technology, using chicken eggs for the preparation of a cementing mortar. The church was closed in 1932, according to the recollections of old-timers, the authorities tried to destroy it and even brought in a wall-beating machine for this purpose.

Photo 1992

However, all they could do was to beat off the plaster in places and tear the crosses off the domes; the cross on the bell tower has remained to this day high point around. What the wall-beating machine failed to do, the inexorable time is slowly doing - the church is gradually being destroyed. Local residents removed the iron sheets from the domes, tore out part of the openwork gratings from the windows in order to sell them for scrap; one of the marble cemetery slabs lying next to the church disappeared somewhere - perhaps it was also useful to someone in the household. During the years of Soviet power, Ilyinsky Church was used as a warehouse for vegetables and a garage. Due to the fact that the garage was rather dry, even in the 80s of the XX century, the remains of frescoes and commemorative inscriptions could be seen there.

Elias Church today (my photos):

They say that Soviet authority was unable to requisition church property in full - some of the utensils and salaries made of precious metals were either taken out or hidden by clergymen. According to one version, the treasure was hidden somewhere under the church building, where there were basements and an underground passage, possibly leading to the priest's house, which is still standing opposite. The beginning of the collapsed underground passage could be seen at the end of the 20th century.

Popov's house (it seemed strange, more like a merchant's shop). We did not find the beginning of the collapsed underground passage.

Historical facts are cited from an article by Irina PASHNINA, Sugoyak village ("Ural Pathfinder", No. 12, 2006)

Elias Church in the village of Sugoyak (consecrated in 1868)

Very little. And no one, by and large, seriously engaged in the study of this problem, with the exception of only a few local historians. In the article we will try to tell in as much detail as possible about the deserted towns and villages of this region.

So, where are the abandoned villages in the Chelyabinsk region? And how many of them are there? Let's figure it out.

Sad stories of the Ural villages

Cities are growing, villages are disappearing. This sad process in the scientific community is called urbanization. A brutal, predatory word... In some states, these processes are less active, in others - more intensively. Russia is one of the world leaders in the rate of rural extinction. Just think: every year the country loses three of its villages!

If a couple of centuries ago, villages disappeared as a result of floods, fires and epidemics, but today purely economic aspects come to the fore. Lack of jobs, minimal infrastructure and uncomfortable living environment - all this drives people to nearby cities. And first of all the youth. As a result, only the elderly and people with limited mobility remain in the villages.

Fortunately, it is not yet among the leading regions in terms of the number of villages left by man. There really aren't many of those around here. But they still exist. According to Chelyabinsk ethnographer Vladimir Teplov, over the past hundred years, the total number of villages in the region has almost halved. At the same time, Troitsky, Oktyabrsky, Uvelsky, Sosnovsky and Krasnoarmeisky districts suffered the most.

There are more and more abandoned villages in the Chelyabinsk region every year. Solving this extremely acute problem requires significant efforts by both local authorities and higher-ranking officials.

Abandoned villages of the Chelyabinsk region: list and map

The most reliable data on the demographic situation in a particular region is provided by population censuses. AT Russian Federation the last such census was conducted in 2010. She counted 22 completely empty villages in the Chelyabinsk region. Interestingly, 20 of them were empty between 2001 and 2010. What is their total number today, it is impossible to say exactly.

Below is a list of the most interesting non-residential settlements in the Chelyabinsk region (abandoned villages, deserted villages and former settlements, including):

• Korolevo (Kasli district).
• Capes (Sosnovsky district).
• Anfalovo (Krasnoarmeisky district).
• Adishchevo (Krasnoarmeisky district).
• Malyshevo (Sosnovsky district).
• Selki (Verkhneufaleisky urban district).
• Svoboda (Kasli district).
• Old Muslyumovo (Kunashaksky district).
• Hardware platform (Magnitogorsk).
• Shevchenko (Troitsky district).

