Dolmatovsky Monastery. Dalmatovo

The monastery was founded in 1644 on the high left bank of the Iset River at the confluence of the Techa River. The monastery was burned to the ground more than once by nomads, until in 1713-24. stone walls with two high towers. The impregnable fortress has withstood a lot during its long history. In 1762, a peasant uprising took place in the Trans-Urals, which went down in Russian history under the name “Dubinshchina”. The rebels besieged the Dalmatovo Monastery, completely cutting it off from outside world. Only six months later government troops released the fortress. In mid-February 1774, an army of three thousand Pugachevites approached the Dalmatovsky Monastery. Only four hundred defenders took refuge behind the walls of the fortress. A twenty-day siege of the monastery began. The rioters tried to take the monastery by storm, but received fierce resistance. More than once the Pugachevites, under the cover of artillery and rifle fire, tried to get to the walls, hiding behind carts of hay, but the defenders of the monastery set fire to the hay with burning tow and literally bombarded the enemy with bullets and stones. Reinforcements approached the rebels, and their number exceeded five thousand. The situation was critical, but the monastery was saved by the rapid advance of government troops under the command of General Delong.

So the impregnable stronghold stood until 1917, to the fear of enemies and to the joy of respectable residents. However, as you know, there are no fortresses that the Bolsheviks could not take. After the revolution, an agricultural commune was first located on the territory of the monastery, then a factory for the production of milk bottles. This led to its looting and almost complete destruction. And now the cracked fortress walls with broken battlements, dilapidated towers, churches with demolished domes are a visible monument to the tragic history of Russia. However, the monastery is operating again, the gate church and part of the fortress wall have been repaired, but restoration work here will still take many decades.

Dalmatovsky Assumption Isetsky Monastery, 3rd grade, dormitory, in the provincial town of Dalmatovo, Shadrinsky district, Perm province, on the banks of the Iset River. Founded in 1644 by the monk of the Nevyazhsky (Tobolsk bishopric) monastery (now abolished) Dalmat (in the world - Tobolsk Cossack Dmitry Mokrinsky). At that time, the place now occupied by the monastery belonged to the Tyumen Tatar Iligei, who, having learned that a monk had settled in a cave located in his possession and, fearing the emergence of a monastery there, decided to attack the newcomer and destroy him; but the Mother of God, who appeared to Iligei in a dream vision, forbade him to offend the hermit, and he, frightened by this wonderful vision, humbly came to Dalmatus and gave him part of his land for the monastery (probably at the same time he left there his cone and chain mail, still kept in the monastery) . In the 17th century, the monastery was repeatedly devastated and destroyed by the Kalmyks (in 1651) and Bashkirs (in 1662 and 1664) and again, by the grace of God, it was restored through the efforts of its abbots. Subsequently, the monastery was surrounded by a wall and fortified so much that, with the heroic defense of the brethren, it was able to withstand a three-day siege by the rebels during Pugachev's time. The monastery houses the miraculous Dalmatian Icon of the Mother of God, brought here by the founder of the monastery and miraculously preserved intact, despite repeated attacks on the monastery and the fires that devastated it. This holy icon depicts the Assumption Holy Mother of God. In addition to August 15, the monastery celebrates February 15 in honor of this holy icon. The monastery has a chapel built over the grave of its founder, Elder Dalmat (who died in 1697); it contains his portrait, robe and hood. There are 2 schools at the monastery - a two-class and a one-class.

From the book by S.V. Bulgakov “Russian monasteries in 1913”

