Alapayevsk
| Alapayevsk (English) Алапаевск (Russian) |
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 Holy Trinity Cathedral, July 2014 |
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.svg) Location of Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia |
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| Administrative status (as of 2011) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
| Administratively subordinated to | Town of Alapayevsk |
| Administrative center of | Town of Alapayevsk |
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| 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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