Below on the map you can see the location of all the abandoned villages of the Chelyabinsk region (you will find photos and descriptions of the most famous of them later in our article). Curiously, most of them are concentrated in the northern part of the region.

hardware platform

Where to start reviewing the abandoned villages of the Chelyabinsk region? Metiznaya platform - a village that is very popular with all the "stalkers" of the region. It is located in the vicinity of Magnitogorsk, right in the middle of the old industrial zone.

The village appeared in the first half of the 1940s simultaneously with the hardware and calibration production, which, in turn, arose on the basis of equipment evacuated from the western regions of the USSR. However, later it turned out that such a close proximity of the plant and residential areas is not the best idea. Plus, the village ended up in the sanitary zone located near the metallurgical plant. In the late 1980s, residents of the Metiznaya site began to be relocated to other settlements. In just a few years, the population of the village was reduced from 3,500 to zero.

Today, the Metiznaya platform looks extremely deplorable. Most of the buildings have already lost their floors and roofs. The highlight of the abandoned village is the Palace of Culture of Stalin's times with still preserved columns and sculptures at the main entrance.

Malyshevo

The village of Malyshevo is located in the Sosnovsky district. This is an ancient village, which was founded in the middle of the 18th century by Cossacks and peasants. Named after one of the first settlers. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were about 200 inhabitants, there were elementary School. After the war, a branch of the Mitrofanovsky state farm was organized in the village. Malyshevo was completely deserted in the early 2000s. Near the village, only an array of garden plots, owned mainly by residents of Chelyabinsk, has been preserved.

capes

Another abandoned village in the Sosnovsky district has a colorful and unusual name - Capes (emphasis on the first syllable). Like Malyshevo, it was also founded in the 18th century as a Cossack farm. The maximum population here was recorded in 1926 (580 inhabitants). The village was officially removed from the list of existing settlements in 1995.

Selkie

The almost extinct village of Selki is located in the northern part of the region, just a few kilometers from Lake Itkul and ten kilometers from the city of Upper Ufaley. It grew out of a small guard post founded in 1774. AT early XIX century, the development of one of the local mines began here. In Soviet times, wood was harvested in Selki.

The village consists of only three small streets. Today it is a series of dilapidated wooden huts. According to the results of the 2010 census, only 9 people lived in Selki - six men and three women.

freedom

Another abandoned village is located in the Kaslinsky district, in the north of the Chelyabinsk region. Her name is pathetic and loud - Freedom. True, today this settlement is free only from residents.

The village was deserted after the so-called Kyshtym catastrophe of 1957 - radiation emissions at the Mayak chemical plant. Like most other neighboring villages, it was completely evicted and destroyed. Only one building survived - the stone temple of Simeon Verkhotursky. The church, according to archival data, was founded in the middle of the century before last. Today, the shrine stands alone in the middle of a field, overgrown with trees and shrubs.

Abandoned villages of the Chelyabinsk region: where can you live?

Many people today tend to move from big and noisy cities to small villages with clean air, lack of traffic jams and fresh products. There are even originals among them who want to hide in an abandoned village. There are plenty of such places in the Chelyabinsk region. For example, Korolevo near the village of Bagaryak, Kasli district. It has everything you need for a full-fledged hermit life: a forest, a river with picturesque rocks on the shore and a complete absence of people.

Of course, before moving into such a wilderness, you should carefully weigh the pros and cons of such a step. After all, you have to put up with such unpleasant moments as:

• Lack of electricity, gas supply, mobile communications.
• Lack of grocery stores, hospitals and police stations nearby.
• Possible lack of a normal access road to your place of residence.
• Neighborhood, as well as possible meetings with wild and dangerous animals - bears, wolves, foxes, lynxes.
• Difficult weather and climatic conditions (in summer in the Chelyabinsk region the air temperature can rise to +30 degrees, and in winter it can drop to 30-40 degrees, but already with a minus sign).

If all of the above does not scare you, then it remains to expand a large-scale map of the region and select a suitable settlement.