The ensemble of the Dalmatovsky Holy Dormition Monastery has special meaning for Trans-Urals. Like many other cultural heritage sites of religious significance, it has rich history formation and, unfortunately, destruction. Formation The monastery dates back to 1644, when the monk Dalmat dug a cave for himself on the high left bank of the Iset River, which soon became a shelter for other believers. Gradually, the monastery became overgrown with wooden buildings, which were constantly destroyed by fires. After another fire in 1704, it was decided to build a stone Assumption Church. At this time, the role of the monastery as an outpost on the southern borders Russian state was already quite obvious. Simultaneously with the construction of the Assumption Cathedral, which was completed in 1719, construction of a stone monastery wall with towers began at the expense of state funds, which lasted about 50 years. Basically, the appearance of the monastery was formed by the middle of the 18th century. The monastic buildings were surrounded by a hexagon-shaped fortress with wide walls topped with battlements. Bastions were built on the northwestern and northeastern corners, and two towers completed the southwestern and southeastern corners. The center of the architectural ensemble was the Assumption Cathedral, which had an adjoining Demetrius Church. Another church was located above the eastern holy gate. Inside the fence, the abbot's and brethren's cells and numerous outbuildings were built. In the construction of the monastery they showed best features architectural style, called “Ural Baroque”. This architectural tradition influenced the entire historical and architectural appearance of Dalmatovo and its surroundings. By the middle of the 18th century, the monastery was the center spiritual enlightenment and education and one of the leading economic centers of the eastern part Russian Empire. The monastery owned significant land holdings with peasants, economic loans, as well as an ironworks, on the site of which the city of Kamensk-Uralsky was later founded. Construction of the monastery continued into the 19th century.

The most notable building was the Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” erected near the Dalmata tomb. Then to southern walls Brick cells were added, and to the western ones there was a room in which the district religious school was located. From the walls of this school came many outstanding personalities: future rector of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, famous scientist and church researcher Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin); radio inventor A.S. Popov; teacher M.Yu. Lermontov, poet, professor of literature and eloquence A.F. Merzlyakov; professor, trustee of the West Siberian educational district, organizer of Tomsk University V.M. Florinsky; famous Trans-Ural local historian, educator, archaeologist and writer A.N. Zyryanov; writer, geographer, polar explorer K.D. Nosilov. Destruction In the early years Soviet power the monastery was closed, and the local history museum was located in the monastery buildings, people's house, drama theater During the Great Patriotic War The premises were converted into a hospital. Immediately after the end of the war, the Molmashstroy plant was located on the territory of the monastery. Despite the fact that since 1952 the monastery has been a monument of local, and since 1974 - of republican significance, the adaptation of historical buildings and the territory of the monastery to the needs of the plant led to numerous damages and significant losses. In 1989, the process of removing the plant from the territory of the monastery began, ending in 1994, when the monastery was completely transferred to the use of the Kurgan diocesan administration. From that time on, a long process of restoration of the Orthodox shrine began.

The degree of loss of historical and cultural value and the degree of preservation of these objects varies. The chapters and ceilings of the Assumption Cathedral, the bell tower and the northern porch for the entrance to the upper church were lost; the cathedral was converted from a two-story one into a four-story one, and its vaults were destroyed. The completions on the towers have not survived. The five-domed structure crowning the Sorrow Church was lost, the shape of its roof was simplified, and the building was turned into a two-story building. During the construction of the foundation of the factory workshop, the northwestern bastion and part of the wall, as well as the battlements from the northeastern and southeastern walls, were dismantled into bricks. Two-story extensions were erected to the southwestern and western cells, but the internal layout, floors, and roofing were lost. There are no staircases or roofs left at all sites; new door and window openings have been blocked or installed. For production needs, a significant part of the wall next to the northern gate was destroyed and a passage was made. For the same purpose, the buttress on the southeastern tower was dismantled, which led to its progressive deviation from the vertical. But Dalmatian “leaning tower”, unfortunately, is not a source of pride. Particularly noteworthy is the loss of the historical layout and landscape of the monastery territory, the emergence of many dissonant objects that block views of the ancient architecture. Revival Today the ensemble of the Dalmatovsky Monastery is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

