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Copyright: Serghei Pakhomoff (serp2000)
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| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-07-12 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Exposure: f/7.1, 1/800 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-07-16 3:12 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Kungur is fine city! Here is lot of old buildings and churches, quiet streets and nice people.
Kungur is strange city, in the Soviet communist times few churches have been destroyed, one of them is transformed into a sports hall (see "Flag Sellers" photo), some churches have appeared in the territory of the prisons. Today Kungur has a few prisons. One of them situated near this fine monument of architecture, Church of St.Nicola. This church was the part of female monastery of John Baptist long long time, then after 1920 as a prison, about ten years ago was given back to the Russian Orthodox
church. (On the rightyou can see the small tower of the security of the male prison.)
Kungur is a town in the south-east of Perm Region, and is the administrative center of Kungursky District. Population: 68,943 (2002 Census); 81,402 (1989 Census); 64,800 (1959); 36,000 (1939). Geographical location: Kungur was founded in 1663 and granted town status in 1781. It is situated in the Urals at the inflowing of the Iren and Shakhva Rivers into the Sylva River (Kama's basin).
Kungur is an old Russian town with historic architecture. It is a trade, industrial, and transport center. It was the first European town on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Сoat of arms
The town's original coat of arms became official according with the Highest Law of Empress Anna Ioannovna in 1737. Current coat of arms was adopted in 1994.
History
Kungur was founded seventeen kilometers above the Iren River's mouth on the banks of the Kungurka River in 1648. In 1662, it was burnt by Bashkirs. In 1663, it was rebuilt as a fortress on the place of Mysovskoye village. In 1674, it withstood a siege by Yemelyan Pugachev's Cossack forces. In the beginning of the 18th century, leather and footwear industries started to develop here, and in 1724, a tannery was built. By the mid-18th century, Kungur became one of the most populated areas in the Urals. In 1759, Perm administration of mining plants was moved to Kungur. By the end of the 18th century, Kungur is an important transit trade centre of the Siberian road, as well as the centre of leather manufacture in Perm province. Kungur rope and linseed oil were widely known. By the end of the 19th century it became a significant industrial (including manufacture of leather footwears, gloves, and mittens) and cultural centre.
Architecture
Among the notable buildings in Kungur are the Transfiguration Church (1781), Nikola Cathedral, former Guest courtyard with the Burse (1865-76, architect R. O. Karvovsky), the Zyryanov Hospice (1881, now the surgical department of a hospital), the 19th century storehouses of the Kopakov merchants (now a culture centre).
The Tikhvinsky Temple was built in 1763 and got its name from the holy icon of Tikhvinskaya Bogomater. Now the movie theater "Oktyabr" is located in the building.
In the lower part of the town, on Kittarskaya street, is the Uspenskaya Church, built in 1761. On the opposite bank of the Sylva river stands the Preobrazhensky Temple.
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