Alapayevsk

Alapayevsk

Alapayevsk ( _ru. Алапа́евск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Neyva and Alapaikha Rivers. Population: 44,263 (2002 Census); 50,060 (1989 Census); 49,000 (1968).

Alapayevsk is one of the oldest centers of ferrous metallurgy in the Urals with the first factory built in 1704. The town proper was founded in 1781. It is known for its surrounding mines and numerous factories, although the last metallurgical plant operations were almost completely closed in the early 1990sFact|date=February 2007. The biggest orphanage in the Urals is located in AlapayevskFact|date=February 2007.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky spent a part of his childhood in this city. Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, the Princes Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Igor Konstantinovich of Russia and Vladimir Paley, Grand Duke Sergei's secretary, Fyodor Remez and Varvara Yakovleva, a sister from the Grand Duchess Elizabeth's convent, were brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks in a mineshaft near Alapayevsk in July 1918.

External links

* [http://alapaevski.detskidom.ru/eng/ Alapayevsk orphanage]


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