The monastery complex has retained its main dominant features: the Assumption Cathedral - the first stone building in the Trans-Urals, the Church of the Joy of All Who Sorrow, the southwestern and southeastern towers, the northeastern bastion within the monastery walls, the gate church at the northern gate. The cells attached to the fortress wall from the south and west have also been preserved. Over the 20 years that have passed since the beginning of the return of the monastery to the diocese, through the efforts of the ascetics, a lot has been done towards restoring the former greatness of the monument. The state did not stand aside either. Already in the first years, the restoration of the monastery took place with the participation of funds from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Since 2001, the region has been participating in the federal target program “Culture of Russia”, as a result of which systematic repairs and renovations are carried out at the monument. restoration work. During this time, about 27 million rubles were spent: the gate church was restored - the first (and, unfortunately, not the most successful) example of a comprehensive restoration of a monastery object; The roof of the northern cells was restored, and today both of these objects are used by the monastery. Parts are being restored to the monastery walls, and lost elements are being restored. A phased comprehensive restoration of the Church “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is being carried out. It was to this facility, which suffered the least damage during the industrial past, that the bulk of the funds under the federal program were directed. This year, work on the restoration of the five-domed church was completed, 6.9 million rubles were spent. Restoration work is also carried out at the expense of the monastery. Thus, the abbot's cells and part of the fraternal cells were restored, the chapel located opposite the northern gate, and improvement work is being carried out. Thanks to the support of the administration of the Dalmatovo district, the city of Dalmatovo and with the participation of local enterprises, the territory of the monastery is gradually being freed from late discordant buildings.

Since 2008, powers for state protection of the Dalmatovsky Monastery have been assigned to the Department of Culture of the Kurgan Region. In the same year, management specialists carried out a complete survey of all monastery objects, thanks to which the percentage of losses of each object became known, and it became possible to predict costs and plan work. First of all, the department developed a project for protection zones for the monument, together with the administration of the city of Dalmatovo on co-financing terms.

The project is currently undergoing the approval procedure. Today, on an area of ​​4.7 hectares of territory occupied by the monastery, 20-30 people live permanently or temporarily. Of course, there is a movement of pilgrims, tourists, and parishioners, but there is no talk yet about the effectiveness of using the facility. The future of the monastery lies in the use of everyone potential opportunities, including the existence of an educational complex on the basis of the monastery, the production of religious objects, folk crafts, the South-Western cells and the tower, the buildings of the religious school can be adapted to house the municipal historical and local history museum, which will make it possible to release and transfer to the diocese for use the building of the St. Nicholas Church, now occupied by a museum and also an object of federal significance. This decision will lead to an increase in the museum’s space, to the restoration of historical buildings lying in ruins, and to the opportunity to invest local budget funds in restoration work. However, the possibility of using some objects can only be assessed after engineering studies have been carried out.

The most difficult situation is with the Assumption Cathedral. Today there is no complete confidence in the possibility of restoring lost vaults without the danger of destruction of the building during the removal of interfloor ceilings. Currently, repair and restoration work is financed primarily from the federal budget. Funds are allocated by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation on the basis of applications generated by regions. The annual organizational and financial plan for the implementation of the program is approved by the Minister of Culture after the blessing of the Patriarch, since it is in the financial and economic management of the Moscow Patriarchate that the object-by-object distribution of program funds takes place.

Diocese website

The Monk Dalmat, who founded the Assumption Dalmatov Monastery, was a nobleman who carried out military service for decades before becoming a monk. We do not know how his father, Ivan Mokrinsky, a native of the Ryazan region, ended up in Siberia, but in 1594, when his eldest son Dmitry was born, he was listed as a Cossack ataman in Berezovo. In 1628, the Mokrinsky family (the saint’s mother was a baptized Tatar, from which we can conclude that his father married her already in Siberia) moved to Tobolsk; Dmitry Mokrinsky served in the Vagai prison for about six years; in 1636 he returned to Tobolsk. By that time, he had long since acquired his own family. His son, Archimandrite Isaac, wrote about the life of his father at that time: “He is not rich, but living without great poverty, building his house in abundance, according to his faith, without need, diligent to the church.” The last phrase of this testimony is important - it shows that the future ascetic, regularly carrying out his secular service and diligently engaged in house-building, nevertheless somewhat languished with life in the world and always rushed to God with his soul.

