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Alapayevsk

Alapayevsk (English)
Алапаевск (Russian)
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Holy Trinity Cathedral, July 2014
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Location of Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia
Alapayevsk is located in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Alapayevsk
Alapayevsk
Location of Alapayevsk in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Coordinates: 57°51′N 61°42′E / 57.850°N 61.700°E / 57.850; 61.700Coordinates: 57°51′N 61°42′E / 57.850°N 61.700°E / 57.850; 61.700
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Coat of arms
Administrative status (as of 2011)
Country Russia
Federal subject Sverdlovsk Oblast
Administratively subordinated to Town of Alapayevsk
Administrative center of Town of Alapayevsk
Municipal status (as of June 2009)
Urban okrug Alapayevsk Urban Okrug
Administrative center of Alapayevsk Urban Okrug
Statistics
Area 25 km2 (9.7 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census) 38,192 inhabitants
Density 1,528/km2 (3,960/sq mi)
Time zone YEKT (UTC+05:00)
First Mentioned 1639
Town status since 1781
Postal code(s) 624600 — 624619
Dialing code(s) +7 34346
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Alapayevsk (Russian: Алапа́евск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Neyva and Alapaikha Rivers. Population: 38,192 (2010 Census); 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.

On July 18, 1918, the day after the shooting at Yekaterinburg of the last Tsar, Nicholas II and family, members of the extended Russian royal family, the Romanovs, including a nun and servants met a brutal death here being thrown down a mineshaft near Alapayevsk by Bolsheviks. All except Grand Duke Sergey Mikhaylovich (who was the first one to die; he was shot before they could throw him in) survived the fall, hand-grenades were thrown down after them killing Grand Duke Sergey's secretary, Fyodor Remez. Other victims died a slow death including the Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, Grand Duke Sergei's secretary Varvara Yakovleva and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Princess Elisabeth had departed her family after the death of her husband in 1905, and although she donated all her wealth to the poor and became a nun, she was shown no mercy.


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