Baykalovo

Baykalovo began around 1630 as a Russian sloboda in country previously inhabited by Khanty, Mansi and Siberian Tatars. A stockade was built to protect the settlement. In 1774 peasants of Baykalovo joined Pugachev's rebellion, but merchants from nearby Irbit raised a detachment and suppressed it, fearing disruption of their fair. Baykalovo became the center of a volost in Irbit district in 1781. Its state peasants grew grain, flax and hemp, kept livestock and practiced crafts including weaving, pottery and smithing.