Here some event was required for these aspirations to be realized. Apparently, such an event was the death of his wife - in any case, soon after this Dmitry Mokrinsky ended up in Nevyansk, in the local Epiphany Monastery, where he was tonsured into monasticism with the name Dalmat. The saint was fifty years old at that time. The monk did not stay too long in this monastery - in 1644, when the brethren wanted to elect him to be a builder (an abbot's position), he, desiring eremitical deeds, left the monastery and went south. He left lightly, taking with him only the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The monk Dalmat covered a long path - about 250 kilometers - before he dug himself a cave on the left bank of the Iset, at the confluence of the Techa River, where he indulged in vigilant prayer. Then it was the border of the Russian world. The very land on which Saint Dalmat settled belonged to the yasak Tatar Iligei. At first he annoyed the ascetic in every possible way, fearing that other Russians would come after him, he even tried to kill him, but after the admonition received during the appearance of the Mother of God to him, he changed his attitude towards the monk, gave him land for the construction of a new monastery and even provided him with a helmet and chain mail - useful items in these places, this happened in 1646. Soon students began to gather at Dalmat, and a new monastery with a wooden Assumption Chapel appeared on the banks of the Iset. Five years later, tragedy occurred. In 1651, the holy founder of the monastery was away for some time on business, and when he returned, he found only ashes at the site of the monastery. It turned out that the Kalmyks came, burned the monastery buildings, killed several monks, and took the rest into captivity. Only the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God was preserved, discovered safe and sound among the firebrands. Since then, this image has been considered miraculous.

With even greater zeal, the monk began to restore the monastery. He also had a wonderful assistant - his son, tonsured a monk with the name Isaac. They erected a wooden Assumption Church, cells, and outbuildings, and established strict regulations. So strict that in 1664 there was a denunciation that the monastery was not celebrating the name day of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and members royal family. To all the accusations, the monk answered with dignity that during fasting days in the monastery only prayers for health are served, while “royal” celebrations are celebrated after Happy week. In 1666, an abbess was established in the monastery - Dalmata's son Isaac became the first official abbot. The monk lived an incredible life long life, he died peacefully in 1697, at the age of 103, and was buried in the altar of the Assumption Church, in a brick crypt. At the beginning of the 18th century, stone construction began in the monastery. In 1707-1720, to the west of the wooden church, the grandiose Assumption Cathedral was erected - previously invisible not only in Dalmatovo, but also beyond its borders. When starting construction, we were guided by what was built twenty years earlier. Saint Sophia Cathedral in Tobolsk, however, during the work the project changed, and as a result a huge two-story temple grew - with a four-pillar, two-story lower and pillarless upper churches(a combination, generally speaking, unique), with a two-story refectory and a tented bell tower. Stylistically, it was a multi-component structure; it absorbed features of Ukrainian architecture, and Naryshkin baroque, and ancient Russian architecture. A little later, the monastery was surrounded by stone walls with three towers.

The Dalmatovo Monastery was famous in the 18th century - many talented icon painters worked there, there was a worthy library, there was a singing school and a Slavic-Latin seminary. In the 19th - early 20th centuries, construction continued. In 1871-1881, over the burial of St. Dalmat, a temple was erected in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” filled in the spirit of the then fashionable eclecticism; in 1917, the gate church was consecrated in the name of the Apostle John the Theologian. After the October Revolution, the authorities turned the monastery into a “museum monastery”, which was abolished in 1928 - at the same time the last services were held in the Sorrow Church. Many relics, including miraculous icon The Dormition of the Mother of God was lost; The armor donated by the Tatar Iligei to the Monk Dalmat was transferred to Sverdlovsk for museum storage. An agricultural commune was located within the walls of the former monastery. With installation in 1945 in former monastery Molmashzavod was disfigured by the superstructure of the Assumption Cathedral, and the grave of Archimandrite Isaac was destroyed in it; In the Church of Sorrow, in the tomb of St. Dalmatian, they set up galvanic production...

In 1992, the monastery was revived, since then it has been gradually restored; The main services are performed in the Church of Sorrows, where in 1994 the relics of St. Dalmatus were found - now this is the main shrine of the Dalmatian monastery.

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The place of solitude that the Monk Dalmat chose was then considered the border of the Russian world. The very land on which the saint settled belonged to the tribute Tatar Iligei. At first he annoyed the ascetic in every possible way, fearing that other Russians would come after him, he even tried to kill him, but after the admonition received during the appearance of the Mother of God to him, he changed his attitude towards the monk, gave him land for the construction of a new monastery and even provided him with a helmet and chain mail - useful items in these places. This happened in 1646.

