Babinovsky tract

 road, place with historical importance, abandoned / shut down

Babinovsky path (the road) - a direct route from Verkhoturie in Solikamsk, served in the old main post road in Siberia.
This road to the Government, instead of the first, very long-Siberian Railroad in 1595 Solikamsk resident Artemije Babinovym as a more direct, and cleared under his leadership - first by Solikamsk to p. Tours in 1597 (and at its exit to the river. Toure and was built in the city Verhoturie 1598), and then to Tyumen.

According to one version, Arthemy Babinov secretly followed the group Mansi, who came from Siberia, with the upper river tours, Chanvinskuyu cave with a sacrifice. According to another version, he passed this way along with them, openly, and that, like how they even helped him find a more convenient way. Be that as it may, the essence remains the same: a Mansi trail from the upper river tours to Chanvinskoy cave that is located on the river Chanve. And Arthemy Safronovich Babin, a native of the village of Upper Usolka River, took advantage of this particular path and made her way.

In 1595 a decree was issued Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich, in which pridpisyvalos all interested and hungry for people to pave the way to Siberia. According to this decree Arthemy Babinov received public money and in terms of expanded krotchayshies Vogul trail to the size of the road. It's unprecedented in the history of Russia, where just two years, 40 people made a minor road, paving a few dozen decks and Guatay, built nine bridges over rivers. The total length of roads over 270 miles (300 km). Later the road was extended to Tyumen and Tobolsk. On its way, new villages and towns: Surmog, Upper Yayva, Chikman, Molchan, upper-Kosva, Rastes, pawdite watching. City Verhoturie also owes its existence Artemia Babinovu and his way. In 1598, the road got the status of a government tract, and became known as the New Siberian-Verkhoturye road. " Served it faithfully for over 170 years.

Babinovskaya road played a historic role in the fate of Russia. It is deservedly called the road that created Russia. That it was going development of Siberia and even the Far East. For her over the Ural mountains, the taiga and the river carried the king's orders, cash treasury, drove ambassadorial delegation, the coaches and scientific expeditions. Thousands of Russian peasants, who inhabited the Kama area, passed this way in search of free fit for the land.

For the discovery and the device straight road in Siberia Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich granted Artemia Babinova parkland on the upper reaches of river. Yayvy and freed from paying taxes. By the end of life Babin was in the public service, overseeing maintenance of the road. Royal letters calling him "leader of the Siberian roads.
It is known that after the death of Artemia Babinova his lands over to the rights of personal property to his descendants, while he Babin, according to the testimony of old residents, was buried in the old cemetery in the village of Upper Yayva.

With the discovery in 1763, the Siberian-Moscow highway on Yekaterinburg road has lost its meaning.
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