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City in Kemerovo region, Russia

Salairsky

(Russian: Salair) is a city administratively subordinate to Guryevsk city of regional subordination in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located 210 km (130 mi) south of Kemerovo, the administrative center of the region. Population: 8,262 (2010 census); [2] 9,472 (2002 census); [7] 11,452 (1989 census). [8]

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1. ^ abcdef Law No. 215-OZ
2. ^ a b Federal State Statistics Service (2011). “All-Russian Population Census 2010. Volume 1" [All-Russian Population Census 2010, vol. 1]. All-Russian Population Census 2010 [All-Russian Population Census 2010]
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3. "26. The size of the permanent population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2022". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
4. ^ abcd Law No. 104-OZ
5. "On the Calculation of Time". Official Internet portal of legal information
   . June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
6. Post office. Information and computing center of OASU RPO. ( Post office
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   Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (May 21, 2004).
   “The population of Russia, the constituent entities of the Russian Federation as part of federal districts, urban settlements, settlements, settlements of 3 thousand or more people” [Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal districts, districts, urban settlements, rural settlements - administrative centers and rural settlements with a population of more than 3,000 people] (XLS). All-Russian Population Census 2002
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8. “All-Union Population Census of 1989. The current population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous regions and districts, territories, negative phenomena, urban settlements and rural district centers” [All-Union Population Census of 1989: current population of union and autonomous republics, Autonomous regions and districts , territories, regions, districts, towns and villages performing the functions of district administrative centers. All-Union Population Census of 1989 [All-Union Population Census of 1989]
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   Institute of Demography of the National Research University: Higher School of Economics [Institute of Demography of the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 - via Demoscope Weekly
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Modern Salair

Salair is located in the west of the Kemerovo region (210 km south of Kemerovo), on the territory of the Kuzbass coal basin in the spurs of the Salair Ridge.

It arose in 1626 as the village of Salairskoye on the river. Malaya Tolmovaya. Salair's leading enterprise is a mining and processing plant. Production of baritone concentrates.

The surrounding area of ​​Salair is a wonderful place for alpine skiing enthusiasts. Beginner ski lovers will find an ideal place for training there; for professionals there is a special slalom track. In addition, there you can go skiing, ice skating, horseback riding, snowmobiling, and paragliding.

The entire city is surrounded by forested parks and forest areas, which are beneficial for human health. In the vicinity of the city of Salair there is the Kuznetsky Alatau nature reserve. In Salair there is a Holy Spring, from which people specially come in whole buses to get water.

Mount Zolotaya in Gorny Salair (southwest of the Kemerovo region) is located 270 km from Novosibirsk, 40 km from the Kuzbass city of Belovo and 10 km from the city of Guryevsk. It has 2 single-seat drag lifts with a total capacity of 700 people per hour. The length of the trails is 450 m, 910 m and 1200 m. Open from late November to mid-April. A new road has been put into operation, not far from Mount Zolotaya. The West Siberian Railway has built a new sanatorium "Magistral" with 120 beds, which will accept those wishing not only for treatment (diseases of the circulatory system, nervous system, digestive system, musculoskeletal system.), but also skiers. In addition, in the city of Salair and its surroundings there are recreation centers “Scarlet Sails”, “Gagarinets”, “Molodezhny” and many other recreation facilities.

The combination of the mountain ranges of the Salair Ridge with the plain located between them in Kuzbass determines the natural and climatic conditions. The climate is sharply continental. A harsh, long winter (average temperature in January is from -17-19 degrees) gives way in April to a short spring, turning into a hot summer (temperature in July from +17 to + 20 degrees). A good time of year is often the dry Siberian autumn, turning into a frosty, snowy winter. The snow cover is especially heavy in the western part of the Kemerovo region in the Salair region.

Salair holy spring

After visiting the Church of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul, we finally got to the main goal of our trip to Salair. The holy spring was located directly behind the large and convenient parking lot where we stopped.

Previously, there was just a spring here. But several years ago this area began to be improved and now it looks very cozy. And quite recently a temple was built here in honor of the icon of the Mother of God the Tsaritsa.

In front of the temple there is a figure of St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Next is a well. Anyone can collect holy water there. And nearby there are swimming pools for those who want to take a dip. It is worth noting that the water in the baths is quite cold. Even though the weather was very warm on the day of our trip, the water was scaldingly cold.

In addition, there is a changing room next to the plunge pools. Among other things, there is a church shop and a charity canteen.

Also on the territory there is a cedar grove, founded on the initiative of the former governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev in 2007. The grove is a gift from the Tuleyev family to the residents of the Kemerovo region, as evidenced by the inscription on the stone.

Cedars grow on the upper slope. The view of the grove is very picturesque.

There are walking paths between the trees. There are also gazebos for relaxation.

There is also a bridge of love and desires on the territory. You can make a wish on it and ring the bell. In addition, newlyweds traditionally attach locks to this bridge.

Temple of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul (city of Salair)

Next we went to the city of Salair itself. It is worth noting that the path to the holy spring does not pass directly through the city, so we had to make a small detour. In Salair we visited the temple of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul.

