Kargapolye

Kargapolye grew beside the Miass in the Trans-Ural country. The settlement was first known as Kargapolova, taking its name from the Kargapolov family. Records of the late seventeenth century place members of that family in the neighbouring Tersyutskaya settlement, part of the movement of Russian households into the river country east of the Urals.

By 1730, the village had a parish and its first wooden church, dedicated to St Nicholas. The church made Kargapolskoye a religious centre for its surrounding rural community. A replacement church followed in the later eighteenth century, with a side altar consecrated in 1780 and the principal altar in 1796. In 1805, the village became the centre of a volost within Shadrinsk district of Perm province. Parish organisation and local administration consequently accumulated at the same riverside settlement. Its early history belongs to the gradual formation of a rural centre, as a family-named village acquired a church and then responsibility for the government of neighbouring communities.