Soon students began to gather at Dalmat, and a new monastery with a wooden Assumption Chapel appeared on the banks of the Iset. This is how it was founded Dalmatovsky Monastery.

Five years later, tragedy occurred. In 1651, the holy founder of the Dalmatovo Monastery was away for some time on business, and when he returned, he found only ashes at the site of the monastery. It turned out that the Kalmyks came, burned the monastery buildings, killed several monks, and took the rest into captivity. Only the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God was preserved, discovered safe and sound among the firebrands. Since then, this image has been considered miraculous.

With even greater zeal, the monk began to restore the Dalmatovsky Assumption Monastery. He also had a wonderful assistant - his son, tonsured a monk with the name Isaac. They erected a wooden Assumption Church, cells, and outbuildings, and established strict regulations. So strict that in 1664 a denunciation followed that the name days of members of the royal family were not celebrated at the monastery. To all the accusations, the monk answered with dignity that during fasting days in the monastery only prayers for health are served, while “royal” celebrations are celebrated after Bright Week.

In 1666, an abbess was established in the monastery - the first official abbot was Dalmata's son Isaac. The monk lived an incredibly long life; he died peacefully in 1697, at the age of 103, and was buried in the altar of the Assumption Church, in a brick crypt.

Dalmatovo is one of the most interesting cities in the Trans-Urals. Some of the main attractions of the Kurgan region are concentrated here. It so happened that the life of the city of Dalmatov has always been closely connected with the Dalmatovsky Assumption Monastery

This monastery was founded back in 1644, a little more than half a century after the legendary campaign of Ermak. These places have a much stronger connection with Ermak than it might seem. After all, the Dalmatovsky Monastery was founded by a direct descendant of one of the Cossacks of the Ermakov squad - Dmitry Ivanovich Mokrinsky. Having embraced faith after the death of his beloved wife, he appropriated the name Dalmatian to himself. At first, Dalmat lived on the banks of the Iset in a cave he dug in clay. Then he founded a monastery, near which a settlement soon arose - Sluzhnaya Sloboda. In 1691, after the name of the wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker erected in the center of the village, the settlement was renamed the village of Nikolaevskoye.

The Dalmatovsky Monastery, located on the high left bank of the Iset River, was more than once burned to the ground by the Bashkirs, Tatars and Kalmyks, who tried to oust the Russians from their former lands.

From 1707 to 1720, the first stone building in these trans-Ural places was built here - the three-altar Assumption Cathedral. In those same years, the monks built impenetrable stone walls with two high towers. The construction was supervised by Dalmat's son, Archimandrite Isaac. They were built well, to last. The walls of the Dalmatovo Monastery became the most reliable fortification of these places. They had to experience a lot of things. In 1762, rebel peasants besieged the Dalmatovsky Monastery for almost six months, cutting it off from the outside world. This uprising was nicknamed "Dubinshchina". In mid-February 1774, an even more serious attack occurred. Almost the entire Urals were engulfed by Pugachevism.

A huge five thousand Pugachev army under the leadership of Ataman Pesterev approached the walls of the Dalmatovsky Monastery. There were an order of magnitude fewer defenders of the monastery fortress - only about 400. The fierce struggle for the Dalmatovsky Monastery lasted from February 11 to March 2, 1774. The Pugachevites fired cannons at the monastery, tried to get to the walls, hiding behind carts of hay, but received fierce resistance. The Dalmatovians set fire to carts of hay, and the rioters were fired at with guns and thrown with stones.

During this siege, the outstanding Ural writer D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak dedicated one of his most interesting stories – “Okhon’s Eyebrows”. The prototype of the Prokopyevsky Monastery described there is the Dalmatovo Monastery!

How were the monks of the Dalmatovo Monastery able to hold out for so long more than once, being completely cut off from the outside world? Researchers explain this by the presence of a whole network of secret underground passages that connected both the internal buildings of the monastery and led beyond its borders. The monks could leave the monastery unnoticed at any time and replenish their supplies of food and water.