Those people who are not yet ready for complete isolation and loneliness can choose for themselves a village that is not yet completely empty. There are many such settlements in the region. For example, in the village of Bolshiye Teregusty, near Kyshtym, only about fifty people live. The nature in the vicinity is incredibly beautiful: river, mountains, wild taiga. Another great option is the village of Ilek, Ashinsky district, with a population of about a hundred people. There are many empty and solid houses here.

Finally…

The extinction of the village is one of the most acute problems modern Russia. And it needs to be addressed immediately. After all, abandoned villages are not only devastation and depressiveness. It is also beautiful virgin nature, fertile land, lush green meadows, silence and peace.

The number of abandoned villages in the Chelyabinsk region is not yet catastrophic. But every year, several empty and abandoned villages appear on the map of the region. Bringing people back to the village requires a comprehensive and well thought out Government program and the infusion of significant financial resources.

The two-storey building of the plant management of the Ust-Katavsky plant near the city dam was built in last decade nineteenth century, is an architectural monument of regional significance. Later, the building housed a junior high school. Now the building is abandoned, reconstruction is planned.

The temple was built in 1835. The church was closed in 1930. It was used as a granary, and then as a garage. The frescoes are well preserved in the building. The vault of this church, according to an eyewitness, collapsed in the early 2000s. Metal assemblers drove up, cut off the metal air ties of the roof by welding, loaded them into a car and left. And in the morning, a powerful cylindrical vault collapsed, which, with strands, could stand for another hundred years. Therefore, the main quadruple ...

The church was founded in 1838. In the 1930s it was closed and served as a workshop for tractors. The entrance has been expanded for cars. The frescoes inside have not been preserved. There are no plans to restore the temple.

The stone church was founded in 1843. The construction was completed in 1848. The warm aisle was consecrated in 1850 in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The cold, main temple was consecrated in 1863 in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The temple was closed in the 30s of the 20th century. Served as a warehouse. The temple is currently abandoned. Cracks crept along the walls, part of the dome and light drum collapsed. In some places, the floor collapsed, allowing you to get into a vast ...

KZTs "Jubilee" was built in 1970. At that time belonged to the Plastics plant. About ten years ago it was abandoned in connection with the transfer to the ownership of the city of Kopeysk. AT Soviet time it hosted all sorts of events like circles for children, concerts, film screenings. On the territory there was a fountain with a metal monument to the pioneers (the latter has now been sawn out). Apparently, attempts were made to reconstruct the palace, ...

Urukul church is small, it was built in 1910. At the same time, a parochial school and a house for a priest were erected. The priest's house today houses a gingerbread shop, the building of the parochial school has been given over to a residential building. The church once had a club. Now it is in a ruined state - there is no roof, floor, doors. Even 2 years ago they talked about its restoration, but it never came to the point. About the name of the data church today...

One-altar stone church, in honor of Michael the Archangel. Located in the village of Feklino, which stands next to the lake of the same name. Year of construction 1866. Temple of the new Byzantine type, cross-domed, without light drum. On the walls of the temple part, in contrast to the bell tower and the refectory, remains of plaster have been preserved. And the nature of the brickwork is different. The bell tower and the refectory are finished with red facing bricks. emergency condition...

Temple in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Kirdy, built in the 19th century. The exact date of construction was not known. In Soviet times, it was closed, and the building was successively housed - a horse yard, then a machine and tractor station. The thickness of the walls of the Church of the Intercession is amazing. Literally a few meters from the church, a village house of culture was built, which is also abandoned at the present time.

The village of Popovka is located in a picturesque corner of the Chebarkulsky district - in the middle of Varlamovsky forest, by the way, a difficult forest area, and a regional natural monument classified as a forest reserve. It was here that in the early 70s an industrial facility of national importance was built - shop No. 11 for the extraction and enrichment of uranium concentrate. The manufacturing enterprise was part of the mining association -...