This temple is one of the oldest in Kuzbass. It was built back in 1803. In its original form, it was a wooden prayer house. But in this form it did not last long. A few years later the house burned down. Then a wooden church was built. But it also burned several times and was rebuilt again. Construction of the temple in its current form was completed in 1907. In Soviet times, the Church of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul also had to go through many difficult times. The temple was destroyed. As a result, the building fell into disrepair. As a result, it was threatened with the possibility of being transferred to other buildings. However, this did not happen. Thanks to the efforts of caring people, the temple was restored. As a result, in 1991, the Church of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul was consecrated again.

It is worth noting that the Church of the Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul is really very beautiful. It is considered one of the main Orthodox attractions of the Kemerovo region and a must-see for adherents of Orthodox tourism. In Kuzbass it is perhaps even more famous than the island of Patmos in Altai.

Tragedy of the Salair Temple

(The monument to Alexander II is lost forever)
The current Salair Peter and Paul Church took seven years to build (1900-1907). It was erected by stone craftsmen, residents of the neighboring Altai village of Zhulanikha. The construction was supervised by the noble master Rogov. “From all over the area, people carried chicken eggs in carts, generously adding them to the clay solution. And bricks of amazing strength emerged from this mess,” writes Mikhail Sorokin in the essay “Reborn from the Ashes.” Apparently, this is why the church stood for so many years.

Years passed. The revolution has passed. And then one day in 1919 the Reds came to the church, but most likely they were G.F.’s partisans. Rogov, known for their intransigence towards religion. They killed the priest and, tying him by the hair to a horse, dragged him several miles towards Guryevsk. Then they threw the tortured body into a pit. The corpses of the deacon and several parishioners, who were killed later, were also thrown there. As the old-timers said, it was in this place that a spring appeared, the water of which did not freeze even in severe frosts. A holy spring was subsequently discovered at this place, and later a chapel was built there, the area around was paved, and a causeway was built.

The Church knows many stories about how people saved ancient icons, precious to the Russian heart. One of them, painted back in 1908 on Mount Athos, survived due to the fact that parishioners managed to collect abandoned icons in the destroyed church. One old woman, fearing that her unlucky son would drink away one of the priceless relics, and there were attempts to do so, brought the icon to the revived temple late in the evening.

In Soviet times, the Petro-Paul Church shared the common bitter fate of all Russian churches. The bells were overthrown and sent to be melted down. The openwork forged crosses were literally turned inside out “with meat.” They were reforged onto axles for carts. In this regard, I would like to provide one piece of evidence. Belovchanin A.S. Kotov was born and raised in Salair. He remembers that his father told him a curious episode. When they decided to remove the crosses on the domes, they found people willing to do this barbaric task only for a lot of money. However, it was possible to break out the crosses only on small domes. It was not possible to immediately remove the cross from the high bell tower. The volunteers fell from the dome and fell to their deaths.

And how many times have they encroached on the amazingly beautiful bars on the windows, the work of the glorious Gavrilov and Guryev blacksmiths. And although no one interfered with the fanatics, each time the barbarians had to retreat. This is how the window bars were thoroughly embedded in the monolithic stone baked over time.

The priest, Father Sergius Mosolov, a graduate of the Moscow Theological Seminary, put a lot of effort and energy into the revival of the temple. He gave me a rare photograph from 1896. It depicts the moment of the opening of the monument to Alexander II. The history of the Salair temple is generally replete with many mysteries and ambiguities. One of them relates to the appearance near the church of a huge bronze monument to Tsar-Liberator Alexander II (1855-1881).

The Emperor had never been to our area, but the fact that Alexander abolished serfdom on February 19, 1861, introduced him to the rank of especially revered persons of the Romanov dynasty. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of this event, funds were being collected in all cities and villages for monuments to the monarch-liberator. And in 1911, bas-reliefs, busts and other sculptural images of Alexander II began to appear everywhere. Monuments were built depending on the means - sometimes from metal, sometimes from plaster, and sometimes even from wood. In Salair, everyone was surprised by the fact that long before the general wave of immortalization of the royal person, a bronze monument was erected in a distant mining village. The photo shows that the base, entwined with flowers, is decorated with a large letter “A”. Below you can see a dash in the form of a unit. This circumstance misled Father Sergius. He put forward the version that it could be a monument to Alexander I, the conqueror of Napoleon. Now it is difficult to say what this dash meant, but there is no doubt that the monument to Alexander II was erected in Salair.

This is confirmed by numerous archive materials. It should be noted that the unknown author of the monument achieved a portrait resemblance to Alexander II. Bronze Alexander was quite impressive - the total height of the monument reached four meters. The full-length figure of the king was cast so skillfully and accurately that every feature of his face and uniform was clearly visible. The monument was surrounded by a forged fence.

A former student of the Salair school, Cherdantsev, witnessed the Rogovites’ raid on Salair in 1919. A decade later, he wrote: “The partisans tried to steal the monument to Alexander II, but they couldn’t, so they took the fence gate and hung it around his neck, ordering it not to be removed. So Alexander stood with the gate on his neck for two days, until the Kolchak police arrived from Bachat and removed them. The Bachat militia under Kolchak was commanded by 18-year-old G.M. Milovanov, known for his brutal reprisals against adherents of Soviet power. During Soviet times, the monument was pulled down by a tractor and dragged away to be melted down.