Both legends about underground passages and real eyewitness accounts have been preserved in the memory of Dalmatian residents. A lot of them are given in the book by V.M. Slukin “Secrets of the Ural dungeons”. In particular, here is a story concerning the southwestern tower of the monastery:

"In 1926 in former apartments Archimandrite held a teachers' conference. The young participants of this forum were eager to check the story of one local resident about the underground connection of the basements of the abbot's house with the southwestern tower. And they found this connection, walking along the corridor all the way to the tower. The entrance to the tower was locked by a large iron door; after opening it, the searchers found themselves in the basement of the fortress - a room measuring approximately 4 by 3 meters. The air is heavy, some rockers hang on rusty chains, and forged rings are embedded in the walls. Someone thought that the pieces of chains on the floor looked like prisoners’ shackles. Others saw blood stains in the rusty stains on the walls. The room was dubbed a “torture room.”

Later, in 1952, when they were preparing the site for the foundation of the foundry, the excavator suddenly fell into an underground void. When they lifted it, it turned out that below there was an underground passage with wooden support. From the direction it could be assumed that he walked from the Assumption Cathedral to the old chapel outside the monastery walls...

But let's return to the history of these places. For services in suppressing the Pugachev rebellion, Catherine II in 1781 granted the village of Nikolaevskoye the status of a district town, named after the founder of the monastery, Dalmatov. However, this did not last long. Soon Dalmatovsky district was merged with Shadrinsky and the city turned into an ordinary, provincial one. At the beginning of the 20th century it was completely transformed into a village.

Nevertheless, life in Dalmatovo was in full swing. The rich Nikolskaya Fair, which took place here annually on December 6, was widely known. Many merchants lived in Dalmatovo. In the city center there are still many old merchant houses that decorate the city.

In the Dalmatovo Theological School, which operated at the monastery, such people were educated famous people, as the inventor of radio A.S. Popov, writer and traveler K.D. Nosilov, founder of Tomsk University V.M. Florinsky, head of the Russian mission in Jerusalem, Archimandrite Anthony.

Dalmatovo was also distinguished by the fact that the first girls' school in the Trans-Ural region arose here. It was opened in 1861 at home by the wife of priest P.I. Cheremukhin. In October 2010, grateful descendants erected a monument to the first teacher in Dalmatovo. Money for the monument was collected literally “by the whole world.”

Before the revolution, the monastery had a rich library and valuable archives. During the revolutionary years, when the peasants who seized power destroyed the slightest reminders of the past, the famous local historian V.P. With considerable effort, Biryukov managed to save the unique monastery archive and part of the old books.

Having survived many difficult trials and uprisings, the Dalmatovo Monastery fell under the yoke of the Bolsheviks. In 1928, by decision of the Shadrinsk regional executive committee, the monastery was liquidated. IN different years within the monastery walls there were an orphanage, a museum, a drama theater, high school. During the war, a hospital was located here, and after that the Molmashstroy plant, which manufactured equipment for processing and storing milk, was located here. Soon this plant became a city-forming plant and in 1947 Dalmatovo regained the status of a city.

The most surprising thing is that the settlement, named after the founder of the monastery, did not share the fate of many similar ones in Soviet times and was not renamed to some Oktyabrsk, Komsomolsk or Leninsk. The monastery walls, towers, and buildings during the “march to a brighter future” fell into disrepair, cracked, and dilapidated. Now the Dalmatovsky Assumption Monastery is operational, they are slowly trying to restore it, but this process seems to take a long time.

On the territory of the monastery there are three churches (Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church of the Icon Mother of God“Joy of All Who Sorrow”, Church of St. John the Evangelist) and chapel. Now in the monastery, as in former times, monks live and go church services, there is a forge, carpentry and sewing workshops.

Since 1994, the Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” has kept a shrine containing the relics of the monastery’s founder, Elder Dalmat. Dalmatian was canonized, however, according to church hierarchy only of local importance.

There is also a holy spring in Dalmatovo. Several centuries ago, Dalmat himself drank from this water source on the banks of the Iset. According to legend, it was thanks to this water that Elder Dalmat lived for more than 100 years. A chapel was erected over the spring. Currently, the complex of the Dalmatovsky Assumption Monastery and the St. Nicholas Church in Dalmatovo have the status of architectural monuments of republican significance

The stone St. Nicholas Church was built in 1763. In Soviet times, its bell tower was demolished, and the walls of the church still house a local history museum. In the museum you can learn about the history of the city of Dalmatov, about the monastery, and the inhabitants of the city.