The ruins of the Sinaro-Uralsky distillery The plant is an L-shaped building, consisting of a three-story administrative (in the corner part) and two-story production parts (in the wings). Before the revolution, he produced alcoholic products, including Yerofeich and Spotykach liqueurs. The drinks were High Quality, in beautiful bottles covered with a complex pattern, the stickers were of high printing quality. Snow lovers...

The facility is a huge warehouse for sorting and storing grain with many underground and aboveground conveyors. Everything is intact and in working order down to the usual light bulbs. A branch of railway tracks enters the territory, although, judging by the rails, it has not been used for a long time. Also on the territory there is a whole fleet of abandoned agricultural machinery, drilling rigs, etc. We did not encounter security, but traces of presence ...

Troitsk diesel plant is a huge complex of buildings. The aluminum alloy casting workshop is located in three separate buildings with a total area of ​​4500 sq. m. The plant is surrounded by a two-meter fence around the perimeter, which is very easy to climb, because metal bars stick out of it in places. Throughout the factory and inside the buildings there is a pile of iron. The fact that the so-called "throwers" have not yet reached him ...

The fat plant, located in the city of Troitsk, during its lifetime produced mayonnaise, vegetable food fats, glycerin soap, household soap, and laundry soap. Completely abandoned presumably in 2009. On the territory there are about ten buildings of different preservation. There are buildings built a very long time ago, for example, an electrical substation, and other workshops are modern. There are two small cooling towers. There are almost no “fillings” of shops left. Near...

Former cement plant thresher. Located outside the city. Approximately 1940s built. Previously, it was a whole district, there were houses - the workers of the plant lived in them. Now there are only ruins. Walls and some ceilings remained in all buildings. The threshing machine had 3 floors, but it will no longer be possible to get there. There were 2 workshops and a warehouse on the territory. There were also 2 bunkers for storing finished cement. There were 2 capital 2-storey apartment buildings and ...

The plant in Zlatoust, which is now called Bulat. On its territory, the dismantling of everything that is sold is actively underway. The territory of the plant is huge - there is a large boiler room, impressive workshops, warehouses. In the largest workshop, all the machines were taken out, only bare walls remained. In the boiler room, everything is in its place, but they will soon get to it. There is a warehouse across the river, the doors of which are sealed. From protection - only dogs.

An abandoned workshop near an operating enterprise in the city of Kyshtym. Small in area, consists of a production facility and several rooms. There was no equipment left inside, only some furniture in the administrative part. There are remnants of Soviet posters on the walls. It is located in close proximity to the fence of an operating enterprise, so there is a risk of being barked by dogs.

Studying the maps of the Chelyabinsk district, winding on his two-wheeled transport along the roads around Chelyabinsk, he suddenly discovered that the village of Shcherbaki had disappeared very close to the city limits.

On the site of the former village, there are three mighty ancient poplar trees that are difficult to grasp even for a small company. To the side stands another poplar.

Having gone on a short journey through Shagol, the stopping point "226 km" and Zavarukhino, crossed the Sorochy log stream,

arrived at the proposed place of settlement. On the site of the village, built back in the 18th century, only four poplars and barely noticeable mounds, overgrown with quinoa and nettles, remained. From the hill where the clay quarry is located, Bukharino to the West and Zavaruhino to the North are clearly visible. Zyuzelga in this place flows in small loops, is very picturesque and quite rich in small fish.

In some places you can simply step over it, in some places it spills up to 3 meters with clearly visible whirlpools.
In old maps, Shcherbaki is already marked on the general survey plan of 1800-05.

On the map of the gold mines of the early 20th century, there are also Shcherbaki

When did this village disappear, located just a few kilometers from the high-rise buildings of the North-West, located by the way in a beautiful place, with relatively clean Zyuzelga. After all, Bukharino has not disappeared; moreover, it is now being built up with Chelyabinsk residents' cottages. Maybe someone knows, share information. The favorite source of information, the Chelyabinsk Region encyclopedia, says absolutely nothing.