Karagay

Karagay stands on the Obva River in the western Perm country. Its name is associated with pine woodland, but its documented early modern history is that of a small Russian settlement growing into a parish centre. Mikhail Kaisarov's survey of 1623–1624 recorded a village of six households. By 1647 Karagay was listed as a pogost in Usolsky district, giving it a place within the religious and administrative geography of the Kama region.

The parish served a wider countryside than the village itself. A record for 1715 counted dependent settlements together with 160 households and 1,248 inhabitants; in 1796 Karagay was transferred to Okhansk district. Church building also linked local parishioners with the Stroganov estate. A surviving foundation inscription records that work on a brick church began on 28 May 1822, under the estate administration of Countess Sofia Stroganova. Two side chapels were consecrated in 1832. These milestones trace the changing institutions of an Obva riverside community, from a handful of households to a parish supported by neighbouring villages and estate patronage.