Nowadays, an unusual enterprise producing oyster mushrooms operates in Dalmatovo. This amazing mushroom contains everything you need to the human body substances: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins. So, having visited Dalmatovo, you will see such interesting sights as the well-known ancient Dalmatovo monastery, a holy spring, a local history museum, old merchant houses, a monument to the first teacher of these places. A trip to Dalmatovo is a wonderful educational weekend route.

If this doesn’t seem enough to you, then you can see the sights of the cities of Shadrinsky Kamensk-Uralsky. Also along the way are the Revun rapids and the Smolinskaya cave. In the Kurgan region you can see the Chimeevsky Monastery, Gorkoye and Medvezhye lakes.

How to get to Dalmatovo?

The city of Dalmatovo is located approximately at the same distance from Yekaterinburg, Kurgan, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk, so getting from all these cities by car will not be difficult. You can also get to Dalmatovo by bus that goes to Kurgan or Shadrinsk. If you go by train (going to Kurgan or through Kurgan), then you need to go to Dalmatovo station.

Inside the Sorrow Church. On the left is a shrine with the relics of saints, on the right is Dalmatian of Isetsky. Photo credit: artista343
Place where the relics of Dalmatian Isetsky were found. Photo credit: artista343
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Assumption Church. Photo credit: artista343
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Nicholas Church. Photo credit: artista343 Monument to the soldiers of the 4th Ural Regiment who fell in battle with the White Guards Photo author: artista343 Photo credit: artista343
Artel in the Walk of Fame. Photo credit: artista343
Monument to border guards. Photo credit: artista343
Monument to those killed in local wars. Photo credit: artista343
Monument to those who fell in the Great Patriotic War. Photo credit: artista343
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Dalmatovsky elevator. Photo credit: artista343
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Alexander Nevsky Chapel. Photo credit: artista343 Photo credit: artista343

Author of the photo: S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky
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Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery is an Orthodox male monastery. This monastery was founded in 1644 on the left bank of the picturesque Iset River. It was founded by the monk Dalmat, who in ordinary life was called Dmitry Ivanovich Mokrinsky.Dmitry Mokrinsky in 1642-1643 left his family (wife and five children) and worldly life, took monastic vows and after a short life in a monastery began to live as a hermit in a cave. In the spring of 1646, the land on which Dmitry's cave was located was transferred to his possession. Dalmat died in 1697 and was buried on the same grounds. Today there is a chapel over his grave, which still houses Dalmata’s mantle, portrait and hood.

At one time, Dalmat brought to the monastery an icon of the Mother of God, which is considered miraculous to this day. It is called the Dalmatian Icon of the Mother of God. Today the icon is very well preserved. It is considered a miracle that the icon was able to survive during the fires, as well as during numerous attacks on the church.

Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery was the center spiritual education and education in Siberia. The monastery library was huge; the first mention of it dates back to 1679. It was in the Dalmatovsky monastery that a school was opened for the first time in the Trans-Ural region in 1714, but only for the children of clergy. But the management didn’t stop there; the following were created:

• Slavic-Greek-Russian school – 1735
• Seminary - 1761
• District religious school - 1816

From the walls of this school many famous and significant people. Such great people as Archimandrite Antonin, who was the head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, the scientist Popov, who invented radio, the polar explorer Nosilov and many others were brought up here.

For a while Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery was closed, this happened after the October Revolution. It opened in 1922 as a local history museum. And from 1932 to 1939 there was a collective farm and state farm drama theater in the monastery premises.

During the Great Patriotic War, a hospital was located in the monastery. As soon as the war ended, a factory was built on the premises of the monastery until 1989. In those days, due to the needs of the plant, several rooms were added to the territory and to the monastery itself. These buildings caused considerable damage to the Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery. But already in 1989, the plant began to gradually leave the premises, and only in 1992 the revival of the monastery was proclaimed. Four years later, in 1996, the transfer of the property complex to the Church took place.

Today, many of the monastery's buildings are in poor condition, many of them are being restored and restored. But, despite all the difficulties, the Dalmatovo Holy Dormition Monastery still receives parishioners.